"GREEN BOOK"? Critics sneered when Academy Award voters named this saccharine tale of a friendship between a black pianist and his white, tough-guy chauffeur the Best Picture of 2018. Yet rather than being a rare injustice, the award reinforced a trend. The top Oscar has increasingly gone to films that are soon forgotten. A film's quality is in the eye of the beholder. Its influence, however, can be measured more objectively. iMDb, a crowd-sourced online database, contains a list of references to every film in subsequent films and tv shows. For example, "Casablanca" has over 1,600 references, including a discussion in "When Harry Met Sally" and a poster in "True Romance". The data are spotty: films from the 1980s get four times as many references as those from the 1940s. However, the same bias presumably applies to all films made in a given year. So a rough proxy for a movie's cultural influence is to count how many times it was referred to in subsequent years, and then compare its tally with those of all other films made in the same year.
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机译：“ GREEN BOOK ”？当奥斯卡金像奖选民将这个糖精故事称为黑人钢琴演奏家和他的白人硬汉司机之间的友谊时，评论家们之以鼻，这是2018年的最佳影片。然而，奖得奖并非是一种罕见的不公正行为，而是一种趋势。奥斯卡金像奖颁奖典礼越来越多地出现在很快被人们遗忘的电影上。电影的质量在旁观者的眼中。但是，可以更客观地衡量其影响。 iMDb是一个众包在线数据库，其中包含后续电影和电视节目中每部电影的参考文献列表。例如，“卡萨布兰卡”有1,600多个参考文献，其中包括“当哈利·梅特·萨利”时的讨论，以及“真浪漫”中的海报。数据参差不齐：1980年代的电影获得的参考文献数量是1940年代的四倍。但是，相同的偏差可能适用于给定年份中制作的所有电影。因此，电影的文化影响力的大致代表是计算其后几年被提及的次数，然后将其与同年所有其他电影的统计结果进行比较。
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