Title drops in movies

(titledrops.net)

95 points | by gaws 5 hours ago ago

33 comments

  • bananaflag an hour ago

    > So for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring either "Lord of the Rings" or "Fellowship of the Ring" would count as title drops (feel free to hover over the visualizations to explore the matches)!

    An unacknowledged partial title drop for that movie is that "Lord of the Ring" (with no s at the end) is uttered.

  • vundercind 3 hours ago

    Including films where the title is a character name makes the data set less interesting. “Barbie title-drops a ton!” yeah ok.

    • tedunangst 2 hours ago

      I'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.

      • wmf 2 hours ago

        In The Ghost Writer the main character's name is never mentioned.

      • whatsgolden an hour ago

        Barbie could be en even better movie if one did a shot each time the name was heard.

      • PittleyDunkin 2 hours ago

        They could have just named the character and avoided this too

    • onionisafruit 2 hours ago

      Including “It” on the list made it seem like a parody.

      • bryanrasmussen 36 minutes ago

        I 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...

      • jhbadger an hour ago

        Exactly. 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 5 minutes ago

          I think it's quite interesting to include. Apparently Barbie says "Barbie" more than It says "it", which is fascinating!

  • rurban an hour ago

    I favor those dramatic Gaspar Noe title drops, the title in huge red letters full screen, over characters naming the title. It's huge.

    But then opensubtitles couldn't be used to analyse that.

    • niels_bom 19 minutes ago

      Referenced strongly in 2024’s The Substance.

  • test1235 36 minutes ago

    sometimes the title is in the script, but isn't actually a line said by anyone:

    Aliens (1986)

    (Aliens hissing)

    https://www.titledrops.net/explorer?movies=tt0090605&title=

  • nighthawk454 31 minutes ago

    “That’s the name of the movie!” - most Pitch Meeting videos

  • shrikant 2 hours ago

    What a fun read! I should point out though that the movie Saina definitely needs a "name" icon next to it, as it's a biopic of badminton player Saina Nehwal.

  • devonsolomon 2 hours ago

    Just dropping in to say thank you! Fun read, fun idea, well executed.

    Smells like the old internet!

    Runpee.com for when best to pee during a long film, Mr Skin for nude scenes (Flesh of The Stars in Knocked up fiction) … and titledrops.net for title drops.

  • mhh__ an hour ago

    Patrick, you're the American psycho!

    I really like a credit drop a la Gaspar Noe just rolling the credits mid way through Climax.

    I like the idea of a surrealist scene in a restaurant where the credits are just tucked away in a menu. Maybe it's been done

    • benoliver999 an hour ago

      "The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman 4 - The Quest for Peace"

  • chrisallick an hour ago

    https://youtu.be/OiqPmsBYieA?feature=shared i had the titular line in star wars...

  • locusofself 29 minutes ago

    One of my favorite title drops is in Arrested Development:

    Michael Bluth: "Your average American male is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development"

    Narrator: "Hey! Thats the name of the show"

  • KTibow 2 hours ago

    I would've liked 2d charts or at least stacked bar charts for the correlation ones to see if the correlations are different for ones with only one drop or many drops

  • evil-olive an hour ago

    one of my favorites is Robocop 2 (1990):

    > 00:23:19 it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, Robocop 2

  • JimmyWilliams1 an hour ago

    well educative for people from creative fields

  • alehlopeh 3 hours ago

    The movie It doesn’t have as many title drops as I would’ve expected. Also I don’t recall anyone ever saying The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in that film.

    • stavros 3 hours ago

      You should, perhaps, read the article.

      • alehlopeh an hour ago

        I obviously read at least some of the article.

        • _puk an hour ago

          I think the GP's point (badly made) may be that the Lord of the rings example is addressed explicitly in the article.

          "titles containing a colon are split and either side counts as a title drop. So for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring either "Lord of the Rings" or "Fellowship of the Ring" would count as title drops"

      • agolio 3 hours ago

        https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

        Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

      • PittleyDunkin 2 hours ago

        How would the commenter know to bring it up without reading the article? This feels like dodging the question of "why is the determination of a title drop so bad?"

        • throwaway314155 2 hours ago

          There's a section in the article regarding how to handle colons.

          • lmm 10 minutes ago

            Why should colons be such special case? Why not treat commata or dashes the same way? (And conversely, did they count the one in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie title?)

          • PittleyDunkin an hour ago

            Yet again, this feels like dodging the question of "why is the determination of a title drop so bad?"

            C'mon it was half the content of my comment and you still refused to acknowledge it. What do you want

    • tcho 3 hours ago

      Elrond Peredhel, Lord of Rivendell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8cU48PD0LI&t=7s