Talk:Beautiful Mystery

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:13, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially-produced gay pornographic films in Japan? Source: Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
  • ALT1: ... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery, a satire of writer and nationalist Yukio Mishima, was one of the earliest commercially-produced gay pornographic films in Japan? Source: Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
  • Reviewed: WCFW
  • Comment: "Pink film" is not a generally recognized term, but I thought it sounds intriguing and suggestive enough that an inquiring reader might get its general meaning from the context of the hook.

Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:41, 23 June 2022 (UTC).

• The criteria are met and no copyvio detected. The hook is also cited to gaycinema.info, which looks like a self-published source but is in fact run by the distributor, so I guess it's an acceptable primary source (though the claim borders on WP:EXCEPTIONAL—"one of" is doing heavy lifting). I don't have access to the book so I AGF. The writer has a PhD in Japanese cinema. A minor quibble is that the hook violates MOS:HYPHEN.
• ALT2: ... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?

Mentioning Mishima makes some sense as it probably comes as a surprise to those who already have an idea of who he was (one doesn't expect him as a subject of pornographic satire, much less from 1983), but I wonder if "nationalist" is really necessary. I don't think anyone disputes that he was one, but the juxtaposition with "writer" might seem awkward or undue so one might as well do away with both. Also I believe "satire on" is better.

• ALT3: ... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery, a satire on Yukio Mishima, was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?

Nardog (talk) 11:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

@Nardog: Both proposed alt hooks look good to me. Morgan695 (talk) 15:52, 27 June 2022 (UTC)