Roxanne. And what's the movie with Toshiro Mifune that's based on Hamlet or Lear or something?
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
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Dana - Aug 26, 2009 7:50:11 am PDT #3954 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Kathy A - Aug 26, 2009 8:02:50 am PDT #3955 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ran was a remake of King Lear.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 26, 2009 8:06:49 am PDT #3956 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And Throne of Blood was the Scottish play. Mifune was in Throne, but not in Ran.
Freeway was a modern day version of Little Red Riding Hood.
Scrappy - Aug 26, 2009 8:12:41 am PDT #3957 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ball of Fire was Billy Wilder's retelling of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves.
Polter-Cow - Aug 26, 2009 8:24:20 am PDT #3958 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Speed was Die Hard on a bus.
What, it's a classic story.
Daisy Jane - Aug 26, 2009 8:25:20 am PDT #3959 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Y'all rock!
Though I have a feeling I'm going to be told to chill with the Shakespeare (did I not mention this was for work?). MOPI was Henry IV.
Dana - Aug 26, 2009 8:29:06 am PDT #3960 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Bridget Jones' Diary is more or less Pride and Prejudice.
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2009 8:29:42 am PDT #3961 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Weekend at Bernie's was based a Shakespeare play.
(OK, I made that up.)
Daisy Jane - Aug 26, 2009 8:29:59 am PDT #3962 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Totally forgot about O Brother.
Polter-Cow - Aug 26, 2009 8:30:05 am PDT #3963 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Great Expectations was Great Expectations ...sort of. It would qualify more if they hadn't pretended it was actually an adaptation.