What is Deus Ex Machina?
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Dates from ancient Greek times, where "deus ex machina" ("god from the machine") in a play referred to the act of lowering a god on stage using a cable device (therefore, a god from a machine) to decide in a dilemma and give fate a nudge, so to say.
These days, deus ex machina has the negative connotation of an utterly improbable, illogical or baseless plot twist that drastically alters the situation, as if the "deus ex machina" came down to give fate that little push.
I liked the movie, but the ending was total crap...they could've come up with a better way to beat the villain than the deus ex machina ending of that guy miraculously coming back to life.
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Literally "God from the machine", Deus Ex Machina originally referred to Greek plays, where the "gods" would be lowered onto the stage in order to provide a quick resolution to the story. Today, Deus Ex Machina refers to any improbably and/or overly convenient character or mechanism that comes out of nowhere saves the character(s) from their doom.
For a hilarious send-up of Deus Ex Machina, check out the spaceship scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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Situation in which one escapes by means noone could distinctly or indirectly predict.
Plot device in which the author makes up stupid shit to save his character.
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Latin phrase meaning "providential intervention." Literally translated as "god from machine."
A deus ex machina servabar.
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as such a angle come to solve problems
i.e a sudden and unexpted turn of events
good or bad
the world needs a deus ex machina
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meaning God from the machine.
It refers to greek tragedy plays where a "god" would be lowered from rope (hence "machines") to solve all the charicters delimas.
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"the deus ex machina has come to save us!"
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