Brandt wrote:
"After all, there are no "new" stories.(the Beverly
Hillbillies and Crocodile Dundee are, essentially, the same
story. Fish out of water)"
There's a big difference between morphology and the direct
modelling or influence Bill was talking about.
"Since most stories in the bible center around sacrifice and
redemption, we can find this to be a recurring theme in most
ficiton, certainly along the lines were discussing."
Certainly there are thematic similarities, but is there
direct modelling? For instance, Propp (and others) have
broken folktales down into a number of constituent elements.
However, different stories can combine various elements into
distinct stories. For instance, there are lots of hardboiled
and/or noir stories that revolve around a search for a
"dingus," but that doesn't mean Shooting Elvis or Caught
Stealing were directly modelled on The Maltese Falcon. And
Caught Stealing, for instance, also contains a "wrong man"
element, but that doesn't mean it was directly modelled on
North by Northwest. On the other hand, God Is A Bullet was
pretty clearly modelled on The Searchers (as were, to varying
degrees, the movies Taxi Driver, Hardcore and Star
Wars).
Mark
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