Talk:Born Innocent (film)

A fact from Born Innocent (film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the television movie Born Innocent is credited with airing the first all-female rape scene on American television?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/December.

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Uncut Version was Available Before DVD[edit]

Near the bottom of the article it states that the uncut version was unseen until the 2004 DVD release. This is incorrect. There were numerous budged-priced VHS versions available in the mid-1990's which contained the rape scenes intact. I am amending the paragraph to reflect this.--HillbillyProfane (talk) 23:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

is this yahoo-shopping-link really necessary? --Musschrott 21:32, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I was just trying to link to show that, indeed, it is on DVD. Remove it if you wish. Mike H 21:45, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

Pop v. Soda[edit]

I hate to be a nitty gritty b@$tard (one of my friends in high school was from Ohio, so believe me when I say I sympathize).... but "pop" is dialect in the mid-west with most of the rest of the country calling it "soda...." Shouldn't it be changed?

Yes, I suck, but.... eh. Juppiter

Yeah, that is true. Not the "you suck" part, but you know. Mike H 06:10, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

No, it's not true that most of the country says soda instead of pop. The original term is soda pop with some people now calling it pop and some soda. Pop is actually more correct with soda as the adjective and pop as the noun. Soda itself is just water. This is not the correct place to discuss it, of course. This is: [1].

I question if such details should be included at all. Just calling it a glass bottle is more than sufficient. 75.33.77.159 18:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fifty years ago, Pop was your father. Language changes, but to dictate what percentage of the population uses which definition is as useful as arguing how many angles can dance on the head of a pin - for people in an area that doesn't conform to what the majority uses, the more popular will always be incorrect. I for one am from the Midwest, grew up using "pop" lived in the mid Atlantic region while in College 25 years ago and to this day refer to Coca Cola as soda. In Atlanta, everything is Coke - even Pepsi. Frankly I think tha the debate over whether it is soda or soda pop or pop is a inane waste of time. Its this type of minutia or homogenization is what drove me from being a Wikipedian five years ago! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.252.62.180 (talk) 21:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plagerism[edit]

The last paragraph is complete pliagerism, taken off of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071240/trivia --Timjohn911 19:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for File:BornInnocent.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source for copycat claim[edit]

"The scene drew much outcry on its first airing and was eventually pulled from the movie entirely when it was blamed for the rape of a nine-year-old girl, committed by some of her peers with a glass soda pop bottle." - Does anyone have a citation for this information? I can't seem to find any proof that this really happened.198.91.145.133 (talk) 08:21, 24 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Purple prose[edit]

"Barbara looks on helplessly as she sees Chris, an innocent, intelligent, decent girl, now fully transformed into a violent, pathological, manipulative, vengeful and cold person, no longer having any guilt or remorse for her actions, who will most likely become an adult criminal when released upon turning legal age."

Eeeuw. Is this wikipedia or the Jerry Springer Show ? (Or is there any difference ? :-) )

btw, the "rape scene" was not that big a deal even in 1974 (at least not where I lived), it was mostly left to the imagination, and only in a country with the heavy presence of the Citizens for Decent Literature would it have received so much press. Similar events and worse were common in Jerzy Koscinski's (sp ?) Painted Bird which was quite popular and "highly acclaimed" (gag) at around the same time. But you had to be able to read to come across those, I guess 116.231.74.1 (talk) 12:09, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]