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This was an amazing read. I look forward to more of this type of thing from you. Though I am curious how you're going to handle the whole Clonus/The Island situation.
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DeimosRising posted:What do you mean? There may be some interesting intertextuality between the two films, but mostly the situation is what it is. A big budget film has a very similar plot to a b movie from 4 decades prior. They're far from identical, even in plot terms, and thematically they're even less similar. It's been a while since I've seen Clonus but I remember there being some almost identical shots, accounting for technology and budget differences of course.
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DeimosRising posted:Is that a problem? Films quote other films all the time. It would be kind of weird and dumb for The Island not to quote Clonus, or Blade Runner, for example. Just like it makes sense that Bay later quoted The Island in Transformers, because they have some very similar things to say about conflating identify with branding. If you're talking about the shots themselves I think it does. It might agree with what he's trying to say, but Clonus didn't really come across with the same message. It was just cheesy sci-fi. Anyways, this was a great thread and this discussion might be better somewhere else.
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