# Two very different films/shows -- one plot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758 "2003-10-27T01:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758/21 "2003-10-28T17:29:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jovan \* > \*\*… score extra points if: > > -Maverick cop’s partner gets killed in act I > -Maverick cop’s partner was one week away from retirement > -Maverick cop is asigned a play-by-the-book rookie as replacement > -They hate each other at first, but in the end, they become friends > -Previous resolution is brought by rookie wacking a bad guy and saving maverick’s life. > -Maverick cop finds out the DA was also involved in partner’s death - this time, it’s personal. > -One of the major baddies will actually get arrested half-way through for quintuple first-degree murder, conspiracy to blow up LA, and downloading six songs from KaZaA, but will walk out on bail. > > How many movies fit this bill? Right now, I can think of: > > -Metro, starring Eddy Murphy > -I Come in Peace, a sci-fi variation on the theme with Dolph Lundgren > > …There’s got to be more… tons more. \*\* Erotic Thrillers use these themes all the time – but it’s not SURPRISING to find similarity in such a hackneyed genre. Now, if this theme were to show up in an indie four-hankie chick flick it’d be different. Shoot, come to think of it, Lifetime might have somthing along those lines – as I recall there’s a movie called “False Arrest” where a woman is framed for murder by a crooked cop, spends years in jail but finally a crusading defense attorney finds the holes in her prosecution’s case, frees her and gets the crooked cop arrested in a not-so-false manner. I think the DA was crooked too. Definitely a four-hankie weeper, but it had Donna Mills in handcuffs and legirons and getting a lesbian prison rape and a body cavity search, so … it wasn’t ALL bad. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758/22 "2003-10-28T18:22:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nanook \* > \*\*EVIL CAPTOR, the plot you mention is also the same for Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, right down to the miracle at the end. \*\* Ok, that’s two indie flicks and one Japanese cartoon porn flicks using this plot. Do we hear a Western? A Broadway musical? An SF flick? ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758/23 "2003-10-28T19:06:42Z")
Dantes Peak / Volcano Armageddon / Deep Impact ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758/24 "2003-10-28T23:02:20Z")
[Failsafe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/) and .[Dr. Strangelove](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/) are basically the same movie, only one is a drama and the other a comedy. They even came out around the same time. Both are great movies. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758/25 "2003-10-29T00:21:55Z")
_Born on the Fourth of July_ and _Forrest Gump_ both deal with a young American man during and after the Vietnam War. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758/26 "2003-10-29T01:29:37Z")
Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_ and the MacKenzie Brothers’ _Strange Brew_ had the same plot. Oh wait, that was intentional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-very-different-films-shows-one-plot/209758.md?page=1)