Did Captain America: The First Avenger Rip Off a 1960s Don Knotts Comedy?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- From the makers of BEHIND THE BACKDOOR PILOT comes a new video series called STRANGELY SIMILAR, looking at media that seems awfully familiar. Is it a coincidence? A conspiracy? Or something else?
In this installment, we explore an idea submitted by Jesse Farrell (jfsculpts.com/), who observes that the plot of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER has a lot in common with a Don Knotts comedy from 1964.
Got an idea for a STRANGELY SIMILAR? Let us know in the comments!
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And not only the same plots in movies, but the same screams, the same horror fake jump scares with the help of a orchestra violin, bass and trumpet and the same dont go to jail jokes. Typical and predictable...
Except the plot of Captain America first avenger is taken almost directly from the comic book Captain America # 1 1940. The end of the movie showing Captain America's revival is a reworking of Avengers # 4 1964 which came out at almost the same time as the release of The Incredible Mr Limpet
Of course. This whole idea is a big stretch. Yesterday were both movies.
I knew upon seeing this vid there were some true comic historians that would bring up that Mr Limpet is actually a Rip Off of Captain America 👍
Great video. I didn't notice the similarities till now.
Also didn't know about that cancelled Jim Carrey remake of Mr Limpett. That test footage is pure nightmare fuel. 😂
It's called the Hero's Journey.
This was already covered in Joseph Campbell's seminal work "The Fish With a Thousand Faces."
ha!
A lot of people don't know there's a Mr. Limpet figure snuck into "The Little Mermaid" dark ride in Disneyland in Anaheim.
Gotta look next time I’m at the park
But that's impossible; Mr. Limpet is NOT a Disney Movie. It's from Warner Brothers.
@@chrismulwee4911Somehow it's there!
@@chrismulwee4911 But he was animated by a Disney animator.
Mr. Limpet teaming up with The Birds! Good one 🤣
One example I like to point out as shearing the same storyline are The three amigos and Galaxy Quest.
By Grabthar's Hammer...
Would you say, you have a plethora, of juxtapositions?
Si si el guapo. You got a plethora.
Mr Limpet was my childhood!
Thank You, for saving us, from the Nazis...well, at least the German ones.
This channel is criminally undersubscribed!
Terminator Genisys has almost the same plot as The Avengers - Age Of Ultron
What a cool idea for a series! When I was a kid, I saw A Bug’s Life in theaters and said, “that was animated The Three Amigos!”
I’m sure actors turned actual heroes is a genre all its own, but I remember just being amused. The Three Amigos is a movie my family would always watch and was one of the first that we got on DVD when we switched over to that format. The similarities were just too unmissable for 12-year- old me
Wow dude. I'm a fan of both movies and I didn't realize they were that similar. What an unusual take for a channel idea. I like it.
Did you ever notice that Ghostbusters Afterlife is a shot for shot remake of The Lost Boys?
Single mom and her two kids are lose their home and move to a new town with a bad secret. Look for a job. Older kid meets a girl. Younger kid meets up with a dorky guy. Mom starts dating. The uncover a supernatural threat. Old guys appear from nowhere and save them in the end.
I have two ideas for this video series : Pixar's Cars / Doc Hollywood and Point Break / The Fast and the Furious
ooh, those are both excellent ideas. Thanks @Beasley2k10, we will add them to the list!
Point break fast furious is the same movie. They even said it while they were making it.
A superb, well researched and illustrated essay. Damn fine work!
I really enjoyed this! However, the plot of "Captain America: First Avenger" basically followed the plot of the original comic book "Captain America #1 with a few additions from comics "Tales of Suspense" (which became the new "Captain America" comic book) and "Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandoes." Still the comparison was fun to watch and remember an old favorite (and a new one). 😊👍👍
Is it "strangely" similar or "I went on a coke bender and just realized I have two days to write a script" similar?
Thank you for this Video.
I saw the 1960s Movie when it aired on TV when I was a Kid.
Had forgotten the name of the 1960s Movie.
Had been thinking about the 1960s Movie for some Months now.
So what you're saying is Mr Limpet copied Captain America???
The Captain America Comics came out in the 1940s and the Movie Captain America First Avenger was based on those Comics with very few changes.
Here's one I've noticed since I was a kid: Race For Your Life Charlie Brown and The Chipmunk Adventure are both about a group of boys racing against a group of girls. In both movies the two groups end up teaming up with each other in the end and in both movies it's the boys who end up losing their vehicle and having to hitch a ride with the girls, also both movies were released exactly 10 years apart from eachother. But I never noticed most of the Muppets/Wizard of Oz similarities before, other than the part about both opening with songs about rainbows
Ooh, good one. I'm not familiar with that Chipmunks movie. Honestly, I always thought UP THE CREEK was like an R-rated RACE FOR YOUR LIFE, CHARLIE BROWN. There's even a hero canine (Chuck the Wonder Dog!)
