A Film that Actually 'Obeys' the "Rollllll Credits"-Joke
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 14, 2020 6:31am CST
I am such a history-nerd, I programmed-my-'AT&T U-Verse' to auto-record two or three (or five) series on C-SPAN 3.
One of those series is "Reel America" https://www.c-span.org/series/?reelAmerica which plays old film from America's history.
All the Way Home was one from back when America was in 'a place' on Racial Integration (probably the same 'place it is now' on Gender-Preference ... i.e. "'a person' has every right to be 'different,' as long as they keep it away from 'me'" 
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The film ends with a neighborhood-meeting, where all the white neighbors decide that they need to ... change (they say it a lot better in the film). And it closes with a speech from the narrator telling us to build moral-character or something ...
The point is---the speech ends with "... all the way home," and then 'roll credits' (that's the joke that commentators will 'announce' whenever someone in a movie speaks 'the title of the movie.')
Do you know any other films that actually end that way (where the last spoken line is the title of the film)?
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The film ends with a neighborhood-meeting, where all the white neighbors decide that they need to ... change (they say it a lot better in the film). And it closes with a speech from the narrator telling us to build moral-character or something ...
The point is---the speech ends with "... all the way home," and then 'roll credits' (that's the joke that commentators will 'announce' whenever someone in a movie speaks 'the title of the movie.')
Do you know any other films that actually end that way (where the last spoken line is the title of the film)?1 person likes this
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
17 Dec 20
'TV Tropes' lists a lot of them here where they reveal that it's called a "Finale Title Drop."
A subtrope of Title Drop, where the title of a work is used as the last line spoken or near its end. Often, the title drop will finally explain why the episode/book/etc is called that way to begin with. You can probably find these mainly in …
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@sharonelton (25278)
• Lichfield, England
18 Dec 20
@mythociate Oh, I see. I've heard the title of a film mentioned in the film, but didn't know if it was at or near the end.
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