Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:32:19 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

Jerry Brown  <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

>
20,00 Leagues Under the Sea is a bit of an oddity in that Nemo is much
nastier than in the book, and the ending was changed so that Nemo died
despite surviving until "The Mysterious Island" book-wise. Imagine
that nowadays, where the norm is to leave an opening for sequels.

>
That's a Hollywood code thing.  Bad people have to come to a bad end at the
end of the movie.  You don't see so much of that today, except of course in
Disney films.
>

To counterbalance this, Disney did, of course, add some songs and
slapstick humour via Douglas and Lorre's supporting characters.

>
It was so sad to see Lorre in that film.  The end of a great actor,
reduced to playing this crap.

Serving as a moral compass to the easily-seduced scientist is crap?

How did you like him in /The Comedy of Terrors/?

His later film roles were quite different from his earlier roles. Some
would call this "versitility", as opposed to being a "one-trick pony".
--
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"