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.

  • jacksilver@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s also kinda the same thing with any proper noun or plot related element. They list Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, but the two towers are literally locations that they reference in the movie. Maybe that’s more of a stretch, but it seems kinda weak.

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      8 months ago

      I felt the same about locations. Fargo takes place IN FARGO. They say it’s name more than a few times. But it’s always entirely relevant location information when said.

      But then I thought about Jurassic Park. It is a location. But it’s also a location made up for the movie. So it should count, yes?

      Nouns/verbs/adjectives for title names are very iffy, I agree. I’m just not sure where exactly to draw that line. Maybe real vs made up?

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        8 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.

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          8 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.