Ich habe 618 Weihnachtsfilme (2004–2022) aus einem öffentlichen Datensatz herausgesucht und mithilfe der VADER-Stimmung analysiert, wie sich ihr beschreibender Ton im Laufe der Zeit verändert hat.
Der Trend ist überraschend konsistent: Die Beschreibungen sind stetig geworden positiver während negative Wörter zurückgegangen sind.
Aber als ich Dialogtranskripte für eine Teilstichprobe von Filmen analysierte, änderte sich an der zugrunde liegenden Struktur der Geschichte nicht viel – die positive Veränderung liegt hauptsächlich in der Gestaltung und im Marketing, nicht in der Erzählung.
Vollständiger Bericht: https://aayushig950.substack.com/p/the-sneaky-way-christmas-movies-got
Von Maleficent-Garden-15
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Last Christmas I gave you my heart!
Some examples might be interesting, what’s the least positive vs most positive description?
Also it’s really obvious that write-up is just copied straight from chatgpt.
>**Christmas movies haven’t evolved their plots – they’ve intensified their emotional packaging.**
>And honestly? It works. That’s why we watch them.
In increasingly chaotic years (especially post-2015), the data suggests audiences don’t seem to want new Christmas stories. They want the same story, but with:
>a little more reassurance
>a little more optimism
>a little more glow
>The structure is familiar on purpose. The aggressive positivity is new by necessity.
>**Christmas movies aren’t changing – we are.** We’re using the constant, predictable narrative structures of these films as an anchor while relying on the intensified emotional glow to counteract the chaos of the real world.
This rather assumes that the studios are doing a good job of identifying what the audience wants and giving it to us. Has there been a single widely loved Christmas movie made at any point in the period covered by the study? As far as I can tell, the most recent Christmas movies most people actually watch were made in 2003 (Love Actually, Elf, Bad Santa). Am I overlooking some modern classic of the 2010s? Are we counting Gerwig’s Little Women as a Christmas movie?
I’m also, frankly, dubious of the ability of this kind of methodology to tell us anything useful about what it purports to be investigating in the first place, at least as applied to film scripts.
Years are years, not numbers. What is 2007.5 supposed to mean?