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"Slumdog", "Jai Ho!" named top Hollywood wordsFri Feb 27, 2009 1:26am IST
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Slumdog Millionaire", the rags-to-riches movie that
took the Oscars by storm, also produced two of the most influential words of
the 2008 Hollywood awards season, a language monitoring group said on
Thursday.
"Jai Ho!", Hindi for Let There be Victory and the title of the movie's
Oscar-winning best song, and "Slumdog" -- the controversial term coined by
the filmmakers for young slum-dwellers in Mumbai -- were named the top
"HollyWords" of the year that closed with last Sunday's Oscars.
The Global Language Monitor, which uses an algorithm to track the frequency
of words and phrases in the world's print and electronic media, said it was
rare for two words from the same movie to be ranked in its annual list.
"Slumdog Millionaire" crowned its awards sweep by winning eight Oscars, also
including best picture and director.
Last summer's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" inspired
the new expression "Nuke the Fridge" -- a phrase coined on the Internet to
describe a moment when a cinematic franchise has run its course.
The phrase came in third on the list, followed by "Hmong" -- a mountain
dwelling people in Laos -- from the Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino".
"What doesn't kill you makes you....stranger", the Joker's twist on German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's epigram that was spoken by Heath Ledger in
Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" was also among the Top Ten. along with
the line "There are no coincidences" from the animated movie "Kung Fu
Panda."
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