Talk:Pawn Sacrifice

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Lead sentence

The article claims this is a true story: "Pawn Sacrifice is a 2015 American biographical thriller film It is the true story for about Bobby Fischer who won the 1972 World Chess Championship in Iceland ..." It is very far from the truth as I, a friend of Fischer's for 20 years, can attest to. That sentence should note, after its typos are taken care of, that the film is based on a true story. Abenr (talk) 15:59, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

I also stumbled upon this and had the same idea of correcting it. So I did it. --Con^structor 07:30, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

WP's voice s/n contend "true story based on [...] madness". The film portrays a condition of paranoia along w/ some external justifications. IHTS (talk) 05:34, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

The lead has been altered now to read "biographical drama", which hardly improves anything. There is no apparent 'official' or academically resolved differences between cinematic 'biography', 'biographical drama' or 'biographical picture/biopic'. Wikipedia's entry for that/those is headed by a sketchiness-advisory, to coin a phrase.

The movie reveals nothing either physically or psychologically congruent with the real Fischer, and I'm troubled by the lack of reviews by movie critics who have any idea who they are talking about. By personality, he was eccentric; psychologically he was as sound as a dollar. Even physically the movie misrepresents Spassky (Schieber) as a tall, strapping, confident domineering type, and Bobby somewhat shortish, slight and retiring. Chess-wise Fischer was quite the aggressor. Spassky was famously a defensive player.

95% of the historical photos of the two together typically show them at the table. Standing side-by-side pictures are rare, but Fischer was a good 2 or 3 inches taller than Spassky.

There needs to be some designated film category in the 'documentary—>biography—>?' continuum. How about 'biographical fiction' (or 'biofic'), for a blandly, but deservedly, oxymoronic descriptor? JohndanR (talk) 22:17, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Spassky wasn't famously a defensive player - that was Petrosian, the previous champion. Spassky was a universal player who, if anything, leaned towards attacking (he was known for playing the King's Gambit, for instance). 81.150.184.5 (talk) 21:17, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Box office numbers

In many countries, the film just started in 2016 - in major countries like Brazil and Germany not even one month ago, on 28th April 2016. This certainly has increased the worldwide total significantly, but the numbers in Box Office Mojo haven't moved. Will there probably an update? --KnightMove (talk) 18:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Greatest Game

"his sixth game against Spassky is still considered the greatest chess game ever played"

This game is not considered the greatest chess game ever played in either the American or International chess communities. Bizarre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.169.30 (talk) 04:45, 13 February 2020 (UTC)