Talk:The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

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Contents 1 Edits by Anonymus 2 Neutral POV 3 Infos on cinematography 4 Saturn Awards 5 minor edit: Mario's age 6 Grammar Esp. Apostrophes!

[edit] Edits by Anonymus

This edit 2006-03-11 07:37:45 89.57.62.146 (edited plot; +new sections "content" (with plot, characters, themes etc.), "cinematography", "actors") was made by me. The system had me auto-logged-out which I wasn't aware of while I spent hours doing the edits and previewing. Now I know better. Bisco 07:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neutral POV

I think I had much difficulty keeping a neutral POV. So the page needs probably reworking. Bisco 07:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infos on cinematography

I'm aware that this section badly needs improvment. I just didn't know more. Bisco 07:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saturn Awards

The facts are from the IMDb [1]. Wikipedias article about the Saturn Award gives 1977 for the Best Film and Best Actress but Best Actor for Martin Sheen is missing. Another odd thing is that the awards for best actors aren't split by film genres, at least not at this years Saturn Awards (but the awards for best films are). On the Saturn Awards Official Site [2] I couldn't find the information because of broken links or pc problems. But I e-mailed them today. Bisco 12 March 2006

The links on the official "Saturn Awards" page are now working: past awards. It shows that the facts from the IMDb are partially wrong. The film has won 1977 "Best Horror Film" and 1977 "Best Actress" for Jodie Foster. Martin Sheen hasn't won anything for this film. Bisco 09:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] minor edit: Mario's age

hi, I have changed "a boy at her own age" to "a slightly older boy" as Frank Hallet asks Mario if he "can't get a gf his own age". (or words to that effect, can't remember the exact quote without rewatching the film) Zider_red

That's okay, I remember that, too. Bisco 12:34, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• According to the book, Rynn is 13 and Mario is 16. So "slightly older" is probably accurate. 209.94.161.59 07:35, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar Esp. Apostrophes!

This article is poorly written. I've added some apostrophes, (where they were glaringly omitted), but the whole article needs a re-write.

I don't know why the whole article needs a re-write. What's here now was exactly what I was looking for and didn't find elsewhere. Frankly I did not find the film inviting enough to watch the whole thing. (I could tell that something unfortunate would happen to the hamster.) Thank you for telling me everything I wanted to know. oldcitycat 00:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I would say that the article at present has an appropriate POV and grammar — a bit unsophisticated for an encyclopedia entry, but okay. The major major problem, in my opinion, is that it goes into excruciating detail on plot, character development, and so on; it reads like an essay, or Cliffs Notes. Something in between the "short spoiler" and the "long spoiler" would be more appropriate, and the "themes" section can be gotten rid of entirely. I'm going to try to remove the Cliffsy "characters" section and merge it into a medium-length spoiler, now. --Quuxplusone 06:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. However, I realized after I'd finished that I'd mentioned the umbrella at the very beginning and then forgotten to mention it again (Mario finds it, and there's some more stage business in there when Frank is looking for clues). If anyone can remove the umbrella reference from "Plot" without disrupting the flow of that paragraph, please go ahead. OTOH, I assume (but am not sure) the later reference to "a line of dialog containing an expletive" refers to Mario's "Fucking Mary Poppins!", when he finds the umbrella, so maybe the umbrella should be kept and the "Censorship" sentence reworked to refer to it. --Quuxplusone 02:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)