Talk:Bernie (2011 film)

Funeral home name
Is the funeral home named Hawthorne or Hawthorn? DulcetTone (talk) 17:50, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * "Hawthorn". TJRC (talk) 23:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Interviewees
I came to this article hoping to find out whether the interviewees who essentially narrate the film were just actors or real-life Carthage residents. Somewhere in the article I think it does mention that Carthage residents were interviewed for the film, but I was hoping for more details in the 'Production' section, i.e. were ALL of the interviewees appearing on screen real residents or just some? etc.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Indented line

Given the way the credits of the film are presented, I think it's pretty clear which of the townspeople were actors and which were actual residents of the town.

Genre categorization
I don't quite understand how it is that Wikipedia's stalwart team of volunteer editors is so ably equipped to pigeonhole films by category. I notice this film is authoritatively declared a black comedy in the article's opening, despite multiple quotes in the critical response section stating how difficult the film is to categorize. Anyone viewing the film will note strong elements of drama, tragedy, mystery, even documentary, along with comedy, yet Wikipedia's editors have managed to occlude these nuances while neatly forcing the film into an at-best ill-fitting relegation.

Sometimes I'm left wondering if Wikipedia's editors, devoted as they may be, don't perhaps work too zealously to force articles to conform to a structure that sometimes simply does not work for a given subject. We don't HAVE to define every film by a specific genre. There are some films that cannot so easily be defined. Perhaps the encyclopedic process would be better served by acknowledging these difficulties rather than awkwardly forcing them to conform to an overly simplistic assignation. 184.97.219.119 (talk) 04:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * While it may be an ill-fitted category, Wikipedia editors are mostly limited to how references categorize a movie. Wikipedia editors can't arbitrarily decide on the category of a film, so the fault really is with the movie folks outside of Wikipedia (the people who created/distributed/promoted the film and the journalists who followed their lead). — al-Shimoni  (talk) 12:55, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I only saw one source that said that it is hard to categorize. Every source it agrees that it is a type comedy, and many sources says that it is also dark, making black comedy the most logical category. Black comedies usually contain elements of drama and tragedy mixed in with comedy, so by your own description, black comedy is the most fitting. JDDJS (talk) 16:39, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Performances
The article mentions that his role as Bernie may be "Black's best performance yet". Should there not also be mention of how terrible and stilted Shirley McLaines performance is? All of the amateur talking heads were more interesting and convincing than McLaine? Buster Seven   Talk  12:30, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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Filming Locations
I've searched for a source to confirm the filming locations stated in the article, but I've yet to find one that confirms every city. The only sources I've seen have mentioned Austin, Bastrop, and Carthage. Ztpartin (talk) 06:50, 30 March 2021 (UTC)