OH MAN, I loved this movie as a kid! And Cap's movie was pretty good fun too.
According to Save the Cat the Hollywood script writing handbook, there is only 10 types of movie templates in Hollywood movie making, if your script don't fit, your movie won't get made.
Could you do a Strangley Simular on the Simulaties on the Grumpy Old Men films, with the British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine?
The first MCU Thor movie is almost the same movie as The Philadelphia Experiement (minus the Asgard stuff)
It's a Wonderful Life and Jumanji:
It starts out in the hero’s childhood, and he’s brought to a timeline where his absence has digressed his hometown. When the timeline corrects, his lip is bleeding, and his story ties up at a Christmas party also attended by his wife where “Hark the Harold Angels Sing” is played.
Both Captain America and Mr Limpet have presence at Disney's California Adventure. Cap, of course, is there on the Avenger's Campus and Limpet in fish form is located towards the "under the Sea" section of The Little Mermaid attraction
That CGI Jim Carrey fish looks like Seaman on the Sega Dreamcast.
Wow, it looks like my idea for a movie where a nerdy, introverted character suddenly develops strange powers and turns into a self-confident hero has already been done (at least twice). The original "Mr. Limpet" was one of my favorite childhood transformation movies, along with Disney's original "Shaggy Dog," and I was really looking forward to the Jim Carrey remake - but after seeing that nightmare fuel test footage, very glad they didn't go ahead with it! (Of course, with current mocap face rig technology and CGI animation, a Jim Carrey fish would look a lot less nightmareish today.)
OK, but Captain America story (comic book origin, story) was before the 60s so which one’s really emulating what
Capt. America's origin is much older than the fish movie.
I'm a huge movie buff. Thank you. Nice presentation. I subscribed immediately.
Was Mr. Limpet based on Captain America Comix?
The story of Captain America was written before Mr Limpet in comic book form. The First Avenger was much of a rehash of the comics from the '40s. They pulled and cherry picked butt it is from the comics. You can say Mr Limpet stole from the comics.
I was just wondering the other day about wiether or not the Barbie movie was in some ways similar to live action Fat Albert movie, never saw either one, but from what I remember from trailers and what i read it sort of hit me how similar they sounded.
i can only see Scott Cramer saying "he f***s a fish?!?"
Insert Keanu Reeves Whoa meme here.
liked and subbed. Disney didn't think we'd notice but we did lol
I think that the troublesome dolphins reference the Theater Movie DAY OF THE DOLPHINS.
My Favorite Movie List during my Elementary School Years included DAY OF THE DOLPHINS and THE PLANET OF THE APES and GREEN ?SOYET? and SILENT RUNNING.
Don't remember the channel, MatPat maybe; but I remember seeing a video comparing "Battle Beyond the Stars" to "The Magnificent Seven". Battle was a quirky movie trying to take advantage of the hype around things like Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers at the end of the 70s. It's decent popcorn fun, but is most notable for having Johnboy from the Waltons in it, and the spaceship that might as well be a giant female torso. I've also heard that Magnificent Seven is itself an homage to a Japanese film maker's Samurai movie.
I would love a shared universe of those old movies. An "Avengers" with Mr. Limpet, Mary Poppins, heck even what's his name from the Jungle Book with Baloo! So much potential! (BTW most CG test footage looks terrible, that's why they usually never show it before the final product)
Is this one is actually intentional but the movie Killer Klowns From Outer Space is a shot for shot remake of the original The Blob.
5:42 "Same technology as Cap." I don't remember the tesseract having anything to do with the super soldier serum. 🤔
Surf Wisely.
Gus would have been funnier than the birds, but still loved the video
The animal super heros reboots, last one shown was The Birds. Lol
XD
I don't remember details, but I noticed awile back that Ocean's Eleven and Oh Brother Where Art Thou both start with a guy in jail, with a plan, but the plan isn't his REAL plan, the real plan is to get his wife back.
Also there are eerie similarities with the lead actor in both movies, being that it's the same guy.
I can’t believe Mr. Limpet ate all those babies on a train!
ha ha ha. Y'know that's extra funny because there's a scene in CAPTAIN AMERICA where they storm a train in the snow.
There's also a fish in snowpiercer! 😂 🐟 🪓 ❄️
Yes, that's right. An essential detail and a bit of foreshadowing.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9
Top Gun 2 is Top Gun 1 but with A New Hopes ending.
There's an old saying - there's nothing new under the sun. Practically every movie you see these days uses tropes from every other genre movie.
