Discussion Main / PersonAsVerb

Removed these, because they're not verbs:

• When comic book art is particularly Off-Model, it is called Liefeldian.
• Certain creators end up with a Signature Style so distinct they end up being benchmarks for that premise, described as something like "person"-esque or "person"-ism.
  • Hitchcockian for a classical thriller with a MacGuffin.
  • The Kubrick Stare for Stanley Kubrick
  • George Lucas for Genre Throwback or, alternatively AND named for him, the George Lucas Altered Version
  • Reportedly, after a scene with High-Pressure Blood and/or Ludicrous Gibs, some say it went "full Tarantino." Likewise stylized violence, pop-culture filled dialogue, and plenty of homages to other genre films will be described as "Tarantino-esque".
  • George Orwell's name carries on as the term "Orwellian".
  • A story full of long, awkward pauses will often be dubbed Pinteresque.
    • Or Shatneresque.
  • A story about social status with lots of revelations about family and mysterious benefactors, set in Victorian London, may be described as "Dickensian".
    • Which brings up another example: something characteristic of a particular monarch's reign may be described by their name. "Victorian" means the period of Victoria's reign (1837-1901); "Georgian" means 1720-1837 (the reigns of Georges I-IV). "Elizabethan" refers to Liz I (1558-1603), and "Jacobean", while somewhat rarer, refer to the reign of James I (of England) just after that: 1603-1625. You'll note that nearly all of these are English monarchs, because after all, what language is this? There is, however, at least one non-English monarchial adjective that's pretty common: Carolingian, from Charlemagne (Latin Carolus Magnus).
    • Carolingian refers to the time the whole dynasty ruled, not so much to Charlemagne himself (as its named after Charles Martel too). It's common for all dynastic rules : Merovingian, Carolingian, Capetian, Bossinid, Ottonian, Robertian etc.
  • The flowery, poetic style of speaking presented in plays of the 16th and 17th centuries is often called "Shakespearean".
  • A movie with lots of uncomfortable Freudian imagery and Body Horror may be called "Cronenbergian".
  • If you come up with a Surreal Horror story with lots of Dream Sequences and a Drone of Dread, it's Lynchian.
  • Any Cosmic Horror Story at all, as well as any portrayal of tentacled monsters, is probably Lovecraftian.
  • An absurdist sense of humour is often described as "Pythonesque".
  • A comedy of manners focusing on Upper Class Twits and brilliant servants will end up being called "Wodehousian".
    • Likewise, any servant with an impressive sense of personal dignity will be compared to Jeeves, one of Wodehouse's most popular characters.
  • A comedy where the emphasis is more on the visuals and not on any dialogue, while showing amusing portrayals of everyday people will be called "Tati-esque".
  • Comics drawn in the "clair ligne" style similar to Hergé of The Adventures of Tintin will be called "Hergéan".
  • Music with quick and abrupt changes in style, mood or genre will be called Zappa-esque.
  • A protagonist with no control or understanding of the events surrounding him? How Kafka-esque.
  • A self-absorbed, reclusive protagonist with a sense of vengeance and a Dark and Troubled Past is called a Byronic Hero, after Lord Byron, who not only wrote about these sorts of characters all the time, but practically was one himself. His Dark and Troubled Past was that he possibly impregnated his half-sister, by the way.
  • Epic Fantasy often comes labeled as "Tolkienesque".

Isn't this technically person as an adjective, or maybe a noun? Verb doesn't really fit.

There is a scene in Fresh Prince when Will goes back to his hometown and someone orders a sandwich "Will Smith style" or some such wording. It essentially meant "to go." Does anyone else remember anything more about this? :D