Talk:Pink Floyd The Wall (film)

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Contents 1 Justification 2 Infobox 3 Background Voiceover During Nobody Home 4 Symbolism 5 Song in hallway

[edit] Justification

I created this page becuase I believe the film is sufficiently distinct from the original Pink Floyd album to justify a separate article. I have also introduced sufficient material such that if it were featured in the The Wall article, the article would probably be too long. The same should be done with Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to distinguish it from the book, but some seem resistant. --Bungopolis 08:57, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

I removed the infobox for this article because I feel that it was highly redundant. I do not like the use of infoboxes in most cases for this reason. Everything that was in the infobox was also available, and easy to see, in the first introductory paragraph. I also reverted the image back to the original frame capture. The US DVD box that replaced it is quite hideous and does not provide a useful visual to complement the article (this is the point of an image in an encylopedia). An original movie poster may be a better choice if the frame should be replaced (I don't see why, though). --Bungopolis 07:57, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Background Voiceover During Nobody Home

The wonderfully ironic and tounge-in-cheek humor of the voiceover of Gomer Pyle's "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!" which is heard on the LP version of The Wall should have been used in the movie version. This occurs right after "Pink" sings "When I try to get through...On the telephone to you." Guess the royalties would have been too great. -- tcosmas (USA) 21:04, 26-Jan-06 (UTC)

[edit] Symbolism

Given the nature of the film and the ambiguity of some of the animated sequences, should we have a section devoted to common theories about what exactly some of the images represent?

[edit] Song in hallway

What's the song playing on the radio of the hotel maid as the camera pans down the hallway towards Pink's room at the beginning of the film? -GTBacchus^(talk) 21:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

The song is "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" by Vera Lynn. Absolutely Curtains 19:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)