dominikusI took my side-project too seriously and ended up with the biggest analysis of title drops in movies:
Hugo van Kemenade@dominikus Very nice! I was just thinking about this for songs (your next side-project..?)
By the way, these look like Psycho reviews:
@hugovk After doing this I need a break before doing anything similar I'm afraid 😄
But thanks for finding the problems with Psycho, will fix them asap!
@dominikus Did you know about Penn Jillette's Movie Night?
'Movie Night is full of mandatory hand gestures, goofy code words, and inside jokes. ... Whenever the title of another film was mentioned in the dialogue (as in, ”I don’t want to be home alone tonight”), everybody whispered, ”Wow.” When the film showed an establishing shot of a city, any city, the group muttered, ”Chicago.”'
https://ew.com/article/1991/11/15/penn-jillette-leads-gang-cult-film-fanatics/
@hugovk Hadn't heard of that, that's fantastic 😆
Rob Anderson@dominikus I feel like you’d like this @robb
Robb Knight@rob @dominikus I live for this stuff, I saw your boost and immediately dove in 🙏
Andy Carolan 
@dominikus This is incredible!
@dominikus This is truly amazing work, the kind of thing I wish I'd thought of myself.
Well done 👏
jordiekuNice site.
I've been playing around with the search engine.
This can lead to a game: how many times does the word "..." appear in the movie "..."?
Nicolas Hoizey@dominikus this is awesome, impressive work! 🤯
I'm not sure “It” really qualifies for top 10 fiction movies though, most “it” in dialogs don't really refer to the title/name… 🤡 😁
@nhoizey Yes, I had to make some tough decisions when it came to what constitutes a title drop and what not... in 'It's case I was aware that characters probably tend to mean the third person pronoun and not the clown but I decided to stick to the rules as I had defined them. And who knows - maybe Stephen King was actually talking about the pronoun the whole time 😉
@dominikus maybe! 😅
Kelsey Jordahl@dominikus cool!
I see that war movies have one of the lowest rates of name drops. I haven't seen the 2022 movie, but Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" has one of the most famous name drops in literature, right at the end, though I don't see any matches on your site for the movie version.
I see that war movies have one of the lowest rates of name drops. I haven't seen the 2022 movie, but Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" has one of the most famous name drops in literature, right at the end, though I don't see any matches on your site for the movie version.
@kajord Yes indeed, good catch! The original novel does the title drop but the new Netflix version only shows 'Im Westen Nichts Neues' as title cards twice - once in the beginning and once in the end. None of the characters say the line though ...
Sebastian LammersI went through the piece a second time (still amazing) and stumbled across two dead/undefined links in the sentence "movies like E or I", where both movies are "undefined". Just in case you feel like going back into codebase *just once more* 😜
@seblammers Amazing, thanks so much for letting me know! Just added the links so everyone can bask in the glory that is 'E' (2006) and 'I' (2015) 😄
Peter Gassner@dominikus Bravo, this is so cool! 👏
giantweevil@dominikus I have a quibble! Redline (2009) uses the word redline many times in the English subtitles, including this time at ~16:30, but the analysis shows 0.
https://www.titledrops.net/explorer?movies=tt1483797&title=Redline
@giantweevil Good catch! Fixed.
auzzy@dominikus This is super awesome! I've read the writeup, now I can't wait to dig through the dataset.
Dominik Moritz@dominikus really nice story and beautiful visuals. I love the way you did the annotations.
James Henstridge@dominikus I wonder if some of those title drops in non-english language films come from the subtitles including a translation of the title sequence?
@jamesh There are certainly false positives like that in the data.
juv3nal@dominikus your data for Secrets & Lies (1996) appears to be wrong? It shows zero, but there's this about 12 seconds into the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOdU5Tbbo0
Secrets and lies - Tim Spall
@dominikus wondering if it's the ampersand doing a thing there
@juv3nal Good catch - it certainly is the ampersand!
Jari Komppa 🇫🇮@dominikus You absolute madman. Well done.
Cory Birdsong@dominikus Edge case issue: the slash in Face/Off https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/quotes/?item=qt2778399&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Im Körper des Feindes (1997) - Quotes - IMDb
Im Körper des Feindes (1997) - * Fitch: So, once we kidnap "supercop", then what? * Sean Archer: [smiles enigmatically, moving his finger across his face] Tiny... surgery. * [Dietrich looks at "Castor" confused] * Sean Archer: l'd like to take his... his face... off. Yes. Now, if you'll excuse me, l have to use the little boy's wee-wee room. * [Sean stands and starts to walk away] * Dietrich: Cas... * [Sean turns back to Dietrich] * Dietrich: You wanna take his... face... * Sean Archer: [smiles widely] Yes. His face... off. Eyes... * [Sean slightly pinches Dietrich's nose] * Sean Archer: ...nose. Skin. lt's coming off. * [Sean walks away, leaving the others totally confused of his last words] * Dietrich: [mimicks Sean's gesture] The face... off.
@dominikus another edge case: all the Mission Impossible movies count every use of the word “mission" because the actual formatting of the title is always "Mission: Impossible”
bonus related edge case: their subtitles are separated with a dash once they stop using numbers (“Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol”), which means it has not counted usage of those subtitles: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/quotes/?item=qt1691534&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protokoll (2011) - Quotes - IMDb
Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protokoll (2011) - * Ethan Hunt: The Secretary is dead. The President has invoked Ghost Protocol. We're shut down. No satellite, safe house, support, or extraction. The four of us and the contents of this car are all that remains of the IMF.
DJ Tent Mode@dominikus Was going to send this to @k0ry and then I saw who boosted it into my feed!