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* A classic three-way version: ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' is ''Yojimbo'' <small>IN THE OLD WEST!</small>, while ''[[Yojimbo]]'' was ''[[Dashiell Hammett|Red Harvest]]'' <small>IN FEUDAL JAPAN!</small>
** ''[[Last Man Standing]]'' - ''A Fistful of Dollars'' <small>IN PROHIBITION-ERA TEXAS BORDER COUNTRY!</small>
* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]
* ''[[The Wiz]]'' is ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' <small>IN TWENTIETH CENTURY HARLEM!</small>
* [[Shakespeare]] gets this treatment a lot<ref>Though this may be [[Justified]] as Shakepeare's plays were written to be modern; what is now period dress would have been modern at the time, and several shakespeare scholoars have supported this line of thinking.</ref>:
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** ''[[West Side Story]]'' was ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' <small>IN TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW YORK CITY ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN! AS A MUSICAL!</small>
** ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]'' is ''Romeo and Juliet'' <small>WITH GARDEN GNOMES!</small>
** ''[[Scotland, PA]]'' was ''[[Macbeth]]'' <small>AS A DARK COMEDY SET IN A
** ''[[The Lion King]]'' was ''[[Hamlet]]'' <small>IN AFRICA! ANIMATED! DISNEYFIED! WITH A HAPPY ENDING INSTEAD OF A STAGE FULL OF CORPSES!</small>
*** Replace ''Hamlet'' with ''Romeo and Juliet'' and you get the sequel.
*** Replace ''Hamlet'' with ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'' and you get the prequel.
** 1996's ''[[William
** Similarly, the 1995 film of ''[[Richard III]]'' is the play <small>IN 1930s ENGLAND DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION ! WITH NAZI REGIME FORESHADOWING, ORWELLIAN PARALLELS AND [[Diesel Punk]] AESTHETIC ! AND STARRING [[Hey, It's That Guy!|GANDALF]] IN THE TITLE ROLE !</small>
** And the 2000 ''[[Hamlet]]'' is the play <small>IN CORPORATE AMERICA!</small>... featuring some of the most numerous and blatant [[Product Placement|product placements]] ever filmed. Who can forget the Ghost of Hamlet's father disappearing into a Pepsi machine?
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* Semi-averted/subverted in that [[Tim Burton]]'s upcoming film of ''[[Dark Shadows (film)|Dark Shadows]]'' is being set in 1972...just a year after the [[Dark Shadows (TV series)|original television series]] it's based on went off the air.
* The original sci-fi story ''[[Who Goes There]]'' was written in the 1930's. ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' gave the year as 1982, the same year it was released.
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