Talk:Gotti (2018 film)

A fact from Gotti (2018 film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 October 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that John Travolta will play New York mob boss John Gotti in an upcoming film?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Life and Death of John Gotti.

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

We’re Going to Take Over F---ing Hollywood - New York Mag, September 2012. Overview of early development at Fiore.
'Gotti': How John Travolta Tried — and Failed — to Save His Passion Project - Hollywood Reporter, June 18th 2018. Some details on the release, and Travolta's motivations.
John Travolta pulled upcoming ‘Gotti’ movie from Lionsgate to get wider release - New York Daily News, December 2017. The buyback from Lionsgate was apparently in the works a few weeks ahead of the cancellation.

"Release" at private screening[edit]

The definition of Release at Wikipedia: "the PUBLIC distribution of a film". A PRIVATE screening is by definition not PUBLIC. So the private screening during Cannes Festival cannot be a release. --88.78.7.73 (talk) 22:11, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reddit response section[edit]

This article previously included a section on the 'ironic response' to the film on the website reddit, where the film apparently became a meme. I removed this as it seemed like basically trivia without a proper reliable source. Looking at the history, this section has been removed a few times previously, but keeps getting re-added by User:MidwoodMartin. Perhaps we can discuss it here rather than reverting again?

Internet reactions to a film are sometimes worth noting, where they become significant enough to attract coverage from elsewhere; Rampart (film) is an example where the article mentions a controversy it provoked on reddit, with proper sourcing. But I don't see anything of the kind here. Robofish (talk) 21:50, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree we should discuss it rather than removing and deleting it. What I don't agree with is that KnowYourMeme isn't a proper source. It's secondary, well sourced and widely read. The Gotti meme in particular also spread onto Letterboxd and twitter. In fact, here is a Buzzfeed Article that quotes someone discussing it. "

I think it's relevant enough to the movie. Someone could be reading an ironic response about it somewhere and not know what it is about. The page here could inform him about it. I think both the KnowYourMeme and BuzzFeed Articles suffice with regards to sourcing, and I don't see the Gotti meme as any less relevant than the Rampart one. MidwoodMartin (talk) 03:30, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]