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Intentionally a copy of 'Lila, Lila'?

posted 13 years ago by exwhyzie
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There's a German film starring Daniel Bruhl that was put out a few years ago, and it sounds an awful lot like a comedic version of this. Anyone know if they intentionally based the story on that film?

[–] jmbwithcats 12 years ago

Rip off of Murder of Crows (1998) with Cuba Gooding Jr.

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[–] tango09212 12 years ago

i know for a fact that this script has been around for a long time maybe as long as 12 years or so ,

[–] jmbwithcats 12 years ago

You do realize that if this script has been around as long as 12 years, the script for Murder of Crows wasn't written exactly on the year it came out, right?

So that's kind of a silly way to try to say this script was out when Murder of Crows came out so it wasn't copying.

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[–] tango09212 12 years ago

easy kitty , the writers of this film have written other films , unless they stole that too

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[–] supervergil 12 years ago

the story like this always turn me on, after all..

[–] sophia-s-shin 12 years ago

This film makes me thought about 'Lila, Lila?' as well. Main character copied someone's novel and it ended happily. hmm...

[–] BeatlesBabies 12 years ago

It has a lot of similarities to the book History of Love, and I thought that this movie was based from that book, however, since the script has supposedly been around longer than the book I guess I was wrong.

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[–] hugobolso-1 12 years ago

In the Novel Lila, Lila he did not end happily.-
Any thougths?

[–] craigmaramilan 12 years ago

Or even 'The Rebel' with Tony Hancock (even though this was a comedy and the plot was about passing himself off as being the painter of works that were given to him by friend who had written himself as a worthless artist). the plot is nothing original but still entertaining.

[–] tentmeister 12 years ago

Then there's Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, which had a sub-plot of how the main character's works were stored in a trunk in Berlin, found by a Russian soldier, and republished by the soldier under his own name. The works made the soldier a huge literary success in the Soviet Union, but he was eventually executed for, of all things, originality ... they found a satire of the Red Army done in a style that was totally different from his other "published works."

The movie also reminded me of Adaptation, where the writer insinuated himself into the plot and became both the writer and the main character. (This also echoes Vonnegut, who shows up in a few of his novels as one of the characters.)

[–] nansopkog 11 years ago

Kurt's a genius - I found Mother Night far more moving and inventive than this, tho that's just my opinion.

[–] stranger_uk-1 11 years ago

From reading the description it seems like Shia Labeouf copied it in real life.

[–] paultait22 10 years ago

My first thought was that this was an almost identical copy of the classic 1762 novel The Purloined Passages by Henry Rathborne. Even the names were similar - Robert instead of Rory, Charles instead of Clayton and Matilda instead of Daniella. Only the war being different, it being the War of the Spanish Succession rather than WWII, other than that the plot is the same - Charles having written a true account through the fictional Robert of his stealing the lost works of another author (old man) who later confronts him, and his recounting this story to the young coquettish Matilda. I'm surprised no-one else has picked up the similarity.

[–] rocket470 9 years ago

"My first thought was that this was an almost identical copy of the classic 1762 novel The Purloined Passages by Henry Rathborne. Even the names were similar "

Hey - I can't find this novel anywhere? There is something called the Purloined Letters by Edgar Allen Poe. I've done all sorts of searching, keywords, setting, etc. I feel like you may have both the author and the title incorrect, but I am very interested!