Talk:Cop Land

message: Everything that I say in the begining of the first part of the article is established in the first 5-10 minutes of the movie. You know Stallone is a push over, Keitel is a corrupt cop, Babitch is still alive and that De Niro is a IA agent. So, where are the spoilers exactly. As for the copyrighted information, sure I can change, but you got your work cut out for you if you're trying to make sure there are no copyrighted informantion.   [18:31, 30 March 2007 Dffdfdf]
:Spoiler tags cover everything, not just what happens after the start.  Often the start of films is when they are most suspenseful (anything might happen), and Cop Land is a case in point.  And good Wikipedia editors take copyright violation very seriously.   Wasted Time R 18:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Wikipedia articles are not dumping grounds for lists of trivia; read WP:Trivia.  A Wikipedia article for a movie should not be like the IMDB article for the movie — they do what they do well, Wikipedia is trying to do something else.   Wasted Time R 18:54, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, I agree, the general state of film articles in Wikipedia is terrible.  I can't fix all of them, nor do I even want to (I've already lost my mind trying to improve music articles).  But I am going to keep the crud out of this one.  Cop Land is a lost classic, and if someone happens to read this article, I want them to get a sense of why, not read some stupid trivia list.  And by the way, precedence is the worst excuse, as another tough-nosed WP editor likes to say ...   Wasted Time R 19:20, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Spoilers, copyrights....? 

message: We can't have two separate sets of character and plot descriptions in the article, that's obviously silly.  I've attempted to merge your writeup into the spoiler-protected plot writeup that's already there.  You can tweak that further if you wish.
I've added a couple of the trivia list items into the article mainline that are important, but we really need reliable cites for them (no, IMDB doesn't count).  One of the items, that the movie contains one of the first CGI shots, would be notable if true but seems obviously false — Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, and Forrest Gump all pre-date Cop Land by several years and had much more lavish use of CGI ... what is Mangold thinking?  That it was the first CGI use in a modest-budget film, something like that?  Wasted Time R 12:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging and sources

message: Does anybody know why so many actors who appeared in Cop Land where also in The Sopranos? I'm sure it'd be interesting trivia at least. I imagine it's something to do with the casting agents, but that would be a big fat guess.Musungu jim 20:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interview with Garry Pastore -
"What was your most memorable acting job?
The movie, Cop land, I worked with so many talented actors on one film. (note: Cop Land besides starring Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro, the cast also included Sopranos actors; Robert Patrick (Davey Scatino), Annabella Sciorra (Gloria Trillo), Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo), Arthur Nascarella (Carlo Gervasi), Edie Falco (Carmela Soprano), Frank Pellegrino (Bureau Chief Frank Cubitoso), John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco) and  Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts)."
Add Jeanene Girafolo to that list.
Add Paul Herman to that list. He played the carnie who owned the shooting booth at the carnival in Copland and Beansie Gaeta in the Sopranos.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.162.10 (talk) 00:42, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

text: Edie Falco (Carmella Soprano), Tony Sirico (Paulie Gualtieri) and Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo) all appear in Copland.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.61.36.24 (talk) 23:35, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

text: Interview with Garry Pastore
"What was your most memorable acting job?
The movie, Cop land, I worked with so many talented actors on one film. (note: Cop Land besides starring Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, and Robert De Niro, the cast also included Sopranos actors; Robert Patrick (Davey Scatino), Annabella Sciorra (Gloria Trillo), Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo), Arthur Nascarella (Carlo Gervasi), Edie Falco (Carmela Soprano), Frank Pellegrino (Bureau Chief Frank Cubitoso), John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco) and  Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts)."
Add Jeanene Girafolo to that list.
 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatbrett2 (talk • contribs) 14:37, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cop Land - The Sopranos 

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message: *A Sly Move
*Sly's Next Move
*Summer Movie Preview: Copland
:to use with this article.--J.D. (talk) 16:02, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles

message: In the opening scene, Edie Falco's character is telling Ray Liotta's character an anecdote from her professional experience (she is a memeber of the bomb squad).  Her anecdote is an almost word for word recycle of a passage from a 1989 book by Mark Baker called COPS: Their Lives in Their Own Words.  Take a look at the following link (the "borrowed" anecdote starts in the middle of page 152):
*Google Books Preview  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.154.44.15 (talk) 21:22, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Borrowed" Anecdote from Book

message: Here's how the beginning of the plot has been outlined: 
"In the fictional town of Garrison, New Jersey, located across the Hudson River from New York near the George Washington Bridge, a large number of residents are New York City Police Department officers. Murray 'Superboy' Babitch (Michael Rapaport), Donlan's nephew, gets sideswiped on George Washington Bridge by a couple of African American teens. Thinking that they had fired a gun at him, he returns fire and they are killed in an ensuing crash. Worried about a possible racial incident, Donlan decides the best solution is to fake Babitch's death by suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge." 
Oh yeah! Donlan! Of course! That old Donlan, always turning up like a bad penny. What a great explanatation. It's all so clear now. Did the producers write this article? Or was it just a Sylvester Stallone fan.
:i tried my best to cut down the plot and may have messed up a bit.  What do you propose should be changed? Monkeymanman (talk) 13:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: How do you people manage to screw this shit up

message: Sorry to ask what may be a stupid question, where in the film does it say that it takes place in 1988? 150.203.110.172 (talk) 14:57, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1988? 

message: "fails to render assistance" is quite an understatement. He intentionally, deliberately, purposely slows all the cops down so there is a higher likelihood the victim will fall down. He deliberately *perpetrates* the assistance, you can't really call that *fail* to render assistance, as "fail" would indicate the unsuccessful pursuit of something. If I intentionally hit the brakes of my car, I don't "fail" to accelerate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cainoom (talk • contribs) 06:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Understatement 

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