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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. beAbU ◴[] No.42060025[source]
I agree, I think this analysis can benefit from some data sanitisation.

It is a silly one to include, because the word it is picked up by their analysis. Need to remove all hits except where the characters are referencing Pennywise directly.

I also noticed that in some cases a namedrop was registered where the eponymous character speaks, e.g. ALIENS: hisses. These need to be removed as well.

Movies where the name of the movie is the name of the leading character needs to be removed as well, or at least filterable from the list.

All of this makes the site a little less interesting imo. A good title drop in a movie is a fun little easter egg, especially if the name a bit more conceptual, e.g. The Phantom Menace. The way this site is set up at the moment makes it a bit more difficult to find those really good title drops.

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2. alach11 ◴[] No.42067649[source]
This seems like something that could be handled easily with a second-pass on the data using an LLM. And the author has made the dataset available... [0]

[0] https://www.titledrops.net/