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The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science:
The Wizard of Oz, followed by Star Wars and Psycho, is identified as the most influential film of all time in a study published in the open access journal Applied Network Science.
Researchers at the University of Turin, Italy, calculated an influence score for 47,000 films listed in IMDb (the internet movie database). The score was based on how much each film had been referenced by subsequent films. The authors found that the top 20 most influential films were all produced before 1980 and mostly in the United States.
Dr. Livio Bioglio, the lead author, said: "We propose an alternative method to box office takings—which are affected by factors beyond the quality of the film such as advertising and distribution—and reviews—which are ultimately subjective—for analysing the success of a film. We have developed an algorithm that uses references between movies as a measure for success, and which can also be used to evaluate the career of directors, actors and actresses, by considering their participation in top-scoring movies."
Applying the algorithm to directors, the five men credited for The Wizard of Oz are all in the top eight, with Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ranked third, fifth and sixth respectively. When the authors used another approach to remove the bias of older movies—which, because they were produced earlier, can potentially influence a greater number of subsequent films—Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma occupied the top spots instead.
When applied to actors, the algorithm ranked Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise as the top three. The authors noticed a strong gender bias towards male actors; the only female in the top ten was Lois Maxwell, who played the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise.
[...] The authors suggest that their method could be used for research in the arts and by film historians. However, they caution that the results can only be applied to Western cinema as the data on IMDb are strongly biased towards films produced in Western countries.
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More information: Livio Bioglio et al, "Identification of key films and personalities in the history of cinema from a Western perspective", Applied Network Science (2018). DOI: 10.1007/s41109-018-0105-0
(Score: 2, Insightful) by NateMich on Sunday December 02 2018, @03:47AM (4 children)
It would be quite an accomplishment to not know who they are. Even if you haven't seen a movie in two decades.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @04:34AM (2 children)
"It's stinky! Stinky, stinky!" someone bellowed. The language used was that of a child's, but the person who shouted it had the voice of an adult male. Looking around the dim room, one could see an obese man pinching his nostrils shut. Indeed, the foul odor present in the room was intolerable. Where was it coming from? The man looked around.
"Ah." Bigham muttered. Having found the location of the obnoxious stench, the man slowly nodded his head as if recalling something. Bigham's actions had produced too much garbage, and it was all rotting away in his house because he was too lazy to throw it out. Thus, this undesirable outcome was the result.
Finally, the riddle had been solved. They were garbage now. Yes, "they"; those children, that is. When was it? Bigham remembered that he had tortured and violated those kids a few months ago. Since the man became too rough, the little ones all quickly broke and became trash that could only rot away and inconvenience him. "How dare they!" Bigham shouted, as he kicked one of the children's corpses. Yes, this poor man was being oppressed by these mutilated, rotten corpses. Would this righteous man let his oppressors get away with their heinous actions? No. This injustice will not stand.
Not long after that, a number of human corpses were found in a dumpster. However, these corpses were so mangled and devastated that it raised the question of whether they were even human corpses to begin with, as though they had drawn the ire of a madman. This led many to conclude that men's rights are truly a wondrous phenomenon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 02 2018, @08:22PM (1 child)
Do all of your characters go by their last names, or do you just suck at thinking of names?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday December 03 2018, @03:08PM
Perhaps it's because the main characters are male. There's a traditional piece of sexism in English literature whereby men are usually denoted by their last names, and women by their first names.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 02 2018, @11:45AM
If I understand correctly, his decision to run for Mayor of Carmel, California had something to do with his dispute between the city - more like a town, Carmel works very hard to preserve it's quaintly touristy character - and Eastwood's Ice Cream Shoppe.
I watch a city council meeting on the TV news. Eastwood struck me as having been a wise and benevolent ruler.
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