Talk:The Lawnmower Man (film)

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Given the two plot summaries, does it even make sense to say that the 1992 film was "loosely based" on the King story? As far as I can tell, all they share is a title - no elements of the plot of the story seem to appear in the movie. john k 18:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

The title is not the film's only Stephen King connection. Two scenes from King's version of The Lawnmower Man were in the movie, though in different contexts. The first is the remotely-controlled lawnmower chasing Harold Parkette through his house, smashing furniture before chasing him outside and killing him. The second is the police officer, after Harold's death, talking about "schizo-fucking-phrenia" and people being "crazy with the heat", telling another cop that the world is full of nuts and not to forget that, mentioning someone reporting Parkette being chased through his house with a lawnmower, and saying "birdbath" when a paramedic asks him where "the rest of him" is. There are a few other bits and pieces; the lawnmower man in both stories wears overalls and uses an "aged red power mower", and some of King's names were used (Harold, Carla, Parkette, Smith, Cooley, etc). Also, Dr. Angelo works for an organization called "The Shop" in the film. While never mentioned in King's version of The Lawnmower Man, The Shop was the organization featured in King's Firestarter novel and Golden Years miniseries. (FICT, 12 May 2006)

Contents 1 Computer Graphics 2 Phones Ringing 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Lawnmower Man A.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Lawnmower Man.jpg 5 Video Game?

[edit] Computer Graphics

I've often seen this film included on lists of landmark movies in the development of CG. But there's no mention of that on the page. Would be interesting to see a more detailed description of the effects that went into the film. Would have to be written by somebody who knows more than me, though. --Lurlock 18:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

First time I ever remember seeing bump mapping in a commercial film.

Although I'm sure the algorithm goes back to blinn circa 1978. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.143.136.60 (talk • contribs) 03:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I was wandering about that. I came here because I vaguely remember this movie to have been hyped-up for its "revolutionary computer graphics" or some such (I remember seeing the actual CGI and being thoroughly disappointed :/). Does anyone have any info on the CGI hype in this movie's PR at the time of release? TomorrowTime (talk) 07:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Phones Ringing

Having all the World's 'phones ringing to signify a birth/emergence was used in an early Arthur C. Clarke story but I can't remember which. Can anybody fill that in? MarkMLl 13:44, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lawnmower Man A.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Lawnmower Man.jpg

Image:Lawnmower Man.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 (talk) 23:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Video Game?

Wasn't there a crappy super nintendo game based on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.104.60.117 (talk) 03:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)