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So, if you're not familiar, Yesterday is an upcoming film wherein an injury & a blackout lead a man to enter a universe where The Beatles never existed & he becomes famous passing their songs off as his own because he's the only person who remembers the songs.

What pop culture phenomenon do you know by heart so that you could recreate it if you woke up in a world where it had never existed?

I don't think there's anything I know by heart, but I could probably reconstruct a fair few episodes of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Any of the Star Wars movies really, but especially the OT. Babylon 5. Tolkien (movies and book). Doctor Who.

Probably Princess Bride? But the movie came out before I was born, so I'm not sure that, even if I re-wrote it or somehow scraped together the money to make Totally Original Indie Film The Princess Bride, it would really work being released in the culture of 2019 rather than 1987?
I have occasionally fantasized about going back in time, writing a book almost-but-not-quite identical to Twilight (so, less sexist, basically), and trying to get it published before S Meyers gets hers out.

Okay, that movie looks totally adorable.
And um. Wow......I really can't...think of anything, heh.

Legend of Zelda, without a doubt. That game is permanently burned into my muscle memory.

I can probably story line several games. Not sure how to go about pitching them to someone. I'd be the new creator of Bioshock, Pokemon, and Overwatch.

Edited 2019-03-02 01:25 (UTC)

I'll write Twilight, pocket the cash, and walk away. I don't know it by heart, but uh, there's not that much to know.

See, I'd just rip off the universe since I think that part is good, and then write a completely different story that doesn't center around three lovesick idiots and the legendary werewolf child who was foretold.

Taylor Swift lmao.

I was just thinking this, lol. I know the majority of her songs by heart. Not sure if the songs would work as well with any other voice but hers, though. I mean, there are plenty of stronger voices out there, but her voice fits with her songs because they're her songs, so IDK.

Er, probably Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. Except without Cameron Mackintosh’s backing or Lloyd-Webber’s money, the Puccini estate plagiarism lawsuit might’ve wiped me out.

Also it was such a collaborative effort, and I’m no choreographer or director, that without Hal Prince and Gillian Lynne (and Maria Bjornson but I love her sets and costumes and might be able to replicate them, if poorly) the show wouldn’t have been such a huge success. I think a notebook of winning lotto numbers would be a safer bet.

I'm a huge Beatles fan and I find this a pretty unnerving concept.

lol

I was like, wait, isn't that basically the ending of Hot Tub Time Machine/beginning of HTTM2? Except with multiple artists, of course.

There's a lot of media where I could re-tell the story or "invemt" the characters, but I don't have the skill to re-create it in the same way and have it be successful. I think timing plays a role, as well. If I woke up in a world where Sherlock Holmes never existed and I re-wrote those stories, would the character become as famous as he has without over 100 years of interest behind him? Would "creating" Batman in a world without Batman achieve anything?

Yup, this. I mean sure, I'll play along with the premise and name something I know really well, but in reality, knowing the plot of a book isn't knowing how to write that book, and knowing the lyrics and melody of a song isn't knowing the entire instrumental track, recording process and marketing process of that song - and even if you did manage to create a passable copy of the thing, it still wouldn't be received the same way now as it was five years ago or ten years ago or fifty years ago.

If someone wrote "She loves you ya, ya, ya" now, we'd all be like, "Pfft, what is this, pop for babyboomers who feel threatened by modern pop?"

Harry Potter.

And I wouldn't tweet weird poo vanishing facts about it years later.

And god bless you for it. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't ultimately put off the entire series because it just. Doesn't. Stop.

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