So before I have said that perhaps nothing is original anymore so I am going to go through a list of films and to me they are similar or adaptations to others (I can't help it i'm board).
- 10 things I hate about you, 1999, a clear adaptation of 'The Taming of the Shrew' by William Shakespeare.
- The Hot Chick, 2002, a spell made to a horrible person and they have til the full moon to change, 'Beauty and The Beast' and 'Cinderella'.
- The Girl Next Door, 2004, a guy falls in love with a girl who uses her 'assets' for a living, this must be 'Pygmalion' which adapted to 'Pretty Woman', 'My fair lady' and also it kind of has edges of 'Risky Business' the Tom Cruise Classic.
- Agent Cody Banks , 2003, I hate to says this as it is a brilliant film for me but it is a clear rip off of 'Spy Kids' just with slightly older kids.
- Walk to Remember,2002 and the book is 1999, I hate to criticise Nicholas Sparks on this but the template of guy is popular, girl is not, guy proves something to his friends at the start and then falls for the girl, girl is unique in her own way which is one of the qualities which the guy falls for. But, don't worry Sparks other films have this same plot; 'She's all that', '10 things I hate about you', 'The Duff' and 'Whatever it takes'.
- A film where a unpopular girl falls for the popular guy, battles it out with the queen bee who wants him as well and wins. Well, this could be 'The Duff', 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging', 'High school musical' and 'Odd Girl out'.
- Saved!,2004, a girl becomes pregnant and is then ostracized by all of her friends who turn on her. Well this could be the obvious 'Scarlet Letter' which could lead to the 'Easy A' which even within its plot refers to the common similarities to the Scarlet Letter. Though if we are minusing the ostracizing you could have 'Juno' on your hands.
- Staten Island Summer, 2015, two unlikely geek who have never rebelled in their lives decide to have an all out party. Wow, it seems like not only is this film plot repetitive but, it is so stereotypically teenager even I have started planning a surprise parents-are-out-party but, i'm still not ballsy enough to do it. So basically it is 'Superbad', a couple of the 'american pie's and i'm not sure but i'm pretty certain that 'Accepted' would definitely cross the barrier.
- Sydney White, 2007, a clear modern day adaptation of 'Snow White and the seven dwarves' as even she has seven people who when marching with picket signs sing 'Hi Ho'.
- Paper Towns, 2015 book written 2008, but, i'm pretty sure having a nerdy guy falling for the popular girl who takes him out for an extravagant night qualifies as 'I love you, Beth Cooper'.
- 17 again,2009, when a guy who is ungrateful with their life simply gets turned back into a younger self well I'm pretty sure on this front that this near enough exactly the same as '13 going on 30'.
- White Chicks,2004,so basically a cop dressing up a beautiful girl to protect some wealthy prettier girls well this seems like the 'Miss Congeniality' series.
- It's a boy girl thing,2006, when two people who detest each other accidently end up in each others bodies well this is basically 'Freaky Friday' though this time they try and truly ruin each other's lives.
Just to say I'm sorry if I have offended anyone its just I read a whole lot of book and you kind of notice how they try to deviate from the norms of that specific genre to which eventually create every book from that genre being the same deviation and I watch a lot of films which is why I find it easy to see the similarities. But, at the moment in this world all I want to see are the differences. What makes you unique from everybody else?
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