Confusion

[ladyofastolat]

Overheard the other day:

Person A: "Isn't To Kill a Mockingbird's opening this weekend?"

Person B: "What?"

Person A: To Kill a Mockingbird. You know. The Hunger Games?

Person B: Oh! [in sudden realisation. Then there was a pause. Then the doubt crept in.] Isn't To Kill a Mockingbird some old movie?

Person A: No! ["how silly you are!" said the tone.] It's the last Hunger Games movie, of course.


I am now fondly imagining The Hunger Games 3: To Kill a Mockingbird in which Atticus Finch must his client from a racially-motivated accusation by taking on all comers in an arena of DEATH, from which only one person can emerge alive.

I also spent a few minutes imagining other similar-titled films and books that can be conflated. There's Scarlet!, the story of a young woman shamed for adultery, who is rescued from her punishment by a visiting Englishman, who looks like a foppish fool, but is actually a master of daring rescues. Then I started chasing titles where the last word of one is the first word of the other, and conflating them. (Apocalypse Now That's What I Call Music!, the compilation album to play after the end of the world.) But at that point, I got distracted by something else, so that's all, which is probably a Very Good Thing.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You are very silly, you know? :-)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I came horribly close to making that same mistake regarding mockingbirds and mockingjays...

I can only hear Apocalypse Now as "Pucker Lips Now!", alas.

[themis1.livejournal.com]

My favourite convention quote of all time, from a friend. "The only thing I want to watch on this programme is Charlie Chan and the Return of the Jedi." We agreed we'd all like to see that (and I later wrote the story, of course).

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

...and I first read that as "Charlie Chaplin and the Return of the Jedi", which is possibly one step even more surreal :-)

Tell me your story is online somewhere, please?

[themis1.livejournal.com]

Um ... oh dear, no. Most of my fanfic was written in the old days of stencils and gestetner copiers, and I haven't got round to typing it up into a more modern format. Sorry!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Gregory Peck would totally kick ass in that film.

And Robert Duvall would appear silently and enigmatically in the final scene...

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter and the Bucket Full of Dinosaurs.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I met the author of Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs on Thursday. I should have suggested this crossover. Instead of waving his wand and magic words, Harry shouts out the name of a dinosaur, hurls the toy forward, and watches as it grows to giant size and attacks his enemy with its signature attack. (And goes "rah!", of course.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Of course! :-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued that this post doesn't deserve the 'Quirk' tag.

Also: Happy Birthday!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It will doubtless get the "quirk" tag eventually. I always forget to tag posts as I make them, but about once a year, I go back through all my old posts and retrospectively add tags to them all.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

[has to go off and look it up to see what the title of the new Hunger Games movie actually is, having found that one of them was more than enough for me]

[leesa_perrie]

Overheard conversations can be the best sometimes, lol!! Love your plot ideas and the compilation album to play after the end of the world! :D

Also, happy birthday (yes, I know I've said this on my LJ, but I'll say it here too)!