Talk:The Shoes of the Fisherman

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Contents 1 President Nixon? 2 Two things 3 Split 4 differences between novel and film?

[edit] President Nixon?

The statement that this was one of President Nixon's favorite films and it's possible link to his China initiative is unsourced. T.E. Goodwin 22:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Removed {{POV}} and replaced with {{fact}} next in the actual paragraph in question to help other editors locate the area to be improved. — MrDolomite • Talk 18:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• According to [1], The Shoes of the Fisherman was the first movie Nixon saw after being inaugurated as president, but he doesn't seem to have viewed it again during his presidency. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Two things

Two things:

1: There really needs to be separate articles for the novel and film.

2: The plot summery is a mess, wandering from topic to topic in no logical order and leaving many things out entirely. Furthermore, it is unclear in several places whether it is desribing the book or film.

67.142.130.34 05:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC) (snowboardpunk - I can't log in from this computer)

[edit] Split

As mentioned earlier on this talk page, this article should be split and has been tagged as such. — MrDolomite • Talk 18:06, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• The Shoes of the Fisherman (film)
• The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel)

How are you going to split them. There is little information about the book, except who the author is and its NYT ranking, and only stub info about the film. Two stubs are not better than one. MarnetteD | Talk 17:13, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I believe that the film and book need to be split - they are two separate art-forms after all. I'll aim to work on a page for the book as soon as I can. It fits into the Australian literature project. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 05:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] differences between novel and film?

One key qusetion regarding any split-- are there any significant differences between the novel and the film? Unless there are, it seems they could be handled as one entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RLM1961 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 28 April 2008 (UTC)