Talk:The Poseidon Adventure (film)

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Contents 1 Basis of film 2 Edit 3 Fair use rationale for Image:PoseidonAdventure.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:11poseidon2.jpg 5 Fair use rationale for Image:PoseidonAdventure.jpg

[edit] Basis of film

Is the movie/novel based on a true incident ? Jay 11:59, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I asked this question at Wikipedia:Reference_desk on 9-Feb-05. Here is the response :

IMDb's trivia page for the movie says the novel was inspired by a real incident during World War II where RMS Queen Mary was hit by a freak wave. Queen Mary supposedly came very close to capsizing but didn't. I don't know how true the statement is, as I can't find any verification, and the incident is not listed in queenmary.com's timeline. -- Cyrius|✎ 13:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The citations I've seen mention this incident as being a close-run thing - within a few degrees - and a couple of hundred miles off Ireland, probably in late 1944. Details are sketchy, although as it wouldn't have been publicised this doesn't indicate anything. I looked into it a while back, with no success. (If you want a horrible thought - she was trooping at the time, so would have had over ten thousand on board, with them kept inside and belowdecks due to the storm... and maintaining radio silence, so she wouldn't have been recorded missing for a day or two. Really a recipe for disaster)

However, as I understand it, the film may have been based off a similar - but less drastic - event around the same time. I'll see if I can find the notes I made on this before. Shimgray 01:19, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The irrefutable Snopes claims that the 1969 novel was based in turn on a silent 1911 movie of the same name, directed by no less than D.W. Griffith. 1911 was before the Queen Mary. Snopes has a link to what appears to be an imdb page on the 1911 film; the link is coded to appear with the URL field suppressed. When the link is made visible it turns out to be a page at snopes, here. I cannot find such a page at imdb and imdb's page on Griffith lists no such movie among his extensive oeuvre. Not quite sure what to make of that.

* Update: it has been pointed out to me that everything on snopes "lost legends" pages is made up. This is explicit in prior pages and in the "about this page" link but not within the article itself. So ignore the above. Sharkford 15:36, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

Further, I question whether the article should state flatly that the ship was capsized by "a tsunami", since tsunami do not present as breaking waves to ships at sea, which typically ride out tsunami comfortably, even unawares. "Freak wave" or "rogue wave" would be a better term. If the book and/or the movie call it a tsunami (or more likely, "tidal wave"), we should present that term in quotes with a parenthetical explanation. But I have neither source at hand.

Sharkford 20:22, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

[edit] Edit

Removed this paragraph and shortened it.

"While in the overturned ballroom, the young Reverend, an English bookkeeper Mary Kinsale, an injured waiter named Acre, NYPD detective Mike Rogo, his beautiful, racist, foul-mouthed, ex-Hollywood starlet, ex-Broadway star, and ex-prostitute wife Linda, quiet haberdasher James Martin, San Franciscan pretty boy bachelor Hubie Muller, Detroit car company vice-president Richard Shelby, his stunning but resentful wife Jane, his maturing seventeen year old daughter Susan, his energetic ten year old son Robin, retired delicatessen owner Manny Rosen, his obese and frightened wife Belle, raging alcoholic Tony "The Beamer" Bates, and his young and in love girlfriend Pamela Reid, use a metal Christmas tree to ascend to the kitchen."

That is an insane run on. But the information should be ammended and reinstated in a more coherent fashion as it is a list of characters. 207.114.232.98 18:26, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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

Image:PoseidonAdventure.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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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:11poseidon2.jpg

Image:11poseidon2.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) 04:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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

Image:PoseidonAdventure.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) 15:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)