Which one?

Sweet Charity was one of the most formative movies in my childhood. For me.

Isn't the whole point of Terry Prachett's works to create witty and endearing satire? I always read his books as him looking at our world and reality through the perspective of a very intelligent, childlike mind, that questions and rejects our world as for being nonensical and through Discworld, he makes a world that makes a lot more sense even if it appears absolutely bonkers. To Discworld, we are the weirdos. That is what I really enjoyed about his books. He forces you to think about the absurdity of our reality by asking frankly ridiculous questions and then through his clever storytelling and social and political commentary, he always manages to deliver a well thought out point that makes you appreciate all kinds of facettes of life.

In the case of Terry Prachett, the theft of ideas is the entire point and not a natural bi product of being a creative.

As well, there is rarely ever an original form of art

Please reread what you wrote.

from the first arranging of some feathers, or charcoal finger strokes in some cave a hundred thousand years ago, EVERY new thing, color, stroke, note arrangement, word composition, has been original. Some of these, of course, have been used as a basis or inspiration, or part of newer artistic expressions. Often, it's nature that provides the inspiration. La Sagrada Familia cathedral is inspired by these stalagmites children (and some adults) make by dropping watery sand down a mound, for example.

It's like saying that when some hominin drew a circle in the sand, and another who saw him drew a square, the second one copied him. Well, you could say the 2nd copied the moving finger in the sand, but it fucking invented the square. Yeah, I know, Pyrite et Al. would like a word.

Michael Jackson literally cloned these moves and style. Almost 100%.

Although there is a fine (blurry?) line between inspiration and imitation, MJ was waaaay inside the imitation demarcation.

Stealing a bar, or a concept, or a sample, all are really normal, as they're transforming the art. They're meant to help you remember the old piece with a little nostalgia.

He took 100% of the choreography here from a movie that was hardly seen in the US. This is not to say he wasn't talented at it. But you throw that together with a moonwalk and a few other pieces and you have 100% of his stage presence.

Don't know what you're talking about, Shakespeare wrote the first story about two people falling in love. That not ending well, also Shakespeare original.

You sound confident, but no...

"Not quite the same" is frankly, respectfully, a semantic bullshit position here. All of what Jackson did was 99.7% the spirit of this Fosse performance. Period.

Further your point about rap is off as well because they don't "steal", they sample - meaning they license the use with legal permission OR they pay in court after the fact. It's listed in the liner notes and credit is given directly, unlike with Jackson and Fosse as I'd never once heard or read this growing up.

So again, you sound confident, while being very wrong.

Are you implying that Michael Jackson was a pedophile? Because that has been pretty much proven to be completely false. Like with overwhelming absence of evidence.

If such things as truth and justice matter to you at all of course. Maybe you said this just for the lulz.

I saw this meme pop up on reddit, and it's reposted here and follows the same disgusting trajectory here. "Oh look MJ stole!" No he didn't, he credited Bob Fosse who admired MJ for being an amazing dancer and perfecting this style.

"Oh look it's a snake and a child, get it? get it?" - no he was innocent and framed by the media and racist prosecutors and people seeking money.

I'm so sick how stupid evil will always triumph over justice and truth because it is so relentless and "so yummy" and "fun" to spew this shit. People have learned nothing today from OP except reinforcing the lies.

That only just scratches the surface, mon ami. ANY celebration, except Passover, (which they refer to as the Memorial) is evil and to be rejected. On top of that, the JWs underwent a major shift around 1975. Internal discipline was ramped way up and overall the religion went to a "Armageddon is coming any day" footing. Children as young as 3 were told that the End was coming soon, and it could happen next month, next week, tomorrow, or an hour from now, and if they weren't obeying the teachings of the faith that they would die in a fiery apocalypse

This message was repeated to them multiple times a day, with parents being told that they would be held responsible for their children as well. If child was found unworthy of survival at Armageddon, so would they.

Every single waking moment was viewed as a moment to demonstrate faithfulness to the teachings of the Governing Body, every single opportunity to attempt to bring in new worshippers had to be taken. If not, you risked death.

And this is without mentioning that all JWs were expected to have as few contacts with non-believers as possible, except when preaching to them. No friends outside the faith. No relationships on any level with anyone who wasn't a believer. From the oldest down to the babies, you were supposed to have only absolutely necessary contact with those who weren't JWs.

There was one girl in my class that was Jehovah's witness when I was little. Every time we would have a class party she would have to go sit in the corner and just watch us all stuffing our faces with sugar and having fun.

seeing the original compared to the 30s highlight, I understand the saying: " great artist steal": MJ took 5 move in a whole 2min routine, and stole them. Another artist would have just copied the whole routine. I would never think about choosing those 5 moves seeing the movie. I wouldnt realise they were the best moves. It took a MJ to get them and make them pop

thanks, was much more fun.

I never heard of it til I watched the 2015 animated movie. Was decent iirc.

We was not. And he's been defended by some of the kids too.

No. On the other hand, you don't pay $15 to $25 million for no reason.

Yeah, reason didn't get you here, reason won't get you out.