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

[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! :-)