Just because it's your fave don't mean it ain't literature
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So, Sons of Anarchy is Hamlet, more or less, and so is The Lion King.
Any others like this come to mind? Extra helpful if the ‘original’ classic is a play.
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@Gashlycrumb Clueless is Emma! And there’s a fair number of modern twists on Shakespeare, like 10 Things I Hate About You and She’s the Man.
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Thanks! I heard about 10 Things… being The Taming of the Shrew, but didn’t know about She’s the Man or Clueless.
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A few more:
- Oh Brother Where Art Thou is The Odyssey
- Cruel Intentions is Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
- Roxanne is Cyrano de Bergerac
- O is Othello
- West Side Story is Romeo & Juliet
- Bridget Jones’s Diary is Pride & Prejudice
- RENT is La Boheme
- Apocalypse Now is Heart of Darkness
- Kurosawa’s Ran is King Lear
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@Roz Ooh, excellent.
Also ha. I once created trouble by joking around about how The Stand is Watership Down is The Oydessy. (The trouble being that someone repeated it and her thesis advisor said cool.)
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This is a kickass thread.
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Warm Bodies is Romeo and Juliet.
Throne of Blood is MacBeth.
Just One of the Guys is Twelfth Night.
The Big Lebowski is The Big Sleep.
Psych is Sherlock Holmes.
The Nanny is Jane Eyre, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. -
Star Wars is The Hidden Fortress from Akira Kurosawa.
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@Hobbie said in Just because it's your fave don't mean it ain't literature:
Star Wars is The Hidden Fortress from Akira Kurosawa.
Ohh, if we’re doing that…
A Fistful of Dollars is just Yojimbo dressed up as a Western. But Yojimbo is lifted off of Dashiell Hammett, with Kurosawa himself saying he based it on The Glass Key. Which, amusingly, inspired the Coen brothers when they were making Miller’s Crossing. So there’s that fun Gordian knot.
Also, you’ll see some folks claiming that The Northman was based on Hamlet. This isn’t true. The Northman and Hamlet were both based on the legend of Amleth from Gesta Danorum. So Shakespeare and Robert Eggers were writing two very different stories from the same legend, kind of like Geoffrey of Monmouth and Thomas Malory both writing King Arthur stories a few hundred years apart.
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@Aria said in Just because it's your fave don't mean it ain't literature:
Wars is The Hidden Fortress from Akira Kurosawa.Ohh, if we’re doing that…
Totally do that, it’s fun and and I’m exited to know it.
I’m looking for ones where it’s an English-class ‘classic’ play but it’s a lot more fun when not narrowed.
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@Aria And Vantage Point is Rashomon, but that’s not how I remember it.
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During my teaching days, I read a student’s essay that stuck with me. It asserted that The Godfather trilogy is essentially a retelling of the Oresteia in Mob outfits. I’m not sure I agree but it’s definitely a reading I can enjoy.
