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Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies

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A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

This is an awesome idea, very well executed! 🤯

I'm not sure “It” really qualifies for top 10 fiction movies though, most “it” in dialogs don't really refer to the movie title… 🤡