Site collects "Title Drops"—when someone says the name of the film, in the film
73,921 movies released in the last 80 years, and more than a third do the deed
Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis' 1985 time-travel fantasy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, offers two title drops: lines of dialog that contain the name of the movie. Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt created a website that collects all such examples of cinematic self-reference. Their large-scale anal…
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