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Match Point (2005)
Directed by Woody Allen
influenced by The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Visuals
When first ecnountered, playing ping-pong, Nola is dressed in a tight white outfit, generating the kind of eroticism that recalls the first sight of Lana Turner in “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
King Arthur (2004)
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
influenced by The Black Knight (1954), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Themes
If you're looking for something closer to the Arthur legends, or if you just want to see some old-fashioned knights in shining armor rescuing fair damsels in distress, you might consider John Boorman's excellent "Excalibur" (1981), the best of the lot; or "Ivanhoe" (1952), "Knights of the Round Table" (1953), "Prince Valiant" (1954), "The Black Knight" (1954), "Sword of Lancelot" (1963), "Lancelot du Lac" (1974), "Sword of the Valiant" (1982), "First Knight" (1995), "Dragonheart" (1996), the musical "Camelot" (1967), or even the zany "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975).
King Arthur and his band of legendary knights have fascinated storytellers as diverse as Mark Twain ("A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court") to Looney Tunes ("Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court").
Apocalypto (2006)
Directed by Mel Gibson
influenced by A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Plot
The first can hardly be called original, since it’s cribbed from Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
She gets to sport the kind of turbaned headwear favored by 1940s movie stars – think Lana Turner in “The Postman Always Rings Twice” – plus those devilish twisting horns.
In shooting the murder of Richard Crenna’s Edmund, Lawrence Kasdan cut away from the actual bludgeoning just as Tay Garnett did in The Postman Always Rings Twice .
La Notte (1961)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
influenced by The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Plot
Among the little-known gems: "Story of a Love Affair" (1950), Antonioni's first feature, which is an adaptation of James M. Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" ; "Chung Kuo China" (1972), a four-hour documentary of daily Chinese life during Mao's Cultural Revolution; and "The Mystery of Oberwald" (1980), picked by Time magazine as one of the best films of 1980, yet the adaptation of Jean Cocteau's "The Eagle Has Two Heads" has never been released in North America.