Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpm!cher From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Buddy, buddy - WHAT A RIPOFF! Message-ID: <168@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 13:49:29 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpm.168 Posted: Fri Mar 8 13:49:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 08:45:27 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 21 --- Yesterday I saw pieces of Buddy buddy on tv. The story is a very close copy of a French comedy made, I believe, in mid-70s. I felt very disgusted because buddy's creators' product is inferior in every respect: casting, acting, humor,... everything. That made me wonder about copyright regulations. If the French crew, indeed, was the first to use the story - does the author of the script get paid? Also on the sad note: it is a pity that instead of release of an excellent foreign film the American public received a second-hand remake. Thus another question is about lack of wide foreign releases. What makes things like making Buddy profitable? Is it just public's need to see a momentous familiar name (like Lemmon)? Hard to believe. Mike Cherepov