Talk:The Tenant

copyvio
It appears that this version of the article was copied from IMDb, particularly trivia and goofs. I have made deletions accordingly. --Mathew5000 15:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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"Aparment trilogy" delusional themes
These lines in the article:

While the main character is clearly paranoid to some extent (as exemplified in the scene when he believes a neighbour is strangling him, when he is in fact shown strangling himself), this film does not entirely reveal whether everything takes place in his head or if the strange events happening around him exist at least partially, contrary to the previous entries in Polanski's "apartment trilogy."[2][3][4]

are not correct. in Repulsion, the girl is hallucinating much of the time. But in the second film of the "aparment trilogy" Rosemary's Baby, the situation is reversed. Rosemary is being manipulated to think that she is being delusional, but at the end, it is clear that she really is the victim of Satan worshippers, and that her baby is now the Devil's son. (And if any wise guy says that this is her "imagination" as well, then that would not square with the book, nor the fact that a sequel was made to that movie).

I have deleted that quote. Myles325a (talk) 09:13, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I have restored this deletion; your interpretation of the material is incorrect. The material you quoted does not state that everything that happened in Rosemary's Baby is a delusion. Rather, it states that the two previous films conclusively showed whether or not all of the strange events were real or imagined. Grandpallama (talk) 18:19, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Jacques Monod link
The link to Jacques Monod (cafe owner) points to the wrong Jacques Monod (biologist, not actor). Apparently, there is no English wikipedia article on the actor Jacques Monod but only in German and French wikipedia. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Monod_%28Schauspieler%29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.219.170.67 (talk) 22:59, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Advertizing poster
There is an ominously recurring advertizing poster in the film that should be probably mentioned somewhere in the article. It has three identical men standing behind each other, indicating that each man is a recurrence in time or a copy of the man behind him, and its yellow caption reads something akin to "The eternal over-painting/painting-over" in French. It's an obvious reference to how the tenant becomes a recurring copy of the one who has lived before him in the same apartment (and that it's probably an eternally recurring cycle, like a curse), in a way that most likely inspired Kubrick to his 1980 adaptation of The Shining (more similarities to Kubrick's film exist, such as their heightened ambivalence as to whether the protagonist is turning insane or if there's actually something supernatural going on, a recurring theme in Polanski's apartment trilogy).

Also, I can imagine that the main reason for the film's bad reception at the time was Polanski's crossdressing act, and that's why Ebert considered it "an embarassment". Unfortunately, the Reception section is as painfully short and underbacked as the rest of the article. --80.187.106.89 (talk) 16:24, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Sources in Themes section
Yes, I know there are three sources (epinions.com and the two blogs Antagony & Ecstasy and L'avventura di Gwen) in that section that upon first look may appear fishy, but hear me out! All of them are linked as professional reviews from the film's IMDB entry, A&E has an official Online Film Critics Society badge on its site, and in her "About" section, L'avventura di Gwen says she holds a Master's Degree in Cinema Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. --80.187.106.89 (talk) 07:34, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Horror or thriller ?
According to this article, both, but according to IMDb and Allmovie only Thriller.--Ezzex (talk) 20:52, 17 April 2016 (UTC)


 * It's already in the article that this film's genre is hard to pin down. It's pretty much in the same category as its contemporaries Don't Look Now (1973), The Shining (1980), and Polanski's first entry from his Apartment Trilogy, Repulsion (1965). All these films are deliberately ambigious whether they're psychological thrillers or actual horror films. (At least they are on the screen. Polanski has made it clear in interviews that to him, Repulsion is definitely a super-natural horror film about an isolated non-human demon that only happens to look like a female human being and, being repulsed by (most) humans, is not meant to live among them, although it is unaware of its true nature.) --2003:71:4E6A:B439:253C:1E50:7697:367 (talk) 12:00, 13 January 2017 (UTC)