Reverse Order Reminders

[browngirl]

So I was reading a post about the recent Star Trek movie where the author said that it reminded her of Firefly. That comment reminded me of how a Shabbat dinner reminded me of Communion, and how a friend told me that LOTR was like a lot of fantasies he read as a kid. In all these cases, the thing doing the reminding is the original, and the thing brought to mind is actually based on that thing but was encountered first.

I was writing this down some hours ago when a small redhead climbed onto my back, and unfortunately have not yet recalled where I was going with this. So here it is.

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I read some reviews (which I can't now find) of LotR:Fellowship that said something like "excellent movie, but just like all the other fantasy sagas..."

Needless to say, I rolled my eyes and laughed.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

The gamers who complained that Tolkien was copying . . . .

[elynross.livejournal.com]

The guy on Usenet that I saw saying he didn't see what was so great about Tolkien, it seemed pretty derivative to him...

[hand2hand.livejournal.com]

yeah, this is funny -- like movie-only fans who felt the LOTR movies were a ripoff of Star Wars! LOL.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I came up with this great idea for a round rolly thing that you can move stuff with . . .

when I was in the US

[andreas_schaefer]

for the first time last year the money reminded me of Monopoly-money.
( of course I know which came first.)


I have been known to occasionally getting and reading the original book so to understand the many quotes. ( Atlas shrugged [not recommended], Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [ strongly recommended] come to mind.) he fact that we are all prone to reverse order reminders forms the basis of my* view of world-literature less of a tree than as a net and less hierarchical.)

* purely as an individual and with no pretense to higher truth

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Or the famous high-school student who dismissed "Romeo and Juliet" as a total ripoff of "West Side Story."

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

or the dismissal of shakespeare as a bunch of tired old plots, and cliche-filled dialogue

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

To be fair, Shakespeare stole most of his plots from other sources. Many of them actually were kind of tired by the time he got them. And I say that as a theater major who has read every extant Shakespeare play at least once (and most of the poetry.)

But yes, I do remember a grammar checker for papers which kept telling me that my Shakeapeare quotes were cliche. I rolled my eyes a lot.

[sophinisba]

That happened to me reading the book of Revelation after The Last Battle, and also, yeah, the Kiddush and Communion thing.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Filkers are prone to this, too, especially when the original is not filk.