Talk:Akeelah and the Bee

message: Is "The Starbucks funding raises questions pertinent to today's cinema, such as whether or not the presence of corporate sponsorship decreases the value of the art. However, due to the costs associated with filmmaking, this is a trend that will likely continue, for better or for worse" really NPOV? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Trojan traveler (talk • contribs).
Starbucks signed on to the project after the film was shot and edited. They did not have any creative role in the making of this film.
: Nothing in that paragraph is cited, so it's going...now.--Planetary 23:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: is the name Akeelah invented or from some other culture?
:According to this page, "Akilah" is an Arabic name meaning "intelligent, logical, one who reasons". --Mathew5000 10:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name origin

message: I think the plot needs to be trimmed quite a bit. Legedevin 01:00, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot section 

message: The poem that was on the wall in professors office that Akeelah read....who wrote it?  I cannot find it anywhere.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?"
-Marianne Williamson (though sometimes falsely attributed to Nelson Mandela.
207.183.230.217 10:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Akeelah and the Bee......Poem 

message: This article seems heavily biased against the film, including an exorbitant amount of harsh criticism while having next to nothing in the way of positive reviews. One of the critical reviews even violates Godwin's Law and has no place in an objective encyclopedia!
I'm pretty sure this movie isn't that controversial; I have never met a single person who saw the film and didn't like it. The only people I've met who didn't like the film are Don Imus-esque racists who have never even seen it and have no plans to ever see it. And I've only met one or two of them in my life!
I admit I may be a bit biased in favor of the movie, but I want to counter any misinformation on Wikipedia, to prevent this movie from becoming the next John Seigenthaler Sr..
As this is one of my first edits, please forgive me if I "be bold" a little too much. If no one provides a valid explanation for why the criticism section (or parts of it) should be left intact, I'll probably delete the whole section in a few days.
Cheers,
--Stonemason89 22:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather than deleting the criticism section, maybe give a shorter and more nuanced view. Unless the criticism is completely unnotable. Nothing inherently wrong with having a minority play the anti-hero. kwami 17:23, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
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message: "The film also set off a brief national interest in spelling bees--the 2006 national bee was broadcast live on television". Actually, the 2004 bee was broadcast on ESPN and ESPN2, and footage from those broadcasts was used in the film. So the film didn't cause the bee to be broadcast on television; the broadcasts were already happening before the film came out. 173.165.239.237 (talk) 20:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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message: I think the overuse of jargon like "well-off socioeconomic backgrounds" (intro) dilutes the power of language. "Come from wealth" is a common idiom that makes this point without using loftier-sounding jargon that doesn't actually communicate more information (conversely, saying something like "are children of the bourgeoisie" would be more precise, but it would be unnecessarily so in this context).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.220.5.228 (talk) 04:25, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor stylistic quibble but...