Influences and Mashups

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Until yesterday, I’d never read Pride and Prejudice. Although I’ve adored any and all film versions, I can’t claim it among my literary influences. And this is where I upset Elisa and confess that until yesterday, I’d never read any Austen at all.

So what brought me to break down and finally read A Classic? The movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (Not the book. I honestly have no interest in the book. Yet.) It took a love story I adore and added women kicking ass.

Not that Lizzie Bennet has ever not kicked ass. The movie takes that quiet, inner power and parades it blatantly on the outside to decimate zombie hordes.

I already want to see it again.

Added bonus: I officially introduced my 18-year-old niece to the story of Pride and Prejudice. Now, she might be a little obsessed. I am the best of influences. ^_^

Mashups have become passé in the last few years. A trend that will change again and again. I appreciate that this particular mashup brought me to the source material. It helped me figure out a detail of a subplot I have never managed to get quite right in half a dozen drafts.

And if you adhere to the adage that no story is truly new and original, then all stories are mashups. It’s just that the stories to bear that badge pay more overt homage to their influences.

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