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The Anatomy of a Feel-Good Movie (Is Joy Just Bright Colors?)
What does "happiness" look like in a dataset? Is it just pumping up the saturation slider? I took three "joy" classics—The Wizard of Oz, Forrest Gump, and La La Land—and broke them down to see if they share a chemical formula. The data suggests they don't. In fact, they are barely the same genre.
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The Director Showdown: Kubrick vs. Nolan (What the Data Actually Says)
Everyone calls Christopher Nolan the heir to Stanley Kubrick’s throne. It’s an easy comparison: they both make "smart" blockbusters, they both obsess over technical precision, and they both leave audiences feeling cold and small in the face of massive concepts. But "feeling" similar isn't enough for me. I wanted to see the signal in the noise. I wrote a Python script to analyze their filmography frame-by-frame, pitting Kubrick (2001, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket) against Nolan (The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Inception). The data suggests that while they might arrive at the same destination, they are driving completely different vehicles.
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The Myth of the "Dark" Superman: What the Data Actually Shows
We all have the same memory: Christopher Reeve was bright and colorful, and modern Superman is dark and grey. It’s the standard "gritty reboot" narrative. But memories are unreliable. So I ran the code. I analyzed the color and light data of the franchise over 47 years—from Reeve (1978) to the early footage of the upcoming 2025 reboot. The results didn't just disprove the theory; they inverted it.
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