Same title, different something

[knile]

Media I like with the same names but different themes/sources:

• American Beauty the movie and American Beauty the Grateful Dead album


• Dazed and Confused the movie and Dazed and Confused the Led Zeppelin song


• Mezzanine the Massive Attack album and The Mezzanine the Nicholson Baker book.
  

All I have for now. Surely there must be more. Not on the list

Comments

[groorg1]

You can twist the meaning of almost any title by adding the phrase "by Michael Crichton" to the end of it, and perhaps saying it with the movie promo voice. For example, to maintain your theme, see what happens to "Ghost World".

How about: Madagascar?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110427/

[svino]

You can twist the meaning of almost any title by adding the phrase "by Michael Crichton" to the end of it

I'm surprised you didn't suggest adding "...by M. Night Shyamalan". But my favorite example of this has to be Jane Austen's Mafia!.

As for the original question, I don't know; It seems too easy to come up with examples just using single common words. And there are other common phrases like Heaven and Earth that title a lot of media, some of them good.

The less obvious things I can come up with might be more likely for the "Not on the list" list:

City of Angels: the Red hot Chili Peppers song / movie with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan.

Drop Dead Gorgeous: the song by Republica / god-awful comedy about beauty pageant murders.

If I'm being generous, I could claim The Street Fighter, the classic martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba (first movie to earn an 'X' rating based on violence) / Capcom video game series.

[knile]

You've got the right idea. I have no idea what Joel's talking about. Maybe he missed the point. I don't want to create new media. I want to compare pre-existing media. American Pie the song and American Pie the movie? Okay!

Note that you're wrong about the RHCP song's title. Do I know this Republica song? I must investigate.

[svino]

American Pie the song and American Pie the movie?

In that case though, I'd say the movie title is a reference to the song, even though they're thematically unrelated.

Note that you're wrong about the RHCP song's title

Doh! I knew that, really!