"Mordechai T. Abzug" <morty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article
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> "DonnaLettow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <DonnaLettow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> spake thusly:
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>> The creators of New Amsterdam have stated in several interviews
>> recently that they were totally unaware of Highlander.
>>
>> Not that I believe them for an instant.
>
> Even if the creators didn't know about Highlander when they initially
> developed the concept, wouldn't the network's legal department have
> done due diligence/research before greenlighting the show?
Why would there be a legal issue? Ideas and themes are not copyrightable.
>By the
> time they were writing scripts for production, they should have been
> aware of Highlander.
>
> Significant similarities between Highlander and New Amsterdam:
You've done a great job do***enting this. but what I am wondering is what
the similarities / dissimilarities between Highlander and Robert Henlein's
works Methuselah's Children (1958) and Time Enought For Love (1973)
>
(snip for no other reason but brevity)
>
> * In NA, no use of Queen soundtracks. Come on, how can they not use
> "Who Wants to Live Forever"?
I kinda prefer the other love theme fom Highlander - Always A Rainy Day
New Amsterdam features the music of a very talented composed named Mychal
Danna, with whom I corresponded and interviewed way back when. Very
talented
and I gather very successful since we spoke in the very early 80's.
>
> Some of the similarities are natural. If you're going to have an
> immortal character, you should make said character at least a few
> hundred years old to increase your dramatic possibilities. [What was
> Moonlight thinking?] If you're going to have a character who is
> hundreds of years old, flashbacks are a logical way to tell stories.
> Forged birth certificates and working with antiques are logical. If
> NA wanted John to have lived in America the whole time and didn't want
> him to be Native American, while maximizing his age, having him born
> in the 1600s was a natural choice, and 400 years old is a nice round
> number. Having a doctor discover the immortality is a logical plot
> twist.
Highlander the TV series was a rethinking of Highlander The Movie/
Highlander 3 the movie was a reworking of Highlander 1 in the style of the
TV show.
I think it has been demonstrated over time that there are only a very few
plots and themes, and everything is in the particular reworking.
>
> Some of the other similarities, though, stretch coincidence a lot
> more. Especially the kid asking about beheading. If that wasn't a
> reference to HL, why would the kid have asked that?
cuz it's funny?
>
> - Morty
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