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nemesis wrote:
> well, just did some basic "brad bird watchmen" googling:
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> http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Bird/Bird_Interview.htm
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> 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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