Not a whole lot of response to the last game, but the “Shakespeare does Pulp Fiction” thing was definately worth the price of the thread. Here’s another …
Take the name of any movie; well known or not. Change one letter (just one!) in the name to create a new scenario and provide a rationale for it. For instance, “Saving Private Ryan” would became:
“Saving Primate Ryan” : sequel to the Planet of the Apes.
The Paine Mutiny: One of the greatest writers of the American Revolution turns traitor and sides with Benedict Arnold.
*Forrest Pump: * A simple-minded country boy gets horny in the woods. When Harry Wet Sally: A woman gets a divorce because of her husband’s incontinence. The Postidon Adventure: Cliff Clavin and the Teeming Millions take an ocean voyage on a ship that capsizes. The Codfather: Mafia doings in the briny deep.
“If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge
Gore with the Wind Scarlett O’Hara’s tale as produced by Peckinpah
Lone with the Wind Scarlett O’Hara never meets up with Butler during the war and spends the rest of her life listening to the wind sweep away Tara’s topsoil
Gone with the Wine After Rhet leaves, Scarlett takes up drinking in a serious way
Gone with the Wand Scarlett O’Hara meets her fairy godmother, whose magic wand she steals
Gone with the Wend Tara is washed away by the local meandering brook
Gene with the Wind Scarlett gets into DNA in a big way
Citizen Lane: Lois buys The Daily Planet.
Easy Wider: No change to the movie at all.
The God Couple: Oscar and Felix get religious
The Podfather: The main bodysnatcher comes to Earth, and is he ever mad!
In the Game of the Father - AN IRA member and his father are imprisoned for crimes against the govt. and learn to bond through the powers of Baseball while in prison.
By the way, isn’t this how Dom Delouise chooses his movies now? (Silence of the Hams, Plump Fiction)
Don’t let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.
*Stag Wars - * The expanded story of Bambi, told in three movies, with a trilogy prequel about his father (who, it turns out, had actually been raised by the hunters!)
*Paws - * Just when you thought it was safe to go into a pet store…
*Saturday Night Never - * Bill Murray, in a reprise of his Groundhog Day role, finds himself constantly waking up on Friday morning.
*Crease - * John Travolta working the steam press in a dry-cleaner’s store (Olivia Newton-John plays the owner’s daughter)
and finally (for now)…
*Beauty and the Blast - * Miss PLO is going to win the Miss Universe contest, or else! (And trust me, it ain’t easy to win a beauty contest with a three-day growth of beard!)
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective