That's right! Mike Judge, of "Beavis and Butthead" fame, and more recently, "King of the Hill" fame, is directing a live action movie about a modern man.... who ends up, are you ready for this? In the year.... 3001! What an original idea! Where, oh where did he come up with a million-dollar idea like that? I just CAN'T imagine!
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if it is half as good as office space I will watch it multiple times.
Stephen
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Stephen wrote : "if it is half as good as office space I will watch it multiple times."
Completely off topic, and very short notice, but Office Space is on BBC 2 in the UK at 1:20 am.
That is all.
Al
<< Completely off topic, and very short notice, but Office Space is on BBC 2 in the UK at 1:20 am. >>
Hey, your movies suck. Especially "The Birds II". What the hell was that?
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 03:35:29 GMT, "Robert J. Muldoon" spewed forth:
Well, it was filmed in Southport NC. Thus I found it AND 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' very entertaining since I spent the entire time saying "been there, been there, been there too". But then, I'm a nerd.
No doubt if they ever make a Futurama movie the press will just dismiss it as a clone of this movie.
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They're both clones of Sleeper.
in article [email], Matthew Miller at [email] wrote on 8/15/02 11:58 AM:
Uh, ever hear of Rip Van Winkle?
That's not the original either. How about the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus? Or for that matter, Epimenides? There's probably even earlier examples of people falling asleep for a long time and awaking in a new time. But, unlike Rip Van Winkle, Woody Allan is cryogenically frozen in Sleeper. Thus proving my, um, point. Yeah.
in article [email], Matthew Miller at [email] wrote on 8/15/02 12:58 PM:
I think Norse mythology contains some simular tales as well. My point was it's baseless to say anybody stole from another movie/book/myth.
There are only 7 true story lines, after all.
BTW: I'm a big fan of Sleeper as a large part of it was filmed at my college. Cal Arts
So what are they?
DGH
in article B9818947.E9C0F%[email], doug holverson at [email] wrote on 8/15/02 2:37 PM:
1. [wo]man vs. nature 2. [wo]man vs. man 3. [wo]man vs. the environment 4. [wo]man vs. machines/technology 5. [wo]man vs. the supernatural 6. [wo]man vs. self 7. [wo]man vs. god/religion
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Ephesus? Or
unlike
proving
was
No woman vs. woman?
-Jay
<< No woman vs. woman? >>
Every time we've done this in a class, even in college, people kept saying, "What about [this] vs. [that]?" Repeat ad nauseum into eternity.....
These aren't the seven plots from the "there are only seven stories" cliche. These are types of conflict, which may be part of a story/plot -- most likely, you'll see several. (You certainly do in a typical Futurama episode.)
I'm not sure if there actually *is* a canonical list of the alleged seven stories, other than the first one, which is certainly "boy meets girl".
"Mistaken identity / secret twins" is probably another one, and certainly "the hero's quest" is another (maybe the "odyssey home" and "save the world from total annihilation by evil" are both subsets of that one, or maybe they get their own entries). And hey, maybe "someone wakes up years in the future" is one too -- or more likely, "hero is transplanted to another time or place".
But of course it's not actually true. You can always sort things into categories, but that doesn't mean the sorted things *are* those categories, and you're always going to find things that don't fit neatly.
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/2535/polti.html
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:30:49 GMT, petben wrote:
Or to go the other way, A Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court.
It is a general theme of people being out of place in a different time / place / social status.
Trading Places and The Prince and the Pauper are also distantly related story line. Or even The County Mouse and the City Mouse.
To stretch it even further, Tarzan In New York or the horrible Hercules in New York.
They are all comedies or dramas of the "Stranger in a Strange Land" vein which explores social norms by placing a member of a group in a setting totally foreign to them.
--Larry
No doubt if they ever make a Futurama movie the press will just dismiss it as a clone of this movie.
In alt.tv.futurama, on the "COMING SOON! The NOT Futurama movie!" thread, Robert J. Muldoon wrote:
Perhaps he got it from Bellamy's "Looking Backward." Or maybe from "Rip Van Winkle."
Let's face it: Someone falling asleep (or being cryogenically frozen, or whatever) and waking up in the far future is a common general premise. Originality comes into play when the writers get down to telling the details of the story.
<< Let's face it: Someone falling asleep (or being cryogenically frozen, or whatever) and waking up in the far future is a common general premise. Originality comes into play when the writers get down to telling the details of the story. >>
Okay, but why not 2199? 2307? 3465? It's 3001. And the show comes on right before his, well USED TO. I mean, that's a pretty big coincidence, wouldn't you say?
Well, the next millennia starts in 3001, which would make it a natural year to use. I think people are reading way too much in this coincidence (also fuelled by Fox's diabolical treatment of Futurama). Does Futurama, Matt Groening, David Cohen, Fox, Murdoch, GW Bush, and that bloke down the street who sells the Evening Standard own the rights to the fourth millennia? (Yeah, now thinking about it, someone will probably patent it.)
Just wait to see what happens. If the story involves, in any way, a loser discovering himself transported to the year 3001, finding an "alien" woman who initially pursues him to implant a chip, but feels empathy for him and joins him in evading the authorities, and a robot whose life has lost meaning, but tags onto the said hero as he has nothing better to do, then cry foul.
In the end of the day, this is typical sci-fi territory. Futurama wasn't the first to delve into this kind of story, and nor will it be the last.
Graham
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