RE: Excavating The Empty Tomb
June 5, 2013 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2013 at 1:14 pm by Cyberman.)
(June 5, 2013 at 12:31 pm)Drich Wrote: So 2000 years ago (give or take) someone wrote a story that paralelled another story based in, what was popular culture (for the time it was written) and was sold to the very same people of said pop culture, and yet no one noticed.
What monkey and Rhythm said, plus this:
Even if what you said was the way it happened, why do you find it so surprising? That sort of thing happens all the time. Here's just a few similar examples of what might be termed repackaged popular culture just from the top of my head. I'm sure you can think of many more:
Star Wars - Hidden Fortress, plus no end of "Hero's Journey" stories
A Fistful of Dollars - Kurosawa's Yojimbo
Ulysses 31 (anyone remember this?) - Homer's Odyssey
The Lion King - Hamlet
Lion King 2 - Romeo & Juliet
Anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber - anything by just about every classical composer for the past few centuries
I think that, rather than simply selling this stuff to the people and hoping nobody notices, there's a healthy amount of redressing the stories to make them, shall we say, more palatable to a contemporary and/or non-native audience going on.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
