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I was wondering when in the future does the movie take place because the cars seem to be the same ones that are on the road today, other than the artificial organs and the tools the repo men carry, the movie doesn't seem to futuristic --142.177.226.168 (talk) 22:14, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
2025 --99.192.111.84 (talk) 15:39, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
The Hollywood Reporter calls the film Repossession Mambo, while Variety calls the film The Repossession Mambo. I've redirected The Repossession Mambo to Repossession Mambo for the time being, but if there is an attributable source that can clarify of the film's title is with or without "The", then a move can be made. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
The title of the movie is "The Repossession Mambo", and the attributable source is, well, me, Eric Garcia, the co-writer of the script and writer of the novel it's based on. I don't know if I'm breaking wiki protocol here, but rest assured there's a 'The' in the title. The Hollywood Reporter also got the plot a bit wrong; the Variety article is much more accurate, for what it's worth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.205.26 (talk • contribs) 0:07, June 18, 2007
References. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 19:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Although Jude Law may think this is an oh so original movie, Everything seems just a tad similar to REPO! The Genetic Opera. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LordKoalaKarasu (talk • contribs) 01:11, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Cool your jets. Sometimes in the 1970s I recall seeing a comedy film in which a transplanted liver was violently "repossessed." Ah...I remember now - the Pythons' "Meaning of Life." Bustter (talk) 14:50, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Ah yes, 68.0.245.146, it was a long time ago. From this distance, the two do not seem all that dissimilar, nevertheless. Bustter (talk) 01:22, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
According to Eric Garcia, he has been developing this idea as a noir novel and film since 1997. Considering the credit that was flowing freely until recent times, it's not all that hard a concept to concurrently develop. I am interested in seeing the film, especially because of the short essay at the back of the book describing the concurrent creation of the film and the novel. Eric Garcia freely admits that what works on screen may not work for a book, and vice versa; Remy has only two ex-wives in the film, and five ex-wives in the book, for example, and is not mentioned by name even once in the course of the narrative. That's hard to do well, but I never even noticed until after I had finished the book. --BlueNight (talk) 05:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
The above comment about Terrence and Darren's play in 2000 is not fully correct. It originated in the early 90s as the Necromerchant's debt (a 10 minute opera, as they self titled) and became Repo! the stage play in 2000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.131.153 (talk) 08:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Article currently says, "based on a supposed novel by Garcia, which has yet to be published," but I think "supposed" is a bit snide, implying that the novel may not actually exist, and "yet to be published" is vaguer than necessary. Both amazon.com and the publisher's website list a publication date of March 31, 2009. See <http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061802836/The_Repossession_Mambo/index.aspx>. I'm not an "autoconfirmed user", and the page is semi-protected, so I can't edit it, but I would suggest replacement text "based on a novel by Garcia, which is due to be published on March 31, 2009". Jjules (talk) 03:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC) jjules
could we reference that REPO! has been a stage play for the past 8 years (atleast) and that the movie, which has some major stars in it, has been out for about a year now. seeing how easily someone could steal the plot concept from Repo! The Genetic Opera saddens me as it is a great movie that these people are ripping off (or in more legal terms: plagarising).
You've got to be kidding. REPO! didn't sue because they have NO case in court. The two ideas, even though similar, don't come close in plot. If you remove the concept of organs and replace the motive to kill, the plots are no more similar than two novels about mob hitmen. The plots aren't similar at all. Repo men: a guy that performs hits, then gets a transplant, then decides to defend transplantees. REPO!, a girl has a disease from her father who is a repo man, and the search for a cure while being tracked down by the owner of the company (to be chosen as a heir). If REPO! is similar to Repo men, then REPO! is similar to Metropolis. If we're going to start crying for plagiarism at similar concepts, then everything is guilty of plagiarizing The Twilight Zone. Then Blackhawk Down can sue Behind Enemy Lines. Compare The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film) and The Day the Earth Stopped. There is real plagiarism. --Cflare (talk) 18:38, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Whoever the guy is who wrote the above paragraph needs to seriously get a grip.Notonly is he blatantly contradicting himself he doesn't even realise the context of what he's talking about
BHD and BEL's were both films made out of REAL LIFE EVENTS that actually happened. you can't plagiarise real life. The argument as to why repo! and repomen "isn't" plagiarism is no different from the one he makes for day the earth stopped et al.Only difference being his subjective opinion. This sort of thing happens all the time in Hollywood.Someone claiming they stole their idea. What makes it legitimate is that both films got made and the plots are actually both identical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.226.193 (talk) 21:25, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
The main controversy is with the book the Repossession Mambo, on which this film was based, and so should be mentioned on that article if there is one 86.19.203.76 (talk) 06:05, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
I agree with Mr. Behan. However it is done, some mention of the basic plot similarities among "Liver Donor," "Repo," Garcia's novel, "Repo Men" (2) and any other related stories or articles from early or late SF ought to be at least mentioned, if for no other reason than that people are going to keep looking at the two different film entries, and say "Are these two things related?" It would also be a positive mention for any ideas of encyclopedic completeness one might value as a standard.Rtelkin (talk) 06:37, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
I think the opening paragraph could use some cleanup. Specifically:
I would change "In 2003, screenwriters Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner began collaborating with Miguel Sapochnik on a screenplay based on a novel being written by Garcia, which has since been published as of March 31, 2009." to "In 2003, screenwriters Eric Garcia and Garrett Lerner began collaborating with Miguel Sapochnik on a screenplay based on Garcia's then-unfinished novel, 'The Repossession Mambo'. (The novel had been published as of April 2009.) The original announcements were made under the same name as the novel, but the title was changed to "Repo Men!" during 2009."
