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| First I tear the lid off the secret REAL origin of Scooby Doo- http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-secret-untold-origin-of-scooby-doo.html And now it looks like I'm about to get real again! Almost 40 years before "M" came out with his film "The Village" about a hidden town of present day Amish-Like occupants of a small Pennsylvania village who are made to think it's really 1897, and kept secluded by the woods from venturing into the modern (evil) world, it seems Action Comics #324 had the same plot. BOOM! If anyone at Warner Bros wanted to claim any credit for The Village, it's lawyer time. But I'm guessing they'd rather not (oh snap)! PS 'Tis the Season… http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-top-10-most-shocking-gifts-for.html |
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There's also an old young adult with the same plot.
ReplyDelete'Running Out of Time', you mean?
DeleteThat's because it's not the sort of idea that only happens once in a world with this many people.
ReplyDeleteIt's a clever concept, but not one that only one person is going to come up with. Thousands probably had similar thoughts, and a few wrote about it. I played in a homebrew RPG campaign once where the plot was also similar.
I dont know... The concept of a village lost in time isnt really new. I think "M" like many writers draws his inspiration from a number of different sources.. brigadoon comes to mind. Good try though, but I think any number of things could be pointed at as The Village before the The Village.
ReplyDeleteI'm just having fun noticing the similarities, not really thinking I tore the lid off anything! :-)
ReplyDeleteThese things pop up while I go through my old comics looking to add humorous panels to this blog-
http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2012/08/sex-in-comic-top-100-strangest.html
Nothing is original anymore. Everything is influenced by something that had been influenced by something that had had been influenced by something and you can go o and on. The point is, sometimes, it's so easy to assume someone ripped something off. Everyone has the rights to build on someone else's idea and make it an original, a new specie - may look the same but completely different. Unless you'll get him to court and be able to get him say "guilty", you have no rights in seeding people's mind of malicious assupmtions and pretend that you're just doing it for fun.You're also doing it to draw attention to yourself. And may I remind you, what you're doing now is a ripped off too! So pleeez
DeleteFaster than a speeding buggy...
ReplyDeleteMore powerful than a team of oxen...
Able to leap tall haystacks in a single bound...
I don't think Mormon means what you think it means. :-) I live in Salt Lake City and it seems pretty modern around here to me.
ReplyDeleteHe did it because of the kids! They called him Mr. Shyamalan...
ReplyDeleteThere is a chance that comic is in the public domain or the rights were bought. If copyright law was better like in recent history then it definitely would already be in the public domain. Regardless I think it is the duty for artists to properly trace the influences of their works.
ReplyDeleteSince Time-Warner owns DC, I hardly see a lawsuit in the offing.
ReplyDeleteHa! I was thinking that in the back of my head when I typed the last sentence.
ReplyDeleteThis was one of those "My God, he must have alot of free time" posts, so I'm glad many folks ended up enjoying it!
PLUS! If you like that-
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http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2012/08/sex-in-comic-top-100-strangest.html
http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2012/09/sex-in-comic-part-2-top-100-strangest.html
and
http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-weirdest-page-ever-published-in.html
and
http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2013/04/superhero-love-oddest-expressions-of.html
and… well, with almost 3000 blog posts, there are plently more!
You could argue that it's influenced by 'The Lost World' by Conan Doyle, in which a population of dinosaurs lives on top of a mesa in a jungle, cut off from the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there was a similar story before that as well.
The Village isn't really "out of time". The twist is that it was purposefully built that way. We spend the whole movie thinking we're in the mid or perhaps late 19th Century only to discover the modern world ourselves, so we think: oh, they've been so thoroughly cut off... But then a twist on that: they cut themselves off. Their children have been raised ignorant of the world outside their walls.
ReplyDeleteSuperman is enjoying the female attention
ReplyDeleteNothing is original anymore. Everything is influenced by something that had been influenced by something that had had been influenced by something and you can go o and on. The point is, sometimes, it's so easy to assume someone ripped something off. Everyone has the rights to build on someone else's idea and make it an original, a new specie - may look the same but completely different. Unless you'll get him to court and be able to get him him say "guilty", you have no rights in seeding people's mind of malicious assupmtions and pretend that you're just doing it for fun.You're also doing it to draw attention to yourself. And may I remind you, what you're doing now is a ripped off too! So pleeez
ReplyDeleteThere's a difference between an unconscious influence and a conscious swipe. Usually the difference is in the details - an unconscious influence will deliver a story that has similar themes, or comparable conflict/character dynamics in broad strokes. But when the details begin to line up - community still living like it was the past, simply on the other side of a natural landscape-made divide, in the modern world, specifically kept this way to keep the younger generations from gaining modern values...now you're no longer in the "nothing is original" territory (which is just hyperbole anyway, ultimately). Now you're approaching Shia LeBeouf territory.
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