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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Title Drop
Non-sports post.
Title Drop is when the title of the movie is spoken in the movie. On NPR a few weeks ago, they asked the listeners for the movies whose last spoken words were a Title Drop. They said there were three. All I could think of was “Dark Knight! Dark Knight!”. And she said three movies, one of which was Spiderman (how could I have forgotten that? Peter Parker walks away and says “I’m Spiderman” in the voice over). But, the host did not say “Dark Knight”. I knew I was right, because Gordon was doing his thing while Batman was escaping, and he said “Dark Knight”, and then the scene ended, and “Dark Knight” appears at the start of the credits. Then I watched the movie. Talk about a TECHNICALITY. The movie is called “The Dark Knight”. And Gordon’s last three words were “A Dark Knight”.
Anyway, I don’t remember the other shows she said. I think she said Contact and Saving Private Ryan (just a fleeting memory of the show), but I don’t remember at all how Contact ended, much less the words spoken. And, weirdly for me, I never saw Saving Private Ryan. Anyway, if anyone knows the movies, please list them. And, if there are especially cringworthy or funny Title Drops, I’d like to hear them too.
My favorite funny one was Star Trek: First Contact, when Zefram Cochrane said “a star trek”. I love James Cromwell. Dude’s a great actor.