Steve Barron
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Indeed, in Jonze’s radical retelling of the “Pinocchio” story (by way of 1984’s techno-romance “Electric Dreams,”), Samantha’s great existential crisis isn’t that she yearns to be a real, flesh-and-blood human.
In science fiction, we’ve seen similar themes in movies like “Metropolis” (1927) and “Electric Dreams” (1984).
If you immediately think of that obscure 1984 movie called Electric Dreams (or get visions of Philip J. Fry smooching a virtual Lucy Liu), then you’re the sort of sci-fi geek I respect — but let’s get all ideas of novelty and “gimmickry” out of the way right now.
From 1984’s Electric Dreams to Netflix’s embarrassingly bad rom-com Sierra Burgess Is a Loser , a lot of projects borrowed from Cyrano .
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Directed by Joss Whedon
influenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Plot
Each character gets to do their thing, American exceptionalism is invoked and, in a completely unexpected turn of events, the plot ends up borrowing elements from 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .
Virginia Madsen was amazing in Electric Dreams, Sideways and Candyman.
The film was directed by Stacy Title (Let the Devil Wear Black 1999) under a script written by her husband Jonathan Penner ( Coneheads 1993), was based on the book The Bridge to Body Island by Robert Damon Schneck.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
influenced by The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
David's only goal is to prove himself worthy of Monica's love, and so, inspired by Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, he embarks on a quest to find the Blue Fairy and become a real boy, aided by the prostitute mecha Gigolo Joe (Jude Law), framed for murder.
Superman's narrative flow evokes a '90s-styled comic book flick — like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Men in Black — with its episodic procedural flair reminiscent of a classic Saturday morning cartoon.