Category Archives: Spoofs & Parodies

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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