{"id":8616,"date":"2016-03-22T23:06:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drikkes.com\/?p=8616"},"modified":"2016-03-22T23:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T22:06:28","slug":"blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/?p=8616","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><figure style=\"width: 3648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fc01.deviantart.net\/fs22\/i\/2009\/243\/8\/2\/Explosion__Stock__by_EnforcedCrowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3648\" height=\"2736\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feuer tut nichts zur Sachertorte.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>The term began to appear in the American press in the early 1940s, describing the largest of aerial bombs: single bombs capable of destroying a city block, also known as\u00a0&#8220;Cookie (bomb)&#8221;\u00a0during the\u00a0bombing of Hamburg in World War II. Later figurative use referred to anything making a public impact: &#8220;Broadway reacted to the request of War Mobilization Director Byrnes to close all places of entertainment by midnight Feb. 26 as if a blockbuster had landed on Manhattan&#8221; (Chicago Tribune, February 2, 1945).<\/p>\n<p>Some entertainment histories cite it as originally referring to a play that is so successful that competing theaters on the block are &#8220;busted&#8221; and driven out of business, but the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary\u00a0cites a 1957 use which is simply as a term of &#8220;biggest&#8221;, after the bombs.\u00a0Whatever its origin, the term quickly caught on as a way to describe a hit, and has subsequently been applied to productions other than plays and films, including\u00a0novels\u00a0and multi-million selling computer console game titles.<\/p>\n<p>In film, a number of terms were used to describe a hit. In the 1970s these included: &#8220;spectacular&#8221; (The Wall Street Journal), &#8220;super-grosser&#8221; (New York Times), and &#8220;super-blockbuster&#8221; (Variety). In 1975 the usage of &#8220;blockbuster&#8221; for films coalesced around\u00a0Steven Spielberg&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Jaws&#8221; and became perceived as something new: a cultural phenomenon, a fast-paced exciting entertainment, almost a genre. Audiences interacted with such films, talked about them afterwards, and went back to see them again just for the thrill.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.alphacoders.com\/115\/115061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bay doesn&#8217;t live here anymore.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content p-summary'>The term began to appear in the American press in the early 1940s, describing the largest of aerial bombs: single bombs capable of destroying a city block, also known as\u00a0&#8220;Cookie (bomb)&#8221;\u00a0during the\u00a0bombing of Hamburg in World War II. Later figurative use referred to anything making a public impact: &#8220;Broadway reacted to the request of War [&hellip;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1760],"class_list":{"0":"post-8616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-allgemein","7":"tag-wikipedia","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10620,"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions\/10620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drikkes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}