Talk:The Wild One

message: Where is the right venue for me to raise this Point of View issue regarding the use of the word club versus the pejorative gang?
I don't just mean here. Dennis is now exporting this issue to other topics. 
There are clearly people with an over exaggerated  personal agenda about it and I'd like it clarified.  --Salty Batter (talk) 00:09, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Point of View pushing: clubs versus gangs 

message: Look, I've added some perfectly good new content with support references.
I appreciate you want to grind your axe calling the clubs gangs, and cant admit I am making a fair point over the changes in the meaning of such words as outlaws referring to motorcycles (as referenced) or the pejoration of the word gang (as per the topic page), but there's no need to keep reverting all of it.  It's becoming irrational and clearly just deliberately provocative. --Salty Batter (talk) 01:35, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Your edits are against consensus.  It's that simple.  You are the ONLY editor who wishes to remove "gang" and substitute "club".  As in, the ONLY one.  You obviously have no respect for the process of arriving at and respecting consensus and that makes your edits disruptive and it needs to stop.   Marteau (talk) 02:11, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

text: Again, you simply restored your contested edits against concensus.  What's more, you included "Please wait for the discussion at 'Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard'," in your edit summary. Telling all other editors to wait, meanwhile, for you, it's fine to simply restore contested edits.  Did it occur to you that that might be good advice for you yourself to take?  That you might want to wait before re-re-re-re-re-re-reverting your contested edits? The edits that got you referred to the edit war notice board in the first place?  Marteau (talk) 02:25, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deliberately provocative reverting 

message: The article states that "In the United Kingdom, the film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors for fourteen years." 
I am not sure that this is correct: it was simply not given a certificate.  It was shown in the UK, but only to private audiences.  For example, it was shown sometime during 1958, as I recall, to students at the Northern Polytechnic, Holloway Road, London.
Tony (talk) 17:12, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: In what sense is that not banned? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:56, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: We should use verbiage used by a reliable source, and the source does not say it is "banned" Marteau (talk) 18:07, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: How about "British Board of Film Censors refused to approve for public viewing"? Brianhe (talk) 18:11, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The British Board of Film itself says "The film was banned by the BBFC upon its release here and remained so (except for screenings in film societies where local councils overturned the BBFC’s decision) until 1967 when it was released with an X certificate (suitable for 16 year olds and above). The initial ban was prompted mostly by a fear that the very real problem of burgeoning juvenile delinquency," So yes, when a film wasn't certified it can still be shown if various hoops are jumped through, but the ones who banned it call it a "ban". On the impact of this ban, in The Black Leather Jacket (2008) Mick Farren wrote, "I'd also seen stills of Marlon Brando in The Wild One, and, from the perspective of time, he was as far as it went. (Marlon was also legislated against. The Wild One remained banned in the UK until 1967, presumably to deter young boys like me from emulating Brando's character. It didn't work; it only made me all the more eager.)" So there's evidence that few actually saw the film, and instead it's influence grew because of the legend surrounding what everyone was supposedly missing.<P>Anyway, I'm just saying we should be afraid to say "banned". I'm all in favor of expanding the description of this film in UK society; it clearly had a social influence that was not exactly the same as the US. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:52, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies 

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message: "We missed you! The Beetles missed you!" ~ Chino
When Chino mentions "The Beetles", the camera seems to pan to the females hanging out with his "club". Doesn't this seem to indicate that the girls in the "club" are "the beetles" ? 
( Like bugs, like things crawling all over you, like nuisances / hangers on ? Women aren't treated very kindly by the bikers in the film. )
We never see the rival club's name on their attire, like the B.R.M.C., and "the beetles" - memory a little fuzzy on this part - are only mentioned once in the whole film, in the above quote. 
Soooo ... has everybody, including The Beatles, gotten it wrong over all these years? 75.104.182.200 (talk) 23:08, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who exactly are "The Beetles" ? 

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