{"id":510,"date":"2006-11-27T07:01:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2006-11-27T07:01:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T12:01:47","slug":"flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2006\/11\/flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  If so, Hollywood must have flattered itself into a multiple orgasm by now.  <\/p>\n<p>Witness all the cloned TV shows (<span class=\"pubtitle\">The Nine<\/span> and <span class=\"pubtitle\">Heroes<\/span>, and <span class=\"pubtitle\">Jericho<\/span> as clones of <span class=\"pubtitle\">Lost<\/span>; <span class=\"pubtitle\">Without A Trace<\/span>, <span class=\"pubtitle\">Criminal Minds<\/span>, <span class=\"pubtitle\">Numb3rs<\/span> as clones of both <span class=\"pubtitle\">Law &amp; Order<\/span> and <span class=\"pubtitle\">CSI<\/span> (which are, in some ways, clones of <span class=\"pubtitle\">Quincy<\/span>); are you really going to make me drag out the sitcoms?) and all the out and out remakes (2003&#8217;s <a class=\"pubtitle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0337592\/\">Love Don&#8217;t Cost a Thing<\/a> as an &#8220;urban&#8221; version of 1987&#8217;s <a class=\"pubtitle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092718\/\">Can&#8217;t Buy Me Love<\/a> are but one example; oh, yes, and John Hughes remaking himself (<span class=\"pubtitle\">Pretty In Pink<\/span> vs. <span class=\"pubtitle\">Some Kind of Wonderful<\/span>)). <\/p>\n<p>Whether or not imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or not is debatable.  What isn&#8217;t debatable is that parody is yet another way by which to judge something&#8217;s impact on a culture or society.  With that in mind I direct you to one of my favorite sites: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryalien.com\/\">The 30-Second Bunnies Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is your favorite films re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds, more or less, and it inevitably makes me smile.  You will need Flash (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/software\/flashplayer\/\">get it free from Adobe<\/a>) and sound.<\/p>\n<p>Take a tour, see an old favorite movie re-interpreted and distilled, buy some Bunnies stuff.  Just enjoy on a lazy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, Hollywood must have flattered itself into a multiple orgasm by now. Witness all the cloned TV shows (The Nine and Heroes, and Jericho as clones of Lost; Without A Trace, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs as clones of both Law &amp; Order and CSI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-funny-bone","category-nablopomo2006","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}