Flicker
Flicker noun - A story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track.
Usage example: as a child, the future director would spend hours sitting in the theater, totally entranced by the flickers
Movie and flicker are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Movie" instead a noun "Flicker".
Movie
Movie noun - A story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track.
Usage example: there was much excitement when it was announced that the popular children's book would be turned into a movie
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Sequel Hook: While the sequel was only greenlit after the movie's release, it's lightly foreshadowed when the lights flicker in the ambulance that Bret, Rebecca and Martin are sitting in.
Source: Film / Lights Out (2016) -
Placebotinum Effect Possibly subverted at the end of the movie, as the Q-Bomb's lights flicker on after a mouse crawls out of the "dud".
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Shown Their Work: Whether by accident or design, any time the video-cameras pass over a TV-screen, the screens flicker, which was common in the old CR Ts shown in the movie.
Source: Film / V/H/S
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