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Title drops in movies

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477 points gaws | 10 comments | 06 Nov 24 02:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source | bottom
1. alehlopeh ◴[06 Nov 24 04:41 UTC] No.42057239[source]▶
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.
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2. tcho ◴[06 Nov 24 04:46 UTC] No.42057260[source]▶
Elrond Peredhel, Lord of Rivendell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8cU48PD0LI&t=7s
3. stavros ◴[06 Nov 24 04:47 UTC] No.42057264[source]▶
You should, perhaps, read the article.
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4. agolio ◴[06 Nov 24 04:54 UTC] No.42057273[source]▶
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".

5. PittleyDunkin ◴[06 Nov 24 05:23 UTC] No.42057346[source]▶
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?"
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6. throwaway314155 ◴[06 Nov 24 05:41 UTC] No.42057397{3}[source]▶
There's a section in the article regarding how to handle colons.
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7. PittleyDunkin ◴[06 Nov 24 06:01 UTC] No.42057461{4}[source]▶
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

8. alehlopeh ◴[06 Nov 24 06:19 UTC] No.42057522[source]▶
I obviously read at least some of the article.
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9. _puk ◴[06 Nov 24 06:36 UTC] No.42057578{3}[source]▶
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"

10. lmm ◴[06 Nov 24 07:19 UTC] No.42057789{4}[source]▶
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?)