"Avatar" (2009) Blu-ray 3D relesed Oct.2012

[Harvey]

An obscure Scrooge McDuck story that Christopher Nolan has probably never even heard of? If we're going to call original works remakes because they bear similarity to other stories, isn't it better to call it a remake of Paprika?

 

[Set Harth]

Not really, because it doesn't draw that many elements from Paprika. The only ones that immediately come to mind are the dream elevator and the protagonist not dreaming normally anymore. Meanwhile, a central factor of Paprika - the dream technology influencing people not even connected to it, and the surrealist effect of the dream world ( portrayed as its own universe ) apparently spilling over into the real world - is not present in Inception.

 

[Harvey]

The central conceit of being able to enter another person's dreams and influence them in that world would seem an important element, no? Of course, Inception is neither a remake of Paprika or the Scrooge McDuck story. They just use the same general story elements.

 

[Set Harth]

The central conceit of being able to enter another person's dreams and influence them in that world would seem an important element, no?

But that goes all the way back to Dreamscape... and the ducks.
( In literature you have, for example, The Fortress of the Pearl ).

When it comes to the Inception plot, there are a few more point-by-point similarities with Scrooge McDuck than there are with Paprika.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm just not excited because I don't own a 3DTV yet... one of these days!

 

[Harvey]

Thus my point about common story elements, and the film not being a "remake" in any useful sense of the word.

 

[JD]

I just watched this for the first time since it was in theaters the other day, and once again I really liked it. Yeah, the story wasn't the most original, but I love the visuals and the animals and stuff on Pandora.