Talk:Born in East L.A. (film)

Trivia

 * Goof: Jimmy said that Rudy got 48 people in at 10¢ a person and made $4.20. 48 x $0.10 is 4.80.

I disagree that this is a goof. Throughout the film Jimmy is shorting Rudy on cash this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.89.151.208 (talk) 20:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * According to Imdb the picture of Jesus Christ in Rudy's home is actually that of Marin's former comedy partner Tommy Chong.

I'd have to watch the film again, but I don't think that was Chong. I could be wrong, though. (Sugar Bear 22:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC))

DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE "UNCENSORED" VERSION IS AVAILABLE ON DVD?

Born In East LA (without dots) doesn't even list this page
If someone types in Born in East LA (without using the abbreviation dots for the L.A., which is commonly done) it does not even list this page, let alone redirect here. I found this page by doing a google search (I'm sure we'll all agree wiki's search is pretty crummy). Can someone with more wiki-skills than I add Born in East LA as a redirect here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.197.179 (talk) 15:55, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

Scenes not in official DVD release (but seen in the original showing plus TV release showings)
There is about 12 minutes of scenes removed from the DVD that had a significant impact on the ending of the movie. The deleted scenes start at the point that Rudy and his girlfriend were walking down the hill with hundreds of illegal aliens (legal term, not pejorative) running down the hill overwhelming the border patrol. It shows them being kidnapped, taken to the house across the street from his house. In the ensuing scene, the kidnappers are caught, the law enforcement guy lets Rudy go because he can provide proof of citizenship, but his gf has to be deported. So Rudy steals the vehicle, goes to a parade, and runs to his pastor friend on a float. He quickly marries Rudy and his gf, and when the law enforcement guy catches up, he says she's a legal resident because they are married. The scene then shifts to the scene of the chinese immigrants doing the "Wasss Sappenin'" scene with the cop on the street.

Unfortunately, I cannot find any official proof of the deleted scenes but this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QzwsIAJaVk) shows an unauthorized version of the deleted scenes. (As a side note, the deleted scenes were what put the icing on the cake of this movie; without it, the movie ending just fizzled with a lot of unresolved threads.) Michaelopolis (talk) 21:17, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 26 May 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 20:51, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Born in East L.A. (film) → Born in East L.A. – WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:TWODABS. Although the song came first, the film is far ahead in page views (89% of page views) and Google Books shows plenty of long-term significance for the film with 3,100 sources. While recently it's become common to argue namesakes should have priority for "historical significance", the film and song were released only three years apart; the song doesn't have much more history behind it than the film. Ribbet32 (talk) 22:32, 26 May 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Lonehexagon (talk) 04:27, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Good faith nomination, but it seems to be another case where one has long-term significance as the namesake, and the other has the usage via page-views. I see these situations as WP:NOPRIMARY. We have two major criteria for WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and when its a split like this, I think the current arrangement with both disambiguated just avoids a lot of future problems. It helps us find bad wikilinks faster, and keeps things predictable for the editors. There's almost no negative impact to a reader (since search engines go by context and keyword and don't really care what we title the article). -- Netoholic @ 03:38, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Unreal7 (talk) 07:16, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Leaning oppose per Netoholic. Page hits are not everything.  I'd forgotten there even was a movie, but the song still gets airplay (and will pretty much forever, though eventually it'll only be on "oldies" stations). This means that in the long haul, it'll necessarily be the primary topic, because people hear (and wonder about) old but popular-for-their-time songs more than they watch aging comedies, especially now that Hollywood and its adjunct markets churn out 10× more stuff per year than back then, well all have 10× more TV stations available, and we spend 10× more time watching video material online that on TV or at the movies or via DVD/Blu-rays.  I heard this song on the radio (in California) just a few weeks ago (and I rarely listen to the radio, just when I forget my 'pod).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:24, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.