Você está queimando meu filme!
CONTEXT
Last night I was having a few drinks with some Brazilian guys. One dude was checking out a server. His buddies kept laughing at him, mentioning something about a past encounter with a less-than-extraordinary young woman. His response: Você está queimando meu filme!
TRANSLATION
You are burning my film.
EXPLANATION
Film is a transparent strip of material used to record photographic images. When it is placed in contact with fire, the images are irreparably destroyed. (SEE photo a.)
photo a.
In the aforementioned situation at the bar, the person was using the analogy of film to refer to his reputation. By "burning" his image, his friends are hindering his chances of successfully achieving his romantic goals with the employee of the establishment.
As demonstrated in Inglorious Basterds, film is heavily flammable.
This phrase could be used in a multitude of situations.
A boy is getting picked up from his mom at the mall. She is honking at waving at him from the car to get his attention. His friends laugh and he melts. She's burning his film.
Lyricist Bun B from the Underground Kings perhaps puts it best:
So when I raise up, you can keep on layin down
I hate to clown, but that's life as I see it
You're lookin for a full-time man, I can't be it
You're cramping my style
-UGK, "Cramping My Style"
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