Questions tagged [title]
Do NOT use for ID questions. Use this tag for questions analyzing the meaning of a movie or TV show's title. For ID questions, use [identify-this-movie] or [identify-this-tv-show].
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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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