Unfilmable is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Unfilmable in a sentence
Unfilmable meaning
Not suitable or able to be filmed.
Using Unfilmable
- The main meaning on this page is: Not suitable or able to be filmed.
Context around Unfilmable
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unfilmable
- In this selection, "unfilmable" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, considered, game, quality and card stand out and add context to how "unfilmable" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the unfilmable quality of and as being unfilmable and while. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unfilmable" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unfilmable
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's too long, violent, and unfilmable.'.. (7 words)
This is in large part why the book was considered unfilmable. (11 words)
Gilliam abandoned the project because he decided that Watchmen would have been unfilmable. (13 words)
Lack of film adaptation At the Los Angeles Times Book Festival (April 20, 2013), Card stated why he does not want Speaker for the Dead made into a film: "Speaker for the Dead is unfilmable," Card said in response to a question from the audience. (45 words)
Alan Moore has said that he wrote to be unfilmable—a tough claim to prove, since people weren’t exactly itching to turn cult-favorite comic books into expensive movies back in the mid-’80s. (35 words)
Card has called Ender's Game "unfilmable", "because everything takes place in Ender's head", and refused to sign a film deal unless he could ensure that the film was "true to the story". (34 words)
Example sentences (9)
Considering that Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel was once described as ‘unfilmable’, the wonderful world of Dune has had its fair share of screen time over the years.
This is in large part why the book was considered unfilmable.
Alan Moore has said that he wrote to be unfilmable—a tough claim to prove, since people weren’t exactly itching to turn cult-favorite comic books into expensive movies back in the mid-’80s.
It sounds like that faithfulness and the unfilmable quality of the source material came through onscreen, as Martin Amis acknowledged to that the film itself may have been a bit confusing.
The novel is known as being 'unfilmable,' and while Martin Amis rejected that distinction, he also found Matthew Cullen's film to be extremely faithful.
Card has called Ender's Game "unfilmable", "because everything takes place in Ender's head", and refused to sign a film deal unless he could ensure that the film was "true to the story".
Gilliam abandoned the project because he decided that Watchmen would have been unfilmable.
It's too long, violent, and unfilmable.'..
Lack of film adaptation At the Los Angeles Times Book Festival (April 20, 2013), Card stated why he does not want Speaker for the Dead made into a film: "Speaker for the Dead is unfilmable," Card said in response to a question from the audience.