How is it that nobody got sued by George Lucas and Spielberg for such a deliberate ripoff of the 1984, Temple of Doom.
I mean thwe scene when the kids walk in to the piramid and watch the dark ceremony from above is like identical to the second Indiana Jones.
Also another similar ripoff of The Temple of Doom is the corny 1985, King Solomon's Mines with Richard Chamberlain. Look at details. There is more then a dosen scenes that prove it.
yes,I noticed it as well.Even the music sounds similar
shareWell Kennedy, Marshall and Spielberg WERE the Executive Producers of Temple of doom and Young Sherlock, so they can't exactly sue themselves can they?
shareSince this film was in production at the time of Temple of Doom's release and the script was already written a long time beforehand, I'd say it's just a coincidence.
Think about things before you stir up an argument like this!
With the same producer its no coincidence. According to what you say, then the Temple of Doom must have finished filming before Young Sherlock Holmes started filming. Script changes are made sometimes all the way through filming and things can still be changed in the editing room! So, I think its likely Spielberg intentionally took some elements and incorporated them into the YSH after ToD came out as the producer's progative. A bit of the old tongue in cheek and maybe too self-congradualtory, but I would bet the script for Young Sherlock Holmes went through many, many changes by the time filming was complete with Spielberg adding in.
No coincidence! There's a definite cause and effect with Spielberg as the nexus.
Think about things indeed!
Because Spielberg executive produced doesn't mean a damn thing! Does that mean that every horror film Wes Craven exec produces MUST pay homage to any other film he's done with a similar scene?
And I don't care what you say can be done in an editing room. They cannot magic scene out of thin air because of something similar in ToD which was currently in cinemas. The Rametep/sacrafice plot was obviously in there from the start. Which would be pre-1984 (the year production began on YSH and the year ToD was released).
Like I said, think about it!
its not a rip off at all. its just a BIT the same. whose gives a monkeys ball???
sharePersonally, I found the pyramid/secret cult thing to be the worst part of an otherwise interesting movie.
shareyeah they are very similar and i think it was all spielberg having a part in both movies or maybe just coincadince but whatever the reason there was tv special or whatever called poochie it was that had a something similar to the scene in ysh heres the link to it http://imdb.com/title/tt0808423/maindetails truth is i watched its something that was taped for my sister when we were younger i found the tape and watched it again its not actually as similar as i remembered but it is about a ancient egyptian society that an archeologist finds and they cant let him leave so they have to mummify him alive well i guess its not mummify completly cause i think the whole process of mummification involves the brain being removed and all that but someone is wrapped up like a mummy alive but thats bout all the connection is beyond that theres not much else i guess in a way its nothing special cause in this case its just referencing to the same thing done in history as ysh if people where really wrapped up as mummys alive i dont know but still just the people probably thought of the same idea
shareMy friend Christina and I once talked about the similarity of those two scenes...the three heroes watch a human sacrifice from a hidden vantage point and it even ends with the hero saying "Wait here," going down to get a closer look, and getting caught.
I pointed out that at least it hadn't had Elizabeth snapping, "You're gonna get KILLED chasing after your damn fortune and glory!"
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There is no doubt that part of Young Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Speilberg's other co-production Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (or it could have been the other way around, despite 'Temple' being released first).
I find Young Sherlock Holmes to have an intriguing atmosphere. It really does capture a feeling of Victorian England, and its fascinations with Egyptology, and closetted, rarefied, English Public schools. (Confusingly, what we English refer to as Public schools are actually attended by few of the public as they are the most expensive private schools. What Americans would refer to as public schools, we English would call comprehensive schools. Wikipedia states that the English meaning refers to public accessibility in the sense that they do not exclude students on the basis of faith or nationality). Young Sherlock Holmes is certainly one of the best adventure films of the 1980s to me and it maintains a mood extremely well. It certainly deserves to be much more well known than it is.