hype

• Director: Doug Pray
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Music
• Movie Type: Biography, Sociology
• Main Cast: Eddie Vedder, Bruce Pavitt
• Release Year: 1996
• Country: US
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• MPAA Rating: NR

Plot

Doug Pray's entertaining and opinionated documentary on the Seattle music scene takes the (admittedly unusual) position that the Grunge Explosion of the mid-1990s was the worst thing to happen to rock music in the Pacific Northwest. Hype! depicts Seattle as a town where a fertile musical community with a distinctive sound and style grew largely because it was ignored by the rest of the world. Once the unexpected success of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden made Seattle the rock capital of the world, drugs took hold, opportunists scrambled for the spotlight, and cheap flannel shirts became "grunge fashion." The movie features revealing (and often hilarious) interviews with members of such groups as Mudhoney, the Mono Men, the Fastbacks, Seven Year Bitch, Tad, Girl Trouble, Gas Huffer, Dead Moon, and the Supersuckers, as well as performance footage of all these bands and informed perspectives from a number of behind-the-scenes figures. It also features a technically shaky but historically priceless clip of Nirvana's first public performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Eddie Vedder - Interviewee (Pearl Jam member)
• Bruce Pavitt - Interviewee (Co-founder, Sub Pop Records)

Credit

Lisa Dutton - Co-producer, Pete Vogt - Co-producer, Doug Pray - Director, Doug Pray - Editor, Joan Zapata - Editor, Robert Bennett - Cinematographer, Steve Helvey - Producer

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n.

1. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
2. Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: “It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job” (Saturday Review).
3. An advertising or promotional ploy: “Some restaurant owners in town are cooking up a $75,000 hype to promote New York as ‘Restaurant City, U.S.A.’” (New York).
4. Something deliberately misleading; a deception: “[He] says that there isn't any energy crisis at all, that it's all a hype, to maintain outrageous profits for the oil companies” (Joel Oppenheimer).

tr.v., hyped, hyp·ing, hypes.

To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims: hyped the new book by sending its author on a promotional tour.

[Partly from hype, a swindle (perhaps from HYPER–) and partly from HYPE(RBOLE).]

hype² (hīp) Slang.
n.

1. A hypodermic injection, syringe, or needle.
2. A drug addict.

tr.v., hyped, hyp·ing, hypes.

To stimulate with or as if with a hypodermic injection: “hyped the country up to a purposeless pitch” (Newsweek).

[Shortening and alteration of HYPODERMIC.]

In broadcast, special promotional activities in programming presented by a station or network in order to attract a large audience and therefore generate higher audience ratings for a particular time period; also called hypo. For example: Traditionally, broadcast rating measurements are made for local stations in February, May, and November. Accordingly, local stations have been known to hype their audiences during these time periods.

In broadcast, special promotional activities in programming presented by a station or network in order to attract a large audience and therefore generate higher audience ratings for a particular time period; also called hypo. For example: Traditionally, broadcast rating measurements are made for local stations in February, May, and November (sweeps months). Accordingly, local stations have been known to hype their audiences during these time periods.

noun

A systematic effort or part of this effort to increase the importance or reputation of by favorable publicity: advertisement, ballyhoo, buildup, promotion, publicity, puffery. Informal pitch, plug. See knowledge/ignorance.

verb

To increase or seek to increase the importance or reputation of by favorable publicity: ballyhoo, boost, build up, enhance, promote, publicize, puff, talk up, tout. Informal plug. See knowledge/ignorance.

n

Definition: extensive publicity
Antonyms: downplay, secrecy

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - trick, svindelnummer, reklamefremstød
v. tr. - snyde, narre, opreklamere, promovere

idioms:

• hype up    sætte liv i, stimulere, opreklamere
• media hype    reklamefif

2.
n. - narkoman, stofmisbruger, kanyle, sprøjt, stik
v. tr. - sprøjte sig, tage et skud

Nederlands (Dutch)
uitgebreide reclamecampagne, truc, drugsverslaafde, injectienaald, injectie, opgeblazen persoon/ -zaak, belazeren, intensief promoten

