Talk:The Manchurian Candidate
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Is it worth mentioning that the movie Zoolander is sort of based on The Manchurian Candidate?
Sayeth the article:
- The film attempts to adapt itself to the modern world by having the brainwashing conducted by Manchurian Global, a multinational corporation based closely on Halliburton.
How is Manchurian Global "based closely" on Halliburton? If someone believes this, can you provide some evidence for this alleged similarity? Otherwise I'll remove the Halliburton reference in the interests of NPOV. Neilc 19:37, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Why Manchurian Candidate?
Why is it called The Manchurian Candidate?
- In the original, it was because the brainwashing was performed in Manchuria by Red Chinese scientists with the involvement of Soviet Russia.
- In the remake, it was simply to keep the same name, and the story devices had to be changed to fit the name (!). - Keith D. Tyler ¶ [AMA] 00:44, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
Merkels' edit
I dispute the relevance of Robert Merkel's recent edit, taking out some of the text explaining what a "Manchurian candidate" means, and replacing it with a statement about its scientific impossiblility. This edit doesn't serve the relevance of the article to its subject matter; it makes sense to explain the movie's version of the world, and makes less sense to launch into a short diatribe of the movie's divergece from current theory. That discussion belongs in Brainwashing. We don't, for example, add such comments to the article for every movie or cartoon that entertains "fuzzy physics".
Keith D. Tyler ¶ [AMA] 00:42, May 9, 2005 (UTC)