Needs Help: Creator.Mara Wilson

Does anyone else think we could just make do with the left half of the picture? The second one wouldn't make sense to people who saw Mara's '90s movies, but not TGWTG.

Neither would the page quote. The other half and the quote complement each other.

I personally think her normal picture seems to fit the quote, even if they don't come from the same scene.

If it doesn't, we could pick a different quote.

edited 13th Oct '12 10:54:53 AM by dsneybuf

The thing is that the 90's ended in 1999 (December 31st to be more accurate) so the Mara Wilson films of the 90's aren't really going to be a huge growth sector. They're dead and they don't need much commenting on whereas the demon that stalks TGWTG reviewers is currently active and producing material. And she has a blog. If we're going to describe who Mara Wilson is, describe who Mara Wilson is. She is not the little girl from Mrs Doubtfire, she's someone who used to be the little girl from Mrs Doubtfire, is a New York based writer and will eat your soul.

So the only issue with the image raised in the OP is that it's only relevant to people who give a shit about Mara Wilson. I'm fine with that. I'm generally for tailoring pages to people who read them.

Otherwise all I can say is maybe change the left side to a picture from her past film role or go wider to add it to the left side because then it covers past, present and future.

How about replacing the whole thing with a picture of her vengeful glare from that same video?

EDIT: Never mind, it would remove any reference to her cutesy phase.

edited 13th Oct '12 1:08:44 PM by dsneybuf

I made the image, so how should I modify it then? Should I add a picture of her as a kid? Change either of the two? Picture width is limited on this site, though, so any addition would have to make the picture taller instead.

As for having the "vengeful glare" picture instead, her images from the Nostalgia Critic episode are kinda grainy due to them being shot on her webcam. I only used a shot from that episode because the Nostalgia Chick one didn't have any "demon" shots where she faced the camera, and you can't make out the grainyness thanks to the red tint.

edited 13th Oct '12 1:23:38 PM by Tuckerscreator

Based on #4, I want to go with the suggestion in OP.

Hrrm no. I think the point is that half the picture (And the quote, and a mini paragraph) exist solely for people who give a shit about The Nostalgia Critic, not Mara Wilson. And mean nothing to the rest of us who know Mara Wilson from anything else she did except the cameo at the end of one specific review made by someone else.

My vote's to keep the left half as the page pic and possibly pothole the right half somewhere on the page where it would be relevant.

edited 13th Oct '12 9:47:23 PM by Willbyr

Use the left half only.

I just realized, if every actor's page showed what he/she was before plus what he/she is now, we'd have to show some of those people as corpses or ashes. Didn't Mara tell The Nostalgia Chick that she got her powers after coming back from the dead?

edited 14th Oct '12 8:18:34 AM by dsneybuf

If the actor is dead, I highly doubt we would EVER let ourselves do that. This wasn't intended to set a precedent. It was just a joke.

The page mentions at twice that she's treated as a Memetic Badass. Those similarly may sound out of context without the image, but if a reader sees those lines then the picture, then they can assume "Oh, she must have done something in a video that made her look like a big demon." Plus those two vids are only 20 minutes. It's not hard to view them to see what all the fuss is about, since they're also linked right there and one can just skip to when she appears.

edited 14th Oct '12 10:01:23 AM by Tuckerscreator

I sometimes have difficulty fast-forwarding blip videos, plus we don't know if her status as a Memetic Badass will last long enough to necessitate so strong an emphasis here.

If this didn't seem clear before, I meant to direct my post about corpses and ashes to the person who wrote post #4.

edited 14th Oct '12 12:28:27 PM by dsneybuf

They are also two videos out of everything she's ever been in. The page shouldn't require readers to look up two videos where she had a cameo (As opposed to all the movies where she's starring, or the stuff she wrote) to get the page. The Memetic Badass entry can be re-written to not rely on the image or on having seen the videos.

The consensus seems to be to chop it down to the left half, unless I'm misreading something. Any naysayers need to speak quickly.

edited 14th Oct '12 12:08:47 PM by Willbyr

Nay — the right half amuses me even though I've got no idea what she is.

Was 1 minute 37 seconds fast enough? :P I know consensus is against that, though, so oh well.

edited 14th Oct '12 12:10:27 PM by Telcontar

After we crop the picture, do we still need the "paragraph" about the videos? I think we could link to The Nostalgia Critic's A Simple Wish review in the page quote.

I wouldn't mind tossing in the right-half via hotlink/pothole somewhere in the article. Maybe as part of the page quote?

Maybe I could change it to the left image, but have the right image or the review linked in the image caption? That caption would include some reference as to her demonic powers.

We might also need to remove the Memetic Badass link from the page quote. If you type in the uncensored version of the phrase, "Don't f*ck," into Google or Bing, "Don't f*ck with Mara Wilson" doesn't show up as a suggestion. Even if you don't use quotes, it doesn't show up. I take this as a sign that the phrase hasn't achieved meme status yet.

edited 14th Oct '12 6:41:16 PM by dsneybuf

I'm fine with the right half being potholed somewhere on the page.

Mara Wilson's page is about the actor, not her persona on The Nostalgia Critic. She is mostly famous for her childhood roles so we could have a picture of her when she's young like on the Shirley Temple page or we could have one of her then and now◊.

I suggest we pothole the demon picture in the page quote, then include a link to the Nostalgia Critic's review of A Simple Wish underneath the quote.

Works for me.

Alright, then with that consensus I'll change the pic or anyone else can into the agreed image. Expect it later today.

Changed it now. And added a link in the caption to the infamous scene. It's a shortened clip on Youtube, though, so that only 3 minutes need be invested. Is that way good? I see above some suggested the demon pic would be included in the caption. Do you mean similar to what we have on Lampshaded Double Entendre?

edited 15th Oct '12 3:24:00 PM by Tuckerscreator