Reader's Digest 6月号の映画紹介コーナーでX-MEN: FIRST CLASSについての記事にあった単語が気になりました。
Superhero movies are turning back the clock this summer, with Captain America set during World War II, and now, this prequel to the hit X-Men franchise that uses the Cuban Missile Crisis in the '60s as backdrop.
"prequel" の意味は "sequel" と文脈から推測できます。 前作より後に作られたのだが、舞台の背景は前作より古い映画の事のようです。 辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a story or film containing events which precede those of an existing work: the film is a prequel to the cult TV series
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a work (as a novel or a play) whose story precedes that of an earlier work: His next film will be a prequel to last year's hit movie.
・Cambridge Dictionaries Online: a film, book or play which develops the story of an earlier film, etc. by telling you what happened before the events in the first film, etc: Jean Rhys's novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea' is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'.
Superhero movies are turning back the clock this summer, with Captain America set during World War II, and now, this prequel to the hit X-Men franchise that uses the Cuban Missile Crisis in the '60s as backdrop.
"prequel" の意味は "sequel" と文脈から推測できます。 前作より後に作られたのだが、舞台の背景は前作より古い映画の事のようです。 辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a story or film containing events which precede those of an existing work: the film is a prequel to the cult TV series
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a work (as a novel or a play) whose story precedes that of an earlier work: His next film will be a prequel to last year's hit movie.
・Cambridge Dictionaries Online: a film, book or play which develops the story of an earlier film, etc. by telling you what happened before the events in the first film, etc: Jean Rhys's novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea' is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'.
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