Alright, so the other day I had this kinda dumb but fun idea: what if I could take movie titles and squish them down to just two words? Seemed like a silly little challenge, so I figured, why not?
Getting Started
First things first, I needed some movies. I didn’t wanna spend ages typing them out, so I just grabbed a list of, like, the top 100 movies or something from some website. I copy-pasted that whole mess into a text file. Easy peasy.
The Dirty Work
Next, I needed a way to actually do the squishing. I’m no coding whiz, but I know a bit of Python, so I figured I’d use that. I opened up my trusty text editor and started hacking away.
I knew I needed to do a few things:
- Read the movie titles from that text file.
- Clean them up a bit – get rid of any weird punctuation or extra spaces.
- Split each title into individual words.
- Pick just two words from each title. This was the tricky part!
- Print out the new, two-word titles.
Picking the Words
Okay, so how to pick the two words? At first, I thought about just grabbing the first two words of each title. But that seemed kinda boring. “The Godfather” would become “The Godfather” – lame!
Then I thought, maybe I could grab the longest two words. That seemed more interesting. “The Shawshank Redemption” might become “Shawshank Redemption”. Better, right?
Or even better, just pick the two words that showed up most often.
The Code (Sort Of)
I’m not gonna paste the whole Python script here, because, honestly, it was kinda messy. But basically, I used a bunch of loops and some built-in string functions to do all that splitting and cleaning and picking.
I ended up with a big list of two-word movie titles. Some of them were pretty funny, some were just weird, and some actually kinda worked!
The Result
It wasn’t perfect, obviously. Some titles just didn’t make sense no matter how I squished them. But overall, it was a fun little project. It helped me brush up on my Python skills, and it gave me a few good laughs.
So, that’s the story of my “movies 2 words” adventure. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime with a different set of rules for picking the words. Who knows what kinda crazy two-word titles I’ll come up with next!
