Step 1. Go online and find a movie script that was made into a hot movie. Or, a movie you like. Step 2. Copy the script changing the names and the situations. Step 3. Sell your script and then sit back and look intelligent. Any questions?
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lol... sure and then get sued ... they tried this in Egypt and got caught...
lol... great idea... but better rewrite it in Russian or Greek or Arabic so that they won't catch you that fast. @Owen... don't know what you mean as I don't know all of Tarantino's work. How do you mean it?
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Oh, I see. Thank you for explaining. But somehow we all do this when we get inspired by something and then use it in a changed form for our own stories, don't we?
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I do recall (Kill) Bill's speech about "Superman" being lifted directly from Jules Feiffer's book, "The Great Comic Book Heroes."
@Linda Burdick. Go back and read what I wrote "changing the names and the situations". I think the keyword here is "situations". But really, I took the short way around making a larger point. It's about originality and how that is ALMOST impossible. Here are some famous quotes on the subject: “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” ― Abraham Lincoln “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." -- Jean-Luc Godard “An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.” ― Stephen Fry “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” ― Marie Antoinette
VANITY OF HUMAN TOIL 3 What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun?* 4 One generation departs and another generation comes, but the world forever stays. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets; then it presses on to the place where it rises. 6 Shifting south, then north, back and forth shifts the wind, constantly shifting its course. 7 All rivers flow to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they flow, the rivers continue to flow. 8 All things are wearisome,* too wearisome for words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing nor has the ear enough of hearing. 9 What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun! 10 Even the thing of which we say, “See, this is new!” has already existed in the ages that preceded us. 11 There is no remembrance of past generations;g nor will future generations be remembered by those who come after them.* -Ecclesiasticus Chapter One I was making the same point as you as well... But the structure too will be found out if you do it that way. Even that is personalized and can be deciphered in a court of law by professional writers who read scripts. It's in the style of a writer that gives it away. So situations couched into someone else's narrative structural spine won't work either. Be original and unique. It can be accomplished only in the way you yourself do it, present it, and say it.
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Well, at least you out quoted me. LOL
Yes I did... actually it is ironic... no one can out quote God.