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I watched "Deep Impact" last night and found it so moving that I deeply wept until I thought I might pass on. I finally consoled myself sufficiently to gain some dignity back. I doubt that the movie will get awards but parts of it touched on things that inflamed Abandonment Issues and other things.
I've seen a few movies that carry the story to a sort of conclusion, but as I think about them, I have seen no sequels. I am very unfamiliar with so called "Fan Fic", so know nothing of the danger areas. Most certainly, I do not want to get anyone into trouble.
I'm thinking rather seriously about working on a sequel to "Deep Impact.
Gwen
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Fan Fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction#...
Most major studios and production companies tolerate fan fiction, and some even encourage it to a certain extent
What folks have noted is that fan fiction distributed on clearly identified FF websites NOT for profit seems to be tolerated. Apart from any other considerations, adaption "sequels" are not considered plagiarism since they are deriving concepts, and not verbatim copies of source work. A disclaimer identifying the source work is often considered sufficient regarding usage.
Erin? What's your take on this?
Love, Andrea Lena
Deep Bore?
"I doubt that the movie will get awards . . . . " Are you talking about the 1998 disaster movie "Deep Impact"? The awards season for it is long past, and the reviews were not very kind.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Sometimes Things Affect Me Deeply.
My triggers are mine. Yours are yours.
Gwen
Which Still
Doesn't tell me what movie is being discussed. It wouldn't surprise me if a new movie used the title from an older movie, particularly if it was somebody like HBO or Netflix. I don't have any form of cable, just an antenna on the roof. So I know nothing about what may be happening there.
BTW: I've never seen the 1998 movie. The opinions are from the several reviews I read doing a Google search. I'm not trying to put you down, just get the answer to a very simple question, so I could get a better understanding of your comment. I don't blindly take reviewers' comments as gospel truth.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
I liked it
Regarding critics I very much like what Issac Asimov wrote: "Critics are like eunuchs: they can talk about it, but they cannot do it themselves" (maybe based on a version attributed to Brendan Behan). So I take critical revies with a grain of salt (or a pillar …), it takes some time to find some critics with the same tastes as yourself so you can trust their criticism.
So, while a movie might not appeal to a critic (or even worse, an academic critic), I may simply enjoy it (or not, sometimes even critics are right). If you like a disaster movie with widespread tragedy, sacrifice and a bit of hope at the end, you might enjoy this movie, too.
The Actors and Familial Relationships.
I found the Familial Relationships especially appealing.
Gwen
fanfic
Fanfiction isn't a new concept; the Arthurian mythos is a millennia of fanworks drawning from a singular source, [religiously provocative comment on multiple faiths here], 50 Shades of Gray started as a twilight fanfic, one of the current pool of writers of the Star Trek books got recruited because of their fanfics, Cervantes wrote the second book where Don Quixote dies because people kept doing fanfics, how are film adaptations of books an "official novelisation"s of films and extended universe books distinct from fanfic beyond the stamp of legitimacy, etc.
As long as you don't step into "making profit at the expense of the rightsholder" you'll be left alone
Generally going after fanfic tends to backfire for companies, you'll probably be fine because theres no benefit for them to going after most fanworks (as long you're not talking about doing a full fledged filmed production)
The Classics
I read somewhere that pretty much all of the Classics are fanfics of earlier work.
Once, I began reading a King Arthur story, and it began with something like a class, with students learning about an ancient people with a bizarre name, the Saxons. I never continued it, but it seemed to me that someone in Arthur's time in Britain (not England! -- Romano-Keltic Britain) would be perfectly familiar with the invading Saxons.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
I'm writing one about the time i got hit on the head by a meteor
I'm calling it DERP IMPACT
sorry, Veronica
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1REkejAMnNo
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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everything is remix
I think it is one of the silliest parts of modern litigious society that we pervert creative work into patent, trademark and copyright just so a few lawyers can get rich. Everything is remix. I mean that every little thing that people have created is built on the foundation of all that came before. There is just no other way it could be. Everything is derivative, remix, mashup of all the things that came before.
The worst part is that this atmosphere generates an infringement phobia is that it suppresses real creativity through self censorship. We loose lots of good creative work because of this fear.
Peace
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Crash