Why not use an enum for the Status rather than magic strings?

>I have a demo project that I've been working on that focuses on advanced Entity Framework concepts. Here's the URL: https://github.com/mikecole/MovieFanatic
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>I just added an edit page that has has an example of how to populate a dropdown using Razor: https://github.com/mikecole/MovieFanatic/blob/master/MovieFanatic.Web/Controllers/MovieController.cs