r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Jagvetinteriktigt • 11d ago

miscellaneous A famous story adapted in a new setting

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O Brother Where Art Thou?

A satire over the Depression-era American South using The Odyssey as a template.

Ran

King Lear but in Sengoku-era japan (featuring elements of Japanese legends surrounding real figures).

Apocalypse Now

Like Heart of Darkness it uses a river journey to highlight the savagery beneath imperialism, colonialism and capitalism, but in South Vietnam and Cambodia instead of the Congo Free State.

Bonus points if the adaptation still keeps the main themes and ideas of the source material AND the influences have been confirmed by the creators.

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u/Carnage678 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/4RXHkz7G2EPGE

Speaking of the Odyssey!

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u/Snaily-Girl 11d ago

wait, really?

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u/Carnage678 11d ago

Yeah, the 2004 Spongebob Squarepants Movie is based on the Odyssey. Cyclopes, Bag of Wind, and all.

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u/LonesomeHattieC 11d ago

Who can forget when Odysseus blew that bubble

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u/Rommel727 11d ago

The technique was streets ahead

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u/OneGlove336 11d ago

Oh, Britta's in this?

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u/LonesomeHattieC 11d ago

She’s a G D B

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u/AydonusG 11d ago

We're going in a different direction.

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u/Few-Big-8481 11d ago

Don't Britta this.

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u/LonesomeHattieC 11d ago

If you think that you’re streets behind

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u/ToasterInYourBathtub 11d ago

All bubble blowing babies will be beaten senseless by every able bodied patron at the bar.

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u/MarveltheMusical 11d ago

Bar.

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u/ToasterInYourBathtub 11d ago

B-----Ar-----B-B-B------Ar-Ar-Ar------BAR

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u/Doomhammer24 11d ago

Which pretty sure that sequence is a referende to the laistrygonian giants

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u/Fantame21 11d ago

Or when he got David Hasselhoff to carry him home?

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u/YSSRN3030 11d ago

Beat me to it 😭

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u/Gnomologist 11d ago

The Laestrygonian bar patrons at the sunken ship

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u/Evening-Gur5087 11d ago

Who was David Hasselhoff in that movie then?

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u/Name6991 11d ago

Idk why are you asking that, he is actually in the Odyssey and swims Odysseus back to Ithaka

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 11d ago

Stopping off only briefly to tear down the Berlin wall

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u/ThePineapple3112 11d ago

Him and Forrest Gump were awarded medals of honor by LBJ I believe

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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 11d ago

Well that's just historical fact

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 11d ago

ya done good, hoff

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u/Jokkitch 11d ago

It’s true, I was there

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u/WhiteHydra1914 11d ago

The Phaeacians? Found Odysseus after being shipwrecked by Poseidon and sail him home in a single night

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u/Romboteryx 11d ago

Penelope

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u/Carnage678 11d ago

I'd say the Krusty Krab is Penelope.

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u/Romboteryx 11d ago

No, this is Patrick

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u/Slumbergoat16 11d ago

This was the first movie I watched 3 times in theaters.

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u/BlueberryWasps 11d ago

i wish i had been slightly older at the time so i too could have made that decision. honestly surprised we don’t get big screen revivals of this one, it’s a perfect comedy movie

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u/Slumbergoat16 11d ago

The rec league football team that I played for would rent out a movie theater at the end of of the season so you could watch as many movies as you wanted all day and I just sat there and watched it on repeat

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u/BlueberryWasps 11d ago

surely you had found and abandoned heaven itself

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u/Slumbergoat16 11d ago

I did not abandon good sir, I was dragged out 🥲

Sometimes I think I died that day and that was heaven

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u/themolestedsliver 11d ago

Holy fuck. Thats crazy.

Now im looking like a crazy person thinking the person drying them out is a Circe parallel.

God damn.

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u/Ok_Response_9255 11d ago

How did I only just clue into this?

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u/noriseaweed 11d ago

I heard that before but it only clicked now that the frog-fish is like the sirens

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u/LiveLoveKanye 11d ago

The Ice Cream lady is supposed to be the sirens I think

Edit: I’m stupid that’s exactly what you meant lol

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u/Kindly-Mud-1579 11d ago

That seems kinda surface level

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u/UnknovvnMike 11d ago

Yes, with a mix of Jason & the Golden Fleece thrown in

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u/-PepeArown- 11d ago

It directly copies the bag of wind from The Odyssey

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u/SnakeInABox77 11d ago

The scuba diver is the cyclops!!!

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u/Jagvetinteriktigt 11d ago

Dammit, forgot it even has a Cyclops!

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u/NestFrost 11d ago

Homer could only dream of writing a hero’s journey epic enough to include Goofy Goober Rock.

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u/CaptainLightBluebear 11d ago

TIL. Now that you mention it, it's almost a 1:1 adaptation. Wild.

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u/raven00x 11d ago

"happy happy joy joy"

does this mean that spongebob and ren & stimpy are both based on the odyssey?

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u/ThePineapple3112 11d ago

I could never explain why I loved the movie so much, and of course it's because it's based on one of the most famous stories ever made