Talk:The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

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[edit] Lost scenes and narration

I don't know where the original contributor of the info regarding edited scenes and Billy Bob's narration got his facts from, but if this stuff is going to stay in, we should have a reference for it. Buck 20:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree, and to be honest points about the editing of the film and the removal of Billy Bob belong in the trivia section at the end, not in the general section about the film. JRJW 7 February 2006

I've moved those references to a different section, but left the citation flag up. Also, I switched talk of a "hard bitten NCO"--which would appear to refer to Penn's character--to "hard bitten Colonel", since the reference to promotion and a disregard for the lives of his soldiers obviously refers to Nolte's character, Colonel Tall.

On another subject: I could have sworn I'd made the section much longer than it now is, on my last edit, but that's not showing up in the history of the page. Am I just losing my mind, or is it possible to erase that kind of thing without a trace? Buck 15:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Factual error

In the first paragraph about the narrative of the film it states that Guadalcanal was the first allied victory. The first allied victory against the Japanese was the repulse of the Japanese landing at Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea.

Are we really comfortable that there is no "central protagonist" ? Witt/Caviezal(sp)is clearly the central protagonist and also a christ-figure.--Win7ermute 03:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

To say that Guadalcanal was the first decisive Allied victory against the Japanese as it did in the previous version seems inaccurate as the Battle of Midway had occurred in June. However this battle is generally held to mark the end of Japanese expansion and I changed the wording to reflect that.