Grand Guignol

短语

大木偶剧场(巴黎的一个剧院);恐怖剧

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A Parisian theatre which specialized in grotesque and grisly horror shows.

    历史
  2. 2.

    That which thrives on grotesquery and gore.

    引申义

    I may remark, in passing, that I did not go to see any bullfights... . But if I had preferred a Grand Guignol thrill to a great experience of a great nation,... .

    Hence the incomparably strange reincarnation of the cultural figure of the male homosexual as a predatory, determined invert, wrapped in a Grand Guignol cloak of degeneracy theory, and casting his lascivious eyes-and hands-out from the pages of Victorian sexology manuals and onto "our" children, and above all onto "our" sons.

词源

Popular form of Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol.

来源:wiktionary