nemesis wrote:
> well, just did some basic "brad bird watchmen" googling:
> 
> http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Bird/Bird_Interview.htm
> 
> He's directly confronted with both the Fantastic Four and Watchmen 
> references.  And dismisses them by saying he's more of a "Peanuts" guy 
> than a "Whoeverman" guy.
> 
> The maximum he goes is to acknowledge he's heard of Watchmen before and 
> is glad that The Incredibles is compared with something that good.  He 
> mentions the super-heroes retirement, but that's all.  No mention to the 
> "no cape", secret Island or huge squid attack on a city.

What we have here is a clear case of convergent evolution.  With enough 
individual plot elements available and enough movies using the same pool 
of elements, eventually someone is *going* to, completely at random with 
no prior exposure to the other work, choose elements that are similar 
enough to it to suggest inspiration.

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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