Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think early Disney movies are pretty good. They usually just took an archaic horror story intended for adults, got rid of all the gore and murder, rewrote the rest, and somehow ended up with a children’s movie. Those ripoff versions became so famous and influential that people no longer think of the originals.

  Maybe in two hundred years someone will start ripping off Saw movies to make kindergarten holo-ventures. Oh no! Gus Colyard, the ice cream merchant, got stuck in the freezer. Can you find the key to the door?

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• StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Lion King is basically Hamlet with animals. 

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Orville is clearly a copy cat of Star Trek and is too tier.

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  • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s just tier enough.

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• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jaws is basically “An Enemy of the People” (by Henrik Ibsen) in a modern wrapping

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We talking, like, O Brother, Where Art Thou? being based on Homer’s Odyssey?

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• Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a Daredevil parody/love letter.

  They get their powers from the same accident that gives Matt his.

  Mentor? Splinter / Stick. Enemy? The Foot / The Hand.

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• burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Dog Man books are great and many are based on classic novels like A Tale of Two Kitties, Lord of the Fleas, Brawl of the Wild, Fetch 22, etc. They are among the best kids books I have ever read.

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• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bayyle Beyond the Stars is just Yhe Magnificent Seven in space, which was The Seven Samurai in the west.

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• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ad Astra (2019) is Apocalypse Now (1979) but in space.

  Avatar (2009) is Dances with Wolves (1990) but in space.

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  • tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back when Avatar came out, I heard someone call it “Fern Gully with better graphics.”

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    • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There was a YouTube trend of making Avatar trailers with the audio but then using the graphics for movies like Fern Gully and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Romeo & Juliet was based on Tristan & Isolde

  10 Things I Hate About You was based on The Taming of the Shrew

  Clueless was based on Emma

  “Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.”

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine being strongly influenced by the original pitch for Babylon 5 is a pretty famous, if variously disputed, example.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Apocalypse Now is basically Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    But in Vietnam.

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  All of them.

  There are only a couple dozen or so quality stories.
  Everything is a ripoff or mashup of those.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bored of the Rings

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Warcraft 1-3

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  • tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For more details on this: https://kotaku.com/how-warcraft-was-almost-a-warhammer-game-and-how-that-5929161

    Warcraft was originally supposed to be a Warhammer 40K game, but Blizzard ended up not getting the license, so they created their own universe instead.

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• actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Watchmen

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    While the characters are based on Charlton Comics characters DC had recently acquired (Dr. Manhattan ≈ Captain Atom, Rorschach ≈ The Question, Nite Owl ≈ Blue Beetle, Silk Spectre ≈ Nightshade, and possibly also Quality Comics’ Phantom Lady and DC’s own Black Canary, Ozymandias ≈ Thunderbolt, The Comedian ≈ Peacemaker), Moore’s story is mostly original, inasmuch as stories can be.

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  • StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s an adaptation.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The TV show on HBO wasn’t, ehich may be what they’re referring to here.

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