Template:Did you know nominations/1984 New York City Subway shooting
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The result was: rejected by Schwede66 (talk) 05:17, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
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1984 New York City Subway shooting
- ... that the 1984 New York City Subway shooting partially inspired the 2019 film Joker? Source: Then there was the real-life inspiration: Bernhard Goetz, New York’s notorious “Subway Vigilante” of the early ’80s. “I was living in New York at the time so I remember it quite well,” he said. “He was a very bland person, who had just had it, so there was a bit of that too: Art imitates life a little bit. If this already happened, it’s not a far stretch for someone who has been abused and misused enough to fight back, finally. It starts a conversation, maybe: ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore,'” [1]
Improved to Good Article status by Jerome Frank Disciple (talk). Nominated by Freedom4U (talk) at 06:53, 1 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1984 New York City Subway shooting; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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all appears in order for DYK; cheers to all jengod (talk) 03:53, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Is unfortunately ineligible as it previously appeared on the Main Page as a bold link (OTD on 22 December 2022). Schwede66 05:04, 5 May 2023 (UTC)