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Title drops in movies

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vundercind ◴[] No.42057269[source]
Including films where the title is a character name makes the data set less interesting. “Barbie title-drops a ton!” yeah ok.
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1. seba_dos1 ◴[] No.42058085[source]
Have 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

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2. n2d4 ◴[] No.42058308[source]
Yes, 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.
3. account42 ◴[] No.42058497[source]
The 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.
4. Terretta ◴[] No.42060295[source]
Might acknowledge, but fails to fix. For instance, leading genre is biography since they aren't excluding 'name dropping'.