TC answers “Is anybody else getting "Passenger" vibes...”

Laiba Saif asked this question about Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1):

Is anybody else getting "Passenger" vibes from the synopsis? Ya know, the new JLaw and Chris Pratt movie? I saw the trailer and was like, "Whoa. That sounds really familiar."

TC Plots are cheap. Shakespeare ripped off pretty much all of his. We don't read and perform his plays 400 years later because of his unique stories; it'…morePlots are cheap. Shakespeare ripped off pretty much all of his. We don't read and perform his plays 400 years later because of his unique stories; it's because of how he told them. Likewise, others have retold his stories in unique ways that have stood on their own—and I've never once heard anyone whine that West Side Story was "stolen" from Romeo and Juliette.

The trope of a slow-moving spaceship filled with multi-generational crews (aka a "generation ship") and cryogenically frozen people (who often awake early) is an entire sub-genre of SF, with contributions to it from legendary writers like Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. To claim that "this story stole from that" is to believe that the story is what's important, rather than the telling.(less)

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