http://www.metafilter.com/tags/haddix Posts tagged with 'haddix' at MetaFilter. Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:10:19 -0800 Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:10:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35000/Lack%2DOf%2DOriginality <a href="http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1280048,00.html">Shyamalan may face legal action over Village</a> - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/">The Village</a> can now join <a href="http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9903/23/shakespeare.lawsuit/" title="Shakespeare In Love">the</a> <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,2628,00.html" title="The Full Monty">long</a> <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/amistad/" title="Amistad">list</a> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/17/entertainment/main624395.shtml" title="Day After Tomorrow">of</a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3840185&p1=0" title="Finding Nemo">films</a> <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,2366,00.html" title="Twister">accused</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/183572.stm" title="Truman Show">of</a> <a href="http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---19330,00.html" title="Drumline">plagiarism</a> <a href="http://www.white-wolf.com/News/underworldrelease.html" title="Underworld">in</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1207017.stm" title="Jingle All The Way">recent</a> <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Court/9904.neverkissed.html" title="Never Been Kissed">years</a>. A lawsuit may be filed against M. Night Shyamalan's Blinding Edge Pictures and Disney for alleged plagiarism. Kiddie book writer <a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110073/Author.html">Margaret Peterson Haddix</a> claims that the movie bears disturbing similarities to her 1995 novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0689812361/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Running Out Of Time</a>. While plagiarism of any kind is no <a href="http://brainwrong.blogs.com/brain_wrong/2003/11/movie_plagiaris.html">laughing matter</a>, it must be stated that the "disturbing similarity" is a plot twist many of us once used in our own stories back in grade school. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35000 Mon, 16 Aug 2004 05:10:19 -0800 haddix hollywood movies plagiarism shyamalan circe