Questions tagged [title]
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In "Raiders of the Lost Ark", who are the eponymous "Raiders"?
In the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, who are the eponymous "raiders" referenced in the title?
Are they the archaeologists (Indiana Jones and René Belloq) who are searching for the Ark?
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Is the movie title "Bugonia" intended to be a double entendre?
The film Bugonia (2025) by Yorgos Lanthimos draws its title from an ancient word referring to a mythological ritual of spontaneous generation (à la “birth of bees from a bull’s corpse”). This ...
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What does E.T. mean in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
The movie is called "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". The latter part is a hyphenated phrase, even though the correct word "extraterrestrial" is non-hyphenated.
The former part is an ...
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What does the title “Wolferton Splash” refer to in The Crown?
The first episode of The Crown is titled “Wolferton Splash.”
What is the historical or cultural significance of this phrase, and how does it connect to the events of the episode? What does it mean?
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Why didn't the title of the movie appear at the beginning of the movie “Sling Blade” (1996)?
In the director's cut of Sling Blade (1996), Karl Childers, a developmentally disabled Arkansas man, is released from
the mental institution at 18 minutes into the film, and then the movie title ...
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Triumph over violence - what does the original Russian title mean?
"Triumph over Violence", The 1960s documentary by Mikhail Romm about Nazi Germany is entitled Обыкновенный фашизм in the original Russian. The literal translation, according to deepl.com, ...
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Why is the movie titled "The Brutalist"?
I understand the movie "The Brutalist" as follows:
László, a Holocaust survivor, immigrates to America and faces hardships, but
wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren commissions him to build a ...
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Why is the movie titled "Sweet Smell of Success"?
The plot of Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is as follows:
Press agent Sidney Falco is tasked by powerful columnist J.J.
Hunsecker to break up his sister Susan's relationship with a jazz
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Why was the animal "Wolf" used in the title "The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)"?
The most commonly known animals in Wall Street are the bull and the bear, which represent optimistic and pessimistic investors or traders, respectively.
The movie "The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)&...
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What does "Confidential" in the movie title refer to?
L.A. Confidential (1997) movie plot is as follows:
In Los Angeles, Captain Dudley Smith uses his crew to murder Dick Stensland and Buzz Meeks at the Night Owl coffee shop. He then wrongfully accuses ...
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Why is the movie titled 'Arlington Road'?
The 1999 movie Arlington Road is set in Virginia and Washington D.C., with the characters living on the fictional (and titular) road.
Why did the makers of the film choose this name for the road, and ...
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Is the title of ‘Invitation to a Murder’ a Christie reference?
Invitation to a Murder (2023) is a made-for-television film which is loosely based on Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None.
There are several nods to Christie’s authorship dotted ...
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What is the significance behind naming the series 'Moving'?
In the Korean drama series 'Moving' (무빙), which centers around superpowered individuals who once worked for the government and are now in retirement or hiding, with their children inheriting their ...
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Was the teen drama Dawson's Creek named after the city Dawson Creek in northern British Columbia?
I know the show is set somewhere in the US, not in Dawson Creek and the title refers to a character named "Dawson" and presumably the setting of the show includes a creek, but it's hard to ...
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Meaning of “The sandpiper”
The Sandpiper is a 1965 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
The movie is about an improbable love story between a painter (Liz Tailor) ...
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