Talk:Pearl (X)/GA1

GA Review
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Nominator: 18:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 00:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Some copy tweaks, but a very strong debut at GA here. Ping me when done. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:24, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Lead

 * set during World War I and Spanish flu pandemic missing "the"
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:52, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Appearances

 * When a group of young filmmakers begin shooting a pornographic film, Pearl grows envious of their youth, motivating her to kill the film's director RJ (Owen Campbell), crew member Wayne (Martin Henderson), and actress Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), and become infatuated with the other actress, Maxine (Goth). The second-to-last comma is unneeded as the subject is the same (Pearl). See WP:CINS.
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Homestead is not a proper noun
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Pearl meets a handsome projectionist (David Corenswet) after watching a movie whom she later imagines a scarecrow to look like before she masturbates with it on the way home. Reorder this sentence. Can a scarecrow look like a movie?
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Link projectionist on first mention, not second.
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Pearl's sister-in-law, Mitsy (Emma Jenkins-Purro) tells her Complete the appositive by adding a comma after the parentheses.
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * "desperately plea that" you want "plead", not "plea"
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * She also reveals she was pregnant with his child which disgusted her due to her lack of maternal instincts, but she found great satisfaction in miscarrying. Add a comma after "child"
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * In the third film, MaXXXine, set in 1985, Pearl appears through flashback sequences, and during sequences where Maxine briefly envisions the character. Remove the last comma. Reduce redundancy: ...through flashbacks and during sequences...
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Development

 * "8 hours" MOS:NUMERAL should be "eight"
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Goth said reading the script multiple times gave her many interpretations of Pearl's character, noting that it helped her envision Pearl's humanity and complexity, adding that she came up with many ideas for Pearl's character as a result. Maybe Goth said reading the script multiple times gave her many interpretations of Pearl's character, noting that it helped her envision Pearl's humanity and complexity and helped her generate many ideas for Pearl's character. and then maybe figure out not saying "Pearl's character" twice.
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Before filming for X concluded, Goth and West began writing a prequel, Pearl, to focus on Pearl, as they believed that the character would be "the stand-out" of X, with West convincing the studio, A24, to allow the films to be filmed back-to-back. Split this long sentence.
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * The prequel penned focus on Pearl as a young woman during World War I, and how her backstory led to her becoming a killer Remove comma (CinS). Is "pen focus" a phrase? Maybe "The prequel focused on..."
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * and characterized her in the prequel as "a dreamer", and "an emotional person who wears her heart on her sleeve and is quite sensitive" Unneeded comma
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * She practiced it every night as preparation and they shot it on the last day of filming to allow Goth to put in perspective all the "emotional turmoil" Pearl had gone through. Add a comma after "preparation" (that's two sentences joined by a ", and")
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Reception

 * Consider looking with fresh eyes to see if some of the quotes can be paraphrased.
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 10:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Mia Goth's performance as one of 10 actors snubbed by the Oscars Can a performance be a snubbed actor?
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * praised that Pearl's character, excess "that"
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
 * 6th scariest try sixth-scariest
 * ✅ FishLoveHam (talk) 09:58, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Sourcing and spot checks

 * 6: Despite their age gap and Pearl’s homicidal tendencies, the characters are essentially one and the same, with Pearl acting as a prediction of Maxine’s future. ... The double casting of Mia Goth as Pearl in X in addition to Maxine was intentional on Ti West's part, as it enriches both characters and elevates X beyond its horror movie trappings. ✅
 * 8: Quote checks out to interview. (Time stamp 2:02) ✅
 * 13: Mia and I had been talking about how she got there — or, rather, stayed there — and what types of potential tragedies in her backstory would have led her to be in the situation she was in. ... How did I go about doing that? Really, that was the main challenge. I don’t know how I went about it, to be honest. That’s just who Pearl is. It’s hard to explain. Quote also checks out. ✅
 * 23: Quote checks out. ✅
 * 25: Quote checks out. ✅

Images
The infobox features a fair-use movie still of the character and a CC-BY-SA 3.0 photo of the actor. Encouragement: Add alt text (in this case on Pearl's image, the other one can be just "Refer to caption") to improve accessibility for users utilizing screen readers. ✅FishLoveHam (talk) 10:22, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the review, I've applied your changes. FishLoveHam (talk) 10:24, 14 July 2024 (UTC)