Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies
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A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they’re in. Here’s a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

  • @jacksilverEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    Yeah, I think movie name drops are more contextual than just the movie name appearing. I think Suicide Squad and Back to the Future are more what we typically think of. Odd or new phrases/concepts that we wouldn’t think would pop-up in normal conversation.

    I didn’t even consider Barbie to meet this threshold cause what else were they going to call her during the movie.

    • @fishosEnglish
      0•10 months ago

      Exactly, you couldn’t call her anything else.

      With my Jurassic Park example, I feel like the iconic “Welcome to Jurassic Park” was a title drop, but any simple reference to the name as a matter of fact wasn’t. It’s definitely contextual like you said.