Kaylee: H-how did you... g-get on...? Early: Strains the mind a bit, don't it? You think you're all alone. Maybe I come down the chimney, Kaylee. Bring presents to the good girls and boys.

'Objects In Space'


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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.


juliana - Aug 26, 2009 8:59:51 am PDT #3973 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Well, duh. Keanu.

Yes. But also River, and I can see where Van Sant was going with it, even if he didn't quite succeed. Shakespeare's version of Hal is always fascinating to me, and I like seeing what other people come up with.


Kathy A - Aug 26, 2009 9:00:45 am PDT #3974 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The Zero Effect is updating Sherlock Holmes.