Anything goes

[Warden Callaway]

Spielberg is such a copy cat. Watch enough of his movies and you'll find it's been done before.  

 

Ethel Murman saying Anything Goes.  (About half into the video) 

 

 

 

Kate Capshaw in Indiana Jones and the timple of Doom.

 

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

I liked Kate's version....  🥰

[Warden Callaway]

6 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

I liked Kate's version....  🥰

You realize there is a big jump in technology from Ethel Murman version and Kate Capshaw's.  Ethel Murman had a voice as big as the Grand Canyon.  

 

Here is Mitzi Gaynor version.  She's got enough energy to light up a city.  But the point is, Spielberg copies a lot. 

 

[Alpo]

Anything Goes was on Broadway in 34. Then they made the movie in 36. Ethel Merman both times.

 

Temple of Doom takes place before Raiders. Raiders was in 38. So it seems logical that Temple is taking place around 36.

 

Night clubs frequently have routines based on Broadway musicals and movies. It makes perfect sense for her to be doing a Merman routine.

 

And since Ethel was singing in English, and this girl is singing in Mandarin, it would make more sense to say that he was copying the background music from the movie MASH. Because they did that a lot. American pop songs translated into Korean.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

A glimpse "behind the scenes..."  

 

 

 

[Alpo]

Actually, I was thinking that if he copied anybody, it was Busby Berkeley.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Actually, I was thinking that if he copied anybody, it was Busby Berkeley.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley

 

Bingo!  

 

I pretty much agree with your earlier observation.  Spielberg wasn't so much "copying" anyone as much as incorporating contempory stuff into his period films.  

 

A Spielberg anecdote:

 

Thirty-plus years ago and before I knew him, my buddy Fred was a Scoutmaster in the little town of Madera, california.  On an outing to the Alameda Naval Air Station a Scout (the Scoutmaster's son) was severely injured when he somehow fell into a vat of extremely hot liquid.  Two other Scouts jumped into action and literally saved the young man's life, while incurring lesser but still serious injuries to themselves.  Fred's son spent a long, long time in the hospital, but did survive.

 

To recognize the two Scouts who saved their friend, Fred nominated them for a National level BSA Lifesaving Award.  It was approved, and a formal "Court of Honor" was in order.  While planning the event and preparing invitations for local "dignitaries," Fred had an idea:  he'd read that Steven Spielberg was an Eagle Scout; why not send him an invitation too?

 

He did.  And Spielberg accepted!  On the appointed day, he and an assistant landed at the Fresno airport, then drove to Madera, where Spielberg actively participated in the ceremony.  His assistant had said that they could stay only about a half hour or so; that stretched over two hours.  He fit right in!  Fred said that he was gracious and really down-to-earth, and a fun contributor.  A terrific time was had by all, and Spielberg actually joined Troop 116 as a dues-paying committee member - and remained on their roster for several years.  Somewhere around here I have a copy of that roster....   

 

 

 

 

[J-BAR #18287]

...and I'm going to use the Hardpan Curmudgeon-Steven Spielberg connection the next time I play "7 degrees of separation"!

[Warden Callaway]

Good is good. How about the under the truck scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark?  

 

 

 

[sassnetguy50]

Is copying a scene flattery or a ripoff?

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

How often was that scene copied of the townsmen and women scattering in panic, drawing their shades and shutters, as the good guy(s) and bad guy(s) confronted each other in the street before the saloon? For that matter, the shootout itself? Must have been copied thousands of times!

 

And what was the original?

 

There are no new stories. Everything is a copy to some degree.

 

[watab kid]

hollywood is always remaking the old - updating to the current times and taste , look how many versions of the magnificent seven are out there , im wanting to see a remake of to kill smocking bird that does the original justice - dont think it will happen , nor gone with the wind 

[Warden Callaway]

9 hours ago, Warden Callaway said:

Good is good. How about the under the truck scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark?  

 

 

 

 

What impressed me is reloading what looked to be a trapdoor Springfield at full gallop.