Talk:K-PAX (film)

message: surpried no one mentioned the ending after the credits.. guess I'll add it ;) Jeydo (talk) 12:33, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  K-PAX ending

message: I fail to see how anybody could label this film as a comedy. It doesn't even really have a happy ending.
Liquidus219 15:18, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you ever heard of a comedy of manners? Does Life of Brian have a happy ending? Is it a comedy? Not all comedy has to make you laugh. It doesn't even have to have a laugh track.Greglocock 12:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

text: This is not a comedy and you can not compare Life of Brian which was written and performed by comedians to this.  K-Pax is in no way a comedy--67.86.120.246 (talk) 01:50, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It has a happy ending. Prot goes back to K-Pax. Not so happy for Robert, but Prot and the patients he was able to help have a happy ending. It's certainly not a tragedy. I guess you can interpret it as Robert being delusional, but that ambiguity is what makes this an intriguing film.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.78.20.231 (talk) 05:38, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Comedy? How?

message: Does anyone know enough about the film and the first book to be able to outline the key differences in content, message and tone? Mnbf9rca 23:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences from Book 

message: Put this   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.219.231.225 (talk) 21:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hombre mirando al sudeste 

message: * First I think that there is no question, whether the prot figure is an alien or a mental disease, because the frames of medicine dates are real and the story he tells is imginative. Hidden and visible frames in this film are remarcable! Tensefull and epic either.The figure of the doctor psycho is acting on "Bollas" [ contacting communicativ to a client with sympathy and not in a cognition case] and therefore the question, which moves the players is, if it#s possible that prot is from K-Pax.It's a game which developes humanity and strange solutions.I guess he is hiding his trauma in playing the man from a far planet. For thriller reasons by revealing prots bgrd., there is the possibility in he himself murders his wife and girl. "Killing pigs" might be a code for this action! and his  reaction  on water [ above ]
the tank for pschychy trust, is a hint for his own deed.May be thinking on stories is in WIKI!--Danaide (talk) 13:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  f(r)ames!

message: Why don't include a link to www.k-pax.com? --77.128.43.102 15:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to official Website 

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kpax.jpg

message: There is a major argentinean film "Hombre mirando al sudeste" (1986) by film director Eliseo Subiela http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091214/, can any one point at references of this film and the issues arising from obvious similarities in the 1986-film and the novel and film?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.93.112 (talk) 09:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: The first paragraph states that prot should not be capitalized, then uses it that way, but the second section capitalizes it like a normal name. Well, which way is it? 165.129.2.15 (talk) 14:28, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A convention explicitly used in the book and carried over into the movie indicates that K-PAXians only use capital letters in reference to things like stars and planets.  So "prot" is the correct capitalization of his name and "EARTH" is the correct capitalization of this planet.Nektig (talk) 10:40, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not on Wikipedia. See WP:CAPS and related pages. ProhibitOnions (T) 11:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  ??? If, in the context of the story, the character Kevin Spacey is playing insists his name be spelled with no capital letters, then it is appropiate to write it out as 'prot'. Lots42 (talk) 03:16, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am removing the bracketed note about the name. This is the English Wikipedia, and not an encyclopedia written in K-PAXian. If you wish, you may add the particular detail about the literature's lore, and other customs of the fictional world of K-PAX somewhere else in the article as an interesting fact. However on the English Wikipedia we follow the rules of the English language and not always the native language of the subject matter. For example, we spell Rome with an 'e' when the Italians spell it with an 'a'. In science fiction, the article about Klingons is not written in Klingon. On another note, though far less relevant than the above, the IMDB spells his name with a capital. Mkdwtalk 10:17, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalize "prot" or Not?? 

message: If one is "completely resistant" to the effects of a drug, do we not say that they are immune to it?   Would we reword it to say that Thorazine has no effect?
I ask this mainly because i haven't seen this film in over a decade -- no real desire to rewatch it (sort of put off by Spacey), but the wording caught me as weird.  Maybe someone who has seen it more recently can correct this.
Gushi (talk) 02:53, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Completely Resistant" wording on Thorazine