The theme that I bring today could well give for a series of posts. Too bad I haven't read so much, so much, so much that I have found books that look suspiciously alike.
Than movies The sixth Sense y The other They have a basic plot idea almost traced, it is something that you can verify in an afternoon. However, finding two books that look alike is somewhat more difficult. However, thanks to the cinema, sometimes we can come to realize it.
This is the case of the novel by Dennis Lehane Shutter Island, made into a movie by Martin Scorsese, and God's crooked linesby Torcuato Luca de Tena.
I admit that I have not read the book, but I saw the movie Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Months later, rambling one afternoon in March through the shelves of the municipal library, I came across a succulent title: God's crooked lines. Who is capable of resisting such a title?
In order not to make this too extensive post I will tell you what elements I found in Luca de Tena's book that reminded me a lot of the argument of Shutter Island.
- The story begins when two detectives enter a psychiatric facility to solve a mystery and pose as mentally ill to integrate.
- There is a doctor whom both protagonists wait for, who does not appear because he is traveling and who seems to be the key to solving the matter.
- The place where it takes place is an isolated place, with pavilions and buildings that the protagonists cannot access.
- There are many moments in which you doubt the protagonists and their true mission in the psychiatric hospital.
- The end, in both cases, leaves you with an uneasy feeling of doubt.
They differ in many ways, of course. While Shutter Island the protagonist is a man, Teddy Daniels, and is set in the United States in the 40s, God's crooked lines It stars a woman, Alice Gould, and is set in Spain in the 70s.
Luca de Tena's work was published in 1979, many years before Dennis Lehane's novel, published in 2003.
In the absence of reading the American novel, I can affirm that God's crooked lines It is a journey into madness and, as the author states in the dedication of the book, a tribute to the medical class:
God's crooked lines are, indeed, very crooked. Exemplary men and women, tenacious and even heroic, seek to straighten them out. Sometimes they succeed. The deep admiration for his work during my voluntary stay in a psychiatric hospital added to the gratitude and respect that I have always experienced for the medical establishment. Hence, I dedicate these pages to physicians, nurses, caretakers, caretakers, and other professionals who spend their lives in the noble and earnest service of Nature's most hapless errors.
After doing a search in Google, I have been able to verify that I have not been the only one who has realized the similarity of these stories. And you, do you know books that perish suspiciously?
The others - another turn of the screw (henry james)
Total defiance - we will remember it for you (philip k dick)
Lost - two after midnight (stephen king)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K Dick)
Well, any "big name" science fiction movie is taken from Asimov, George Orwell, Verne, K Dick etc. etc. And that the scriptwriters and directors know very well but they keep it quiet because they know that people do not read. Let's take advantage of human stupidity and make refried foods. Cinema is chewed literature. A little respect for the original creators. Let them say what book they are copying. And they give them Oscars !? Give them to the writer who is the one who had the idea!
I totally agree with you, Kf. It was a few days ago that I found out that 'Shutter Island' is a 2003 novel that Scorsese made into a movie in 2010. We can also talk about 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and Harper Lee. More recently on television we can talk about 'True Detective' and Carcosa and all the mythology, characters and places that the screenwriter has taken from other writers.
Note that the author of 'Shutter Island' also wrote 'Mistyc River' (which he also did not know was based on a novel) and is a screenwriter for 'The Wire'.
What I wonder is if Dennis Leahne, by chance, read 'God's crooked lines' or saw the 1983 movie, because the similarities are very evident.
Of course, you will have to read the novel to see if it has the same literary depth as the work of Luca de Tena or is it a thriller to devour the weekend.
: n the cases of Total Challenge and A scanner Darkly is that they are officially based on those stories by Phillip K. Dick. To accuse some filmmakers of plagiarism who have religiously paid the adaptation rights and signed a contract with the heirs, in addition to putting their name in the credits as the author of the work on which the film is based, is a bit of going over three towns.
Put good vibes on it!
Mambo cutter.
I completely agree, I can hardly believe that Dennis Lehane wrote "Shutter Island" without having read "God's Crooked Lines"
The detective and protagonist of the book is only one, Alice Gould. They are not two.
I'm reading God's crooked lines. I haven't read the Shutter Island novel either, but I have seen the movie. I'm not halfway through the book yet, but something has happened that has totally led me to think about Shutter Island and I have automatically googled to see who had copied whom, because it is clear that one novel would not exist without the other and this is Shutter Island. I may be completely wrong, but it's too suspiciously alike to be just a fluke.
A shame to have already seen Shutter Island, because I feel that the crooked lines of God are not going to surprise me as much as they should.
You should say it to the contrary in any case, Shuter Island is the one that would resemble The lines ... because of the age of each one ... what a mania we have to devalue the national compared to the outside ...