Talk:Louisiana Story

message: i don't have time to do it now, but the summary of this movie seems to contain a number of instances of weaselwording and bias that need to be corrected.  also, some of the descriptions of the scenes and plot points seem to be at such odds with how i viewed the film that i honestly suspect this article to be an astro-turfing effort.  i'll post specific examples soon.
===examples===
* Although there is a moment of crisis when another rig strikes a gas pocket, all of this is dealt with swiftly and off-camera
** this is hardly how the picture portrays the scene - when the rig hits the pressure pocket, there's a long, drawn-out scene where the sky goes from white to black as oil fills the air.  the subsequent scene, where the disaster is dealt with, is down with newspaper clippings being inserted into frame - the first describing the accident, and the second stating that the rift had been fixed ten days later.
***The author of the article has simply said what you are saying, in fewer words.  A shot of oil spraying in the sky followed by studio-typeset news articles in montage, all lasting less than a minute, takes one of the film's two potentially dramatic moments and deals with it "swiftly and off camera".  There are no shots of the town being evacuated, emergency procedures carried out by the professionals in such circumstances, etc.
****i disagree.  the issue may have been handled "off-camera," but it was not swift.  again, the newspaper clippings state a time period of ten days.  ten days of oil spraying into the air - this is not a "moment of crisis," nor is it swift.  the fact that it only takes seconds on the big screen is just an artifact of some movie magic.  the language is misleading. 192.223.226.6 21:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: bias and astro-turfing

message: * Although there is a moment of crisis when another rig strikes a gas pocket, all of this is dealt with swiftly and off-camera
** this is hardly how the picture portrays the scene - when the rig hits the pressure pocket, there's a long, drawn-out scene where the sky goes from white to black as oil fills the air.  the subsequent scene, where the disaster is dealt with, is down with newspaper clippings being inserted into frame - the first describing the accident, and the second stating that the rift had been fixed ten days later.
***The author of the article has simply said what you are saying, in fewer words.  A shot of oil spraying in the sky followed by studio-typeset news articles in montage, all lasting less than a minute, takes one of the film's two potentially dramatic moments and deals with it "swiftly and off camera".  There are no shots of the town being evacuated, emergency procedures carried out by the professionals in such circumstances, etc.
****i disagree.  the issue may have been handled "off-camera," but it was not swift.  again, the newspaper clippings state a time period of ten days.  ten days of oil spraying into the air - this is not a "moment of crisis," nor is it swift.  the fact that it only takes seconds on the big screen is just an artifact of some movie magic.  the language is misleading. 192.223.226.6 21:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: examples

message: What is OSHA? Please explain/link. And I agree, this article is chiefly POV, not balanced. 110.174.52.185 (talk) 20:26, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  pre-OSHA