Talk:The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)

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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)

"Eugenie Rose" is "red queen" in French?

My French isn't that good, but isn't red queen "reine rouge" in French? — Bash 07:47, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. "Rose" means "pink." And Eugenie doesn't mean anything — it's a name which Eugenie shares with a French empress from the 19th century (a very conservative one, BTW, see Eugénie de Montijo). john k 05:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The name "Eugenia" (of which "Eugenie" is a variant) is derived from a Greek word meaning "well-born". — Diamantina 03:53, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Acclaim

This sentence didn't seem to make sense: The film won acclaim for its political themes and the exploration of the connection between the far left and far right in cold war America. (Presumably Iselin is meant to be "far right" here.) But the "far left" connection was a plot twist in the movie, not a reflection of some event "in cold war America." Bluey 13:09, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Links

Removed an external link; it contained very little about the film. The other links are better. Bluey 16:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oswald speculation

It seems to me that this is speculation and should be removed, or at least the source for the claim that Oswald passed by the theater every day while it was playing for four weeks should be substantiated:

Only recently has it been established that, in 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald daily walked past a downtown Dallas movie theater where the film played for four weeks, November 14 to December 12. This raises the very real possibility that he saw it or was otherwise influenced by it. Ironically, the theater was on Elm Street, the same street on which President Kennedy was assassinated by Oswald one year later (see Oswald's Trigger Films).

--babbage 22:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]