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the ultimate IP is william randolf hearst himself
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They didn't get the rights to that one. They just made a second rate knockoff.
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They've gone from having a strong preference for established works, to a slavish devotion to them.Dantes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:14 pm
They've always made movies that were based on other IP, they just didn't call it IP. Of the ones I listed, It Happened One Night, The Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Thin Man were all based on short stories, novels, or plays that were already popular at the time.
Hollywood has just taken it to extremes in the last two decades.
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one thing about the passage of time is that people remember citizen kane and do not remember, e.g. 51 movies from the same franchise coming out in 7 years around the same time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Mesquiteers
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what are some of the other things about the passage of time?
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You are right I do not remember those. Wait a minute, how old are you, exactly? Stand in front of this mirror for a second.Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:20 pm one thing about the passage of time is that people remember citizen kane and do not remember, e.g. 51 movies from the same franchise coming out in 7 years around the same time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Mesquiteers
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Pretty much.ToadBrews wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:13 pmThey've gone from having a strong preference for established works, to a slavish devotion to them.Dantes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:14 pm
They've always made movies that were based on other IP, they just didn't call it IP. Of the ones I listed, It Happened One Night, The Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Thin Man were all based on short stories, novels, or plays that were already popular at the time.
Hollywood has just taken it to extremes in the last two decades.
I'm honestly amazed that Christopher Nolan can keep getting original stuff done.
Pour like Hemingway's last call.
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Pour like Hemingway's last call.
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At this point I would almost say that Nolan, Tarantino, Del Toro etc are themselves established worksDantes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 7:38 pmPretty much.ToadBrews wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:13 pmThey've gone from having a strong preference for established works, to a slavish devotion to them.Dantes wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:14 pm
They've always made movies that were based on other IP, they just didn't call it IP. Of the ones I listed, It Happened One Night, The Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Thin Man were all based on short stories, novels, or plays that were already popular at the time.
Hollywood has just taken it to extremes in the last two decades.
I'm honestly amazed that Christopher Nolan can keep getting original stuff done.
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This made me laugh:Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:20 pm one thing about the passage of time is that people remember citizen kane and do not remember, e.g. 51 movies from the same franchise coming out in 7 years around the same time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Mesquiteers
Toward the end of the series, during World War II, the trio of cowboys were opposing Nazis.
Pour like Hemingway's last call.
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The world economy is suddenly running low on everything
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You want it? We don't got it.
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