Talk:Secret (2007 film)

message: Just to clear up something regarding the characters' names.
Ye Xiang Lun
Last name: Ye
First name: Xiang Lun
Lu Xiao Yu
Last name: Lu
First name: Xiao Yu
People should take note that Chinese names are different from Western names. The article currently refers to the characters by "Lun" and "Yu", which is half of their first name, which is really weird, not to mention it always ticks me off when Westerners exhibit their ignorance of Chinese nomenclature.
I will edit some of the names but I'm likely to grow bored soon. If anyone notices any mis-naming, please help and change them to their last names.--Secretss 06:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese names 

message: Lots of good information here but needs formatting and copyediting to look and sound more like a typical Wikipedia article about a movie. Someone up for doing this? SeleneFN 17:30, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I vote for completely eliminating the three ridiculous sections: Explanations of Scenes, Plot Explanation, and Ending (another possibility). They're totally unnecessary, not to mention somewhat unintelligently written and sometimes incoherent and incomprehensible, and they so do not belong in a wikipedia article. This is not a movie fan page! The sections sound like they're written by some fool thinking they understand the movie and wishing to impress with their "awesome" deduction/analytical abilities. --Secretss (talk) 17:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

text: The sections you mentioned can also be interpreted as informational, but I agree; I'll see if I get the time to clean up those sections, and if I don't get around to it, just delete them. Danny Sepley (talk) 23:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, looking back at those sections, I get the feeling that they're really annoying. It seems like the person that wrote it did not use good formatting. Overall, it detracts from the appearance of the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danny sepley (talk • contribs) 04:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: Why is the school name romanised that way? 淡江 is pronounced as Dànjiāng in standard Mandarin. Or is it such a well-known name, which needs to written in a dialect pronunciation? --Atitarev (talk) 06:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in the movie it was translated to English as "TamKang" by Jay (owing to the need for an English speaker at the promotion in the movie), and...you get the idea. He probably didn't want to just come plain and make a direct allusion to DanJiang High School. Danny Sepley (talk) 11:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tamkang 淡江? 

message: Recently, I have taken a trip to DanShui (or, "淡江") and visited the site where the movie was filmed. The final scene in a "piano building" was done at the San Domingo fort, I think; and the major parts that cover the high school were really done at the DanJiang High School. Also, the piano used in the movie (the one with a "Secret" in the Piano building) is a Mason and Hamlin CC-94 (I think, as it appears to fall around 9 feet long) piano (I looked inside on the soundboard, where most manufacturers would place their name). However, I have no way of proving or even citing this. Should I or should I not attempt to add something like this to the "Production" (or filming, was it?) section? I have pictures of the buildings, and at least two of the piano, but I cannot show that it is specifically a Mason and Hamlin. Please help! Thanks.
Danny Sepley (talk) 11:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal research, but not sure how to cite or even insert 

message: Xiaoyu says: "just that we're 16 years apart" (1:16:32). Later, her mother asks her: "How does mom look in 20 years?" (1:26:06) The article uses 20. Debresser (talk) 23:32, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  16 or 20