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Pootie tang and Amelie

posted 21 years ago by sellington
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Has anyone noticed the remarkable parallels between Pootie Tang and Amelie?? Most obviously their introductions are nearly identical. A voice over describing the main character's child hood and how they were different from other children. Also the death of a parent in a very strange way. Next, Both of the main characters are obsessed with doing good but do not worry about themselves. Also both main characters are afriad to allow themselves to fall in love. Coincidence, Plagerism, or do great minds just think alike?? Your comments

[–] JIBBE 21 years ago

Yes, I completely agree

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[–] macullen 21 years ago

WORD.

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[–] flipdangelo 21 years ago

great minds think alike! what a great comparison between two brilliant films!

i've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass........and i'm all out of bubblegum.

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[–] mugwump 20 years ago

Go back in time a little more if you're to accuse a work of plagiarism. The truth is that the whole principle of the voice-over introduction comes from Quebec's 'La vie heureuse de Léopold Z'. In fact, it was used in such a similar way in Amélie that many people asked director Jeunet if he had seen Carle's film. Of course, he denied it but the fact remains that it would neither be Amélie or even less Pootie Tang that created such a great gimmick but Gilles Carle's film. By the way, I strongly suggest you try and find a copy of 'La vie heureuse' instead of wasting time on Pootie Tang.

[–] J-X 20 years ago

id like to say Pootie Tang has never been released in theater in france, neither it has been dubbed or even released with subtitles, french never heard of pootie tang, must be baaadbadbad lol

[–] Frickles 20 years ago

I find this very unlikely. Mostly because production on "Amelie" started in 1999. Probably before "Pootie Tang". Also they were released only 3 or 4 months apart in 2001. I don't know. Really, plagerism and "great minds thinking alike" seem improbable. Production schedules were too close together and they were shot in entirely different countries. And scripts aside, there aren't many parallels between the two films. The artistic approach in each film is quite different (one movie is pretentious, the other is just rediculous...guess which is which). I'm not saying plagerism or otherwise is impossible, just improbable.

It just appears to be a matter of coincidence. Although this should come as no surprise. The cinematic techniques in both movies are not new and these are by no means the first films to use them.

[–] refusetobeenthused 20 years ago

that post wasn't meant to be taken seriously, my friend

"Let's go, we're done with this jackass festival."

[–] bigloleys 20 years ago

Pootie Tang was better

[–] burninblazes 19 years ago

I think I enjoyed Pootie Tang more than Amelie.

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[–] burninblazes 19 years ago

Well, I think it was supposed to be, though it just bored me.

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"Why spend your life making someone else's dreams come true?"

-- Ed Wood, the movie