Talk:The Manchurian Candidate

message: The source for this information gives no reason why it was condemned and unless someone can find it, I would suggest removing it.
--Steinfeld7 (talk) 16:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the source for the American Legion claim is the same as the claim that it was banned in unnamed communists countries, should that be removed as well?--Sus scrofa (talk) 23:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, removing just the second half and the ref doesn't make any sense. I reverted the anon's doing this. If you want it removed, please do it right. And Steinfeld, please bottom post on talk pages :) Carl.bunderson (talk) 19:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Condemned by the American Legion

message: On 8 August, the description "satirical" was removed with the comment "(THIS FILM IS DEFINETLY NOT satirical)".  As this page refers to the book, not the film, there seems to be confusion.
Is the book satirical ?
That same user also removed "Condon lampoons both McCarthyism and brainwashing as the primary targets of his wit." and See also satire.
-- Beardo 20:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the film's intent when it was made was not satirical; it was a 1960s melodrama. But in today's world, we are apt to smile, or even laugh at the world-view in which it was created. Doctor Strangelove was satirical; this film was not meant to be. 66.108.105.21 00:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This isn't the film, it's the book. Which includes an extremely thinly veiled McCarthy character as the cowardly vice-presidential candidate (and Shaw's stepfather). Condon goes to some lengths to highlight the ridiculousness of his claims about 'card-carrying communists'. Condon, let's not forget, was a satirist.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.196.231.33 (talk) 11:34, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Satire?

message: ===Trotsky parallels===  	 
Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico in 1940, by Ramón Mercader. Mercader, who had been raised by his mother to be a Soviet agent and assassin, was visiting in Trotsky's home as a sleeper agent when he killed him with an ice axe in the skull.
I know all you latter-day wikians don't believe in putting anything in the pedia just because you know it, but this paragraph states plain facts without drawing any conclusions.  It is not in the least "original research".  Every word of it is justified by other articles in the pedia and there is not a single unwarranted conclusion.  This sort of editing is why I don't do much here anymore despite being around near the beginning, when pedia was more fun and the squares hadn't found it yet.  Ortolan88 15:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Putting it back in.  No response.  Ortolan88 17:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What is wrong with this?

message: Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico in 1940, by Ramón Mercader. Mercader, who had been raised by his mother to be a Soviet agent and assassin, was visiting in Trotsky's home as a sleeper agent when he killed him with an ice axe in the skull.
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I know all you latter-day wikians don't believe in putting anything in the pedia just because you know it, but this paragraph states plain facts without drawing any conclusions.  It is not in the least "original research".  Every word of it is justified by other articles in the pedia and there is not a single unwarranted conclusion.  This sort of editing is why I don't do much here anymore despite being around near the beginning, when pedia was more fun and the squares hadn't found it yet.  Ortolan88 15:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Putting it back in.  No response.  Ortolan88 17:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trotsky parallels

message: could this be the inspiration for black ops?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.0.48.60 (talk) 01:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that another book? Who wrote it? Swanny18 (talk) 22:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Black ops?

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message: Was the novel a best-seller? Valetude (talk) 04:12, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception