Recently I saw a PSA about some commonly used substance and I swear whoever made it must have watched The Kentucky Fried Movie. 
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The Minnow had a large but potentially repairable hole in it. When the Professor couldn’t fashion adequate nails to secure planks over the hole, they used the ultra-sticky tree sap Gilligan discovered as glue (he’d originally been trying for pancake syrup). Unfortunately, the glue broke down after just a day or two and in the process caused the Minnow to completely disintegrate. Partial blame goes to the Professor- he signed off on using the glue.
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After an entire episode of trying to recover the Skipper’s memory of how he’d been able to convert a radio receiver into a transmitter during WW2, they were about to radio for help when Gilligan crushed the transmitter under a load of firewood. (And that is when they should have hanged him).
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A survivor-type contestant on the island refused to radio for help or let anyone know the castaways were there because the prize he was seeking was conditional on his surviving “alone” on the island. The castaways kept a sharp look out for the boat that was coming to pick him up. Gilligan completely ignored the helicopter that came instead.
I don’t recall these being stated, and I’m not going to go through the whole thread, so forgive me if they have. These are examples drawn from the literary figures that have been significantly changed by cinemtaic interpretations.
– Tarzan was NOT a monosyllabic grunted who said “Me Tarzan, You Jane”. He was incredibly well self-taught, and could write more eloquently than that. Then he learned to speak French. Then, at last, he learned English, and was amazingly fluent in it.
– He also never swung from vines in the books. He brachiated, like apes. Burroughs actually made fun of the Hollywood visions of Tarzan in his Tarzan book “Tarzan and the Lion Man”.
– Tarzan’s son was named Korak, not “Boy”, and he was pretty eloquent, too.
– Tarzan’s monkey companion (not the chimp Cheetah, nor any sort of gorilla) was Nkima the monkey.
–Frankenstein’s monster was amazingly eloquent, too. He;s downright florid in his langauge. (“Eat, and be refreshed!”). None of this non-vocalizing, or “Bread Good! Fire bad!”
More recent film versions have been more faithful to the nbooks, bu Disney’s Tarzan is still not all that good at speechifying. And the newer interpretations of Frankenstein in “Frankenstein Unbound”, Branaugh’s “Frankenstein”, and others still havenb’t erased those images.
I have a 16mm reel of outtakes from Star Trek that’s pretty funny. In addition to Kirk running into the turbolift doors that didn’t open, and Spock getting hit in the butt by one of the fake-vomit creatures in Operation: Annihilate, there’s a clip from The Gamesters of Triskelion. You know the scene: Kirk takes Shahna in a passionate embrace. In the clip, the embrace is shown forward and backward resulting in apparent repeated pelvic thrusts – set to the Mission: Impossible theme. 
In the texts themselves, he and Watson (or some visitor) usually smoked cigars.
While Holmes did smoke cigars, and cigarettes, he far more often smoked pipes, especialy “his disreputable clay”. I don’t recall him ever being said to smoke a calabash in the Canon. Supposedly, actor William Gilettte introduced it because it didn’t obscure his face, and let him speak his lines. Certainly it has become iconic, and used in pastches (like Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven Per Cent Solution.)
Outstanding thread, and great observation, RC; one would think there was a small hidden puddle of deadly quicksand around every horseshoe bend in the trail out west. Same with box canyons and hole-in-the-wall gangs. Old west gun fights were extremely rare if you are imagining mano v. mano “Draw, stranger!”, it was far more common to have an ambush, five on one assasinations, or shooting a guy in the back for cheating.
Daniel Boone never wore a coonskin cap; his lid of choice was sort of top hat that tied under the chin, earflaps and all.
Boxing movies always seem to feature an unknown palooka getting a title shot, geez! I coulda been a contenda, instead of a bum.
Babe Ruth didn’t spend as much time visiting sick kids as he did sucking suds and chasing tail, but legend would have it he saved more kids than St. Jude with his miraculous homeruns.
Speaking of miracles, the lives of the saints depicted in films are peppered with miracles, when in fact, most of them were just parlor and card tricks. George Burns as the almighty even complained, “The last time I performed a miracle was parting the Red Sea, oh, the '69 Mets aside.”
Which brings me to my final thought on these cliches, and I need some help here, who in the world thunk up this whole invisibility thing? Is there any basis for the vast number of cases of persons, places, and things that are there, but hidden from the eye?
I meant to say this before, but somehow forgot.
Aesiron said:
I don’t trust their interpretations. That site has a clear agenda to categorize any Kirk on female encounter as anything but Kirk wanting to get some.
Same person that came up with magma as a plot device. I can’t say as I’ve encountered ANY in my 40 years on this planet. Now, I can’t say I’ve spent a whole lotta time in Hawaii or Mt. St. Helens, but according to the Saturday morning cartoons, Magma is EVERYWHERE!
There are Greek myths about rings that could bestow invisibility. And no, I am not getting confused with Tolkein :P. But if it has its roots in antiquity, it could explain its ubiquity.
Okay, I need that last line on a T-shirt.
To tell the truth, I only know about one ring in Greek Mythology that conferred invisibility – the Ring of Gyges, and it only appears in the account Plato gives in The Republic (Herodotus’ account of Gyges doesn’t include the ring)
There are other invisibility-conferring rings, like Jamie Keddie’s Ring (mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in one of his novels) , but I have no idea how old they are.
Greek mythology DID have the Helmet of Hades, which was given to Perseus to give him invisibility. it even shows up in the movie Clash of the Titans
Known far and wide as an authority on Greek history and mechanical owls. 
I’m not sure if this was your intention, but please, please, *please *don’t associate Alan Moore with the terrible film version of League. The comic is amazing; the film should be vomited on, then burned, then the ashes vomited on again. And, as has been observed by someone else, in the comic it was stated that Jekyll and Hyde started out at the same size, but Hyde grew larger and stronger as Jeckyl grew smaller and more frail.
I’m confused. To what movie are you referring? I mean, I’ve heard rumors of a movie version of LoEG, with Sean Connery and that dude from ER and the girl from The Fifth Element but those were only rumors put about by…um… well, Satan, I suppose. Or someone else who hates us all.
I’ll be over here, curled in a fetal ball in the corner, rocking back and forth with my hands over my ears, whispering, “It never happened, it never happened, it never happened, it never happened, itneverhappeneditneverhappeneditneverhappeneditneverhappened.”
I only saw it because it was being shown on a flight and I figured, “What the hell, I might as well kill a couple of hours and see if it was as horrible if everyone said it was.” :smack: Bad idea. Bad, bad idea.
I am going to tell you this once more–NO SUCH MOVIE WAS EVER MADE!!!
What you are remembering is a fever dream brought on by a bout of malaria. If you say that enough times you’ll start to believe it.
Actually, originally he changed into the Hulk at night, and was Banner during the day. Sort of like a werewolf, just without needing the full moon to trigger it. After they brought back the grey Hulk and the day/night transformations, they explained it with some psuedoscience about the sun’s radiation interfering with the gamma radiation in his body. Why it didn’t effect him for all the years in between with various other triggers, they didn’t say.
Sort of. The “printing error” was simply that the printing technology of the day made it near impossible to get a consistent shade of grey, so for the 2nd issue they switched to green. The green was never an error, I don’t know if you meant to imply that or not, but I could see someone reading your statement that way and just wanted to add a little more and prevent any confusion.
ajdebosco said:
You mean like “The Invisible Man”, or like Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code crap?
Skald the Rhymer said:
Peta Wilson wasn’t in The Fifth Element.
Well, I SAID they were rumors.
I believe the current explanation is that Bruce Banner has multiple personality disorder. The Grey Hulk, Child Hulk, Beast Hulk, and Professor Hulk are all separate personas. (The Professor Hulk has Bruce’s genius and general personality; the Grey Hulk is cunning and criminal, with normal human intelligence; the Child-Hulk is the one who generally acts like a child (obviously); and the Beats Hulk is, ah, bestial (equally). Child & Beast are the strongest, as they’re the ones who can go furthest into rage.