"Stolen 'Flowers'?"
The Boston Globe reports on a screenwriter who's filing a seemingly strong claim that Broken Flowers was ripped off one of his own scripts by Jim Jarmusch and/or the studios that financed it. I haven't seen the film in question, but it's true that Jarmusch is the last person I'd think of to be involved in a copyright infringement suit on the receiving end. (thx, jbg)
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Sophia Coppola ought to get in a suit as well. Broken Flowers was pretty much the same movie as Lost in Translation, except instead of Bill Murray looking out of windows at a strange and confusing country, Bill Murray looked out of windows at a strange and confusing past.
And Bill Murray should sue himself for playing the same over-rated sad clown character in every serious film he does.
okay, i didn't pass this along to marco for the purposes of idiotic Bill Murray bashing. i just thought it was interesting because most of the time, these "they stole my idea!" claims are laughed off, but this one got a major article in the Globe, due to its seeming merit.
"Broken Flowers" was very good, but that shouldn't excuse jarmusch from culpability if he did in fact steal the story, down to some of the subtle details.
and NYA, if you really think that about Bill Murray, you're a contrary dipshit. more so than, say, me.
Listen, I used to love LOVE Bill Murray. Of course, then he sucked for a while. But nowadays, while I have liked some of his performances, I really do feel that they are all very similar, and that has become tiring. Sure, sometimes he has a mustache, but still. Am I really alone in this? Have I become the jgb of this blog?
There can be only one.
why do you always flip the initials? i don't call you NAY.
and gimme a break, like jack nicholson's parts aren't "similar." or woody allen's. but "similar" isn't "exactly the same." i find herman blume to be different from bob harris and different from don johnston in myriad ways.
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