ESSAYS

Just Like in the Movie

In this fairly long essay the author examines the origin and the use of the phrase »film speed« as well as Croatian idiomatic expressions that something happened »at a film speed« and that something is »just like in the movie«. From the very beginnings of the film history — for example, Lumier’s L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (1896) — to modern blockbusters dedicated to speed and action and less to the story-line and characters (Die Hard, Speed), the film has been intertwined with speed. The idea of the speed has been at the very core of the moving pictures medium. Throughout the century of film making, film and life have been influencing each other precisely by the change of the human perception of the speed.

Petar Krelja