The Three Amigos and A Bug’s Life are also essentially the same story.
The movie "Nope" is a remake of "Jaws."
There are only seven story plots.
To be fair, Captain America was created in 1940
Love Mr Limpet ❤
The Comicbook first, so basically Cap ripped off himself.
I always loved The Incredible Mr. Limpett
It is gr8 news that Mr. Limpet was never remade. It is like the TV movie he made--The Ghost and Mr. Chicken--there is simply no one today who is talented enough to play either role. If you want to laugh check out either one.
ha ha ha... the birds!
Can you do a video on " It the Terror From Beyond Space" Vs the original "Alien" movie. Alien is basically a scene for seen remake but James Cameron has never given credit to Terror from beyond space.
The original "Alien" was directed by Ridley Scott. James Cameron directed the sequel "Aliens." 😊
Avengers Infinity War and Trolls World Tour are the same movie and Speed is follow up to Ferris Buellers Day off.
I think this video goes to prove that despite common wisdom, there is not nearly enough drugs in Hollywood pitch meetings at the moment.
Going on since mankind has entertained itself.
So I guess this means Wonder Woman is also a remake of Mr Limpet
The Ridley Scott movies avatar and aliens are basically the same movie....
I believe, you have missed, the James Cameron connection, to Avatar. With as much as he jacked, from other sources, you can be excused, of this oversight, though.
This was crazy interesting... 😂👍
I just watched Wonka a couple of weeks ago. So many similarities to the 80s Annie movie.
Really? Will have to take a look.
I posted a comment about this on the Mr. Limpett movie about a month ago.
The thing aint bad news bears its older than bad news bears
Idea for the next episode of Strangely Familiar: Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Kahn and the Bond film Skyfall.
Anybody else watch the firing squad episode of Tale Spin and the firing squad episode of Yuri Kuma Arashi? If you have the time the final episode of She-Ra: Princesses of Power.
I haven't seen either of those. Thanks for the tip(s)!
The comparison of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gunga Din. Too many similarities to be a coincidence.
My house is the same as the White House too.
Thin, very thin.
cap was in the comic books 1st
It was already a remake from the captain america from the 90s
Dang. I remember watching The Incredible Mr. Limpet when I was five. No way I was gonna twig to some of the "grown up" elements like infidelity and a hot to trot trout. Interesting what got put into that flick! =0[.]o=
it's true there are no original ideas out there just ideas with different spin on it
What about Avatar vs Dances With Wolves? Its the same story
The wizard of Oz and the Muppets are owned by MGM. Both are timeless classics.
The Wizard of Oz is owned by Warner Bros and Disney owns the Muppets.
That was cool!
Sister Act 2 and School of Rock
This is silly. I like it. 😂 Yo, anything that brings Don Knotts back in to the zeitgeist is ok with me.
Avatar is pretty much identical to Ferngully-The last rainforest
Avatar is Dances With Wolves in space
BROOKLYN! ❤
The movie get out and skeleton key 2005 are the same
Mr.Furely the first avenger
😊😊😊😊
If you take Steve Martin's The Jerk and turn it into a serious drama... you'd have Forrest Gump
When was Gump a poor black child?
the Mupet Movie was done like that on purpose, they even said it themselves
see also: THE ADVENTURES OF ELMO IN GROUCHLAND.
Cars & Doc Hollywood....🤓
Is anyone else here because of Scott Cramer?
I love all these films, but this is kinda stretching it.😂
You do know the Cap movie is from the Captain America COMIC BOOK!!!!!🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨 Witch Came first During WW2!!!
What did I just watch?
The machine is a total ripoff of if looks could kill. Congrats on your next million view video.
I can't believe someone actually thought this? Seriously? Which came first the Captain America Comic books or the Don Knotts movie the Incredible Mr Limpet? Captain America came first. If anything, they borrowed the base storyline of a 98lb weakling who goes through a metamorphic change and becomes a military hero from Captain America. SERIOUSLY?
This is kind of a stretch.
If this is true it wouldn’t be the last time the mcu ripped off another movie cause the universe is forced to reference other Disney franchises and with black panther the whole movie is just to fill that quota with the whole movie being the lion king with superheroes cause the movie is beat for beat the lion king if Simba was a superhero and scar was his brother instead of uncle
A lot like how Civil War stole the story of BVS.
No imagination,...all around
I refuse to believe that The Incredible Mr. Limpett was a comedy. Don Knotts was a funny guy, and his acting in The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company, and several movies (many with Tim Conway), was hilarious.
But when I saw Mr. Limpett, I didn't laugh even once. It wasn't a terrible movie, but it just wasn't funny. It was imaginative and dramatic, but funny it was not.