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| re: Streets Of Fire & Road To hell | |
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Marvello 12:51 am UTC 09/10/08 |
| In reply to: | re: Streets Of Fire & Road To hell - wordnix 12:33 am UTC 09/10/08 |
| I don't think it's ripped off/influenced by, it's a bloody follow up, have you missed the point? It's the story of what happened to Cody & McCoy years after the events in SOF, A SEQUEL, albeit produced by different people, what is that so strange, or have you TOTALLY missed the point. For example ALL the Alien films had pretty much a different production team, or do you class all those sequels as a ripoff. > I'm not worried about the songs, they got relevant > permission for those by interview account, but everything > else that seems ripped off from (excuse me...influenced > by) "Streets of Fire" does give one pause. > > > Do WE know for sure that the relevent permissions have not > > been obtained, after all they ARE licensing the 2 songs in > > the correct manner. So maybe we should assume that they > > have been sought and obtained. > > > > > I don't mean to discourage the makers of RTH, but they do > > > realize that Walter Hill has considerable grounds with > > > which to sue them for copyright infringement at this > > > point, right? > > > > > > > With the release this autumn of RTH, i'd like to ask Jim > > > > about the song Nowhere Fast. > > > > As we all know theres the film version and Meatloafs > > > > version, around the time of release i remember reading an > > > > article that said that the original version was given to > > > > Meatloaf and a rewrite of the song was done for the film, > > > > i'd like to know > > > > 1- Was the meatloaf version originally intended for the > > > > film? > > > > 2- If it was, who decided it wasn't suitable, you or the > > > > film company? > > > > 3- If it was your decision, what was it about the original > > > > version that made you consider a rewrite? > > > > > > > > Personally i prefer the SOF version, but the above > > > > questions have had me wondering for years. > > > > > > > > On a final note i've been in contact with RTH screenwriter > > > > Cynthia Curnan who's in the process of registering for the > > > > Rockman board. > > > > | |
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