Talk:Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

message: Hi, I think there is an error in the plot. I saw the movie last week at a movie theater and I think the children were kidnapped from Marzabotto and taken to Salo.
Marzabotto was the scene of a terrible massacre made by fascists, so in the fiction nobody would know about the children missing.
Orkolorko —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.222.32.61 (talk) 00:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They actually pass through Marzabotto on the way to the villa; that's where Ferrucio Tono escapes and is shot to death. AskohlerOpus111 (talk) 01:28, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marzabotto 

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message: I looked up the actors under other sources and no source corroborates that Dana Carvey appears as the President in this film. This mistaken information has also made it onto the Dana Carvey bio.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.188.230.235 (talk) 19:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error under 'Acclaim' 

message: I have removed the statements lacking inline citations to this page until sources can be found for them. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:12, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced statements

message: This entry is written like a magazine article. "It is clear that..." ",however,..." "Moreover..." It needs to be pared down to an encyclopedia article. Also, it has numerous comma splices (look that up if you don't know what it is), so I don't know how it got the green check mark for grammar above. [Yes, I know I could fix it myself but I'm sick of spending an hour fixing up an article, just to have the original author get incensed that someone dared to modify "his" work. Then the reverts and endless arguments  start. Sometimes it's easier to just point something out, and move along.] Tragic romance (talk) 17:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Style/Tone of Article

message: In this movie you can see soldiers of DECIMA FLOTTIGLIA MAS committ rape and torture, there are no proof whatsoever that they did this in WWII, it's just propaganda.  X-MAS soldiers did never rape people, and they especially didn't kill ITALIAN KIDS.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.32.97.204 (talk) 23:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propaganda-film 

message: If someone wants to find out which one is true: This page says that the DVD is freely available in Germany, while de:Die 120 Tage von Sodom (Film) says it’s not. --Nomeata (talk) 21:50, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  DVD version in Germany 

message: Underneath plot/synopsis, it said that the movie was parallel to Dante's inferno..."Anteinferno, circle of manias,circle of shit, and circle of blood."
Is this vandalism? I've already removed that part anyways. Just curious. --Fruit.Smoothie (talk) 22:30, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would you think it's vandalism? I have reinserted the information as it appears to be valid (see this, this and this review). Your edit make that part of the article nonsensical in that it refers to four sections while naming only three. ElijahOmega (talk) 10:36, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Salò is outrageous by any measure — the Circle of Shit probably looks like vandalism if you haven't seen the film. --O'Dea (talk) 02:03, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He probably meant that Dante had no Circle of Shit in his Divine Comedy (or anywhere else). 89.105.238.200 (talk) 15:21, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circle of Shit? 

message: I edited the sentence, "A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit; the case was dismissed on a technicality."  The Constitution is NOT a technicality.  As the ACLU newsletter source makes clear, the Judge dismissed the case because the police violated the store owners' right against unreasonable searches and seizures.  In addition, I removed the passive voice in the clause following the semicolon.  Sdeplonty (talk) 02:26, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception and Controversy 

message: The top paragraph states that the victims in the film are executed one by one, but a later paragraph says that those that refuse to collaborate with the fascists are tortured and killed.  Which is it? AndarielHalo (talk) 16:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear on victims 

message: The article has this film listed as if it were banned in the US. I've seen this film readily available at several stores such as Best Buy and Fry's Electronics (at least in here Southern California), so where does information come from? --HiroProtagonist 16:16, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Not Banned in the US

message: In Controversies section it says, ' the DVD was passed due to "the inclusion of 176 minutes of additional material which provided a context to the feature film."' Clearly that makes no sense as you can't include more material into a movie than the length of the movie. 176 must be wrong, but from the cited I couldn't see the source of the number. BashBrannigan (talk) 04:26, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that running time refers to the additional documentaries and interviews that were included on the DVD. Muzilon (talk) 03:10, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious error? 

message: I'm wondering how come the scenes depicting underage actors in sexual situation haven't been mentioned as a controversy. For example that boy with sperm on his mouth. More sources need to be added.83.7.164.33 (talk) 23:19, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Underage sex scenes 

message: The production section seems unclear, like a sentence is missing in the middle. Probably "heretofore" should be replaced with an explanation?
RSI was a puppet state of Germany, and Nazi used it to round up Jews and send them to the extermination camps. Prior to that Italian officials refused to implement the Final solution. Question - prior to what? To the creation of RSI? Then it should be mentioned. Thanks.
Also, does it belong to the production section?
69.119.232.155 (talk) 03:00, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production section 

message: The production section for this article is extremely underdeveloped and does not cite its sources. This section should be expanded greatly upon with much more information on the film's production added to it. I have added a couple pieces of information in it but it needs to be expanded a lot more than what it currently is at.--Paleface Jack (talk) 17:23, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production section needs to be expanded 

message: This is more or less a reiteration of my previous post on this page but it still needs to be said. Almost everything in this article, with the exception of the production section, is near GA status content. However, the production section is so poorly written and undersourced that it completely negates all of the other well written content here and it seriously needs to be rewritten entirely so that it fits with rest of the article's carefully written content. Hopefully someone will come around and put the finishing touches to this article, which includes a complete rewrite and expansion of the production section, it seems to be a very interesting subject.--Paleface Jack (talk) 23:33, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I recently (as of the last few days) did some work on this article, which included totally reorganizing and expanding the production section. I also did a complete overhaul on the reference section which was a bit of a mess, and also added a "Legacy" section, among other things. It looks significantly better than the what it was when I first started on it. Given this film's notoriety and the fact that it does have a cult following, I was surprised to find the article needing so much work. --Drown Soda (talk) 08:53, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  That Darned Production Section 

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message: the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate and the President
The character here designated as "President" is actually a Président of legal jurisprudence; in other words, a Magistrate. The two terms for Magistrate have been confused into two separate characters. The fourth Friend is the Banker or Financier, Durcet.
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thread_title:  Slight Confusion