An
elaborate prank refers to a well-planned and complex practical joke that is intended to trick or fool someone in a clever or creative way.
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While the plot is little more than a series
of elaborate pranks, there's an unstoppable momentum that builds to a riotous party climax.
Unless this is the end of a
very elaborate prank, and their prom dates are on the other end of the phone, laughing because they can't believe the gag went on this long.
Deakins has also collaborated with Martin Scorsese (Kundun), Sam Mendes (Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, and Skyfall), and, on many occasions, the Coen brothers (Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There, and No Country for Old Men, to name a few)-- who have even
crafted elaborate pranks in honor of the cinematographer.
All fall, I felt paranoid that this was
some elaborate prank, and that I would have to go back to my old job, one I liked at times but didn't love.
The team spent much longer than that making sure they had not somehow been fooled by a signal that had been injected either inadvertently or even as part of
some elaborate prank.
The back and forth surrounding a new Pee - Wee Herman movie feels like
an elaborate prank Pee - Wee himself would be proud of.
It's been 20 years since Lloyd (Jim Carrey) had his heart broken by Mary Swanson, and during that time, he's been living at a mental hospital in a catatonic state... only to reveal to his friend Harry (Jeff Daniels) that it was all
an elaborate prank.
The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time - honored way: through gossip, secret romance,
elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
But this still felt like
some elaborate prank, as if she were about to pop up between my thighs while my feet were in the stirrups, holding a waffle iron and saying, Look what I found!
Barnes & Noble shows off its new Nook in New York today, and unless we've all been victims of
an elaborate prank, we know just about everything about the gadget.
I read the same quotes, and wondered if it isn't
some elaborate prank — I mean, this is bad - discovering - whole - new - dimensions of bad.
I came away from Machu Picchu unsure whether this form was
an elaborate prank played by nature or the handiwork of clever Incan minds.
According to Polygon the images were
an elaborate prank by two people who have come forward.
Designed by the French - American artist Marcel Duchamp as
an elaborate prank poking fun at the American avant - garde, the work established a precedent that forever redefined what constitutes a work of art.
The final email included a link to a video revealing that Bowler was a fictional character and that the entire sequence of emails was
an elaborate prank, all part of an advertising campaign for the Toyota Matrix.
Providing the listings aren't
an elaborate prank, Spyro Reignited Trilogy will be available for both PS4 and Xbox One on September 21st of this year.