Talk:Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)

message: I just added a soundtrack section since I was surprised to find that there was no mention in this article of its score which is actually considered particularly influential.  To be honest I was shocked to find that a film which has seperate articles for some of its characters and even the silent gang didn't mention its score which is considered by many to be its most prominent feature (and by some the only part of the film worth mentioning)!  Anyway it's done now and I hope people are happy with it. --Thetriangleguy 17:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soundtrack 

message: Please leave the 1976 poster image at the top of the article. It is always preferable to use original movie art. In this particular case, the poster art better represents the movie. The DVD cover art, which is of much more recent date, depicts a New York skyline when the movie is actually set in Los Angeles.
There should be "DVD release" section in the article, and the DVD cover art could be placed there.
Sullenspice 15:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I second this.  Also, please remember that original poster art speaks to the graphic sensibilities that were actually contemporary with the movie's release. Finally, there is a wikipedia consensus that original art is what goes into the infobox (wherever possible.) 
 Reimelt 21:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Poster image vs. DVD cover image

message: There is no reason to alter any of the names in the cast list. The actors are listed in this article under the names they used in this film's credits. Nancy Kyes is credited as "Nancy Loomis" in AOP 13 (as she is in most of her film appearances). I created a "Nancy Loomis" redirect page last year, ergo the "Nancy Loomis" link on this page goes to the "Nancy Kyes" article. Changing it to "Nancy Kyes/Loomis" as 24.195.208.152 did is utterly nonsensical. 
Sullenspice 03:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Do not alter the names in the cast list

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Assaultalbumcover.jpg

message: "break a blood-filled "cholo" on the precinct's front steps,"
This does not seem to make sense with the term linked to, and I don't know what it is supposed to be from the context, never haviing seen the movie. Please fix. Thanks. Ingolfson (talk) 11:06, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've included a definition of the "cholo" in the Street Thunder article. It is a specific type of blood oath and the material symbol of that oath. This term and the way it is used in the film is a classic "Carpenterism." It bears no relation to the way the term is used (vis-a-vis Latino culture) in the real world. I'm going to de-link it from the main "cholo" article. Sullenspice (talk) 02:37, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logic / context ? 

message: Any suggestions?
Al Fecund (talk) 22:40, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can we get this to be a featured article? 

message: I saw this movie a long time ago, but I clearly remember that - for the scene in which the little girl was shot by Street Thunder's gangbanger - the camera view was located in the driver's section of the ice cream truck, enough for the viewer to see a massive bullet hole form in her chest.  Upon the shooting, she lingered there for a second, then dropped the ice cream cone and fell to the ground.  A re-release was done with that scene eliminated - no one needs to ask exactly why, but, it was done.  In the re-release, they nixed the frontal camera angle completely and just showed the girl falling to the ground from a distance.
Can anyone corroborate this?  I've been trying to find information on the intarwebs to back up my memory but . . . no such luck. 75.131.47.176 (talk) 03:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-release due to excessive violence? 

message: In Germany was the title "Assault - Anschlag bei Nacht", the title of the remake was "Das Ende – Assault on Precinct 13" --212.122.206.18 (talk) 14:00, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: - May 27, 2016 - Kiraroshi1976 (talk) 15:27, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Germany 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Debra Hill acted as an uncredited assistant editor."
I'm looking at a print of the movie right now and she's credited for script supervision and assistant editing.
Indieshack (talk) 03:42, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Credditing Deborah Hill as assistant editor? 

message: The "Principal photography" section currently contains this sentence about the film's budget:
Assault started in November 1975 and was shot in only 20 days, including Thanksgiving, on a budget of $100,000. 'Footnote:' Variety incorrectly reported in 1977 that the film cost $200,000.
This figure is supported with three references (John Carpenter's audio commentary, Joseph Kaufman on the 2003 DVD's Production Gallery, and Muir's The Films of John Carpenter), plus the December 14, 1977 issue of Variety for the footnote.
I don't have that 2003 DVD to check the production gallery. But on Second Sight's 40th anniversary Blu-ray, there's an interview featurette with Joseph Kaufman ("Producing Precinct 13: An Interview with Executive Producer Joseph Kaufman"), in which he states that he recently looked at some old documents from the production, and found that the budget was actually closer to $200,000. He says that he thinks the $100,000 budget has been popularised via a "print the legend" situation. (Unfortunately I do not own my own copy of the BR, so can't transcribe the exact quote.)
So, it sounds like Kaufman gave different figures on the 2003 DVD and 2016 Blu-Ray. And the assertion in the footnote that "Variety incorrectly reported in 1977 that the film cost $200,000" might not not have been so incorrect after all! --Nick RTalk 17:59, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Budget - $100k or $200k?