Onhell
Infinite Dreamer
Five Years ago Hollywood (universal to be more exact) released K-Pax, the story of a man who claims to be an alien, gets sent to a mental hospital and begins to philosophize with his doctor. I LOVED the movie. Two months ago my brother told me a should see this Argentinian movie called, Hombre Mirando al Sudeste (Man Facing Southeast) and it is about a man who mysteriously appears in a mental hospital, claims to be from a another planet and begins to philosophize with his doctor.
Know MFSE is from 1986, K-Pax from 2000. I was convinced K-Pax was another of Hollywood's international remakes (like 8mm, Vanilla Skies and Taxi to name a few) but in viewing K-Pax last night to analize and compare both films for my Sociology class I noticed something in the opening credits. K-Pax is based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel. So I go over to Gene Brewer's website ([a href=\'http://www.genebrewer.com\' target=\'_blank\']www.genebrewer.com[/a]) and under "news" it says that Universal is being sued by the owner of the english-language rights to MFSE. he continues to say that he found out about the argentinian movie five years after publishing K-Pax and therefore the similarities in plotlines is, therefore, purely coincidental.
Who is he trying to fool? in viewing both movies it is strikingly, painfully obvious that the plotlines go beyond coincidence and in fact they are one and the same. Even some dialoge is VERY similar. For example in MFSE, Rantes, the "alien" asks his doctor if he could examine the human brain. his doctor answers "Well rantes I'm afraid to disapoint you but you'll see that your brain is identical to mine, we all have the same one" rantes answers "If we have the same one why do you label yourself doctor and label me 'insane'?" In K-Pax Jeff Bridges Character, exasperated with Prot says "Prot, in here I'm a Doctor your a Patient, ok?" Prot answers " Doctor, Patient, interesting labels (or distictions can't recall right now hehe)" But still close enough. Both "alien" Characters end up catatonic and so on.
Honestly I do not buy Gene Brewers "i did not know" excuse. I think he did see the Argentinian movie and thought "who the hell is going to watch THIS movie in america? pfft no one." and proceeded to plagerise the story and know he is using a very flimsy excuse with which he can get away with it because there is no way of proving he ever did see it other than view both films.
Finally, This has been mentioned before, but I insist that we shouldn't tolerate people not giving credit where credit is due AND the blatant re-writing of history in movies. I said this before and it got excused as "avoiding lawsuits" but the German Movie Das Experiment is again, obviously based on the [a href=\'http://www.prisonexp.org\' target=\'_blank\']Stanford Prison Experiments[/a] yet on the dvd there is the disclaimer "The following is a work of fiction any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental".. WHAT? Hitler did this and we damned him as evil, but if it is done now it's Oh just trying to avoid lawsuits?! How many movies BASED on true stories are not even close to the real events? *caugh* seabuiscut*cough* So what is wrong with saying that? BASED. ugh. I'll stop here before i pull all my hair out.
Know MFSE is from 1986, K-Pax from 2000. I was convinced K-Pax was another of Hollywood's international remakes (like 8mm, Vanilla Skies and Taxi to name a few) but in viewing K-Pax last night to analize and compare both films for my Sociology class I noticed something in the opening credits. K-Pax is based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel. So I go over to Gene Brewer's website ([a href=\'http://www.genebrewer.com\' target=\'_blank\']www.genebrewer.com[/a]) and under "news" it says that Universal is being sued by the owner of the english-language rights to MFSE. he continues to say that he found out about the argentinian movie five years after publishing K-Pax and therefore the similarities in plotlines is, therefore, purely coincidental.
Who is he trying to fool? in viewing both movies it is strikingly, painfully obvious that the plotlines go beyond coincidence and in fact they are one and the same. Even some dialoge is VERY similar. For example in MFSE, Rantes, the "alien" asks his doctor if he could examine the human brain. his doctor answers "Well rantes I'm afraid to disapoint you but you'll see that your brain is identical to mine, we all have the same one" rantes answers "If we have the same one why do you label yourself doctor and label me 'insane'?" In K-Pax Jeff Bridges Character, exasperated with Prot says "Prot, in here I'm a Doctor your a Patient, ok?" Prot answers " Doctor, Patient, interesting labels (or distictions can't recall right now hehe)" But still close enough. Both "alien" Characters end up catatonic and so on.
Honestly I do not buy Gene Brewers "i did not know" excuse. I think he did see the Argentinian movie and thought "who the hell is going to watch THIS movie in america? pfft no one." and proceeded to plagerise the story and know he is using a very flimsy excuse with which he can get away with it because there is no way of proving he ever did see it other than view both films.
Finally, This has been mentioned before, but I insist that we shouldn't tolerate people not giving credit where credit is due AND the blatant re-writing of history in movies. I said this before and it got excused as "avoiding lawsuits" but the German Movie Das Experiment is again, obviously based on the [a href=\'http://www.prisonexp.org\' target=\'_blank\']Stanford Prison Experiments[/a] yet on the dvd there is the disclaimer "The following is a work of fiction any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental".. WHAT? Hitler did this and we damned him as evil, but if it is done now it's Oh just trying to avoid lawsuits?! How many movies BASED on true stories are not even close to the real events? *caugh* seabuiscut*cough* So what is wrong with saying that? BASED. ugh. I'll stop here before i pull all my hair out.
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