Talk:The Life of David Gale

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Contents 1 Tony Norman?? 2 Link to David Gale (the person) 3 Factual Inaccuracy & a Stub 4 Filming Locations? 5 Cage 6 The Twist 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Davidgale.jpg

[edit] Tony Norman??

I've edited the page to change "Tony Norman" to "David Gale" at the very beginning of the "Plot" section. I'm not sure who Tony Norman is supposed to be but the context clearly refers to the David Gale character. If I've completely missed something here, feel free to change it back, but some extra explanation would be nice if that's the case. Cvkline (talk) 17:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Link to David Gale (the person)

I have removed the link to David Gale, since (I'm pretty sure) the person described on that page has nothing to do with this film.

[edit] Factual Inaccuracy & a Stub

This article is a stub (it was a lengthy article before; not sure what happened to it). I was surprised that the article makes the claim that the film was generally well received by critics; but with a simple glance at it's rating at rottentomatoes.com; it is clearly the opposite of that -- this film was not well received. I have no idea where the authors got this idea. The lack of references shows this. I'll likely either remove the line "The film was generally well received by critics upon its release, particularly because of its surprising twist at the end and Spacey's performance.", or slap an "Inaccuracy" tag on the article.

[edit] Filming Locations?

Sam Houston State University is listed a filming location. Can someone tell me what scenes are filmed there? I was suprised UT-Austin was not on the list but SHSU was. The classroom scene and outdoors scene immediately after are clearly shot in the old Batts Hall at UT and the South Mall.

[edit] Cage

Why does it say produced by Nicolas Cage on the information box on the right? Nicolas Cage had nothing to do with this movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.32.171 (talk • contribs) 17:56, 18 August 2006 24.225.32.171

IMDB has Cage as producer, too. -- Beardo 09:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I watched the movie last night, Cage was credited as a producer.Brian8710 21:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Twist

I noticed the twist isn't mentioned in the article while it is for other movies like The Sixth Sense and Fight Club (film). Sense the twist is a large part of the negative reaction and controversary of the film, I think it'd be okay to add it to the summary. Other people's thoughts? Tebor 08:21, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

The twist is there now, but it was in an awkward position within the flow of the summary, so it's been rearranged.TashTish 17:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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

Image:Davidgale.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 Wikipedia articles 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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