Talk:David Fincher

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Contents 1 Jewish? 2 removed picture 3 Chronology 4 Copyright infringement? 5 Trivia section 6 integrity 7 Zodiac first film to be shot entirely digitally? 8 Tone editing 9 Personnal life

[edit] Jewish?

I couldn't find anything about it. Spikeballs 14:12, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Why is there so much gossip and childhood stuff in the article? Shouldn't it be neutral and objective information? What does it matter if he's jewish or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.73.203.188 (talk • contribs)

Personal information is important for artists. For example, it's nice to know that Steven Spielberg is jewish because it helps frame movies like Munich. I'm suprised this page doesn't mention Fincher's relationship with Donya Fiorentino. -Quasipalm 17:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] removed picture

David Fincher might be the guy in the background of Image:Finch 2.jpg, but he's not the main subject. Compare photos of him at [1], [2], [3], and other results from a Google image search for "David Fincher." I think this photo was mislabeled by the original publisher. FreplySpang (talk) 00:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC) |Werthead]] 00:16, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chronology

Didn't Fincher first direct the Smoking Fetus Commercial BEFORE helming the concert "documentary" The Beat of the Live Drum? Verify please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.189.135 (talk • contribs)

I corrected the chronology based on the book "Dark Eye - The Films of David Fincher" by James Swallow, an unofficial biography and look at his films. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.189.135 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Copyright infringement?

Parts of this article was added last year by 213.42.2.11 (diff: [4]). It looks like at least some of this edit was taken from somewhere else, e.i. [5], [6], [7].[8]. Some of it has been removed for copyvio(diff [9]), but I suspect it still needs a cleanup? (e.g. "Fate finally came knocking on Fincher's door with Andrew Kevin Walker's screenplay for a grisly detective story titled Se7en"). Zarniwoot 21:01, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia section

As per guidelines, the trivia section needs to be removed and the content integrated into the article. One target I have in my sights is the whole "14 theme" which is unsourced, speculative, and OR. If there are no references for those assertions, and the director has not acknowledged any significance, it should all go. That would reduce the trivia section by at least half. Any thoughts? ---Cathal 14:27, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] integrity

who even added that? there's no info about it anywhere. i'm guessing the person who added it was the guy mentioned and it's not even true. i've never heard anything about this, theres no source noted, and theres no info online.

[edit] Zodiac first film to be shot entirely digitally?

The subsection for Zodiac claims that it was the first film to shot entirely digitally. I believe Attack of the Clones was the first. There's no source, so I'm going to remove that; revert if I'm wrong. Cerebellum (talk) 02:08, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I believe the confusion lies with the wording. There have been a variety of films shot entirely digitally in the last few years. The distinction here being that Zodiac was (possibly) the first to be stored directly to a digital medium. Attack of the Clones and the slew of other films using Digital Camera's were all still tape based formats and before going to the computer based systems to be edited, they had to be further digitized from those tapes. Zodiac took advantage of Camera storage based on Hard Drives where the shots are immediately encoded to a computer based system directly from the camera. However the article made no distinction between the two causing some confusion.1808Productions (talk) 16:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tone editing

Edited article to remove stylized tone and style. Added a few reference links. Mtbraddick (talk) 23:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtbraddick (talk • contribs) 03:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Personnal life

Even though Fincher is not a pop star, shouldn't we add that he was married and has a child? 79.84.235.144 (talk) 10:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)