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And you thought Cornishpastey was a nutcase...

robert@fmrobert@fm
edited March 2007 in Chit chat
On the IMDB message boards relating to Pixar (and some Dreamworks) movies, people keep spouting a crackpot conspiracy theory that Dreamworks steals all its ideas from Pixar! Which is odd, I don't recall Pixar ever doing (for instance) a movie about chickens escaping from a farm, or about a giant rabbit terrorising a neighbourhood, or about a girl band bearing some resemblance to the Supremes...

Also, even though more sensible souls have pointed out that the so-called "resemblances" are thin to the point of nonexistence, and even though it's been pointed out that in at least two cases (Shrek and Flushed Away) the Dreamworks movie was in production long before its Pixar "counterpart" was, the nonsense still continues...

Take Shrek vs. Monsters, Inc. for instance; not only was Dreamworks first into production by some five years, but Shrek is a satirical take on fairy tales (especially Sleeping Beauty) whereas Monsters, Inc. is a story about a modern city which happens to be populated by monsters -- it bears far more resemblance to a Star Trek episode than it does to Shrek. :-o

Honestly, some people -- why don't they get lives and worry about things which matter, such as fizzy drinks all being contaminated with hydroxilic acid and carbonic acid...
Post edited by robert@fm on
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Comments

  • gasmangasman
    edited March 2007
    Has anyone put forward the theory that the makers of computer-animated films will tend to avoid storylines that involve realistic human characters (see: Uncanny Valley), which naturally skews them towards themes such as fantasy and animal communities?

    Or is that too sensible for them? :)
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2007
    aowen wrote: »
    Well after that dreadful Tom Hanks vehicle 'Christmas Train of Cheese' or whatever it was called, I'm sure they'll never use human characters again, let alone realistic ones.

    Yep now all that remains is for Ron Jeremy to do a CG porno on a train called "Polar Sexpress", obviously the cast will be ever so slightly older than in the original.
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  • udgoverloadudgoverload
    edited March 2007
    Almost-simultaneous films are often uncannily similar because the investors who fund films only fund ones they think are a sure bet, so they tend to invest in very similar projects.

    If a particular style of film is in fashion, that's where the money will go.

    The actual scripts they're based on however are often written years before they come into fashion. Even though two similar scripts might have been written years or decades apart with no connection to each other, they might go into production simultaneously because the themes or style they use are suddenly in fashion with investors.
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