Talk:Cameo appearance

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I would like to add the example a politian as cameo appearance. It's Jaques Chiraq, a president of France who appear as president also in the film The TAXI 2. It's frensh movie anyway.

Is it can be categorized as cameo also?

tell me later

Thanks jul julyanto@sentramedia.com

Contents 1 2 antitrust cameos 2 Spike Lee 3 Verifiable 4 Video game cameo? 5 Corleone 6 Scorsese in Taxi Driver? 7 Jackson Images 8 Why Cameo? 9 Cameo? 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Martin Scorsese cameo Taxi Driver.png

[edit] 2 antitrust cameos

just added Miguel de Icaza and Scott McNealy who played in antitrust, i dont 100% remember Mr. Icaza being in the movie but Antitrust (movie) says he did, am going to watch it later to see if he is really in it

[edit] Spike Lee

According to the Internet Movie Database [1], Spike Lee does not appear in all of his films (just counting the fiction feature films, he did not appear in Get on the Bus, He Got Game, Bamboozled, 25th Hour, or She Hate Me). Furthermore, in some of his movies such as She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing, his role was too large for me to consider it a cameo. Could someone more familiar with Lee's work edit his entry to indicate in which films he truly played cameo roles? --Metropolitan90 09:19, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Verifiable

One of the rules here is that Wikipedia content must be verifiable. I suggest that the current list of people and movies falls far short of that requirement. We can easily meet it, in my opinion, simply by pointing out which scene the person appears in. If anyone seconds this motion, I'll begin adding such references for the cases I'm familiar with, and others can do the same. Thanks. --Keeves 02:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Video game cameo?

Some video games feature characters normally in a different video game series. These are usually called cameos. Does this deserve a mention? M2K E 21:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

No. That's more of a video game studio system.  ::Ghosts&empties 09:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes. It sloud be on it becusce it does count as a cameo games such as Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne,SC2 and Kingdom hearts series have cameos .::Ratchetcomand 09:43, 9,25 ,2006 (UTC)

[edit] Corleone

I cut the line about the Sicilian (the novel), because its not really a cameo; Puzo interweaves the story of Guiliano with the subplot of Godfather. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.211.249.230 (talk) 18:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Scorsese in Taxi Driver?

I think whoever posted that forgets that later in the movie Scorsese has a much longer appearence in which he converses with the protagonist for a number of minutes. Can you really call his appearence toward the beginning a cameo? Perhaps not. --76.188.161.254 19:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jackson Images

This might be being taken care of elsewhere but... that Peter Jackson image is looking pretty darn fake. Madhackrviper 00:54, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I looked into it, its probably real. Madhackrviper 15:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why Cameo?

The article doesn't explain why cameo appearances are called what they are. Are they somehow related to cameo art? —Nahum Reduta 04:36, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

It was already mentioned in the text ("Like a cameo brooch - a low-relief carving of a person's head orbust - the actor or celebrity is instantly recognizable"), so I added the link. --FinnFinn (talk) 17:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cameo?

Usually you wouldn't call an appeareance of a director in its own movie "cameo" (tarantino for ex.), because the whole idea is based on someone popular, but alien to the movie or play itself appearing in it 80.171.25.48 20:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Martin Scorsese cameo Taxi Driver.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)