Talk:Liquid Sky

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Use of the word "Memorable"[edit]

The word "memorable" is sort of overused and presents an opinion at the same time - maybe that needs revision? Glitterglue 23:47, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to "Liquid Sky" in Snatcher[edit]

"Liquid Sky" is also the name of a fictional drug in the Konami video game Snatcher. Presumably, the game's creators were making a reference to this movie. Michael Gerard Tom 08:40, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The movie itself gets its title from drug slang (originally for LSD) going back to the '60s. 98.246.183.207 (talk) 13:52, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Link to Bob Brady[edit]

The link from the cast list to the page related to Bob Brady is incorrect - it links to a politician from PA. It is not the same Bob Brady and it should be deactivated. (Parathespian 16:59, 14 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Link to Alan Preston[edit]

This link is also incorrect - Alan wasn't a New Zealand cricketer born in the '30s --Parathespian (talk) 17:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC) Alan Preston was a Michigan native, born in 1954, who was a drama major at Eastern Michigan University. He later moved to NYC in the late 1970's to persue his drama career.[reply]

Johann / Sylvia subplot[edit]

Was I imagining it or was there a subplot to the Johann / Sylvia story that she was of Jewish origin and was seeking an opportunity of killing Johann? --Matt Westwood 21:41, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You were imagining any murderous intentions. She wanted to get him into bed, but not to kill him. She was unaware of the aliens killing people who experienced orgasm, which probably would not even have happened in her apartment, because it was across the street from the building where the aliens were located. (We don't know how far the aliens' ability to kill extended; Margaret's apartment where the killings occurred was directly under their landing place.) She did make a remark "You're German? I'm Jewish!" but that's all. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 10:30, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unique moment in cinema history[edit]

This flick features a hetersexual oral sex act between two characters played by the same actress. This should be mentioned in the plot section I have added it. Goblinshark17 (talk) 05:52, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Actors' names[edit]

To re-iterate: where does WP:FILMPLOT prohibit or dissuade from having actors' names listed next to their roles in the plot summary? Daß Wölf 03:44, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm making no claims about what the Filmplot guidelines say, all I know is that it is unnecessary repetition. We have a cast section. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 12:34, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say it's a useful repetition. It's certainly useful to me for keeping track of who plays who, more than the cast section. Daß Wölf 16:59, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The two sections are right next to each other. The scrolling is a terrible burden? ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 11:33, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is reading the names again so tedious? The names help me picture the plot without breaking the flow of thought by looking/scrolling back-and-forth. The cast section is useful when you want to match a particular actor with a particular character, but when you want to get a general overview of who's who I think this approach is better, especially when I'm trying to remember a movie I already saw, in which case I usually remember the actors' names better than the characters'. Daß Wölf 23:23, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@MissTofATX:, please respond on this matter. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 11:34, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I actually was originally in the school of thought for having actors names in plots, but after I was reverted several times by several different editors, I tried it the other way and began to understand the reasoning behind it, even though I very recently learned it is not defined by FILMPLOT. I don't find scrolling to be particularly difficult. Maybe its a visual/imagination type of thing for certain people? Where in, they cannot visualize the character without seeing the name of the actor? I'm neutral in that respect, because, for all the film articles I read where it has actors I'm familiar with, I read just as many with actors that are unknown to me, and visualization isn't a problem for me either way.

MissTofATX (talk) 13:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)MissTofATX[reply]

Length[edit]

The original movie is 1h 52min, the Blu-ray DVD is 1h 13min. --178.142.126.45 (talk) 11:18, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"I kill with my c**t" and AIDS[edit]

It would be very tempting to see Margaret's infamous one-liner as (also) an early allusion to AIDS. The movie was written and filmed in NYC in 1981/82 (mainly in 1981), exactly the time and place where the (as yet nameless) HIV epidemic was coming to the surface and first getting talked about on the street or notified in some medical reports. And the social set around the club in the film (meant to be a portrait of a certain New York pop scene) overlaps with the real-world circles where the HIV virus was being spread at the time.

The premiere of the film in August, 1982 happened a year after the famous article in NYT (July 1981) that first broke the news to the mainstream public, and the word had been out for a while in gay circles before then, so Tsukerman and his friends would most likely have been aware of the new disease. Are there any discussions of this in film literature or film magazines? IF the allusion is there, then Liquid Sky would be perhaps the first film to allude to the AIDS epidemic - certainly noteworthy. 188.150.64.57 (talk) 04:22, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]