As promised ,,, I burned my midnight candle last night to add more examples of oxymorons in movie titles.
Hollywood productions make use of oxymorons to entice the movie-going public by placing congruent words side by side and extracting their differences, They sound improbable having two differing words or phrases being combined in one sentence.
When oxymorons are being offered to you and when you exert an effort to understand them... you will realize... it makes sense ... and will eventually bring the reader to a concealed but detectable truth.
Oxymorons can be FIGURATIVELY TRUE but not LITERALLY TRUE. Take these movie titles and see for yourself.
In the list, you see The Civil War - To be civil means you are polite, courteous, well-bred, well-mannered, or gentlemanly. And war is an uprising, a fight, and a battle. If you heard of a gentleman's fight ... that's an aberration. But they were able to combine two contrasting words and coin them to bring out a different meaning.
Then the movie Asphalt Jungle is not literally true. For one a jungle is a dense forest or wilderness with tangled vegetation. On the other hand, Asphalt is a black tarry substance used to pave roads. Normal thinking usually dictates a jungle is not a jungle if it is asphalt-paved. See what I mean? But here the story may mean a modern city - a concrete jungle that is harsh, highly competitive, and dangerous.
1. A I - Artificial Intelligence
2. The Asphalt Jungle
3. Begin Again
4. Best Worst Movie
5. Big Doll House
6. Bitter Sweet
7. Blast of Silence
8. Blind Eye
9. Blue Blood
10. Brain Dead
11. The Civil War
12. Cold Heart
13. Man of Steel
14. Sexy Beast
15. Reality Bites
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