Talk:Wagner's Dream
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Cleaned up assertions that did not originate in the film
editIn the “Description” section there were two sentences (both attributed to a 2012 Philadelphia Enquirer article that has since been moved to behind a paywall) that were not justified by the content of the film.
The first problematic sentence was: [...] moving the huge set [...] to New York City was challenging, in part because the opera house was expecting the set to weigh only 25 tons. The set was shipped in pieces; why would there have been a problem moving it? In any case, there is not a single mention of – or even an allusion to – any problem with moving the set from the shop where it was built to the MET. I have replaced this sentence with what is mentioned in the film (by Paul Masck, Met Associate Technical Director, at 0:28:28) in relation to the weight of the “machine”: that the floor of the left wing of the theatre (where the machine is assembled onto a stage wagon) had to be reinforced by the addition of beams under it. I also replaced tons with pounds to avoid confusion between short tons and long tons.
The second problematic sentence was: The film records the fact that despite its technological advances, Lepage was ultimately disappointed that he could not get the set to "figuratively stand on its head" during the final opera, Götterdämmerung. There is simply no such utterance or revelation in the film. (While Lepage acknowledges that the set was capricious and ultimately couldn’t do all that he and his team had initially envisioned, he never says that he was disappointed, or anything to that effect.) I have removed this sentence. 74.58.147.69 (talk) 00:23, 30 June 2019 (UTC)