Talk:Murder Was the Case

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Contents 1 Year: 1994 or 1995? 2 Faustian Myth 3 Film or music video? 4 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Year: 1994 or 1995?

This page previously said that the year of the movie was 1994, but IMDB says 1995. Accordingly, I have changed the year to 1995 on this page. If someone can do some research and finds out that IMDB happens to be incorrect, please fix it. --Josh1billion 01:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Faustian Myth

Does anyone know if the parallels with faustian myths are deliberate - is it a Robert Johnson/Crossroads influence at play here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The duke of hazzard (talk • contribs) 19:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Film or music video?

This is listed as a short film over on the Snoop Dogg page, but a music video here. Isn't it a video? Tayquan ^holla_{My work} 02:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Because it doesn't have a disambig page. It is the name of a video and a DVD film. The DVD consist of compiled music videos filled into a short movie about Snoop's fictional death. There's a scene when he dies and meets the devil. Though the segment is an excerpt of the DVD it later became a music video on his own. Also with the help of radioplay the song charted on the Rhythmic Top 40. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 08:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

So there's a separate video and film? Tayquan ^holla_{My work} 06:36, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes. But the video is embedded in the DVD (as created as an entity first thus being a part of it). Later it has been broadcasted on his own as an accompaning video for Murder Was The Case (remix!!!). Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 09:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Maybe there's some way we can make that clearer here. WOuld you mind writing something here to explain that Lajbi? Tayquan ^holla_{My work} 01:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

I watched the movie, but there's so few things to write about it. But maybe this video stuff can be added. The main problem as I remember it contains several music videos (I'm not sure) : Gin & Juice, Doggy Dogg World, Natural Born Killaz (but IMDb confirms it as well). So how could they be added. Is a list enough? Maybe I should label Murder was the case (video) as the "title" segment of the VHS? Lajbi ^{Holla @ me} 10:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Well just make it clear that it was a music video and a short film. If a list works that fine, whatever works. Tayquan ^holla_{My work} 21:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 19:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)