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Star Wars is nothing like Dune. Well bits of it are (i.e. there's a sandy planet with caves) in so much as the whole story line is stolen from other stories and rather crudely pieced together a bit like our beloved Harry Potter...
Most of the other stories to films I can think of have been mentioned, but Lion King is Hamlet loosely...
Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Phillip K. Dick and Arthur Conrad Doyle, Jane Austen and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are often the 'basis' of many stories lines other people use in their books and/or films...Posted 12 months ago # -
Soylent Green is based on How to Cheat at Cooking by Delia Smith.
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Genuine lol at that.. brilliant
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isnt the lion king based on Hamlet or something?
twighlight on romeo & juliet?
edit, didnt read that above.
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Leona Lewis's Halleluyah is'nt the original.......neither is Jeff Buckley's.
Can't believe no one has pulled Rorschach up on this yet, but it wasn't an original by Buckley either ...
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Star Wars is nothing like Dune. Well bits of it are (i.e. there's a sandy planet with caves) in so much as the whole story line is stolen from other stories and rather crudely pieced together a bit like our beloved Harry Potter..
Or almost wholly lifted from a Kurasawa film
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toby....re-read it slowly...out loud.
Emphasize 'neither is Jeff Buckley's'.Posted 12 months ago # -
And anyway this thread is not about obvious film versions of books
ORLY?
what films are based on older books?
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Well imo it's not worth stating the obvious, but go ahead if you want
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STW and not stating the obvious?
The obvious would be 'nearly every film ever made ever started out as a book, or possibly even a play'.
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heart if darknes si smor einsoired by than base don IMHO.
How you getting on with that crackpipe?
going well ... I wish we had google chrome at work to speel [ I know } check for me
Dune and star wars are not alike at all.Posted 12 months ago # -
The obvious would be 'nearly every film ever made ever started out as a book, or possibly even a play'.
Or a computer game.
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Apocalypse Now is faithful to Heats of Darkness in the same way as my life mirrors that of Alexander the Great. He conquered countries. I once played conkers. That type of thing
Ie: Its a fairly spurious link
Binski have you actually read HOD? I think they are very similar in terms of the narrative, structure, pace and tension of the story, the descriptive locations are easily transposed from HOD to AN. I think the choppers and machine guns are the only real difference.
True Grit 69/2010 vs book are excellent examples. Despite the Coens trying to stay faithful to the book and saying they didn't watch the 69 film there are some scenes that are so similar it's uncanny. The explanation is that in those scenes that are similar the source material drove the film in the same direction. The worry is that because the Coens said that they didn't watch the 69 film they didn't account for the actors watching the 69 film and accidentally reproducing the performance they had seen. For example Barry Pepper's Ned Pepper is remarkably similar to Robert Duvall's Ned Pepper, especially the voice when he shouts "too thin rooster, too thin."
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Or a computer game.
That still has to be a small number.
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The Full Monty was based on The Bicycle Thieves
Broke Back Mountain was based on Lord of the Rings
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1 A stranger comes into town
2 Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again
3 A guy leaves town, does stuff and comes back again
4 Something goes a bit wrong, somebody tries to make it better but it just keeps getting worse
5 A man overcomes a great adversity and comes of age
6 A **** big shark eats a lot of people
7 Car Chase Uzi 9mm I'll be back.Posted 12 months ago # -
1 Vampires and shit.
2 Werewolves and shit
3 Vampires and werewolves and shit
4 Wizards and shit
5 Bird shit
6 Porn
7 Woody Allen
(sorry for the sweary)Posted 12 months ago # -
'Pleb' is a bit of a misnomer since although they were below the patricians, they were free landowning Romans and were part of the plebiscite. They were in the middle and were above the slaves.
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re. Schindler's Lifts:
We had a very excellent chap come to present to us from Schindler, and he was very keen to explicitly point out that the company was called Schindler Upward Mobility.
It was great to see 20% of the audience get the humour, and slowly explain it to the rest. The wave of slapping foreheads and smiles worked around the room.
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with apologies to Rich Hall
Cocktail was based on Top Gun and so was the Tom Cruise Scrabble movie
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Star Wars is nothing like Dune
Dune and star wars are not alike at all
Must just be me who sees the similarities?
Maybe cos I've got supernatural powers and can kill with a word/a thought?Posted 12 months ago # -
You're still going to to need a tray
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You're still going to to need a tray
Lifted lock stock from Dune Messiah that!
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It was great to see 20% of the audience get the humour, and slowly explain it to the rest
I love stuff like this. It's a fantastic way of finding out who's actually listening to you.
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You're still going to to need a tray
Lifted lock stock from Dune Messiah that!eh?
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You're still going to to need a tray
Was joking.
Lifted lock stock from Dune Messiah that!eh?
Or at least I thought I was.
I clearly wasn't.Or it went over your head.
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...or beneath me.
I don't know any Dune, so I may have missed the reference
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There wasn't one really.
I got your joke, you didn't get mine.
Shall we shake hands and forget about this sorry episode?P.S.
Yours was funny.Posted 12 months ago # -
I got your joke, you didn't get mine.
Only if I can be the winner.
Shall we shake hands and forget about this sorry episode?
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Here on STW we're all winners!
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Here on STW we're all winners!
Is this another of your jokes?Posted 12 months ago # -
It's spelt "wiener".
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Pamela Anderson's Barbed Wire = Casablanca
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