Exploring options for my Genealogy Project I Googled movies
that I enjoyed to try and see if they may be based off another movie, book,
etc. The movie Inception, which is well known and one of my all time favorite
movies, returned a single but very interesting result. Some people suggested
that a 2004 Donald Duck comic was the source of inspiration for the major
motion picture. In the comic, thieving Beagle Boys use a special machine to
enter Scrooge McDuck’s dream and steal the combination for his safe. Another
similarity is that those who fall in the dream immediately wakeup, just like in
the film. Although this relationship between a comic and film is definitely
interesting, I do not think I would have enough content to complete the
assignment. Another movie I considered is an old favorite of mine titled:
Flightplan. The movie, if you’re not familiar with it, begins with a mother and
her daughter boarding an international flight before falling asleep to pass the
time. Upon waking up the mother discovers her daughter is missing. The movie is
‘loosely’ based on a 1938 film titled: The Lady Vanishes. Similarly to
Flightplan, the main character is travelling by train through Europe and
awakens to discover her elderly travelling companion missing from the train. In
both movies other passengers deny ever seeing the missing companion, forcing
the main characters to seek clues and question their sanity. The film, The Lady
Vanishes was remade in 1979 and again for TV in 2013. It was also based off of
a 1936 novel By: Ethel Lina White titled: The Wheel Spins. Just like in the
movie, in this novel the main character befriends a fellow Englishwoman on a
train through Europe and wakes to discover the woman missing. I found many more
connections for the movie Flightplan, and think it would be enjoyable to
decipher the similarities and differences over time for my Genealogy Project.
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