The Wachowski Brothers ate my story

[TheEarl]

Have you ever looked at the author's hangout and noticed the sheer volume of threads started by Chicklet?

Sorry, I'll start again. Have you ever thought of a really brilliant idea and started writing what could be a really good story, but then discovered that someone else has done the same thing? They haven't copied you, you haven't copied them, but that's your idea, in their bit of work and it's no longer yours anymore.

I had a brilliant idea about an ice cream that had an interesting side-effect as an aphrodisiac, so that eating it could make a woman cum. And then I watch the Matrix Reloaded and see the section with the cake that makes the woman in the restaurant cum. Gimme back my idea!

I'm still going to finish the story, but it's just nasty and thoughtless of them to steal my plot for a side joke in their film.

The Wachowski brothers ate my story.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Wachowski, Bukowski

All dicks think alike.

You really are deliciously self-centered, lad (that is a compliment).

Pear

 

[Chicklet]

Have you ever looked at the author's hangout and noticed the sheer volume of threads started by Chicklet?

more to come

Sorry, I'll start again. Have you ever thought of a really brilliant idea and started writing what could be a really good story, but then discovered that someone else has done the same thing? They haven't copied you, you haven't copied them, but that's your idea, in their bit of work and it's no longer yours anymore.

My boyfriend took a screenwriting class a couple years ago and brought home some interesting words of wisdom from his teacher. His teacher told the class that everything had already been done. Every plot, every idea, it's all been done. What's more, Ducktails has done it.

So there are no more "original" ideas. I think that if you find something that sparks you as super interesting, you are just more disapointed when you find something similar has already been done. Your ice-cream idea wouldn't have been anything like that dumb scene with the cake, but since it was fresh in your mind and the Matrix is fresh in everyone elses mind, it just seemed more drastic.

I say go ahead, even if people are going to make fun of you for "copying" an idea.

-Chicklet

 

[oggbashan]

Even Shakespeare pinched his plots from anyone he could.

Og

 

[Guest]

Pay attention, Earl

Even Shakespeare pinched his plots from anyone he could.

Yes, but the difference is what Sh're made new of old stories. So, delicious one, use your idea and make it as if you were the only one who thought it.

Pear Cider

 

[gauchecritic]

Convergent Evolution

Not quite the same thing but similar. People coming up with ideas at the same time.

Swan and Edison.

Egyptians and Incas

Nearly all Einsteins contemporaries and Einstein.

Richard Curtiss and me.

I'd guess that it's to do with quantum mechanics. If everything possible can and will happen then it's highly likely that it'll happen twice in separate places at the same time.

Collapsing the wave function

Gauche

 

[Guest]

nothing new under the sun

The wisest man said in his cynical phase that "There is nothing new under the sun." And, yep, tis true.

But, no two individuals are the same. They will neither experience nor describe an event in the same way. Only you can bring your work to fruition.

I think it is fun to see how individual the same old same old can become when different people put their stamp on it.

b

 

[Quasimodem]

Re: The Wachowski Hole

I had a brilliant idea about an ice cream that had an interesting side-effect as an aphrodisiac, so that eating it could make a woman cum. And then I watch the Matrix Reloaded and see the section with the cake that makes the woman in the restaurant cum. Gimme back my idea!

I'm still going to finish the story, but it's just nasty and thoughtless of them to steal my plot for a side joke in their film.

The Wachowski brothers ate my story.

The Earl

I haven’t seen “Matrix Reloaded” yet.

By any chance, would that be same restaurant that served a similar dish to Meg Ryan in “When Harry Met Sally”?

I wouldn’t worry about copying from the Wachowski brothers, Earl. They already stole the idea for their story from Lewis Carroll.

Just treat it like they did. Find some place within the dialogue to reference the source from which your story is derived.

There is no telling how deep we can go if we all dig the same rabbit hole, together.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

"I had a brilliant idea about an ice cream that had an interesting side-effect as an aphrodisiac, so that eating it could make a woman cum." TheEarl

My wife said to get a half-gallon to go.

Imagine if Meg Ryan, just before her famous fake orgasm scene at the restaurant in "When Harry Met Sally" had polished off a couple scoops of that stuff. It might have been the end of Billy Crystal, or at least his film career.

Win some, lose some.

Now where'd I leave the Ben & Jerry's?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

godiva ice cream

Earl-

I didn't mention this before, but Edy's Gourmet ice cream by Godiva is such an ice cream.

My hubby caught me eating it one time and said, "There is only one other occassion when I see that expression on your face."

b