Bicentennial Man: I know I will plagarize this!

[amicus]

...Or perhaps already have...

Is it really that long since "Mork and Mindy", and Robin Williams...?

Whoever first penned, "The ocean sparkling like a million diamonds", captured the essence of sunlight on the ocean, ne'er to be repeated, never to be equaled.

The writers for "Bicentennial Man", when they wrote the explanation of sexual intercourse, did quite the same, in my not so humble opinion.

This is a paraphrase, as I took notes after the fact to just remember the lines, but by the time the import struck me, I was already green with envy.

"It is so wonderful, like when you die and go to heaven but get to come back and do it again and again; that miracle of two separate people combining to one where you lose identity of who is who and then you die...and come back and a part of the other person is still a part of you..."

The words: "someone you love", was in there also...but I forget the context.

I think I had not seen the film in its' entirety before, but perhaps parts as it seemed familiar; but this time around...it really made an impression and I know, in my writerly struggles to capture the rapture of that moment that I will use those lines or the thought a hundred times to express the magic of sexual intercourse between lovers.

izzat plagarism and if so...should I feel guilty?

(the little red lines under the words tell me I misspelled some thing....so be it...too late to bother...)

Amicus

 

[gauchecritic]

nothing new under the sun...

Not so much plagiarism as expansion. The paragraph is simply a large translation of the French phrase 'la petite morte' (sp) (the little death).

so steal, paraphrase, plagiarise to your heart's content MiAmico that's what they did first.

 

[amicus]

[QUOTE=gauchecritic]Not so much plagiarism as expansion. The paragraph is simply a large translation of the French phrase 'la petite morte' (sp) (the little death).

so steal, paraphrase, plagiarise to your heart's content MiAmico that's what they did first.[/QUOTE]


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Hmmm...I thought that was "Deja Vu", am I indeed wrong again?

MiAmico....ahem...

 

[gauchecritic]

Hmmm...I thought that was "Deja Vu", am I indeed wrong again?

MiAmico....ahem...

You might be thinking of Dejah Thoris 'A Princess of Mars' later to become the wife of John Carter.
From Wiki:

And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life... Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.

She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.

 

[amicus]

You might be thinking of Dejah Thoris 'A Princess of Mars' later to become the wife of John Carter.
From Wiki:

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Chuckles...you have a curiously interesting mind...and you know exactly what my reference was, nice...very nice ploy.


amicus

 

[Vermilion]

Hmm...
Lost me, I'm afraid...

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[Roxanne Appleby]

"The ocean sparkling like a million diamonds" reminds me of a thought that occurs to me whenever I see light reflecting on water in an interesting and attractive way, which is that we see the world differently now after the Impressionist painters taught us how. That's a wonderful legacy - Merci, Messieurs et Madamoiselles.

 

[Vermilion]

"The ocean sparkling like a million diamonds" reminds me of a thought that occurs to me whenever I see light reflecting on water in an interesting and attractive way, which is that we see the world differently now after the Impressionist painters taught us how. That's a wonderful legacy - Merci, Messieurs et Madamoiselles.

Madames... Berthe Morisot was married and she was the primary female Impressionist, non?
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[glynndah]

Hmmm. I skimmed over the "Mork and Mindy" part and read that as "Bionic Man". *leaves thread quite *

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Madames... Berthe Morisot was married and she was the primary female Impressionist, non?
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Eh bien, Mademoiselle - I defer to your detailed knowledge.

Berthe and Mary Cassatt (creator of the girl I fell in love with in a visit to the National Gallery in DC a few weeks ago. )

 

[CharleyH]

Not so much plagiarism as expansion. The paragraph is simply a large translation of the French phrase 'la petite morte' (sp) (the little death).

so steal, paraphrase, plagiarise to your heart's content MiAmico that's what they did first.

I agree here. First, I am not sure the movie is original. . Second, we have a limited expression due to language, and there will always be those moments when we feel we are stealing from someone else. I think, Ami, we borrow sometimes, but I also think it is because our language is limited. (As aside: you asked me this not to long ago: why I totally admire absurdists like Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Genet and Sartre and Beckett and even Doctor Seuss as example? They make up new words and languages and ideas. They are avant gardists who change meanings and things and ideas, and that's why I love them, so much.