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From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Buddy, buddy - WHAT A RIPOFF!
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 13:49:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 13:49:29 1985
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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