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Movies and TV / Re: Remakes and the darkness
« on: July 25, 2005, 07:22:52 AM »Quote
I'm of the (somewhat contentious) opinion that there are no new stories under the sun, only good or bad retellings of the ones we have.
There is nothing new under the sun, it has all been said and done before"
- Sherlock Holmes
I agree entirely, there are basic themes of story that we simply repeat with new narratives. Shakespeare did indeed base huge chunks of material on traditional legneds, poems, or history (e.g. large lumps of Julis Caesar comes almost straight from Plutarch, it's actually rather weird to be reading Plutarch and realise you are reading something you previously appreciated as literature in an english class in one of your history textbooks...)
Oh, and apparently there are only seven storylines. I shall have to ask my mother about that, I always forget whose theory it is. But I accept the idea in a cursory, uninformed way.