Great Expectations was Great Expectations ...sort of. It would qualify more if they hadn't pretended it was actually an adaptation.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
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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!
Daisy Jane - Aug 26, 2009 8:30:54 am PDT #3964 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Agreed PC
Laga - Aug 26, 2009 8:38:28 am PDT #3965 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Apocalypse Now was Heart of Darkness
Jessica - Aug 26, 2009 8:38:29 am PDT #3966 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Weekend at Bernie's was based a Shakespeare play.
Ah yes, the famous lost Weekend At Henry IV's.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2009 8:45:49 am PDT #3967 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Luc Besson's Nikita as Pygmalion?
Laga - Aug 26, 2009 8:47:58 am PDT #3968 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
East of Eden is Cain and Abel
megan walker - Aug 26, 2009 8:49:40 am PDT #3969 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Two other interesting text relationships:
Godard's
Contempt
and Homer's
Odyssey
Cukor's A Double Life and Othello
Both about remaking a classic work, but also mirroring that work.
juliana - Aug 26, 2009 8:51:48 am PDT #3970 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
What is My Own Private Idaho a take on?
Henry IV. There was a lot more Shakespeare in it, but the studio made Van Sant take it out. It's an incoherent mess of a movie, but I really like it.
megan walker - Aug 26, 2009 8:56:22 am PDT #3971 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, duh. Keanu.
Strega - Aug 26, 2009 8:58:43 am PDT #3972 of 30000
Barb Wire is Casablanca.