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Jan Andrea -- Thursday, May 29, 2003 -- 07:13:37 PMFound a fun quiz, survey, or other interactive site lately? Post the URL and we'll chat about the results until it grows tiresome. Then we'll do another one.
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Lori, I agree, but I'm sure the tattooee doesn't care at all what we think.
Oh it's totally ridiculous, but clever all the same.
I got a 30.
Nah, should not be odd. people are generally quite good at inferring what others feel, and it tends to happen outside awareness. And, yes the areas around the eyes are important for this. it is the whole thing.
I got queasy because I've recently read several books about medical research. There was much talk in the books about research subjects being told the subject of the testing was something different than what was actually being researched. I must have had that on my mind.
What makes movie quotes memorable
A beta test is included. I got 9 of 12.
10 of 12.
I agree with Damara.
Perhaps some of those quotes sound much better than they scan, but I thought many of them were common or uninteresting lines. With a few exceptions, I was picking between dull and duller.
But so much value in a line of movie dialogue is created by how the actor reads it, not how it looks on the printed page. Maybe an online written quiz is not the best way to capture a quote's finest quality.
11 out of 12. A few of them were weird, but in most cases it was clear which one was memorable. I liked how they used movies that you hadn't seen.
Well - it is about psychology, which isn't about (really) what one think things should be, but about what kind of actually sticks in memory.
So, it isn't prescriptive. It is explorative.
Ase,
People who see a movie may have reasons to remember a line of dialogue over another line of dialogue that have nothing to do with the inherent memorableness of the two lines when they are presented side-by-side in print.
The experimenters are saying, here are two lines from a movie; one of them is more memorable than the other, according to those who have seen the film; we'll grade your selections in picking the most memorable line, even though you haven't seen the movie, and the lines themselves are taken out of their cinematic context.
The validity of the experiment is built on the assumption that because the people who haven't seen a movie correctly pick the most memorable line 75% of the time, there must be something inherently memorable in the line itself apart from its cinematic context.
I question that assumption. Some pretty banal movie dialogue quickly spreads beyond the confines of the cinema, and so probably has some effect on those who have never seen the movie or know the line's provenance. One of the most memorable lines in recent cinema, for example, is the short and completely uninteresting line from The Big Lebowski.
It's a stupid line, and I heard stupid people quote (and source) it a hundred times before I ever saw the dumb movie. Is it more memorable than the line, "Nobody fucks with Jesus!"? It's not even close. But who now quotes the latter line when talking about that movie?