Talk:Sex, Lies, and Videotape

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OK, so this article says that the film "boosted the careers of Soderbergh and the four major cast members," and the article for Eroticism in film says it "almost ruined the careers of the stars that participated in it." One or both of these statements is wrong or POV. Tverbeek 14:03, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Given the awards and nominations it's likely it didn't do any damage to Soderbergh's career at the very least. —Rory ☺ 08:18, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

It could've helped the director, who was relatively low profile at the time, while simultaneously hurting the actors.(Who were not unknown at that time)--T. Anthony 09:55, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Then again checking the actors listed they apparently weren't that big yet. McDowell was still cursed by a Southern accent before this.(And in the US in least a Southern accent is generally deemed a curse. The view of people with Southern accents is generally "stupid" or at best "eccentric.") Don't know much on the others.--T. Anthony 09:58, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Title?

Is the title of the movie genuinely uncapitalised? Okay, so it's on the poster, big deal. People take artistic license with posters, that's how we get stuff like eyeballs instead of Os. Do we transcribe the eyeballs? No, we just call them Os. IMDb calls the film Sex, Lies and Videotape. - Vague | Rant 03:47, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

Here's the link to Soderbergh's script for the film, which titles it in lower case: < http://members.aol.com/rwsmittjr/scripts/sex_lies_and_videotape.txt > For what it's worth, Amazon lists it in lower case and I have seen it that way in other film guides. There is a clear difference between an author's choice among the standard ways in which a letter can be represented (upper vs. lower case) and the choice to represent a letter as another object; this is tantamount to spelling out a number rather than representing it with numerals. I'd respect the author's choice here and chalk up other forums' failure to do so to their not attending or caring enough to do so. By the way, if someone could tell me how to enter my user name and time/date of entry automatically, I'd appreciate it. -- "Major Danby" June 6, 2005

• In the published version of the screenplay (which includes some of Soderbergh notes on the writing of the script) he specifically mentions that the title looks better in lowercase, and spells it that way throughout the book. Dynayellow 01:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Found it: While discussing his ideas for titles, "Bob said without hesitation that Sex, Lies (actually that looks better lowercase) sex, lies, and videotape was by far the best title..." (p. 34, sex, lies, and videotape (published screenplay) by Stephen Soderbergh, Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.) Also uses that spelling on the "photostatic" copy of the original screenplay included in the book. I changed the spelling in the article, but not in the title.

• Are you sure about the screenplay... here's a copy http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=sex_lies_and_videotape

Plot summary

I came to this page looking for something on the movie, and found that the article is actually missing a plot synopsis. I haven't seen it, so I can't fill that out (makes me want to see the film now actually), but could someone be bothered to put one up? Letoofdune 20:25, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Importance and impact

I am willing to go on record stating that this film is of top importance to at least the Independent Film movement of the 1990's. This film, by winning not only the Palme D'Or at Cannes, but also credibility to the American Independent Filmmaker in the eyes of Movie Executives, helped the cause of Independent filmmaking. T3hmyth 19:45, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

@T3hmyth you can't really "go on record" when using an anonymous Internet name! 146.200.132.123 (talk) 06:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Walt Lloyd

I think Walt Lloyd Cinematographer link is wrong.--84.223.144.102 (talk) 09:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Move?

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 11:00, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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• sex, Lies, and Videotape → sex, lies, and videotape — correct spelling, see talk page — Espoo (talk) 17:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Serious literature uses both spellings, Guardian uses lowercase.
• But WP:MOSTM: Sex, Lies, and Videotape? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 19:42, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per MOSTM. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 01:15, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose after reading MOSTM. Belasted (talk) 05:05, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose The proposed name violates MOSTM. TJ Spyke 04:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Pages linking to and mentioning article

Should the wikilinks and mentions on other articles, such as James Spader say Sex, Lies, and Videotape or sex, lies, and videotape? Most of them now say it with the caps. Belasted (talk) 05:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Independent Spirit Awards

You forgot these accolades: Independent Spirit Awards for Best Film, Director, both Leading and Supporting Female categories Espngeek (talk) 13:33, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

References