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Intentionality matters. "It" should not count as a title drop. Nor Barbie (or any movie where the title is the characters name). But I understand it would be w

Intentionality matters. "It" should not count as a title drop. Nor Barbie (or any movie where the title is the characters name). But I understand it would be way more difficult to run the numbers with such a constraint. But this is a case where, to me, the results are very much tainted and thus I had to stop reading. To me this is like when developers run into a hard issue and somehow play a game of semantics with the wording of a ticket to avoid putting together something useful for the user

TheGeminon 2y ago
If you read a bit further he excludes instances like that and listed films with only a single (likely intentional) title drop.
GuB-42 2y ago
While it is somewhat arbitrary, I am sure that "Barbie" is intentional, the somewhat obnoxious repetition of the word "Barbie" fits the theme. Also, maybe you stopped reading a little too early as the case where the title is a character name is specially addressed. "It" may be the the special case here, as it is a very common word by itself but that a movie is named like this is notable enough for it to be included.
- quirino 2y ago
  I was more surprised by the fact that "Barbie" was said more times than "it", even though all of the "wrong" instances of "it" were counted as well.
  - dkdbejwi383 2y ago
    It's possible there are just more lines of dialogue in Barbie than It, given the conventions around each genre. I haven't seen It, but I can assume with It being a horror film there are longer periods with no dialogue for suspense etc.
    - GauntletWizard 2y ago
      Barbie also has multiple characters named Barbie; There are times where Barbie is said three or four times in a single paragraph and even a sequence that's just a complete graph of Barbies saying "Hi Barbie" to each other.
zellyn 2y ago
As noted by other commenters, the author addresses this, although I would have loved to have had a version of all the _statistics_ with name-based drops elided.
cgriswald 2y ago
I think a case could be made for “It” being a quasi-name and therefore a different word that is spelled the same or, because “it” is a pronoun it only counts when it is used to refer to the thing that the title itself refers to.

TheGeminon 2y ago

If you read a bit further he excludes instances like that and listed films with only a single (likely intentional) title drop.

GuB-42 2y ago

While it is somewhat arbitrary, I am sure that "Barbie" is intentional, the somewhat obnoxious repetition of the word "Barbie" fits the theme. Also, maybe you stopped reading a little too early as the case where the title is a character name is specially addressed. "It" may be the the special case here, as it is a very common word by itself but that a movie is named like this is notable enough for it to be included.

quirino 2y ago
I was more surprised by the fact that "Barbie" was said more times than "it", even though all of the "wrong" instances of "it" were counted as well.
- dkdbejwi383 2y ago
  It's possible there are just more lines of dialogue in Barbie than It, given the conventions around each genre. I haven't seen It, but I can assume with It being a horror film there are longer periods with no dialogue for suspense etc.
  - GauntletWizard 2y ago
    Barbie also has multiple characters named Barbie; There are times where Barbie is said three or four times in a single paragraph and even a sequence that's just a complete graph of Barbies saying "Hi Barbie" to each other.

zellyn 2y ago

As noted by other commenters, the author addresses this, although I would have loved to have had a version of all the _statistics_ with name-based drops elided.

cgriswald 2y ago

I think a case could be made for “It” being a quasi-name and therefore a different word that is spelled the same or, because “it” is a pronoun it only counts when it is used to refer to the thing that the title itself refers to.