Wikipedia:WikiProject Film
"The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second." ~ Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat (film)
Introduction
Below are some of my thoughts on what a more standardized template for movie articles might look like. It includes some critical details (writer, director, leading actors - easily culled from IMDB) in a table... it also relegates the less-encyclopedic detailed plot summary to the end of the article so that 1) spoilers are less likely to pop up at the top of an article and 2) the article can focus on the wider impact of the film itself. - Seth Ilys 05:23, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
See also:
Title
WikiProject Movies
Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to normalize the standards for movie articles in Wikipedia.
Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Entertainment.
Descendant Wikiprojects
Potential descendant or related WikiProjects would be WikiProject Actors, WikiProject Directors.
Similar Wikiprojects
The similar WikiProjects are WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Albums.
Participants
Structure
Proposed (and still evolving) structure as follows:
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The Terminator | |
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IMDB Page (external link) | |
| Writer: | James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd |
| Starring: | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton |
| Director: | James Cameron |
| Music by: | Brad Fiedel |
| Distributor: | MGM |
| Release Date: | 26 October 1984 (USA) |
| Runtime: | 108 min. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
- The Terminator, |
| Awards: | 1985 Saturn Award, Best Science Fiction Film; 1923 Mongoose Award, Best Featureless Film |
The Terminator is a 1984 science-fiction motion picture, written and directed by James Cameron in which a lot of stuff blows up and people run around. It was the film which propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger to popular stardom.
Production
Shooting began on October 9, 1990, and was completed on April 4, 1991. The movie was made for $88 million, and was considered one of the most expensive movies ever made.
Cultural impact
This movie was a surprise box-office hit. It established Cameron as a talented action director. He would then go on to produce a string of successful action movies, continuing with Aliens in 1986. Schwarzenegger had already starred in the hit film Conan the Barbarian and its successor, Conan the Destroyer, but The Terminator made his name a household word. It is still considered to be one of his best roles.
A sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) was also directed by James Cameron, and again starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, with Edward Furlong as the young John Connor.
Plot summary
In a moment of desperation, Sarah attempts to murder Miles Dyson, the researcher who is destined to build the neural network that eventually becomes Skynet. Ultimately, Sarah, John, and the Terminator persuade Dyson to stop his research and destroy all recovered remnants of the first Terminator. The Terminator then, with the help of Sarah Connor, destroys himself, despite the protests of the young John.