FYI, it's the 1940 version of the film, not the 1924 version... Chris
> Subject: Re: Past experience or Coincidence > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:46:39 -0800 > To: [email protected] > > > On Nov 19, 2011, at 2:25 PM, John wrote: > > > Ray, have just been watching a movie 'Doctor Mordrid (1992) and mentioned > > several times was "The Philosophers Stone" obviously J K Rowling later > > wrote a book about the Philosophers Stone. > > > > Which begs the question, have you written something that you subsequently > > recognised may have been influenced by a past experience, say a book or > > movie, and therefore changed it? Or when you recognise it thought, hey what > > a coincidence? > > -- > > > > Two things. First the concept of the Philosopher's Stone (Alchemist Stone) is > pretty old, it's the magic that changes base metals into gold. So I'm sure > both writers were going back to older sources. > > I have mentioned before I borrowed the Tsurani ship in Magician from the > Korda Brother's film of The Thief of Bagdad without realizing it until I saw > the film a few years after publication of the book. It was at a > retrospective/art theater and I hadn't seen the film since I was a kid. So if > anyone wants to see what that Tsurani ship looked like, rent the film. It's a > great movie fantasy, anyway. > > I suspect there are some other things that stuck from when I was a kid, but > nothing else springs to mind. > > Best, R.E.F. > > ---- > www.crydee.com > > Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by > stupidity. > > > > > > >
