the world is just odd sometimes...

[joegoda]

In 2006, I wrote a short book about a gent who basically was a retired spy. He still worked a bit, behind a desk. Then he found out that he had a daughter, who had been embroiled by the white slavery trade near Croatia. He took care of the situation.

Interesting. I just watched the movie Taken with Liam Neeson. Darned good flick. Very suspenseful. It came out last year, in 2008. It was about a gent who basically was a retired spy. He still worked a bit, when he needed the money. Then his daughter took a trip to Paris and became embroiled in the white slavery trade, which was based out of Bosnia, which is just to the East of Croatia. He took care of the situation.

I thought the movie was very well done, and Liam is one of my favorite actors. About 1/2 way through I started to go "Hmmmm." Granted, there were quite a number of differences. Granted, it was cleaner than what I wrote and there wasn't any of that Science fictiony stuff that I tried to keep out of it.

Still... it's not the first time I've seen an idea I had presented to me. Robin Williams in the mid 70's. Terry Pratchett in a variety of forms. Neil Gaimen in style. So, hey... it just shows that I got talent! Or at least, I come up with ideas that other folks already have.

So... I recommend this movie, if you haven't seen it. It's a white knuckles sorta flick and not a lot of improbability in it.

Comments

[capi.livejournal.com]

That's kinda.... eerie!! But yeah, flattering, too! Same places, even! Wow!

But i already KNOWED you got talent. *GRIN*

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

I'm probably plugged into the great Play-doh Creativity Machine in the sky. I had one of those... the ones that made red play-doh bricks, and yellow star ribbons... it was very cool.

Anyway, the difference between me and those other guys is that they've worked harder to get where they are.

[capi.livejournal.com]

I dunno 'bout that. But then, how can we prove or disprove it anyway?

((( hug ))) Love you. *grin* THAT MUCH i am sure of.

[rogerbarnacle.livejournal.com]

3 or 4 years ago, I found myself telling a friend of mine about a story I had started to write in college and never finished. I believe the files for this story are still on the hard drive of my first laptop computer.

"You see, it's about this world far in the future where everyone is plugged into a virtual reality that they live in all the time. It has been this way so long that people don't realize that it's not real. And there is this group of freedom fighters that run around trying to beat the machine and get everyone unhooked and...wait...Dammit! I was writing the Matrix!"

I wrote that about 10 years before the movies came out. I didn't even reaize it until I was telling this to my friend, because in my head everything had looked and seemed so different than in the movies that I had never associated my story with thr Matrix before.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Reckon it just shows that we're all connected at some level, yes? Funny ol' world this is...