the more

Meaning

1. Editorial60% of films

   In “the more …, the more …” (or with another comparative), it means that as one thing increases, another increases with it.

   And the sicker Maurice Fischer becomes, the more powerful Peter Browning becomes

2. Editorial20% of films

   In “all the more,” it means even more, especially because of what was just said.

In the movies · 4

• That's the class of people we were.Mully2015
• And the sicker Maurice Fischer becomes, the more powerful Peter Browning becomesInception2010
• the more I came to like this son of God.Life of Pi2012
• The more I fought the more powerful he becameTRON: Legacy2010
• The more power he attains, the more obvious his zealotry...V for Vendetta2006
• The more the merrier.Zodiac2007
• The more Trolls, the merrier.Trolls World Tour2020
• The more danger she s in the more chance he ll upload herTranscendence2014

Learn it in full scenes

• V for Vendetta2006
  • V's Opening Monologue
  • V Introduces Himself to Evey
  • Sutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion
• Zodiac2007
  • Darlene Ferrin's Last Drive
  • The Zodiac Confession Call
  • Zodiac's Cipher Reaches the Chronicle

More idioms

• under the weather
• get somewhere
• sure enough
• anytime soon
• keep your mouth shut
• the only thing is
• even now
• get off back
• be even
• as it turned out
• made for other
• in future