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[cazcatharsis]

lj's being a slow-ass bitch today

dumb question...

What the fuck is a 'sleeper'?   I hear that in reference to movies and books and shit and i have NO clue what it means!

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[bluetaelon]

For the love of google:)

Sleeper:a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal.

[cazcatharsis]

ahhh, the sleeper agent.

okay, so when we're talking about a movie or book being a sleeper, it's kinda the same thing?

[bluetaelon]

yup

[cazcatharsis]

cool. something secretly asskicking that nobody knows about til it bitchslaps you royally. Got it. :D thank god for LJ

[maddarilke]

I don't think it's such an obvious answer--wikipedia says that it's a book or film which gains unexpected success--like no one expected it to do any good business, but it does.

[cazcatharsis]

lol, sometimes you have to look at the word to find its other meanings i forgot about sleeper agents.

[deepseasiren]

The only thing I can think about is it means a 'sleeper hit' meaning an unexpected or 'quietly successful' hit movie that wasn't intended to be a hit.

[vixens_shadow]

It's also a more 'slang' term for a car that is muuuuuuuch faster than it looks. A rust bucket 70's Camaro maybe able to outrun a brand new Solstice even though the Solstice looks muuuch faster.

[cazcatharsis]

it probably could, those old camaros are spanktastic

[vermilionbird]

If it is in ref to a book or movie, it usally means that the critics hated it and it didn't stir any interest before release, but the public loved it anyways, and it became a box office hit.