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ladyofastolat) wrote2014-11-23 08:23 am
ladyofastolat) wrote2014-11-23 08:23 am
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Confusion
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.
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.
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