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Subject: Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:20:21 -0700
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:32:19 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

>Jerry Brown  <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>20,00 Leagues Under the Sea is a bit of an oddity in that Nemo is much
>>nastier than in the book, and the ending was changed so that Nemo died
>>despite surviving until "The Mysterious Island" book-wise. Imagine
>>that nowadays, where the norm is to leave an opening for sequels.
>
>That's a Hollywood code thing.  Bad people have to come to a bad end at =
the
>end of the movie.  You don't see so much of that today, except of course=
 in
>Disney films.
>
>>To counterbalance this, Disney did, of course, add some songs and
>>slapstick humour via Douglas and Lorre's supporting characters.
>
>It was so sad to see Lorre in that film.  The end of a great actor,=20
>reduced to playing this crap.

Serving as a moral compass to the easily-seduced scientist is crap?

How did you like him in /The Comedy of Terrors/?

His later film roles were quite different from his earlier roles. Some
would call this "versitility", as opposed to being a "one-trick pony".
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"