Disgusting Movie Stat of the Day
// January 9th, 2010 // Random Movie Musings
In the last decade, only 2 of the top 20 grossing movies were based on original ideas. That makes me sick.
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Wait, why?
Hollywood is in great need of original ideas. Pick me! Pick me!
I’m just ignorant on this. How do we define ‘original’? You mean like it wasn’t based on a book or older movie or something?
What are the 2 originals?
What? How do you define original? Original means original. And they were both animated. And yes, Hollywood is clearly in need of some serious originality. I will give you a guess jake. They both came out between 2003-2009. And were both pixar.
I guess to revise this to include Avatar, since it’s considered an original screenplay, it would be 3 out of the top 29 were based on original ideas. That’s pretty dang sad.
I would guess Up. I dont know what the other would be. You could also say the original ideas dont make much money because people dont hear about them. Most of the time good movies arent huge blockbuster films.
That is pretty sad. Nobody comes up with original ideas anymore. It’s just a bunch of remakes.
You’ll have to forgive me because I’m still confused. Not trying to attack. Confused. Seriously. Because Avatar, for instance, is the least original plot I’ve seen in a film in quite some time. So let’s take Inglorious Bastards, for instance. What makes it not original? I’m not arguing, just honestly trying to understand the ‘film’ definition of this.
Even though the basic plot of Avatar is eerily similar to Pocahontas, everything else is original (to my knowledge). Like how they controlled the avatars, the forest (things lighting up when you touch them), the animals, etc. So I would consider it an original movie….mostly.
Inglorious Basterds (2009) is a very, very loose remake of the 1978 Italian film Inglorious Bastards. From what I’ve read of the original film’s plot, Tarantino’s film is essential an original script.
Word Chris. Plus Inglourious Basterds wasn’t one of the top 20 or even 29 grossing movies of the decade. You are missing that part Nic. It’s an original script but it is loosely based on something else. Avatar is an original screenplay because he wrote the story without directly taking inspiration from anything else. Although it’s plot is ridiculously unoriginal, he still didn’t directly take it from a book like lord of the rings, or from an old cartoon or movie like transformers or g.i. joe.
Pirates of the Carribbean is directly based on a disneyland ride, Indiana Jones is a sequel, Lord of the rings is an adaptation of a novel, many others are remakes of older movies….starting to get it. Original means it was written and not directly taken or adapted from anything else, even if the plot isn’t completely original, the story is. Not directly taken from something else is the key here.
I think if a director can take an old crappy movie and make it great is almost the same as being original. He would be doing better than the first version so there had to be some originality involved.
Pirates is based on the disneyland ride? Seriously?! That’s hilarious! Does disneyland have one good pirates ride and then two crappy ones?
So what it boils down to then is an original *screenplay*?
You have thoroughly complicated this, Mr. Nic.
[Hangs head in shame.] And I still don’t understand. I feel like a moron now.