Talk:Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge was nominated as a Media and drama good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (June 26, 2017). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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A fact from Hacksaw Ridge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 October 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Andrew Garfield is playing the real-life character Desmond Doss in the World War II-set film Hacksaw Ridge?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hacksaw Ridge.

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A Link

The link (no 23) regarding where the 'graveyard scene' is filmed is called Centennial Park Cemetery, with a link with takes you to the place, which actually is in Adelaide South Australia. Yet it states the film was made in NSW. Is this right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CHADWICK (talk • contribs) 04:45, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, it is not right. You are right to question it. The ref says "...in an eerie graveyard in Sydney's Centennial Park" and "A quaint graveyard had been created in the middle of the park". I have changed the wording and removed the link to Adelaide. JennyOz (talk) 18:48, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accuracy Question

I saw this film in a theater on opening weekend. I really enjoyed it. It seems to be very accurate too. There's one point I'm particularly interested in knowing if it's true: at the end the soldier's won't advance up the ridge again until Doss is done praying and they're already 10 minutes late. Does any one know if this scene is true and is there a good source for this? 2600:8805:5800:F500:9C9D:6AB3:CBF8:A317 (talk) 19:49, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. This event happened and is mentioned in the documentary made on Doss's life, The Conscientious Objector. Regards, George Custer's Sabre (talk) 05:09, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

add location

a single world Okinawa is mentioned and since that battle is the worst in global history with 350,000 dying in ab 30 days (50-60x more than Normandy e.g.) there should be added like a line or two to show the location of the movie events in that larger battle of Okinawa... gyrene joans sempa fi 24.44.215.132 (talk) 15:58, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The film compresses action over a number of days into a single day/night and location. The main event, lowering 75 or more men over the cliff, occurred in a single night. It is unfortinate that for presentation reasons they compressed Doss's heroics into a shorter time frame and omitted actions for which he received heroism awards in the Philippines and Guam. Legacypac (talk) 08:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Christian film?

Should this article be categorized as a Christian film? It says in "Theme" section that It also incorporates recurring religious imagery, such as baptism and ascension. which is technically in the body of Christianity. Bluesphere 07:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's a hollywood blockbuster still being shown on planes - just saw it on Hong Kong Airlines! Legacypac (talk) 15:54, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Doss's

Whatever your supposed source is that apostrophe only is more common, it is incorrect and against the MOS at WP:POSS. Because it is pronounced with two s sounds it should be spelled with two. Reywas92^Talk 21:03, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Hacksaw Ridge/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Adamstom.97 (talk · contribs) 10:27, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to give reviewing this a go. Honestly, it looks like quite a bit of work from my initial quick skim-read, but I'll have a better look at it tomorrow. - adamstom97 (talk) 10:27, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, the first major issue for me is that the article has quite a few section with not much content in them. Writing, themes, music, marketing—there must be more info out there on these. Have a go at expanding those sections, as well as looking for more info that may not be added yet (post-production stuff, home media release). I'll give this a more thorough review once that is done. - adamstom97 (talk) 23:26, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This page requires quite a bit to get to GA standard, in my opinion, and the nominator doesn't have the time to address those concerns, so I am going to have to Fail this article at this time. - adamstom97 (talk) 05:07, 26 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Conversation review

At some point an editor included this summary of a review: "Guy Westwell, writing for The Conversation, criticized the depiction of Doss' pacifism as contributing to the jingoism of the film." The statement accurately represents the review and it has a correct citation. Another reviewer has several times removed this review, claiming that The Conversation is a fringe publication and that the review gives undue weight to the view of the reviewer. This seems to me to be entirely baseless. The review is legitimate and the inclusion of it among many other reviews hardly gives it undue weight. I'd respecfully like to know what other editors think, please. Many thanks, George Custer's Sabre (talk) 07:38, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That review is jumbled and not from a major publication. I don't think it adds anything useful to the article. Legacypac (talk) 08:38, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry did not see this before reverting, apologies. I read the article, struggling to work out who he is, why his opinion is important, and actually didn't even make a coherent argument at all in the review. The film was highly praised in most regards by lots of notable people, I think this guy just wanted to play devils advocate for the sake of it? Just to add, this was a block buster by Mel Gibson. If it had been an indie film then the weight of the lesser know movie critics, if you can call this guy one, goes up. Alexandre8 (talk) 14:02, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]