Talk:Blindness (2008 film)

message: In the Guelph Mercury, two headlines to find on July 30, 2007:
*Lights, camera, we're in the action
*Old city jail fit producer's vision for 'Blindness'
For possible implementation. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:58, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headlines 

message: The existing citations present the formatting of the characters' names the way they are now.  IMDb does not take precedence with the formatting, since its cast and crew information cannot be relied upon before a film is released and the actual credits are replicated on the website.  In addition, film adaptations can take liberties with the source material, so there is no reason to believe that details in the book would match those in the film. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:08, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cast information 

message: *First Look from Cannes: A Review of Blindness (review)
*Blindness not getting glad eye
*Foresight pays off for 'Blindness' director
*"Blindness" a serious spectacle (review)
*Blindness (review)
*Film Review: Blindness (review)
*Cannes Q&A: Fernando Meirelles
*Cannes opens with a dud -- but delights follow (review)
Headlines. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 21:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation dump 

message: International poster at IMP Awards.  Considering the international scope of the film's production and the goal of an international cast, the international poster seems appropriate to use. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 18:32, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  International poster 

message: How does any "blind" watched the film? Why did they get angry? Almost every blind on the film were blind for just some days, how could they get smell and touching skills like a born blind person? It explains the "zombie like" behavior of the new blinds. And the world stopped since no one could be prepared to drive and make other things that needs vision, since no one could help each other. Maybe on another place another group also had a leader who could see. (Getúlio Prates) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.115.122.232 (talk) 18:32, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about "Controversy" 

message: The story is very similar to a prior short story called "Darkness" by Andre Carneiro.  In the story Darkness, people are no longer able to see, as light begins to fade.  The light from a match fades, the light from the sun fades and so on.  Everything goes dark and the story follows a main character who hooks up with a small group of people who were blind before the event that takes away the light.
I read the story in a paperback called "Best SF 1972" edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss, published by Berkley Publishing Corporation in July 1973.  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-116158. The story in the book was translated by Leo L. Barrow.  The book says the story was first published in Nova 2. DJParker39 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 18:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This does not sound like the stories very similar... they just have some things in common. --EdgeNavidad (Talk · Contribs) 20:12, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarity to short story Darkness 

message: The suspense surrounding the violation of trust in the opening scene of Blindness is an important aesthetic achievement of the film, so it's too bad that the current wikipedia entry starts off by giving the "punchline" away. 
Meanwhile, probably one of the most important motifs of the film, and the novel on which it is based, is that everyone is "named" by their profession. So you have "The First Blindman" and "The Thief", "Doctor", "Doctor's Wife", "Boy", "Policeman", "Bartender", etc etc. Through out the film, that's important messaging technology.  Knowing that before watching the film the first time gives the first time viewer a significant leg up in appreciating the film. Knowing the thief before he really gets a chance to "introduce" himself is just a bummer. Everyone already knows what it feels like to be prejudiced - whether they realize it or not. But the careful interpolation, in the first time viewer's mind, of "good Samaritan"?, "thief"?, "good Samaritan"?, "thief"? - that's a portrait we rarely get to see of ourselves.
People use the Wikipedia entries to tell them whether or not they want to see a film. We should be more careful what we give away.
Kiosacoup (talk) 12:31, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: People also use the Wikipedia entries to read about a film after they've seen it. However, the entries are part of an encyclopedia, which means that they are fully inclusive of all major detail related to the film. It's impossible to determine what detail would be a spoiler and what would not. It may be worth reading Wikipedia:Spoiler. Erik (talk | contribs) 12:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoilers

message: The plot section of the article seems overly long and wordy, e.g., "During a dinner with his loving wife..." Really? Is it important that a plot summary detail that she's "loving"? 
Also, it isn't necessary to reveal every small detail about the plot in the article, such as the woman in glasses is "revealed to be a call-girl prostitute" (are there other kinds of call-girls?) or that two people got in a fight right after arriving at the asylum.
The plot section probably ought to be half or a third of its current length. 65.200.157.178 (talk) 13:15, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot 

message: When I replaced the US poster with the Canadian one (since Canada is one of the countries), I was reverted by an editor clearly incognisant to this issue, who claimed that the poster was "Cannes poster" (incorrect according to the official Cannes website). This is a notification and I am reminding that we have an official theatrical poster from one of the production countries, thus we don't have to use anything else. nyxærös 14:58, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: For those unfamiliar with the user, until recently he was :User:Sebastian James. In my experience, very interested in replacing images for no reason and quick to get angry at others. Kingsif (talk) 15:55, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The film name should not be changed, per Template:Infobox_film#Image, which states "When replacing an existing image, upload the new image over the old image" Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 16:13, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The film name was not changed, a different file was uploaded because it is a different image entirely. nyxærös 16:49, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Then just upload it over the existing .jpg file. Problem solved. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:36, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you agree with Nyxaros about the poster selection, though? The Cannes website shows the poster that has been around since 2008. The main difference I see is "THIS FALL" not showing, which is rather inconsequential. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 18:13, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I prefer the long-standing poster from an aesthetic perspective but which poster was used for mainstream distribution? If the Cannes version was unique to Cannes it makes sense to update it from an identification perspective. Betty Logan (talk) 02:30, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poster