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Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/30/nemo.reut/index.html

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Like Nemo, Pierrot lives in a pink sea anemone and starts life half-orphaned because one parent was swallowed up by Liona, the scorpion fish.

Oh, this is so funny. How many fairy tales/children's stories have one parent dead?

Both characters look alike!

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Agreeing that the uncanny resemblance between Pierrot and Nemo could be coincidental (clown fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, do look alike in nature)

Heehee

Both characters are helped by fish friends. What are the chances of that happening??

Has anyone read the P.G. Wodehouse book where one of Bertie's friends comes up with a lovable fish character in order to make his fortune in order to marry the daughter of a rich American?

[ December 30, 2003, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: Javert Hugo ]

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

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"I want my fish to live," Le Calvez said.

*bursts into tears*

Oh....that is so TRAGIC!!!

Pfft. That's hilarious. I love the part where he does admit that the film was finished before his book...ahem. Dufus.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

It's been done before; it will be done again:

Harry Potter Plagiarized?

Dagonee

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

Hmf. They obviously both stole the idea from a Ranger Rick article on clownfish and anemone that I remember from around 1978.

[ December 31, 2003, 10:00 AM: Message edited by: dkw ]

Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :

Oh, I remember the Stouffer lady. Her own lawyers dropped her when they realized she didn't have a case, and the judge who made the final ruling gave her the smackdown for falsifying evidence.

She then tried to republish her books under N.K. Stouffer.