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Cinematic Anagrams


Mike Morton sent numerous anagrams for "Star Wards, Episode I: The Phantom Menace." [Copyright (c)1999 by the author, Mike Morton . All rights reserved. You may reproduce this, in whole or in part, in any form provided you retain this paragraph unchanged.] Here are ten of Mike's Cinematic Anagrams, along with a bonus anagram set that is still funny after all these years.

Top Ten CINEMATIC Anagrams for "Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace":

10. Sweetish drama: poet, thespian, romance.

9. And WHOSE metaphor isn't a masterpiece?

8. Aesthete swept in epic drama: Rashomon

7. Swedish cinema, anathema to "proper" set.

6. Cinema as metaphor: Who isn't desperate?

5. Eastwood: "I threaten perp, smash cinema"

4. DeNiro: "Mean Streets" was macho epitaph

3. Western cinema: The drama! Pathos! Poise!

2. The essence: Adapt a timeworn aphorism.

And the number one CINEMATIC anagram:

1. Rashomon epic: A witness met rape, death.

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