Talk:Ammonite (film)

No evidence to Anning's sexuality
I've tried inserting a source about the film and the real Anning that notes that there is no evidence about Anning's sexuality. User:Nyxaros has removed, insisting that there is no place in this article for it, saying it should just be in the Mary Anning article. Can we have some input from other editors?

The article I inserted is from the BBC, so it's a reliable source. It's entitled "Ammonite: Who was the real Mary Anning?" and it begins with a promotional shot from the film. The article's opening paragraph reads: "A story about a self-taught palaeontologist called Mary Anning has been transformed to the big screen as Ammonite, a depiction of a 19th-century love affair." So, it's an article about the film. If reliable sources think something is worth commenting on, we must follow that.

I inserted the sentence before an existing sentence, that Nyxaros appears to have no objection to, that cites a Guardian article and states, "The Guardian criticised the film's historical accuracy." It seems to me useful to be more specific as to how the film is not historically accurate, which the sentence I added achieves.

Other articles about films based on real people have similar content discussing their accuracy, e.g. Jimi:_All_Is_by_My_Side or the long section at Bohemian_Rhapsody_(film). This is a pretty short article at present: there's plenty of room to say more than we currently do. Indeed, I would like to see more on this topic given it's a major theme of coverage of the film. There's a lot of material we could use: see, , , , , , Let's get the full debate into the article. Bondegezou (talk) 10:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm totally with you, Bondegezou. I came here specifically to see if there was any discussion of the problem here that the movie seems to be grinding a sexuality axe and ignoring the importance of the real Mary Anning's life. I'm glad you found RS that say the same thing that I noticed immediately when my wife called my attention to the trailer. By all means we need to include this controversy, and I may take a stab at it after I address the serious WP:Plagiarism problem: that the Plot is just wholly lifted from the film's website. -- Eliyahu S Talk 17:29, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

The ages of Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison
According to their Wikipedia articles, Charlotte (1788) was ~11 years older than Mary (1799), and must have likely met and became friends before Mary stayed at the Murchison estate in London at age _30_. So, now, not only is the piece extrapolating a relationship out of a presumption about an older woman who never had a clear relationship, but the ages of the two are now swapped, with Kate Winslet being born 1975, and Saoirse Ronan born 1994. Their portrayal has nearly completely reversing the age difference between the two! --Puellanivis (talk) 13:03, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Award nomination
--- Another Believer ( Talk ) 01:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * 32nd GLAAD Media Awards

The article needs a disambiguation line at the top
But I don't know how to put it in.

2001:171B:2274:7C21:25F9:29A9:45B:544F (talk) 23:38, 11 July 2022 (UTC)