Talk:David Lean

Planned film about Ram Gopal
This suggests that Lean was well into production of a film about the Indian dancer Ram Gopal at the time of his death. I can't find any verification of this. In fact, we say he was heavily involved in Nostromo at the time, so it seems unlikely. Does anyone know? JackofOz 03:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. Other than that website and the wikipedia article, I don't see any indication that it is true. I'll remove that from the Gopal article. Hey jude, don&#39;t let me down 22:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. JackofOz 12:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

AFI Life Achievement Award
David Lean won the AFI Life Achievement Award on 1990. Wouldn't this be important enough to be mentioned in the article? I think It's worth mentioning even twice - on the first paragraph as well. Thanks Kvsh5 (talk) 14:54, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

POV and trivia
I have had to remove, as sparingly and discriminatingly as possible, massive WP:POV and WP:TRIVIA which have no place here. I assume good faith on the part of zealous fellow editors and Lean enthusiasts, but Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and as such is supposed to contain non-trivial and sourced/verifiable information. Given the nature of things sometimes this is not the case, but it is all of our responsibilities to try to make it so. If this continues I may have to request that an administrator protect the page. Also there is no need to add CBE as his knighthood outranks the CBE. Yours, Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 16:46, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Re the honours: A knighthood in the Order of the British Empire would subsume a Commander of the same order. But the awarding of a knight bachelor is additional to and separate from any awards that are part of an order of chivalry.  Hence, his CBE is shown as a postnominal, and his title "Sir" is also shown.  --  JackofOz (talk) 07:40, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion
The following statement was obviously written by an idiot, though no doubt in good faith:

"Lean is the most represented director on the BFI Top 100 British films list, having a total of seven films on the list, and four films in the top eleven."

The significant achievement is that he had 3 films in the top 5: that is amazing. Of the 5 best British films ever made, according to the BFI, most of them were made by this one person. The fact that he also had number 11 is vaguely interesting (though "the top 11" is not a conventional way of referring to a particular success) but detracts from the far more significant achievement: 3 in 5.

So please may I suggest change either to "having a total of 7 films on the list, of which 3 are in the top 5" or change the sentence completely. The fact that he is "the most represented director" is also fairly insignificant against 3 in the first 5. 92.162.238.29 (talk) 13:46, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Only if you think that there's any value in lists like that :) -- SteveCrook (talk) 15:48, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Heaven's Gate
Removed this passage in its entirety. Since Steven Bach and Lean are deceased, in the case of Lean for more than twenty years, it can be assumed that it would have emerged by now if the anonymous director had been Lean himself. Even if I have missed confirmation that Lean was sounded out about replacing Cimino, the passage as it stood was far too long given that he was not fired. In word count, it surpassed the length currently allotted to Lean's British films in the 1940s. So it was an example of undue weight as well as deviation. Philip Cross (talk) 10:52, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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