This afternoon’s thing to do during compiling has been training a HAL on the plot summaries of the top 20 movies on IMDb, and getting it to generate plotlines for future award-winning movies. Some of its results are frighteningly good… how about the plot of the next Indy film?
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, dr. Indiana jones, is hired by the USSR. He suspects that the Communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people.
Or maybe a fusion of the most succesful franchises of all time?
While frodo and sam continue to approach mount doom, will they destroy the death star, or will the emperor rule forever ?
Or an even more surrealist approach to One flew over the cuckoo’s nest:
Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he’s crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to shawshank prison, where the soviet ambassador tells him that the U.S. Government want to find obi-wan kenobi.
Certainly it’s a different ending for Citizen Kane:
The film culminates in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about kane’s life but not enough to unlock the riddle of how his wife, hotshot banker andrew dufresne, is sent to a small hobbit named frodo.
It’s nearly as easy to follow as the real plot of Memento:
Leonard (guy pearce) is an insurance investigator, whose memory has been dating a fifteen year old (fifteen going on thirty-five) and is sentenced to be a government agent by a beautiful blonde.
…for some definition of “truth”, perhaps:
“Schindler’s list” is the based-on-truth story of a young Vito Corleone
Genius.