[Developers] Flash Data Mob #3: Film Subjects

[Alec Flett]

We continue this week in the film/tv arena....

Last week I discovered my new favorite property: "Film Subject"

What I really like about this property is that it allows the film domain
to creep into places where it doesn't belong.. but often there is a 
wikipedia article on whatever subject you can imagine. It's the film 
domain's own form of viral marketing!

If you visit the page on the RMS Titanic:

http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000000348e2

You'll see that the movie "Titanic" covers that topic:

http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000065fe4

But even though we have some 23,000+ films, we have a mere 31 film
subjects.. almost third of which I have entered myself :)

What's great about Film Subjects is that they can be vague and sometimes 
comical - and it often assigns a type to an abstract concept that would 
be hard to "Type" in freebase.

I mean just look at this list...

http://www.freebase.com/view/filter?id=/film/film_subject

Everything from Boxing to Existentialism to Lucid Dreaming! Ever want to 
know movies about the suburbs, Jake LaMotta or extramarital affairs? Let 
freebase be your source.

The task this week is to see if we can flush "film subject" out to a few 
hundred subjects.

Here's what you can do: I've provided a few links below to movies that 
specific actors have been in - I'm hoping this provides a good diversity 
of subjects across well known films but feel free to search for your own 
favorite/obscure movies. Pick a few and assign some film subjects. For 
bonus points, add some new movies that aren't already assigned to these 
actors.

(I've found the easiest thing to do is hold down the Control/command 
button while clicking on 10 films at a time to load them in 10 separate 
tabs... then go tab-by-tab to add film subjects)

Tom Hanks:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f800000000005732e&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

Parker Posey:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000002b70c9&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

Audrey Hepburn:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000065973&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

Jack Nicholson:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f800000000004b545&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

Halle Berry:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f800000000001c692&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

Luke Wilson:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000306a90&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

Owen Wilson:
http://www.freebase.com/view/reorder?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000001b7eaf&propertyId=%2Ffilm%2Factor%2Ffilm

I'll report back in a few days so we can see how many film subjects 
we've come up with...

And again, if someone wants to do a MJT page tracking this challenge, 
please post here with a url...

Alec