On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:49:45 -0800 Tania Kamal-Eldin <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 
> I was wondering if anyone might have suggestions for loosely based
> metaphors...Films which derive from classics and myths, mostly Ancient
> Greek traditions but also Asian and Irish.
 
Powell and Pressburger: "Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" for Arthurian legend
("when this house becomes a lake...") and "A Canterbury Tale" for Chaucer in
relation to numerous other strands in English mythology.
 
I know this doesn't exactly fit your criteria, but also Spielberg's "Jaws" for
Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People"...
 
Leo
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Leo Enticknap
Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture
*** look at our website on http://www.ex.ac.uk/bill.douglas/ ***
University of Exeter, UK
 
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