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What If Movies Ended As Soon As Someone Said the Title?

It’s a worn-out cliché to include a movie’s title as a crucial line in the film. It usually happens at a point of high drama, with a brief pause as the score swells to a crescendo, as if to ask, “Get it? Do you get it? See what I did there?” It’s so common that the internet’s largest cabinet of film and TV conventions, TV Tropes, has a very lengthy page listing every time it’s happened. They call it the title drop. But what if, after every title drop, the film just … ended?

Here’s your answer, in the form of a very excellent video by Chris Huebner:

Oh. Huh. Yeah, I guess that is what that would be like. Good thing we cleared that up.

What If Movies Ended After Their Title Lines?