Talk:Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)

message: The external stages of the film show 1930's İstanbul. But one thing seems highly unrealistic. All men wear fez. This is impossible. Because in Turkey fez is banned after 1925. (28.11.1925 to be precise). Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 09:09, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fes and İstanbul 

message: This film be 'the' film of this book. So what on earth possesed others to imagine they could improve on it ? !
The all star cast (and their excellent performances), the brilliant score (RRB second only to JBP of English film score composers - and then only by output).
Alfred Molina and David Suchet (the quintessential Poirot - now) are fine, but, as one said... Anorakery (talk) 11:00, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remakes 

message: User:Schrodinger's cat is alive keeps removing the name of the US distributor of this film. As this is an American site, it is quite usual to list this detail (Paramount for this movie) in film articles. It also prevents the common practice of other users from indicating the American distributor of films made in the UK (or elsewhere), but not specifying that the indicated company was the American distributor. I find this is a common fault with articles about films, as though individual titles have no existence outside the States. The template page on infoboxs for films states: "If other release dates are found to be notable, it may be appropriate to include them in the main body of the article". It does not say they shouldn't be included in infoboxs, and this detail is indeed going to be notable for a high proportion of users who are living in America, and are a larger number/percentage of users than people from the UK. Philip Cross (talk) 21:02, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the English-language Wikipedia, so we are supposed to serve English-language readers, not primarily American readers. I have no strong feelings about what should go in the infobox as I've seen too much edit warring in so constricted a space. I have a suggestion instead. Why not have a release-based section? Presently, we have nothing specific in the body about when the film was released, either in the United Kingdom or in the United States. If we highlight when the film was released in each territory, we could mention as part of that coverage that Paramount distributed the film in the US. Erik (talk | contribs) 21:28, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: PMSL - an American site? No, it's the global English language wiki. Murder on the Orient Express is a British film, so why would the US distributor need to be mentioned in the infobox? It's not an important fact for the film. If you add the US distributor, why not France, or Australia, or Outer Mongolia? The answer is because they are not important in the context of the film. You want to have the distributor listed in the article text, go ahead, but to bloat out the infobox with meaningless, unrelated fluff? Pointless. I'm really not sure what the film release dates have to do with this either: we're talking about the distributor, but if you want to use that as the basis for crow-barring this information in there, then read the line before "dates should therefore be restricted to the film's earliest release ... and the release date(s) in the country or countries that produced the film". It doesn't say "add your own home country if you want to". Too much information in an infobox bloats it to the point where it is counter-productive. See MOS:INFOBOX: "the purpose of an infobox [is] to summarize key facts in the article in which it appears. The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose" - SchroCat (talk) 21:56, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I had to look up PMSL... is that really warranted? I can see an argument for covering the release of this film in the United States based on the portion of box office performance there. The release date or the distributor do not have to go in the infobox, but we can cover it in some capacity in the article body. Erik (talk | contribs) 22:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: US distributor

message: Perkins' character speaking about being attached to his deceased mother - a Psycho reference LeapUK (talk) 14:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homages and references to other films 

message: I'm on mobile currently where the editor experience is horrible. Please find the vandal replacing the correct phrase used by Poirot to decline Ratchet's offer, and scrutinize their other edits. 83.233.244.182 (talk) 13:52, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "I will not take your case because I do not like your face."