Let's see ... what are those sayings? There's nothing new
under the sun ... everything's been written. Having
commonalties between the plots of two stories is hardly proof
that the author was copying the other ... at least
intentionally. Without any other evidence I don't see where
you have a choice other than to believe the parties involved.
Like Sherlock used to say, eliminate the impossible ...
coming up with the same story that someone else has already
told is not impossible. I know from personal experience that
that is true. All you did was make an assumption, you have no
proof.
Dick Lochte wrote:
> I'm not sure who, if any, of the Hammett biographers
made the claim.
> Kurosawa denied the Hammett connection, just as
Leone denied that "Fistful
> of Dollars" was inspired by "Yojimbo." But the
films' plots speak for
> themselves. This is not to say that Kurosawa was
stonewalling. Quite often
> in the course of making a movie the question of
who-contributed-what is
> impossible to recall. Had he or his co-writer Ryuzo
Kikushima read Hammett
> decades before? Had they seen a review or synopsis
of the plot of "Red
> Harvest" or overheard someone describing the setup?"
For whatever reason,
> the 1961 movie has a story outline that very closely
resembles a fiction
> work that had been available since 1927. To my mind,
the similarities are
> substantial enough to justify the claim.
-- volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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