Has all creativity been completely expended in television? April 12th, Sunday evening, I watched "Madame Secretary," a show I've enjoyed because Tea Leoni and Tim Daly are likable. When I was first a bachelor sharing a house with another bachelor, he whooped and hollered and was just a nut for Tea Leoni. I thought she looked just a tad anorexic in that era; filled out as a mature adult, she is more alluring. After watching the show I was researching "syncretism,"which from a religious perspective involves the inclusion of varying beliefs and traditions into an overarching theology, usually the dominant force in that society. This episode starts like the movie "Failsafe,"in which a bomber wing receives incorrect instructions to bomb Moscow, a piece of the concept "Mutually Assured Destruction."There's a sub out there, but no one knows why. Its unannounced arrival off the coast of Alaska sets off Defense Department alarms,which immediately advises attack. The Secretary's husband is meeting with the Soviet Premier, conveniently for the plot. It is a meeting of secrets withheld, an inability to exchange thoughts about the widening crisis. The sub, which turns out to be testing a cloaking system, is like the bomber wing; it has set out on its mission and cannot be recalled. Both sides are near panic and yet there continues to be no understanding, each party talking past the other.
Now that "Failsafe"is over we switch to the "Hunt for Red October."Is it legal to so fully plagiarize someone else's fiction? The outcome for surviving members of the submarine is a carbon copy of the crew on Red October. Everyone gets a pass, gets citizenship, and gets treated like gold, in order to prove the superiority of a democratic government. Nuclear crisis over, détente restored, all feel successful, both the youngun's and the old timers.
Is it plagiarism when the director of a foreign film comes to the US and produces another film, vaguely connected to the plot of the foreign film? Director Lina Vertmuller's "The Seduction of Mimi,"a story about young, poor communist activists in Italy, was filmed in an altered version called "Which Way is UP?"a film well filled with the talent of Richard Pryor as a farm worker and faux political activist ala Cesar Chavez, a true labor leader. The vibrator scene is essential for your laugh box.
So, I'm not impressed Madame Secretary. Either get writers or stop letting your crew cut and paste old plots of films for the sake of a TV show. "Outlander," and "DaVinci's Demons" are outshining you easily.
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Now that "Failsafe"is over we switch to the "Hunt for Red October."Is it legal to so fully plagiarize someone else's fiction? The outcome for surviving members of the submarine is a carbon copy of the crew on Red October. Everyone gets a pass, gets citizenship, and gets treated like gold, in order to prove the superiority of a democratic government. Nuclear crisis over, détente restored, all feel successful, both the youngun's and the old timers.
Is it plagiarism when the director of a foreign film comes to the US and produces another film, vaguely connected to the plot of the foreign film? Director Lina Vertmuller's "The Seduction of Mimi,"a story about young, poor communist activists in Italy, was filmed in an altered version called "Which Way is UP?"a film well filled with the talent of Richard Pryor as a farm worker and faux political activist ala Cesar Chavez, a true labor leader. The vibrator scene is essential for your laugh box.
So, I'm not impressed Madame Secretary. Either get writers or stop letting your crew cut and paste old plots of films for the sake of a TV show. "Outlander," and "DaVinci's Demons" are outshining you easily.
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