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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.
It’s also kinda the same thing with any proper noun or plot related element. They list Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, but the two towers are literally locations that they reference in the movie. Maybe that’s more of a stretch, but it seems kinda weak.
I felt the same about locations. Fargo takes place IN FARGO. They say it’s name more than a few times. But it’s always entirely relevant location information when said.
But then I thought about Jurassic Park. It is a location. But it’s also a location made up for the movie. So it should count, yes?
Nouns/verbs/adjectives for title names are very iffy, I agree. I’m just not sure where exactly to draw that line. Maybe real vs made up?
Yeah, I think movie name drops are more contextual than just the movie name appearing. I think Suicide Squad and Back to the Future are more what we typically think of. Odd or new phrases/concepts that we wouldn’t think would pop-up in normal conversation.
I didn’t even consider Barbie to meet this threshold cause what else were they going to call her during the movie.
Exactly, you couldn’t call her anything else.
With my Jurassic Park example, I feel like the iconic “Welcome to Jurassic Park” was a title drop, but any simple reference to the name as a matter of fact wasn’t. It’s definitely contextual like you said.