Giselle Salome

By cross-tabulating the names of the existing movies you can generate an infinite number of new, interesting and sometimes humorous and whacky movie ideas.

The Film “Unkown” (2006) for example seems to be a cross between “”Reservoir Dogs” and “Memento”.

Let’s create a 5X5 table and fill the last 4 row and column headers with the titles of 4 films. (The top-left square should be left empty.)

Let’s see what kind of cross-pollinations we can get if the films we choose for this exercise are…

The Godfather, Memento, Devil Wears Prada, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Godfather-meets-Memento: A Mafia boss tries to get his revenge if only he can remember who killed his wife and sons.

Godfather-meets-Prada: An ambitious fashion boss in Manhattan hires contract killers and forms her own posse to get rid of all her rivals in the fashion world.

Raiders-meet-Prada: A Harvard educated team of fortune-hunters in Egypt hire a top-notch fashion designer to decipher the clues hidden in the clothing of the pharaohs depicted on the walls of the pyramids.

Raiders-meet-Memento: An archeologist progressively loses her memory and identity as she gets closer to the hidden crypt inside the pyramid. Her only chance of survival is to enact the revolting act of worshipping ritual that she deciphers from a crypt.

Here is another…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) meets Das Boot (1981) – A group of mentally retarded patients are shipped to a destination unknown inside an old German U-boat. Our hero has a chance to stage a revolt and take over the command of the submarine. Can he do it? At what price?

Possibilities are endless. Cross-index the movies you love and have fun!

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