Talk:Happiness (1998 film)

References to use

Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.

• King, Mike (2008). "Happiness". The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film. McFarland. pp. 99–104. ISBN 0786439882.

Clean up

The original text still reads like a review, but I wikified it a bit and fixed some typos Thermopyle 12:43, 2004 Aug 13 (UTC)

Still reads too much like a review or essay. Anyon care if we shorten it a bit?

Secretagentwang 15:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Happiness is a movie about...happiness

I tidied up the plot a bit; it's really not necessary to point out all the times a character's "happiness" is affected just because that's the name of the movie.69.249.217.119 16:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

This has got to be one of the most pretentious articles on wikipedia. 70.143.52.140 (talk) 22:51, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Not a good article. The plot summary does not stick to the narrative but throws in lots of opinionated commentary on how happy or otherwise the characters seem. There is very little other info that you would usually see on a film article (cast, etc.), & NO CITATIONS at all, even for the controversy, or the quote from Robert Ebert, which according to the writer "puts in nicely" (redundant phrase!). In fact I don't know why this quote appears as the sole item under the heading Criticism. It says virtually nothing about the critical reaction to the film. (77.102.170.83 (talk) 23:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC))

Agreed. It's just ridiculous. Vordabois (talk) 12:00, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Huh?

...in the next scene by literally, essentially, robbing her.
Which does he do, literally rob her or essentially rob her? He can't do both. MusicMaker5376 18:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I am going to change the "Happiness" entry a bit.

I am going to fix a few errors on this page. It's full of misspellings and the grammar is pretty horrible.

--Thedanielwilliams 04:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to attempt a rewrite as well. The original author seems pretty fond of the passive voice and I don't think his synopsis does this movie any justice.

--Thedanielwilliams 04:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Seems like the synopsis is missing anything on the youngest sister. -Hellkyte

In the plot section I changed the last two words from "achieves it" to "succeeds", since "achieves it" changes tenses. Pirchlogan (talk) 21:10, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

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I came

This seems to be a very popular meme across the internet from the final scene in the film. Should it be mentioned? 99.139.120.111 (talk) 03:46, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Black comedy

I've changed the genre to "black comedy" which I think is more appropriate. There is not very much actual romance in the movie, instead I really think its a schoolbook example of black comedy. Kopmis (talk) 11:50, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I jerk off vs. I'd jerk off

There seems to be disagreement among editors as to what Bill says to Billy in the last of their father-son talks. Looking at the page history, Tony Sandel and 70.35.163.76 seem to think that he says "I'd" whereas 65.25.203.163 and I think he says "I". Evidence I have that it's "I" is that that's what it says on this script http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=happiness

Addmittidly, that is a slightly different script to the script in the actual movie, perhaps it was the original script. Matthew Fennell (talk) 10:00, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

The question from Billy is "Would you...?" In that case, the answer would be "I'd" since it needs to contain would to follow the logic. Deliusfan (talk) 03:40, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Plot needs reworking

The way it currently reads, one would think the movie is merely a series of vignettes centering on one person at a time, but that's not true at all. The film proceeds in a linear fashion time wise from beginning to end.

Can someone untangle the plot into its correct flow? Right now it reads like the remixed Arrested Development: Fateful Consequences. Deliusfan (talk) 03:38, 25 November 2021 (UTC)