Talk:Cat People (1942 film)

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Contents 1 The "bus" 2 Reverting moves 3 Requested move 3.1 Survey 3.1.1 Survey - in support of the move 3.1.2 Survey - in opposition to the move 3.2 Discussion

[edit] The "bus"

Hi, I just added in the information about the technique called the "bus" that Lewton and his team claimed they invented. I think that it's a very interesting and important addition, because of the bus's influence on the horror genre, but I'm haveing trouble defining it clearly. There's something so abstract and fuzzy about the definition of a bus, and maybe I'm having trouble because it's purely a filmic technique and therefore hard to describe with words. If you have ever watched a horror movie then you have seen millions of "bus" scenes: it's any sccene where the director tricks you into screaming about something silly or harmless that pops out of nowhere because your afraid of the precence of something truly horrifying in the movie. If anyone knows filmic devices and can clearly explain them, then please be my guest, go ahead and clarify my attempt to define it. It would also be neat if someone could create a whole page to describe what a "bus" is, or maybe just create a list of famous busses in movie history. Icculusioso 07:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting moves

I just viewed the 1942 film Cat People, and was searching for information on it on Wiki. In the course of my research, I found several links that directed to Cat People (1942 film), while some directed to just Cat People. Upon investigating the matter, I found that the page had been moved recently (Sept) with no discussion on the matter.

I consulted the Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films). The accepted pattern for films with more than one name, or more title than just films, is Film Title (film). There is no mention of one film being the the primary topic; it reads as if both films need to have (film) in the title. These are the reasons that I reverted the original move. With Cat People being the subject of several articles, not just the two films, this title should be the disambiguation page, linking to all the others.

I spent alot of time fixing broken redirects yesterday for this article, and noticed that many articles still linked to Cat People (1942 film). I was too tired after that to write an explanation here at that time. I am not going to get into a revert war over an obscure film; it's not worth wasting my time on. However, I have explained my reasoning here in case someone else thinks the same way I do on this issue. If someone want the names to be in such a way that they are more confusing to others, and no one else cares, so be it. It's not that big a deal for an obscure film. Just make sure that all the redirects and links to this article are changed this time. -- BillCJ 17:38, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Note: It's been 3 weeks since my rename was reverted, and none of the redirects have been changed. Bear in mind that one of my reasons for changing the name in the first place (as stated above) was that more links pointed to Cat People (1942 film than to Cat People in the first place, evidently left over from the first time the name was changed. This is sloppy work, and why I considered my change a "revert". - BillCJ 23:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move