As
many have previously stated,
The Village eerily resembles
a certain young adult novel;
fewer people have noted that it also rips off Plato's
Republic--you've got your noble lie, your council of guardians (as in Plato, both men and women), your restriction on outside influences.
However, 2004's most egregious movie-plot-theft from literature is... the upcoming
National Treasure, starring Nicholas Cage as a man trying to protect some sort of Masonic/Egyptian/Christian treasure by stealing the map to it--which happens to be on the back of the original copy of the Declaration of Independence. Clues to the treasure appear on U.S. currency and apparently the Founding Fathers (TM) had something to do with the hiding of the treasure in the New World. It's like the star-spangled version of
The Da Vinci Code/
Angels & Demons/
Foucault's Pendulum!
posted by Maureen at 7:22 PM
