Category Archives: Détournement

The Funniest Film You’ve Never Seen: HERCULES RETURNS

Posted on September 13, 2015 by SMW

In the late 1980s, Australian comedy troupe Double Take brought their first live show, Double Take Meet The Astro Zombies, to London’s Scala cinema. Now, as part of Scalarama 2015, Physical Impossibility is bringing Double Take’s only film, Hercules Returns (David Parker, 1993), … Continue reading →

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Movie Rip-Offs: A User’s Guide – Détournement and Dub Parodies

Posted on May 22, 2011 by SMW

“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with just the right idea.” Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Poésies II (1870). “Ideas improve. The meaning of … Continue reading →

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Movie Rip-Offs : A User’s Guide – Introduction

Posted on November 1, 2010 by SMW

This is the first in what will be an ongoing series I intend to write here about movie rip-offs, knock-offs, clones and cash-ins. This introduction should hopefully explain what I take those terms to mean and suggest the kind of … Continue reading →

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