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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Feature film?

Dear Everyone,

According to dictionary.com a feature or feature film is ''the main motion picture in a movie program". However, Wikipedia says the expression is also used for "big" films on TV (coming from "feature-length films", versus short ones; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film ).

Could you tell me, please, how in your real life you and the people around you interpret the term?

(And when you see it in a text that doesn't tell you in which sense it is used, how will you interpret it?)

Thank you.
  

Top answer

In everyday speech, it just means a full-length movie.

— Wrandom

  • In everyday speech, it just means a full-length movie.
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In everyday speech, it just means a full-length movie.
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Thank you very much, Wrandom. But by movie, do you mean a movie film, or a no-matter-whether-TV-or-theater-just-long-and-that's-it one?
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Could someone, please, help me with this matter? Thanks in advance. Emotion: thinking
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Hi,

A feature film soumds to me like a full-length movie made to be shown in a movie theatre.

Clive
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There's a disjunction between how marketers use "feature film" (to mean any piece of "cinema" that is long enough and theoretically polished enough to be shown in theaters) and how most people think of a "feature film" (an actual piece of cinema fit to be shown in theaters, and almost certain to see at least limited release).
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Thank you very much to all of you!Emotion: smile
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