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The Little Hours

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Baena (left) and Plaza

Illustration from The Decameron

• ... that Jeff Baena was encouraged to pitch his nun comedy movie The Little Hours after talking about medieval literature (depicted) while high and watching DOGTV?
  • ALT1: ... that members of the six-person crew for The Little Hours had to light some scenes with candles, which the cinematographer wicked herself?
  • ALT2: ... that preemptive religious criticism about nun movie The Little Hours ended up being used in an R-rated trailer to promote the movie?
  • ALT3: ... that Aubrey Plaza and the weed nuns got high to promote her producing debut movie, The Little Hours?
  • ALT4: ... that writer-director Jeff Baena was high when he came up with The Little Hours, and producer-actor Aubrey Plaza was high when she promoted it (both pictured)?
  • ALT5: ... that The Little Hours was based on at least three stories from The Decameron, primarily the third day (depicted)?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/They Live on The Land and Template:Did you know nominations/Elene Lete
  • Comment: Sources in article, other hook suggestions welcome!

Improved to Good Article status by Kingsif (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 144 past nominations.

Kingsif (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2025 (UTC).

• Drive-by comment: there is absolutely no way that the image shown to illustrate The Decameron in the hook and the article is attributable to Boccacio (who did not illustrate anything); it looks like a very modern, and therefore quite possibly copyrighted, illustration. This would be a good substitute in the article; do we really need it in the hook as well? Dahn (talk) 21:39, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Dahn: The image you link - along with every single Commons image for the Decameron I saw when looking for one to add to the article - also has Boccaccio listed as the creator. Maybe he did illustrate, I doubt the Boccaccio museum is getting its attribution that wrong. Kingsif (talk) 04:50, 30 November 2025 (UTC) (More to the point, the illustration in this nom and the article is from the publication by Francisque Reynard, who was born in 1835, so unless he was particularly long-lived, it's still PD-old.) Kingsif (talk) 04:58, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

As for an image in the hook: DYK image hooks are often buildings and portraits. When I build preps, I try to add variety; when I nom hooks, if it's possible, I try to suggest other kinds of images, too, for other prepbuilders to have more options and our readers to see different things. It's providing an option. Kingsif (talk) 04:54, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Kingsif: Where does one find the attribution of the image on the museum page? The Commons page only gives a rawlink. Dahn (talk) 04:59, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Dahn: My mistake if the file data isn't scraped directly from the museum website, but the point was simply that for both images, the file seems to have the same error (saying Boccaccio is the image author) but the license is still correct. Kingsif (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

The image is now credited to "Gershkovich", who appears to be Yuri Gershkovich. A Soviet artist who died in 2013. The image is very much copyrighted, and it should be removed from commons ASAP, along with any other image that was uploaded in this fashion. It obviously does njot matter when Francisque Reynard died, since these are copyrighted illustrations to her reedited public-domain work -- her PD status does not transfer to the illustrator. Dahn (talk) 05:04, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

It's credited to "Gerskovich", actually. Come back with proof that it wasn't Reynard instead of guessing and asserting? Kingsif (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

This is moving beyond ridiculous! First of all, Reynard never illustrated anything (just like Boccaccio didn't), so the claim that she did would require proof from whomever is sticking by it. Second of all, you never actually provided a link to where the museum credits the illustrator. Third (and final), I looked it up for you: Dekameron. I / Traduzione di N. Ljubimov ; illustrazioni di Ju. Gerskovich -- clearly crediting Yuri Gershkovich as the illustrator and the publication date as 1987. (Incidentally, this is also not the Reynard translation into French, but a Russian translation). Are we done here? Dahn (talk) 05:19, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

• I need to make this very clear to anyone taking an interest in this issue: the illustration presented with this hook has several faux licenses, including a statement that: "The author died in 1375, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer." This is based on the absurd claim that the illustration is Boccacio's work, a claim that the same caption now contradicts, since Yuri Gershkovich (who died in 2013) is also credited as an author -- he is in fact the only actual author that the image has, whereas Boccacio is the author of the text which the image illustrated. All such uploads from that series should therefore be scrubbed from Commons. Dahn (talk) 15:16, 1 December 2025 (UTC)