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Re: Oh, those disney copycats.

Posted By: wintermute, on host 65.189.54.153
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 08:23:22
In Reply To: Re: Oh, those disney copycats. posted by Morka on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at 07:27:00:

> The villain who hypnotizes the sultan (or the king) is an old plot device. Remember Gríma Wormtongue and the King Theoden?

Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings between 1937 and 1949, so I'm not sure that this is a better example of the device's antiquity than a movie from 1940...

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Re: Oh, those disney copycats. - Howard - Wed, 8/12/2009, 17:15:54

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