Talk:Harold Bell Wright

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Talk about Harold Bell Wright here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerry Chudleigh (talk • contribs) 02:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

After moving to Arizona in 1916, Wright began work on "The Re-Creation of Brian Kent." It was published in 1919, and public interest was so great that it was turned into a silent motion picture in 1925. The main article renames the book by omitting the title. The hyphen is important. It represents a play on words. With the hyphen, it connotes a revival or resurrection of sorts, as the main character has provided himself with the opportunity to create a new person of himself, perhaps in the same way as the main character in Leo Tolstoy's work, Resurrection. But the play on words goes farther because it implies that the main character is now idle, and employs himself to no good effect beyond meditating on the tranquility of the river passing by. All of this wordplay is lost if you omit the hyphen. Re-creation is not the same thing as recreation. I'm going to edit the main article and change the book title back to its original name, "The Re-Creation of Brian Kent."

This work is also important because the 1925 film dramatizes a mysterious death by drowning, a plot twist that was later played on, and relied on, to much good effect, by such subsequent movies as Sunrise (film) (1927) and the silent German 1931 film Hokus-Pokus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.177.27.17 (talk) 22:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm sure the makers of Sunrise and other works could rely on their own intellect rather than copying a common trope from a hack writer, however popular he may have been.108.16.65.9 (talk) 19:39, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Saying that a sub-literary word-vomiter like Wright influenced the works of Murnau or Ucicky, especially when your example is such an amazingly common one, is frankly the most asinine thing I've read on Wikipedia. And that is saying something. I hope you stuck with your day jump of pumping gas or collecting horse semen instead of writing fatuous and misguided literary criticism. 2604:6000:6D42:4800:3878:7A59:2BF1:9C78 (talk) 03:58, 18 November 2018 (UTC)