Talk:An Angel at My Table

This is not an Australian film

It reads quite strangely that the article describes it as a New Zealand film and then the "Cinema of Australia" template is included at the bottom. If NZ and Australian films are to be categorised together, then the template might be better named "Cinema of Australasia" or "Cinema of Oceania". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.9.5 (talk) 01:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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"Write a bestselling book"?

The plot description currently says, "Impressed with her past success, her publisher Mark Goulden suggests she writes a bestselling book." That seems both ungrammatical and fatuous. The verb "suggests" would require the following verb to take the subjunctive mood, that is, "Mark Goulden suggests she write a bestselling book." But the suggestion seems stupid. Most publishers would want the books they publish to be bestsellers, and most authors would want the books they write to be bestsellers, but they can't just make it happen. Only someone who is already a successful author can feel reasonably assured that their next book will be a bestseller. I mean, maybe in the film Mark Goulden does make that suggestion, but that could be either a fault of the real-life Goulden, a fault of the screenwriter, or an intentional portrayal of him as a joke for the audience's benefit. The way the sentence reads now, it sounds like a sports movie with the line, "Impressed with her past success, her coach suggests she win an Olympic medal." It's not as simple as that, is it? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 15:40, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

@Metropolitan90 I think Goulden means: write a book which will have broad popularity/readability. Not "waste" her writing skills on arty books which people don't resonate with as much. This is a link to the scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=8641&v=iGK5ffcYPuw. Dracophyllum 22:01, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! I rephrased it in a way which hopefully remains accurate but sounds less presumptuous. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:47, 10 August 2025 (UTC)