Talk:Serpico/Archive 1

synopsis
hi. i changed the first paragraph. the original synopsis seemed a little strange, or skewed. it said "[who] turned in his fellow officers for corruption and how they turned against him."

the movie clearly depicts serpico as tolerating the bribe-taking around him, but most importantly simply refusing to take bribes himself. in fact he even says at one point to a fellow cop, "do what you have to do.... if i had a family, and needed the money, maybe i'd take it, but i don't have a family." --at first.

the crooked officers distrust him simply because he doesn't take bribes, he never threatens them with exposure until they make his life/job absolutely impossible, through non-cooperation and intimidation, death threats, etc.

he wasn't just a rat who whistleblew. he tolerated them, and they eventually paid the price for their crimes after they pushed him to the edge. essentially all he had done was Not Take Bribes.

at least it certainly seemed that way in the movie.

Terrible
this is probably the worst article I have ever read on Wikipedia, I came to it after watching the movie hoping to learn more and instead was amazed by the infantile grammar contained within. I have no idea who fixes these articles but this one is in desperate need of revision.

You're right, it is terrible. I'll mark it for cleanup. Como 20:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Terrible, but factual. All it needs is a bit of editorial polishing. 72.25.192.4 05:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Possible plagiarism and factual errors
Many of the facts are taken word for word from the IMDB trivia page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070666/trivia Also, IMDB claims that the film was shot in every borough in NYC EXCEPT Staten Island, whereas the article states the film was shot throughout NYC, including on Staten Island. Which is correct?

who wrote this swill?
"Before even making the movie, producer Martin Bregman had lunch with biographical book author Peter Maas to talk about the book being made into a movie."

What, they're going to talk about the book being made into a movie, after it was already made?

Is a "biographical book author" the same as a biographer?

Is the fact they had lunch the least bit relevant?

"Another screenwriter, Norman Wexler, did the structural work followed by play lines."

What are "play lines"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.44.133 (talk) 17:29, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

My edit
I moved the story of the production of this movie to its own section, it really didn't need to be in the introduction. If someone wants to rewrite it to make it seem less like a list of facts and more like an encyclopaedia entry.... please do.

I also deleted the cast and crew information since it's right there in the infobox. Is this whole article copyvio'd from somewhere? Alexforcefive 03:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

More license
" This is the sole film Pacino made between the first two godfather films and was key in developing him as an actor, readying him for his towering performance in the Godfather Part II." This kind of thing would be out of order even in a Pacino biographical entry. Here it looks absurd.

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