Talk:Mask (1985 film)

The "In Popular Culture" thing on the real Rocky's page

Some of it should be moved to here, but I'm not sure which ones.

Wonder

Any resemblance with "Wonder", the book? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.229.35 (talk) 23:41, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rusty's so-called depression?

I don't know that it was chronic depression that was the root of Rusty Dennis' drug addiction; where did that assertion come from? Should be amended unless there is proof within the film that she was clinically depressed. Evixir (talk) 03:57, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Artistic license

The article should have a section about the differences in the film version versus the actual life situation. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why ? We know it's a movie. We paid to see it. It never pretends to be a documentary. Most of us are aware that Cher is not your average mom and most teenagers don't ride to school on the back of a shovelhead. It is general knowledge that MOVIES ARE NOT REAL LIFE !! 116.231.74.1 (talk) 12:17, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trojan Horse

I haven't seen the film so cannot comment on how the topic is dealt with there, but this article currently says that the myth of the Trojan Horse is the start point of the Trojan War. The Trojan Horse was actually the deception by which the Greeks gained entry to Troy, sacked the city and ended the war after ten years of bitter fighting. The Trojan Horse ended the war, not started it. Cottonshirt τ 10:02, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The plot description was wrong. I just corrected it somewhat. The question asked was "tell us about the start of the trojan war" which Rocky does. He ends up by jumping to the horse episode, which was wrong, but the story about the start was probably to give him the chance to say, "face that launched a thousand ships" ... and I'm thinking that the writer made him screw up on purpose. Otherwise he was likely to appear too brilliant, saintly, perfect, adorable, ideal. As it was, the character verged on too much wonderfulness. But the acting was so good he never went over that edge ...

As an aside, this habit of minutely detailing every moment of a plot is mentally retarded. It reminds me of people in the sixth grade who could not write a book review so they just wrote a synopsis of the story. A looong synopsis ... "and then Billy went home and he washed his hands and he took off his socks and brushed his teeth then he went to bed and ..." but I don't have the energy to cut this thing down to a reasonable size. Maybe someone else will ...