Talk:Freaks (1932 film)

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FreaksPoster.jpg
when will the copyright from the poster expire? and from the movie?
190.51.182.204 (talk) 21:18, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: when will the copyright expire? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FreaksPoster.jpg

message: The scene in which the Human Torso lights up a cigarette is the more memorable because the Torso is set on a table, supposedly listening while the "normal" circus strongman is bragging about his feats of strength, ignoring this simple yet astonishing sight of the Human Torso rolling a cigarette and managing to smoke it, which undoubtedly completely stole the scene for the audience. Sussmanbern (talk) 11:24, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: individual performers

message: The posterity of the movie "Freaks" is important. For instance the comic stripes story "Silence" by the drawner and artist Comes (  60 p. Casterman edition published in 1984 ) was a part of the inheritance of the movie. The movie "Elephant man" was also a part of the inheritance.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.91.242.54 (talk) 15:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Posterity

message: I bought Freaks on DVD a few years back and was disappointed that the Human Torso's cigarette rolling/lighting scene was cut short so that only the lighting of the cigarette is seen.  I had seen the film on UK terrestrial television about 10 or 15 years earlier and distinctly remember that the man rolled the cigarette as well as lighting it.  Having read the main article on this film I was wondering if there is any source which explains why this scene was truncated, and why it "does not appear in any commercial release".  There's no other information pertaining to this ambiguity save for the quoted sentence. PCLM (talk) 17:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Truncated Cigarette Scene

message: In the Goon comic Book Volume 0 number 3 The character of The Goon is shown to have lived in a Freakshow. In the panels talking about his story,the characters of the movie are easilyrecognizable, you can recognize Pip and Zip and they even say the words: Gobble Gobble One of Us! This is a clear reference to the movie and it should be mentioned on the list.bloodawn5  (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Addition to the References in other Media

message: The South Park episode titled "Butters' Very Own Episode" (season 5 episode 14, broadcast Dec. 2001) includes a scene where the Stotch parents are welcomed into a group composed of John & Patsy Ramsey, O.J. Simpson and Rep. Gary Condit, who all claim to have lost a loved one to "some Puerto Rican guy",  chanting, "Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!" This could be listed in the references section.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s05e14-butters-very-own-episode
Scott H 01:34, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference in South Park 

message: In the "cultural influences" section, where you have: "The famous line "We accept him, one of us!"", it should be: "We accept HER. . ." as the group was chanting about the manipulative Cleopatra character. I changed it. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 01:07, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: ...and its " "Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble" per reliable sources....which are not needed for the plot section but here it is:
--Mark Miller (talk) 02:02, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slight error 

message: Robert Smith (the Cure) is wearing a shirt with a photo of the Freaks in the music video for Friday I'm in Love.  Is that worth noting?
Clofts (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference in The Cure music video 

message: Since this article is so underdeveloped in spite of the vast amount of information available on the film, I've decided to include a list of sources that can be added to the article at a later date. PLEASE NOTE: This is only a very small list of sources that can be found on google books. If I were to add acomplete list it would span over several pages worth.--Paleface Jack (talk) 18:23, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources to Add 

message: Neither reference actually uses the term. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:00, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  a subgenre of one 

message: Just been reading the plot and this section, about the fate of Cleopatra, stuck out to me.
"The freaks then capture Cleopatra and sometime later, she is shown to be a grotesque, squawking "human duck" on display for carnival patrons; her tongue has been removed, one eye has been gouged out, the flesh of her hands has been melted and deformed to look like duck feet, her legs have been cut off, and what is left of her torso has been permanently tarred and feathered."
It seems excessively detailed. It's one shot in the film and who's to say her tongue was removed, the flesh of her hands melted and deformed? It reads a bit like someone's taken that shot and ran with their imagination. I just wanted to check there isn't a source for this? Humbledaisy (talk) 23:33, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ending detail 

message: Given that Freaks is now recognised as an important film about disability, and which actually casts disabled performers, it seems unfortunate that none of them are listed in the cast list in the infobox. Presumably this is because the infobox is mirroring the poster and the credits of the movie, but ableism likely played a part in the ordering of the cast list at the time of the film's release. The wikipedia rules do allow for divergence from the standard format: "An alternative approach may be determined by local consensus." Surely at least Harry and Daisy Earles should be recognised here? Cinefeline (talk) 23:44, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cast list