Put what you recall on paper, turn it into a screenplay. Let me know how quickly you get sued.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

	▲	badlibrarian 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Trillion dollar companies license.

One could argue most screenplays are derivative.

	▲	badlibrarian 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hollywood has extraordinarily well-defined controls for keeping things legal and everyone in the chain compensated. Plus a separate Oscars category for it.
	▲	analog8374 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I heard somewhere there's like eight basic plots or something. and everything else is just an elaboration on that