Talk:The Last Unicorn (film)

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Contents 1 Unverified 2 Stop moaning about Mia Farrow 3 Quality Level? 4 ITC project 5 Links getting a bit much? 6 Possible Allusion? 7 25th Anniversary DVD / February 2007 8 Music 9 Fair use rationale for Image:TLUnew2.jpg 10 In library's... 11 Merge? 12 Fair use rationale for Image:Last unicorn.jpg

[edit] Unverified

This part was removed from the article on the grounds it can not be verified. If someone can find some evidence to support its inclusion, please return this to the article.

The Last Unicorn is a very successful anarcho-punk band. In 2002 they decided to start performing crust. Most of the members are not dead yet.

[edit] Stop moaning about Mia Farrow

Wikipedia is supposed to have a Neutral Point of View. Whoever keeps writing in things about how bad Mia Farrow is, please stop. (Darien Shields 17:15, 28 September 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Quality Level?

An informative article, although it could definitely use some spit-and-polish in order to conform to a higher standard of quality. I made a minor grammatical change (changed the word 'wannabe'); I'm going to refrain from touching anything else as I'm not familiar enough with the subject.

Perhaps someone with a greated breadth of experience in the subject matter could throw in their two cents?

JustinStroud 19:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ITC project

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[edit] Links getting a bit much?

I noticed two links added in the past week or so- one to a page that's a Tribute to Lady Amalthia, and one about the songs of the films. The Tribute site is very well composed, and quite professional in appearance, while the songs site is a very clumsy (no offence) Geo Cities site. However, I'm just not sure if either has the content to warrant being linked. I dunno. Maybe I'm just being stubborn or something. What do you all think? (Darien Shields 15:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Possible Allusion?

I while reading an assignment for a Critical theory class, I saw the name Smerdis, who was mentioned as an "imposter magician". I looked it up on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smerdis

Does anyone think this could possibly be related to Schmendrick? On one hand, the names are arguably only vaguely similiar (Smerdis=not a super lot like Schmendrick) but the theme of impostors and Magi is there (Ie, Schmendrick is seemingly an impostor or "not real" magician), and the names are similiar enough that it could be related. Any thoughts? -Sailor_Titan

I think that there may be a reasonably good chance... that name isn't exactly a common one, so it had to have come from somewhere. It's possible that it was just thought up out of the blue, but it's not very likely. Perhaps it could be mentioned as a possible linguistic link. Esn 01:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

-User:Connorfc Peter S. Beagle states that there is no connection between "Smerdis" and his character Schmendrick. The name Schmendrick is both a play on the comic strip magician character "Mandrake" and a Yiddish word meaning "a fool, the boy sent to do a man's job."

[edit] 25th Anniversary DVD / February 2007

I updated the information under DVD releases to expand on the reported content and nature of the U.S. DVD release slated for next month. I phrased it as speculative, since we obviously can't verify the final content of the disk until it comes out on the market. After the release, someone will need to go back and edit it again to bring it into line with whatever the actual quality/content of the release turns out to be, and also change the phrasing to indicate it as something that's already happened, rather than a planned event.--Almagesh 19:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Music

On iTunes the Last Unicorn Remix CD (entitled "The Last Unicorn 2005") is credited to Da Sylver and DeeFour. I made the change, but I assumed that these are the European DJs mentioned in the text. Correct me if I'm wrong. Pepsidude 22:33, 18 April 2007

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:TLUnew2.jpg

Image:TLUnew2.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 04:38, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] In library's...

I've noticed that in some library's, this movie is featured in the Children's Section, even though it has swears and whatnot. This is obviously some kind of misconception that the movie is for young children. Should there be an area in the article that states this wrong doing?

-- The movie only contains one instance of the word "damn," which still constituted a G rating back when it was originally released. -- (Yoshiaki Abe) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoshiaki Abe (talk • contribs) 21:32, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

-- My mistake. There are two "damns". And I apologize for not signing comments before. I am still new to wikipedia and just figured out how to. Yoshiaki Abe 15:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

Since the film version is very very close to the original novel, both in plot and in themes, I think it certainly qualifies for a merge, especially since a considerably large plot summary is repeated on both pages. I do NOT mind merging the articles myself due to subject familiarity if that is necessary. I also agree with JustinStroud (above) in that this article could certainly stand to be polished up. That's no problem for me. Just someone tell me if I have the authority to merge them or not. If we do the merge, I will do everything I can to get the merged article to FA status.

Yoshiaki Abe 17:37, 1 September 2007

Personally, I think it's best to just leave the articles as separate instead of merging them, seeing as the film article is long enough as it is. --SilentAria ^talk 01:04, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Right, but about half the page contains pretty much the same content as the novel. Not word-for-word, but it seems like a waste to me to have it twice, especially since both pages are still labeled as Start-Class and certainly need work because of that. I would very much like to see a single Last Unicorn page that actually looks decent and on it's way to FA status. Any other opinions? Yoshiaki Abe 15:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

In my humble opinion, merging two start class articles is not equivalent to having a decent article that would be on its way to FA status. There are several things missing in the separate articles as it is...for example, the film article is still missing information on production, development, reception, and casting; and the book article is missing information on publication history, allusions, reception, and more. If you were to merge these articles and eventually include all the necessary information for both the film and the book, you'd end up with an article that's too long and have to split them again. You may want to refer to the article guidelines found in the following pages for reference: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate and Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines. --SilentAria ^talk 15:27, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Addendum: The Films WikiProject also has a sub-project specifically made to split articles about books and films based on books into separate articles. You can take a look at it here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Films based on books. Films based on books and the books they were based on are supposed to be in separate articles, since they're two separate productions. Movie tie-ins are an exception to this standard, of course. --SilentAria ^talk 15:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

OK. I didn't realize there was a separate Films Based on Books project. Then I guess the merge is off, and I'll just do what I can separately to add information. Thanks. --Yoshiaki Abe 16:06, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Last unicorn.jpg

Image:Last unicorn.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

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BetacommandBot 04:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)