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stella_artois — 19 years ago(February 20, 2007 02:52 PM)

This film is a total rip off of the Lampton Worm legend that has been told in the north of england for centuries!
Wait a minute, Doc. Ah Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?

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Agreed!
That doesn't make it a 'ripoff', though. It makes it nothing but inspired by a folk legendas was Dracula, the Wolfman. As many stories are based on true events.
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Doesn't change the fact that both the film and Stoker's book were based on the Sunderland/ Wearmouth legend.

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What a silly thing to say. All writers get their inspiration from somewhere. Where do you thing kernels of ideas come from. Oh yes out of the ether, which is actually free-floating thought. Do you think Disney made up Cinderella or did it come from folk tales re-told? And Arthur the movie is that not a re-working of the tales of Arthur? Think!

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truth.

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The movie has little in common with the book.

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"the word "wyrm" is not usually translated as "dragon"" - umm, yes it is. And dragons and snakes are very conncted, dragons are supposed to be fire breathing/flying/seadwelling snakes or lizards

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The word "wyrm" is not usually translated as "dragon" or wasn't the last time i looked at my old anglo-saxon primer. As a neighbouring family of the Lambtons for the last umpteen hundred years i would like to point out that "wyrm" is usually translated as "snake" so perhaps Stoker had it right.
The idea that that the "Lambton Worm" was a dragon likely to owe its origins to Victorian Myth Makers/Rewriters.
Perhaps I am wrong and I am willing to stand corrected in that case. The ambiguity of many Anglo-saxon nouns is well known, due mainly to the paucity of Anglo-saxon literature but also due to the existence of many regional dialects, especially after The Conquest.

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bram stoker wrote the book that ken russel made into a filmbram added his own brand (lol) of vampires to the already exising legend of - you said it, the lampton worm, which was actually known as the lampton Varm - which was another word for dragon! Imagine that, the lamton worm is actually a dragon legend. Funny hey.

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How is it a rip off? Because it makes a reference to it? Someone call the copyright cops!
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