Français (French)
1.
n. - battage publicitaire, battage médiatique, astuce, tour
v. tr. - faire du battage, gonfler, faire grimper (qch) par des achats massifs (actions)

idioms:

• hype up    doper, faire du battage, gonfler (une histoire, un problème)
• media hype    battage médiatique, médiatisation à outrance

2.
n. - (abrév = hypodermic) (US) seringue/aiguille hypodermique, (US) toxico
v. tr. - stimuler, piquer

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Trick, intensive Werbung, Betrug, Injektion, Drogenabhängiger, Injektionsnadel
v. - Publicity machen für

idioms:

• hype up    hochputschen
• media hype    Medienrummel

2.
n. - Drogenabhängiger, Injektionsnadel
v. - jdn eine Spritze geben, um ihn zu stimulieren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (καθομ.) (υπερβολική) προβολή ή διαφήμιση
v. - (καθομ.) προβάλλω/διαφημίζω σε υπερβολικό βαθμό

idioms:

• hype up    ερεθίζω, διεγείρω, σπιντάρω
• media hype    υπερβολική προβολή από τα ΜΜΕ

Italiano (Italian)
espediente, iniezione, tossicodipendente, ago

idioms:

• hype up    bucarsi, eccitarsi
• media hype    lancio pubblicitario

Português (Portuguese)
n. - publicidade (f) exagerada, método (m) questionável em publicidade, agulha (f) hipodérmica (gír.)
v. - promover publicidade exagerada

idioms:

• hype up    intensificar campanha por meios dúbios
• media hype    exagero (m) nos meios de divulgação

Русский (Russian)
стимуляция, подстегивание, беззастенчивая реклама, рекламировать плохой товар, вливать новые силы, оживлять, обманывать, стимулировать, крикливо рекламировать

idioms:

• hype up    рекламировать плохой товар
• media hype    реклама нестоящего товара в средствах массовой информации

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - superchería, engaño, publicidad exagerada, método cuestionable
v. tr. - estimular, crear interés, intensificar

idioms:

• hype up    exagerar, dar bombo a
• media hype    bombo publicitario

2.
n. - inyección, jeringa hipodérmica, drogadicto, toxicómano, aguja
v. tr. - estimular, excitar, engañar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - reklam(kampanj), PR, bedrägeri, spruta, sprutnarkoman
v. - överreklamera, manipulera, elda (bildl.), sila (narkotika)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 注射毒品者, 人为地刺激, 使增加, 使兴奋, 使活跃

idioms:

• hype up    为...做广告
• media hype    传媒宣传

2. 天花乱坠的公开宣传, 诡计, 欺骗, 大肆宣传

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 注射毒品者
v. tr. - 人為地刺激, 使增加, 使興奮, 使活躍

idioms:

• hype up    為...做廣告
• media hype    傳媒宣傳

2.
n. - 天花亂墜的公開宣傳, 詭計, 欺騙
v. tr. - 大肆宣傳

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 피하 주사, 피하 주사침, 마약중독자
v. tr. - 마약으로 흥분 시키다

idioms:

• hype up    꾸며댄 듯한, 흥분한

2.
n. - 사기, 과대광고
v. tr. - 속이다, 과장 선전하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 皮下注射, 皮下注射針, ごまかし, 誇大広告, 麻薬常用者
v. - ごまかす, 刺激する

idioms:

• hype up    刺激する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زرقه بالابرة تحت الجلد, محقنه للزرق تحت الجلد, مد من مخدرات, افراط, اسراف, انغماس, (فعل) يزرق أو يحقن بالابرة تحت الجلد, يدمن المخدرات, يفرط, يسرف, ينغمس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קידום תדמית נמרץ או מוגזם, הונאה ע"י תחבולה, פרסום רעשני‬
v. tr. - ‮קידם תדמית (של מוצר) בצורה מוגזמת, רימה ע"י תחבולה‬
n. - ‮מכור לסם (מדוברת), זריקה או הזרקה‬
v. tr. - ‮גירה באמצעות זריקה מתחת לעור או באופן דומה‬

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