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Show HN: A heuristic for movie influences
2 points by everling on Jan 4, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I've posted here before with no considerable traction, something I ascribe to my lacking effort (and interest) in frontend. But here goes: I am a film nerd, and I like to understand the context of art. So I developed an algorithm to find aesthetic and thematic reference points for any given film, based on reviews by critics. It performs reasonably well where expected to (mid-budget, dramas, stuff with artistic ambitions) and less well for very obscure stuff or blockbuster fare. This is obviously not a commercial service, I built it simply to develop my own film literacy.

Some examples:

http://cinetrii.com?i=tt2278388 (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

http://cinetrii.com?i=tt2872718 (Nightcrawler)

http://cinetrii.com?i=tt4062536 (Green Room)

If you're on desktop you can click the nodes for quotes by critics. Mobile version displays quotes directly.




Because it's an interesting project, it might make sense to repost this as a 'Show HN' link and to add your comment with examples after the link appears on the |new| page.

I am curious about the data set and algorithm behind the application.




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