| Posted: 07 April 2006 at 5:46am | IP Logged | 8
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so, what about something like the Squadron Sinister/Squadron Supreme?
More like a JLA HOMAGE I'd say...as was Cockrum's Imperial Guard a LSH Homage
I suppose "homage" works, but I see them more as straight-faced parodies. There's nothing inherantly funny about the Squadron Supreme or the Imperial Guard, but if you know who they REALLY are...
In my mind, inspiration is the "launch pad". To use an example, my favourite film ever, La Jetee, was Terry Gilliam's admitted inspiration for 12 Monkeys. However, they really are two very different movies that sprung from a common idea. Furthermore, 12 Monkeys screenwriter David Peoples once said in an interview that he was hesitant when he was approached to work on the film because James Cameron had made such a great American version of La Jetee with The Terminator. All three movies use the same "set-up"- the lovestruck man from the hellish future meeting the object of his affection- but the "punch line" is different in each film. Had Gilliam and/or Cameron just re-filmed La Jetee- still black and white photographs, narration, the camp guards monitoring dreams, the whole nine yards- and given it a different name, they'd clearly be ripping off Chris Marker*. But Cameron may or may not have even been aware of La Jetee and while Gilliam did acknowledge Marker and the film in the credits of 12 Monkeys, he re-told the story in such a way that it was substantially different and unique.
*Yes, I know about the Harlan Ellison lawsuit, but I've never seen Soldier and only dimly recall Demon With a Glass Hand, so I don't feel I know enough about them to say whether or not Cameron deliberately ripped them off. Besides, it's a bit tangental to my example anyway.
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