Talk:The English Patient (film)

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[edit] Awards

Wikipedia is not designed to provide a comprehensive discourse of all facets of a topic. Keeping this in mind, I think that including the long list of all its minor awards makes the page too cluttered. The list of awards is longer than the entire substance of the article. The Academy Awards (and perhaps the Golden Globes) seem like they would better suit the expectation of Wikipedia readers to provide key information. Afterall, they can just follow the link to IMDB for the other awards. Does this sound reasonable?

[edit] Where are the references

Please cite the references for such a detailed analysis. Otherwise it might risk being a POV --Jaseerabubakar 08:59, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

It's definitely original research, if not directly POV. I'm going to go at this with a razor. --Slac 06:40, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I hacked out all the interpretative speculations and tried to keep the 'Themes' section factual. The themes of nationality and ownership are very much there in the dialogue, so I tried to simply quote the relevant lines without veering off into speculations about them. Cop 633 17:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questionable Trivia

That bit about Judge Rheinhold seems incredibly suspect, though amusing. Can anyone confirm or deny? I couldn't find other references on the internet. Shannonbah 19:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Nuked it (see edit summary). Cop 633 17:37, 15 February 2007 (UTC)