It happened tomorrow

Frank Bubacz frankbubacz at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 10 14:16:25 CEST 2002


>From: Marco Barlotti

>this is certainly *not* the first time that movie was "parodied", I mean 
>there were OTHER (Italian) Disney stories which were a parody of that 
>(beautiful and very funny) movie.

Thanks for the info, Marco. The Goofy story has even been published in 
Germany, but I don't know it. I have also learnt that there is a TV show 
called "Early Edition" built around the same theme. Given the fact that "It 
happened tomorrow" seems to be a very inspiring movie I wonder why it is 
rather neglected by film critics within Clair's work???
I really have to see it...

I know that Disney artists (especially in Italy) always had a weakness
for parodying classic literature, but I just learn the same is true for 
classic movies! I only remember few other examples, one of them a parody
of "Gone with the Wind", another one the Scarpa story "Ciao Minnotchka",
inspired by the third best Lubitsch movie. Also Barks comes to my mind with 
"The Hound of the Whiskervilles", parts of it being visually inspired by the 
1959 Hammer film with Peter Cushing (the comic even was drawn in the same 
year).

Any enlightenment about Disney comics being parodies, adaptations or 
variations of movie classics is welcome!

Frank





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