Talk:Mom and Dad (1945 film)

message: Editors - inappropriate comments inserted into the article (section just before mention of movie intermission) but they are not visible in the edit to remove  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.70.130.233 (talk) 07:32, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article

message: Well written, interesting. Responded to all comments in multiple reviews. Congratulations. AnonEMouse (squeak) 16:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:18, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Somebody might think about letting the reader know if those named are actors (obscure) or characters (unstated). Sure I can scroll down to the cast and find out, but in a "featured article", I shouldn't have to.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.238.92.21 (talk) 06:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article

message: I hate to say this since I know you've worked hard on it, but it's too similar to Kroger Babb.  Most of this article seems to be just a copy and paste job from that one.  This article really seems to focus too much on Babb's roll, rather then being about the movie itself.  I realize that the movie is what it is and had the impact it did because of him, but surely there's got to be something you can say about it that you haven't already said in his article?  I don't want to suggest that you cut information on this film from his article, since it seems to have been such a pivital part of his career; but now that Kroger Babb is a FA, imagine if it was on the front page.  Someone who knows nothing about him would start reading it, get curious about Mom and Dad, come here to read this article, and find themselves reading virtually the same text as on Kroger Babb's article.  See the problem?  
Perhaps if you discussed some of the other people who were invovled in it; did it have a big impact on One Shot's career?  What about the cast? Did this movie help their careers?  Hurt them?  
I'm sure you see what I'm saying.  ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs) 15:42, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I do, and I was somewhat concerned about it.  The problem, perhaps unfortunately, is that what there is to say about the movie has more to do with how it was marketed than anything else - there's little that's said that I've found as of yet that discuss the actual film at length, or the impact (or, really, lack thereof) on the folks involved.  I've tried to mix it up a lot, I guess that's why I'm looking for more input at this point.  I dunno, heh.  Looking it over, forgetting the plot part that I'm working on expanding, the only part that's blatantly similar is the marketing section - the sections before and after are other information that wouldn't make sense in the Babb article, obviously.  If GA is the end of the road for this article, so be it, but I'm wondering if there isn't more that can be done with the middle to differentiate.  --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:49, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much like [[Kroger Babb]]

message: Please fix it
--~KnowledgeHegemony~ 12:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Did it myself!
--~KnowledgeHegemony~ 12:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Feaured:Star Missing on article's page!

message: Why is this considered a FA? I've seen tons of better articles. Vinson 01:27, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly a very early example of FA. The FA process itself, however, is so flawed as to be useless to its stated purpose. There are lots of B articles better than FA articles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.238.92.21 (talk) 06:44, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that early. It was promoted in May 2007. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 12:58, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing how this one made FA. It's not that it's a bad article, it's just really short, not all that informative, and doesn't have that many notes or references. OK, it's actually a bit bad. Maybe a B, but certainly not an FA. CatBoris (talk) 00:14, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: FA

message: It's a film made by an exploitation film maker... that's what the intro establishes (it also establishes that the film has a genre, which is nice, but doesn't tell us what that genre is). In the middle of the second section we find out that it's about a person and we find out her name. That, perhaps, could come earlier....
In the third section we find out that this is considered a "sex hygiene" film... really useful info to anyone just finding this article!
Honestly, it took me quite a while to figure out what this article was about, other than "a film". -Miskaton (talk) 02:39, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha ha, my thoughts exactly. I had to go to IMDB to find out what the plot if the film was. Good article, but a plot synopsis section is definitely needed. -- Noj r (talk) 02:44, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

text: I think this is very well written, but I have no idea what an "exploitation film" is, nor what "genre" this film is. Both need to be explicitly explalined in the first sentence. Both have multiple meanings when discussing film.-- Nick Beeson (talk) 03:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

text: I think it's something that is probably difficult for many modern readers to understand. As far as I can make out from the article the film used the pretense of being an educational film about "hygiene" as a means of talking about and showing sexuality on-screen in a comparatively open way, thereby titilating the audience, presumably mostly consisting of teenagers. --86.135.122.45 (talk) 03:16, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Featured article? This is well-written in most places, but its thesis is vague, its organization is average to less-than-average, it has glaring errors in punctuation...FA is a political game, and here's a good example.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.238.92.21 (talk) 06:42, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I also find this confusing.  Was the film an genuine attempt to offer sex education or was it using sex education to present titulating material.--Frimbia (talk) 10:18, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Certainly a plot synopsis is needed in the lead paragraphs, per WP:LEAD.  Madman (talk) 12:08, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Very hard to know what this is about

message: All the featured article says is that it's feature length. How long? MMetro (talk) 07:04, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Running Time

message: This claim, that the film is the "third highest-grossing film of the 1940s", needs more citations.  As far as I can tell, this is only supported by the Library of Congress press release which contains just 1 paragraph on the film.  Certainly a press release, a genre known for its exaggeration, is not solid enough to make such bold statement.  I have edited this slightly to say "it is claimed . . ."  Madman (talk) 12:58, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Third highest-grossing film of the 1940s?

message: "Mom and Dad is believed to have had a number of endings, although most typically concluded with the birth of the girl's child, sometimes stillborn and other times put up for adoption"
Does it have multiple endings or not?
This says that they may exist, and then gives examples of them as if they do. DocRocktopus (talk) 23:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple Endings

message: What's next for the main page? Deep Throat? 65.175.152.153 (talk) 23:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That depends. You should create an account and try to get it featured! :) –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 00:00, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia is for porn

message: This interesting article woke me up to the fact that the tremendously successful Hindi film 'Aradhana'(1969), often thought of as an original classic, had borrowed the basic plot from 'Mom and Dad'!
Arun Saxena (played by Rajesh Khanna, whose career soared after this film making him Hindi's biggest star till then), a pilot, seduces and beds a naive lass Vandana Tripathi (Sharmila Tagore). He is killed in a plane crash and the bereft, pregnant Vandana is not accepted by his family as they know nothing about the affair. Thereafter the film is a maudlin tear-jerker.
AbhijitDe (talk) 01:51, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: SPIN OFF

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