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Including films where the title is a character name makes the data set less interesting. “Barbie title-drops a ton!” yeah ok.
by vundercind 2y ago
Including films where the title is a character name makes the data set less interesting. “Barbie title-drops a ton!” yeah ok.
- ramon156 2y agoWhat a pessimistic view.
- tedunangst 2y agoI'm imagining some film school student explaining how Barbie would have been a better movie, a real film even, without mentioning the character's name.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoThey could have just named the character and avoided this too
- wmf 2y agoIn The Ghost Writer the main character's name is never mentioned.
- jachee 2y agoFight Club, either.
- zwp 2y agoAnd Layer Cake
- aidenn0 2y agoIt's implied that his name is "Jack," assuming the poetry written from the point of view of Jack's organs were an earlier coping mechanism for the MC.
- SliceOfWaifu 2y agoDrive as well
- bregma 2y agoNow watch Rebecca.
- whatsgolden 2y agoBarbie could be en even better movie if one did a shot each time the name was heard.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThat would make it a Fatal Attraction.
- onionisafruit 2y agoIncluding “It” on the list made it seem like a parody.
- jhbadger 2y agoExactly. If they had limited it to cases where "it" is referring to Pennywise, that would be one thing, but not when anyone uses a very common pronoun!
- tczMUFlmoNk 2y agoI think it's quite interesting to include. Apparently Barbie says "Barbie" more than It says "it", which is fascinating!
- loganc2342 2y agoI’ve never seen It, but having seen Barbie, it’s not all that surprising lol.
- sim7c00 2y agowhole conversation makes me just think: But how can we not say it, if we don't know what it is! Ni!
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoI guess this is the downside of making a data analysis thing as a side project to hopefully get something going, but not having the time to take care of all potential edge cases. I guess "Them!" is also affected by this, and maybe The Thing or The Birds...
- n2d4 2y agoThis is IMO one of the coolest use cases of AI. With a half-decent prompt, an LLM is pretty good at tasks like those.
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- seba_dos1 2y agoHave you stopped scrolling once you realized that? The article acknowledges that, and even has a special category of movies named after characters with just a single title drop. That said, Barbie is a funny case indeed, as it's named after about half of its characters :P
- n2d4 2y agoYes, but it would've been much more interesting to read about title drops where this is not the case. The top titledrops listed that are not names of a character are all names of something else, like locations or objects.
- account42 2y agoThe problem is that there aren't any lists for title drops excluding boring cases like that. So all the lists get dominated by those cases.
- Terretta 2y agoMight acknowledge, but fails to fix. For instance, leading genre is biography since they aren't excluding 'name dropping'.
- beAbU 2y agoI agree, I think this analysis can benefit from some data sanitisation. It is a silly one to include, because the word it is picked up by their analysis. Need to remove all hits except where the characters are referencing Pennywise directly. I also noticed that in some cases a namedrop was registered where the eponymous character speaks, e.g. ALIENS: hisses. These need to be removed as well. Movies where the name of the movie is the name of the leading character needs to be removed as well, or at least filterable from the list. All of this makes the site a little less interesting imo. A good title drop in a movie is a fun little easter egg, especially if the name a bit more conceptual, e.g. The Phantom Menace. The way this site is set up at the moment makes it a bit more difficult to find those really good title drops.
- alach11 2y agoThis seems like something that could be handled easily with a second-pass on the data using an LLM. And the author has made the dataset available... [0] [0] https://www.titledrops.net/ https://www.titledrops.net/
- kqr 2y agoIndeed, and this contaminates all other analyses as well. Sure, shorter titles are dropped more frequently – but that sounds like it could be just because character names tend to make for short titles.