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All caps?

Is there no reliable source for the way the title is written? Last year on the set here in Berlin, the signs were all caps: TÁR. Alandeus (talk) 08:18, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deadline, which was the first to report about the film, has gone from TAR to Tár, in the article that revealed that it was the name of the protagonist, is a more reliable source than any other as far as I can see. Signs, press releases, etc., which frequently employ all caps for titles, don't amount to anything. It could of course turn out that the title is not only a personal name but simultaneously an acronym for something, but without a reliable source supporting such an idea there's no reason to capitalize it. Nardog (talk) 09:23, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Re Special:Diff/1091325385: We prefer secondary sources to primary sources and, besides, the Focus Features website uses all caps for Belfast, Captive State, Dark Waters, Harriet, Emma, etc. Primary sources use all caps all the time for stylistic purposes so it doesn't amount to anything. If the title means more than just the protagonist's name, then what is it? Unless there's a reliable source showing it's also an acronym, there's no scenario in which using all caps would be justified. Nardog (talk) 17:35, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I admire your dedication to detail—but also hope you remember to get out now and then [smile]. – AndyFielding (talk) 01:56, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is the ending supposed to be set in the Philippines?

In the credits, they mention they filmed in Thailand, so I assumed it was meant to be set Thailand and I can't remember any specific signage or lines of dialogue that insinuate that it is set somewhere else, but I wouldn't want to revert a good faith edit without checking first. A Little Alien (talk) 00:53, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know where it's set, so I'm going to change it to Southeast Asia until someone confirms where it's set within the story of the film. Does that work? YouCanDoBetter (talk) 01:20, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to Apocalypse Now certainly put me in the mind of the Philippines. Priceyeah (talk) 06:05, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Plot Discussion

Recent concern raised by user @TexasTeam about the plot summary. "The plot summary was recap of the entire story which was written verbatim with every scene and every moment of the story which is against Wikipedia rules" And followed up with the deletion of the entire plot section, leaving a stub. Upon review, I believe that Texas Team was correct and that the plot summary featured a number of elements that were too episodic and irrelevant to the overall plot. So, I undid their deletion and performed a series of 4 revisions, which reduced the word count by about 300, hoping to streamline and write a more cohesive, but still comprehensive plot summary. I consulted Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary as well as a couple of good articles Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 12 Years a Slave (film), and Whiplash (2014 film). In order to get a ball park appropriate length for plot summaries to be 560-700 words. Right now The article is at 687 words. I thought I had managed to remove a lot of the more extraneous, episodic elements from the summary, but TexasTeam removed the summary, again replacing it with a stub. @Rusted AutoParts reinstated the plot summary soon after.

So, what should we do about this plot summary? Personally, I think it's at a place right now that's good, but could always use some finagling to cut it down just a little bit more. Which I trust users will do with time. But I'm curious to hear @TexasTeam's take and see if we can get a resolution to this where everyone walks away happy. A Little Alien (talk) 05:08, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]