Movie Habits

[Dirty Hipsters]

A New Hope was the first Star Wars movie, it was original.

It ripped off a lot of 50's and 60's movies/TV shows so you can technically call it plagiarism.

Well if you really want to play it like that, then there are only 7 stories in the world and everything rips them off, so everything is plagiarism.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

How is The Lion King not marked as plagarism? For either Kimba or Hamlet? There's a lot wrong with that table.

My thoughts exactly!



OT: I see new movies, it's just many are from up-n-coming directors!

 

[someonehairy-ish]

It isn't really about what moviegoers like, its more about what the people who pitch the film can do to reassure investors that it will sell tickets. Having an existing thing to tie a film gives you lots of big numbers that you can use to say, 'x people all like Harry Potter, therefore we will probably sell at least x number of tickets'.

 

[Vrach]

If you think Inception is original work, you need to watch Paprika

OT: As far as I'm concerned, good=good. I honestly don't give a shit whether it's original or not (particularly when I'm not aware of the source it was "ripped off" from), as long as it's done well, I'll enjoy it.

 

[Hosker]

I've noticed this as well. There are hardly any original stories in movies , while there are an almost endless amount in literature. Perhaps studios are less inclined to fund an original story?

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I tend to wait for the DVD of films I want to see. That way I can indulge my impulse to make stupid wisecracks about said film without people getting pissed off at me.

 

[Sablestick]

When I saw the title, I thought this thread was about quirky things we did in movies

That way I can indulge my impulse to make stupid wisecracks about said film without people getting pissed off at me.

I do this in the theaters

 

[HardkorSB]

A New Hope was the first Star Wars movie, it was original.

It ripped off a lot of 50's and 60's movies/TV shows so you can technically call it plagiarism.

Well if you really want to play it like that, then there are only 7 stories in the world and everything rips them off, so everything is plagiarism.

I know, I'm just exaggerating.

 

[Kintobor92]

Look up Kimba the White Lion, you'll see.

Mostly you just missed Sequel/Literature tags on some you already have tags for. Alice in Wonderland is marked as a series, not literature. That kind of thing. One of the Harry's is missing a tag, and A New Hope has none. Just little things.

I'm sure every movie took the idea from elsewhere, but that's what ideas are - ones gotten from elsewhere and changed slightly. Completley original ideas really don't exist anymore.

I just had a thought... At what point were there original ideas? I feel like for the most part, original ideas have never really existed. Everything is just a retooling of something done before. Things seem so different now because of gradual changing, sloooooow evolution.

Also, a paragraph in the book Cloud Atlas comes up in my head. It's basically a statement that art is all about the how, not that what. Sure, it's been done before, but is it being done well? And sometimes, being done well can mean being changed a little bit. It's just too much to ask for completely original ideas from a human brain.

 

[Casual Shinji]

As long as it works as a movie, I don't really care if it's a sequel, prequel, reboot, remake, homage, or adaptation.

 

[Havegun]

Interesting: Find Nemo, Up, Ratatouille, The Incredibles = Pretty creative minds at Pixar.