I have no idea how it has happened, but Hollywood has stolen my million dollar movie idea :eek:
Let me explain.
A few weeks ago, I was having a slow office day, so I started reading humor (mormon, gay, bill clinton) online. Suddenly I have an idea, about a gay man falling for a Mormon missionary?? And the story starts to develop- mr. gay is a non-commital gay, only wanting to have some fun. Enter a mormon missionary into the neighbourhood, and mr. g is ready for a commitment with mr. m. and the story then begins.
but yesterday, I found this on imdb :eek:
As you can see, this is a clear case of theft. I have no idea how they managed to read my mind though, since I havent put the story down in words. And the sad part is that I cannot sue them because of this. But I wont let it go without telling it to the someone or the smdb forum. So there you have it, the truth is out. Sympathies from members welcomed and appreciated.
Also, I didn’t know which forum this thread belonged to, so I put it here. I hope the moderator will send it to the right forum.
This would make your idea a little late. It’s happened to all of us. I once had the idea of taking a loaf of bread and cutting it into individual slices, but someone beat me to it.
Bullshit! That was my idea! Why you mind-scoping, intellectual property-thieving beast! You read my mind back before I was conceived! You can’t deny it!!!
You think that’s a rip-off. I had this idea for remaking “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” only changing the villain so it would be this shifty-eyed dog. The people would suspect the dog.
That, and take out that Godawful filibuster scene. It was fine for the 1930s – the country was doing great back then. Everyone was into talking.
But now, in whatever year this is, the audience wants action. And seats with beverage holders. But mainly action.
I came up with the idea for portable electronic music player (like, say, a CompactFlash MP3 player) as a very young child in the mid-80s. I had some edutainment toy that had different word games on these little cartridges. I thought. . .“Why don’t they put music on these cartridges, there’d be no skipping, no tape wearing out, and no moving parts to break!” Of course, being like 6 years old I was not yet able to move on to the implementation phase. By the time high school and college had come along and I had a better knowledge base with which to exploit my Big Idea, I found that it was already basically done.
Back in middle school (mid-80’s) I came up with a concept very, very similar to the upcoming movie Butterfly Effect. Of course, I never did anything with it.
And Professor Frink stole my idea for mood pants. I shall never forgive him.
I came up with the idea to combine a TV and VCR in one machine back in about 1987 or so. They probably already existed back then, but I’d never heard of them.
I’m somewhat embarrassed to realize that that one idea may have been the creative pinnacle of my life.
My own ideas had been stolen not only by Hollywood but by all kind of people. I invented the video camera when I was 7, the mp3 player when I was 15 and a plot about a little alien who grabs the heart of a family, among others (coming up with the story about a big ship who sunks in its initial trip was enough to my parents, then). Damn.
Has the name “He-Man Woman Haters Club” been taken yet? Not that we hate women, but ever since I came up with the name back in '75, I’ve been looking to found or co-found a club and name it that. You should see the cool salute I came up with, too!
Someone stole the idea for a comic book off one of my old throw away sketch pads. 1998 or so I came up with a tall skinny male character with a scarred left eye, long curled goatee who wears a broad brimmed hat and duster. he carries a shotgun and hunts robots in the old west apocalyptic style future. In 2001 or 2 a comic was released that had that SAME character down to the eye scar and a very similar storyline. I DO know that one of my highschool aqquaintences works for said company. Bastard. If I ONLY had bought that copyright…
I came up with the idea for movies “on-damand” more than 10 years ago.
I was visiting a friend who had a HUGE library of videocasettes, and I asked myself where the technology could possibly go next. What I came up with was having a central databank that stored thousands of films, which subscribers could tap into and view whenever they wanted. Lo and behold, it’s now available every night in my living room.
I came up with using electronic RAM as removable storage - much more space than a floppy or even a ZIP disk while simultaneously
being more compact. Storage wouldn’t be as high as CD-Rs, but it’s about a million times faster, so who cares? I mean, computer tapes have plenty of space, but they’re slow as all hell. Plus, even at the time (a few years ago) RAM was almost as cheap per unit of storage even than 3.5" floppies, and cheaper than 250 MB ZIP disks. The difference was more than made up, in my mind, by the utility of 256 MB or even 512 MB being immediately available. It would take 178 high density floppies to have 256 MB of storage in a format that already suffers from a very slow transfer bitrate.
I was told a couple of times that this idea was impractical for silly reasons that I can’t remember now. No way, I insisted, the convenience was well worth investing some research and money into overcoming the downsides.
Well, here we are, a few years later and removable RAM sticks are becoming all the rage. What’s more, they’re still more practical than I had predicted - ZIP died (effectively) because the technology never became standard. RAM sticks use the USB technology that is now on every computer built in the last 3 years or so (and which has been around for 5-6 plus). I predict them sweeping the market within a couple of years at the outside. Go figure.