The comment "However, this movie also happens to be oddly similar to the plot of Repo! The Genetic Opera, which had been created in the early 1990s, and didn't see film release until 2008." is a little snarky and presumptive of bad faith on the part of Garcia and company. I think the wording could be much improved without denigrating the Repo! fans, and thus made more encyclopedia-worthy, by changing it to something like this: "The movie has elements that are similar to that of Repo! The Genetic Opera, causing claims of plagiarism by its fans. Garcia, in an essay at the end of Repossession Mambo, says that he had developed this as a written work since 1997 (after seeing a Valentines message in a pawn shop window), and had worked on it since at least 2003 as a screenplay."
Thanks. Jdfreivald (talk) 23:37, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
I believe that somebody should also create a different page for The Repossession Mambo(book) so that all the information the film is based on is covered.
A better comparison of the VARIOUS similarities can be found here: [1] it's not just the organ thing, it's many ideas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.109.149.97 (talk) 02:43, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
The fact that at this point the article does not reference the idea that this movie may be copying or inspired by either the original 'Necromerchant' short opera or "Repo!: The Genetic Opera" makes this article feel incomplete in a rather major way. Could I suggest placing some reference to the widely held belief that it was at the very least inspired by, if not directly used as source material, for Repo Men be added in some fashion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.68.80.48 (talk) 22:43, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
the OPENING PARAGRAPH could do with a cleanup??? what about the fact that this is yet another film page where someone doesn't understand the difference between a summary and an encyclopedic description of every plot element in the film? people wanting a plot summary are again left with the option of "sci-fi thriller" from the introduction, or reading miles of drivel. if we can't round up people who write these dire movie articles and gas them, when is wikipedia going to get around to banning them from editing movie pages, so that normal people can read the sort of plot summaries that people with writing skills have been making for decades? there's no reason that content like this couldn't be moved to it's own specialized wiki-tedious-plot-exposition, where people with the time to watch a movie but who don't actually have a copy to watch can read the creative output of people without lives or a comprehension of plot summary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.179.176.173 (talk) 08:32, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
This has just been moved to another title. Does anyone have a reference stating the film has been renamed? Canterbury Tail talk 11:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Associated with the release is a sizable alternate reality game. Within minutes of the beginning, dozens of fans had already set up a system of communication on Twitter. Wired has had a large part in this, contributing a fan base from the recent string of stories based on people who leave their lives behind and attempt to disappear. Lone Shark Games, started in part by Mike Selinker, designed the game.
The game involves hunters and runners. Four people were selected from entrants to drop their lives for a month and attempt to evade the hunters. Each runner must complete a task each day; the location of any runners that do not complete the task assigned will be revealed on "ARGUS", a website dedecated to supplying hunters with information.
The cooperation between WIRED, Lone Shark Games, and Universal Pictures has yet to prove a success, but nevertheless should be stated on the wiki page. Patron Vectras (talk) 10:02, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Copyvio HalfShadow 21:55, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
The lead says that this is a sci-fi thriller, but it is only that on the surface. The futuristic, Dickian action movie veneer is very thin, and this film is clearly a black comedy. It goes to pretty great pains to make this clear throughout the entire production, and anyone taking it as a serious sci-film rather than wry commentary on our own present society has badly missed the point. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 13:30, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
This movie was released soon after the US Health Care bill passed. The question must be asked of whether political biases led to a film with a premise of privatized health care leading to a system in which Repo Men travel around unregulated and thus causing the deaths of numerous people through "collections". The movies release date was moved from April 2 to March 19th in early February.
At a NYC press event [1], Collider quoted actor Liev Schreiber who plays corporate boss Frank as saying "Frank becomes distracted and consumed with the bottom line,” and he (Schreiber) also drew the parallels between Frank and employees of the current pharmaceutical industry who “are not holding themselves responsible for people’s deaths when they can’t afford their medications.” Additionally, Schreiber says, I liked that they were trying to reference social and political issues 20 years into the future,” Schreiber said. “Clearly it deals with the credit issue in a very dark way. And what’s so chilling about it is that it’s not too far from the truth. The idea that people are dying in this country for health care is real."
Actor Jude Law also states, “The more interesting thing to the film is how corporations will sell you things that are bad for you, because then they can sell you things that are good for you.” In an interview on the Daily Show with John Stewart on March 16th 2010 between Law and Stewart, Stewart recognized the ridiculousness of applying this film to the health care debate parodying the relevance of this movie to the outlandish claims on the current national health care debate, saying "we (the United States) is about to pass a law that requires Christians to give organs to gay people."
Jcolorado2424 (talk) 05:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
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It seems to me that when someone receives an injury due to work-related equipment failure, this should be labeled an industrial accident. Aren't there laws that tell companies to cover all health expenses their employees might need resulting from industrial accidents? --85.146.209.49 (talk) 20:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
I think the movie is supposed to take place in the US, I think companies are allowed to deny compensation down there —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.60.66.152 (talk) 16:38, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
And shouldn't he be listed in the cast-section? He is not unknown (X-Men, Salt). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.33.197.254 (talk) 23:56, 10 October 2010 (UTC)