Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Peer review/Wild at Heart (film)

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[edit] Wild at Heart (film)

A lot of work has gone into this article to improve it with the hopes of achieving a GA status soon. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. --J.D. (talk) 08:40, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Belovedfreak

Good work so far, J.D. Here are a few thoughts:

Infobox

  • Under "stars" I would just have Cage and Dern, since they are the names that appear on the poster.
  • I would lose the flag icons per WP:MOSFILM.
  • Add the realease date for Australia, as it's an English-speaking country too. And it would be great if you could find release dates for Canada, UK, NZ... Although, I don't know if the fact that they're not on imdb means that the film didn't get a theatrical release in those countries.

Images

  • The screenshots you have used need to state on the image page where you gt them from. The one of Lynch & Dafoe is presumably not from the film itself, yet appears to be. You may run into trouble trying to get this to GA or FA if you don't demonstrate exactly why these images are important to the article. They should really illustrate some critical commentary or something from the film, not just illustrate the film itself.

Lead

  • The lead needs a lot of expansion. It needs to summarise the rest of the article, which it doesn't at the moment. Everything in the lead needs to be expanded on in the article, so there needs to be something about the allusions to The Wizard of Oz — taken from an appropriate source, with references of course.
  • The very first sentence is far too long & unwieldy.

Plot

  • Plot is, I think, a tad on the long side. It only just goes over the guideline in WP:MOSFILMS but could be cut down quite substantially I think without jeopardising relevance & understanding.
  • The sentence beginning "While in jail, Lula has his child..." is slightly confusing. Sounds like Lula has a child while she is in jail. Then "she decides to pick him up" – is she the mother or Lula? I can work out what you mean, but it's a little unclear.
  • "he apologizes for calling the men "homosexuals"..." does he actually say "homosexuals" or are you paraphrasing? I don't think this needs quotation marks.
  • "which looks a lot like Glinda, the Good Witch of The North..." — for a start you're assuming we are all familiar with Glinda, but not everyone will be. Also, you definitely need a citation for this. Someone else needs to have drawn the comparison otherwise it's just your opinion and is original research.

Cast and characters

  • It would be nice to have a mention (whether here or elsewhere) that Diane Ladd is Laura Dern's mother in real life as well as in the film.

Production

  • The sentence with "...that were owned by Dino De Laurentiis when his company went bankrupt..." — did De Laurentiis buy them when his company went bankrupt or were they already owned by him at the time?

Soundtrack

  • Could do with some prose in this section. Any real world info you can find? What kind of reception did it have? At the least, you can put when & by whom it was released. The infobox should be summarising prose in the article.

Reception

  • I would consider splitting this into separate "reception" and "distribution" sections. The bit about achieving an R-rating, for example, isn't really about how the film was received. And maybe put Ladd's nomination together with the bit about the Palm d'Or. Maybe mention the Independent Spirit Awards the film won, and its other nominations?

That's all I can think of for now, hope it helps... --BelovedFreak 19:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)