The Wizard of Oz Ranked Most Influential Film Ever

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    • Publish Date: Dec 4 2018 1:42PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 4 2018 1:42PM
The Wizard of Oz Ranked Most Influential Film Ever

The Wizard of Oz has been named the most influential film by researchers at the University of Turin in Italy, based on how much each movie had been referenced by subsequent films.

The Wizard of Oz is the most influential film of all time, followed by Star Wars and Psycho, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Turin in Italy calculated an influence score for 47,000 films listed in the internet movie database(IMDb). The score was based on how much each film had been referenced by subsequent films. The study, published in the journal Applied Network Science, found that the top 20 most influential films were all produced before 1980 and mostly in the US.

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film. “We propose an alternative method to box office takings — which are affected by factors beyond the quality of the film such as advertising and distribution — and reviews — which are ultimately subjective — for analysing the success of a film,” said Livio Bioglio, the lead author of the study.

“We have developed an algorithm that uses references between movies as a measure for success, and which can also be used to evaluate the career of directors, actors and actresses, by considering their participation in top-scoring movies,” Bioglio said. Applying the algorithm to directors, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ranked third, fifth and sixth respectively.

When the researchers used another approach to remove the bias of older movies –which, because they were produced earlier, can potentially influence a greater number of subsequent films — Hitchcock, Spielberg and Brian De Palma occupied the top spots instead. When applied to actors, the algorithm ranked Samuel L Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise as the top three.


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Suryansh Srivastava Delhi Public School Jankipuram

I do agree with this. In this movie a girl ,Dorothy with her dog,Toto comes to the magical land of Oz and to meet a wizard they experience different conditions. It shows how she manages those condition which may influence the people to take up challenges that would lead them to success.

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