Talk:Pearl (X)/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: FishLoveHam (talk · contribs) 18:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 00:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable, as shown by a source spot-check. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Some copy tweaks, but a very strong debut at GA here. Ping me when done. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:24, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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Copy changes

Lead

• set during World War I and Spanish flu pandemic missing "the"

Appearances

• When a group of young filmmakers begin shooting a pornographic film, Pearl grows envious of their youth, motivating her to kill the film's director RJ (Owen Campbell), crew member Wayne (Martin Henderson), and actress Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), and become infatuated with the other actress, Maxine (Goth). The second-to-last comma is unneeded as the subject is the same (Pearl). See WP:CINS.
• Homestead is not a proper noun
• Pearl meets a handsome projectionist (David Corenswet) after watching a movie whom she later imagines a scarecrow to look like before she masturbates with it on the way home. Reorder this sentence. Can a scarecrow look like a movie?
  • Link projectionist on first mention, not second.
• Pearl's sister-in-law, Mitsy (Emma Jenkins-Purro) tells her Complete the appositive by adding a comma after the parentheses.
• "desperately plea that" you want "plead", not "plea"
• She also reveals she was pregnant with his child which disgusted her due to her lack of maternal instincts, but she found great satisfaction in miscarrying. Add a comma after "child"
• In the third film, MaXXXine, set in 1985, Pearl appears through flashback sequences, and during sequences where Maxine briefly envisions the character. Remove the last comma. Reduce redundancy: ...through flashbacks and during sequences...

Development

• "8 hours" MOS:NUMERAL should be "eight"
• Goth said reading the script multiple times gave her many interpretations of Pearl's character, noting that it helped her envision Pearl's humanity and complexity, adding that she came up with many ideas for Pearl's character as a result. Maybe Goth said reading the script multiple times gave her many interpretations of Pearl's character, noting that it helped her envision Pearl's humanity and complexity and helped her generate many ideas for Pearl's character. and then maybe figure out not saying "Pearl's character" twice.
• Before filming for X concluded, Goth and West began writing a prequel, Pearl, to focus on Pearl, as they believed that the character would be "the stand-out" of X, with West convincing the studio, A24, to allow the films to be filmed back-to-back. Split this long sentence.
• The prequel penned focus on Pearl as a young woman during World War I, and how her backstory led to her becoming a killer Remove comma (CinS). Is "pen focus" a phrase? Maybe "The prequel focused on..."
• and characterized her in the prequel as "a dreamer", and "an emotional person who wears her heart on her sleeve and is quite sensitive" Unneeded comma
• She practiced it every night as preparation and they shot it on the last day of filming to allow Goth to put in perspective all the "emotional turmoil" Pearl had gone through. Add a comma after "preparation" (that's two sentences joined by a ", and")

Reception

• Consider looking with fresh eyes to see if some of the quotes can be paraphrased.
• Mia Goth's performance as one of 10 actors snubbed by the Oscars Can a performance be a snubbed actor?
• praised that Pearl's character, excess "that"
• 6th scariest try sixth-scariest

Sourcing and spot checks

• 6: Despite their age gap and Pearl’s homicidal tendencies, the characters are essentially one and the same, with Pearl acting as a prediction of Maxine’s future. ... The double casting of Mia Goth as Pearl in X in addition to Maxine was intentional on Ti West's part, as it enriches both characters and elevates X beyond its horror movie trappings. Y
• 8: Quote checks out to interview. (Time stamp 2:02) Y
• 13: Mia and I had been talking about how she got there — or, rather, stayed there — and what types of potential tragedies in her backstory would have led her to be in the situation she was in. ... How did I go about doing that? Really, that was the main challenge. I don’t know how I went about it, to be honest. That’s just who Pearl is. It’s hard to explain. Quote also checks out. Y
• 23: Quote checks out. Y
• 25: Quote checks out. Y

Images

The infobox features a fair-use movie still of the character and a CC-BY-SA 3.0 photo of the actor. Encouragement: Add alt text (in this case on Pearl's image, the other one can be just "Refer to caption") to improve accessibility for users utilizing screen readers.