Talk:The Piano

message: "One of the few dissenters was feminist critic bell hooks who condemned it as racist in her book Outlaw Culture."
On what basis was this criticism made? Franz-kafka 17:51, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism

message: It is well known that Australia is notorious for claiming credit of the great works of New Zealanders (and I say this as a proud Aussie), and this would have to be an egregious example.  How can a film set  completely in New Zealand featuring a cast made of of Kiwis and Yanks possibly be considered an Australian film? --Robert Merkel 05:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Because a lot of its financing came from the Australian Film Commission. Cop 633 17:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is actually a French-Australian film. The locale of filming is largely irrelevant, if it was we would remember Star Wars as a Tunisian film.Royalcourtier (talk) 00:16, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not an Australian film... 

message: Citation is needed for the Bill Clinton rumor. Madangry 19:23, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clinton 

message: The article asserts that "Hunter's award was notable for being the only time the award has been presented to an actor who does not speak onscreen."  However, I am not sure this is true.  Jane Wyman received the Best Actress Oscar for the 1948 film Johnny Belinda, in which she plays a deaf-mute character.  I haven't seen the movie myself, however, so I can't confirm that she speaks absolutely no lines in it.  Has anybody here seen it?
Johnny Belinda does sound like it has a few parallels with The Piano plot-wise as well.  Both films concern the troubled romantic life of a very misunderstood mute woman living in a remote corner of the 19th-century British Empire among a community of primarily Scottish descent.  I don't think these parallels merit mention in an article, but they do make for an interesting bit of trivia.
76.90.181.163 (talk) 18:22, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only Best Actress Win for a Mute Character? 

message: i feel it is nessasary to put him on trivia. it was the last film he watched  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.61.25 (talk) 22:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not something that most readers of the article would be interested in, as it doesn't add any information about this film. If you think it is important, put it in the Curt Cobain article. Make sure you add a citation, which explains why this is important to an understanding of his life.-gadfium 22:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  TRIVIA 

message: Where in New Zealand was the film set and filmed? This should be added. Badagnani (talk) 04:04, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locations 

message: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR19.1/stone.html 
Excellent in-depth review by Allan Stone of the Boston Review that could be helpful as a resource/link and to counterbalance the apparent bias in the original article.
JerushaViolet (talk) 17:40, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Source/Link Providing Counterbalance to NNPOV of Article 

message: The film ends with the credit "For Edith". Why and who´s Edith? --93.135.123.102 (talk) 11:27, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The director's mother.  --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 02:47, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  For Edith 

message: Hello, I'd like to ask, is it possible to revert the image in the infobox back to the one with the piano on the beach? I am asking because I am pretty certain, that since the image was changed, the page's thumbnail in facebook, started showing the generic movie icon, instead of the thumbnail of the image I described above. --Otrivin (talk) 14:14, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article image 

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message: I was startled by the article's implication that Ada did not drown, "but then she changes her mind and kicks free to be pulled back into the boat."  Surely this is a complete misreading of the whole ending.  As the piano drags her down, the rope starts out well wrapped around her calf above her boot.  After she's breathed out all her air, which she does in two large breaths out, a drowning victim would be entering a dream state, and what happens next is surely intended as a dream sequence in which the details of her situation under water become vague and implausible like Alice in Wonderland while she fantasizes an idyllic future life.  She pictures the rope being wrapped around her boot instead, which she's therefore able to remove (itself illogical, even around the boot the rope would have acted like very strong laces), with the rope and boot falling limply away instead of streaming behind the falling piano.  Just as she surfaces the dream music distorts momentarily.  As she is pulled into the boat, she thinks dreamily to herself, "What a death.  What a chance.  What a surprise.  My will has chosen life?"  Suddenly she's in Nelson, imagining a prosthetic finger, learning to speak, then her cartwheeling youth flashing before her eyes (as if the other hints weren't enough), then imagining Blaine kissing her through a shroud, then Blaine lifting the shroud and kissing her again.  Then just as suddenly we are back at the piano, which meanwhile has come to rest, with the rope held taut by a shroud floating above the boot which presumably is her petticoat enshrouding her body.  Before the final Hood quote she says "Down there everything is so still and silent."
The Disney-ish suggestion that the final shot of the piano and enshrouded body was merely something she was imagining while leading a perfect life in Nelson trivializes a deeply moving ending.  --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 04:56, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not clear why the piano was thrown overboard.  Either the boat was about to sink or the piano was too heavy to carry aboad to begin with.  --EQ  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Everyqueen (talk • contribs) 05:13, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The ending was clear. Ada decided that she, like the piano, was "spoiled" and needed to be destroyed. It was suicide. The film ought to have ended there. However Campion chickened out and created a dream-like (ambiguous) bookend suggesting a totally unlikely idealistic ending for Ada and Blaine. More recently she admitted that was an error, and that she should have been braver and left the ending as it was meant to be.Royalcourtier (talk) 00:23, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The ending

message: British Sign Language is listed here as one the three languages of the film. However in this interview Holly Hunter says the signs were assembled in cooperation with an American Sign Language interpreter. As both languages are quite different, I guess that both cannot be true. Bever (talk) 15:44, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sign language 

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