When Life Imitates Art

starbelgrade · 09-08-2011 10:16AM #1

It often happens by accident or complete coincidence, but sometimes when it happens, the results can be quite eerie.

One example of it struck me the other day when I was watching a film...

Art.. "The Adjustment Bureau"

A politician falls in love with the wrong person, with irrevocable consequences. His election campaign is scuppered when the press publish the details of a public scandal he gets involved in.

His name is David Norris.

Life.. The Presidential Campaign.

A politician falls in love with the wrong person, with irrevocable consequences. His election campaign is scuppered when the press publish the details of a public scandal he gets involved in.

His name is David Norris.

Anyone got any more examples of incidents where life imitates art?

FatherLen · 09-08-2011 10:19AM

i once took a shit which reminded me of sex and the city if that counts???

but seriously thats weird.

GrizzlyMan · 09-08-2011 11:56AM

Art.. Speed

A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.

Life.....

A young Priest must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a Milk Float by keeping its speed above 4 mph.

oh wait...........:(

The King of Moo · 09-08-2011 12:17PM

I don't mean to be trivial, but what's going on in London at the moment is strangely similar to the leaked set videos of

The Dark Knight Rises

coming out at the moment.

hidinginthebush · 09-08-2011 12:22PM

Kent Brockman: Stay tuned for the story of a real-life Tom and Jerry: A new York City sewer rat who attacked, and killed, a house cat.

Frank Black · 09-08-2011 12:24PM

The goofy antics of those cops from the Police Academy in the Shell to Sea video camera incident really reminded me of that 1980's zany comedy classic - Spaceballs

The King of Moo · 09-08-2011 12:28PM

The pilot episode of the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen in March 2001 featured an airliner being hijacked in order to be flown into the World Trade Centre! :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26g18Dg7db4

hidinginthebush · 09-08-2011 12:31PM

That's crazy! Something similar also happens at the end of a Tom Clancy book, a disgruntled Chinese pilot flys a 747 into capitol hill.

Mammanabammana · 09-08-2011 02:26PM

The janitor in Scrubs knew 4 years ago where Osama Bin Laden was hiding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCdlygmSJ4

wayfarers · 09-08-2011 02:31PM

Art- Sunset Boulevard; A washed-up has been who was a star in a bygone era sits ruminating in her crumbling old mansion planning comebacks and all the time mired in self loathing misery.

Life; Twink

maudgonner · 09-08-2011 03:03PM

Art...Maid in Manhattan
A high powered politician falls in love and starts a relationship with a chambermaid in a New York hotel

Life...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a high-powered politician allegedly sexually assaults a chambermaid in a New York hotel

Logical Fallacy · 09-08-2011 03:06PM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

That's crazy! Something similar also happens at the end of a Tom Clancy book, a disgruntled Chinese pilot flys a 747 into capitol hill.

Marvel comics had to not run one of their comics the week of the World Trade Center attacks because it had the same storyline. And it would have be written, drawn etc well in advance.

Emiko · 09-08-2011 03:14PM

Art; The Long Good Friday- Made in 1980, the Bob Hoskins character sees a future property boom for the London Docklands, and makes a huge investment there.

Life; In 1981 the London Docklands Development Corporation is set up to regenerate the depressed East London area. A property boom ensues and fortunes are made.

Emiko · 01-09-2011 06:45PM

Art; 'Bonkie the Great Bank Blagger', a 1990 novel in which a bank official from the BOI, College Green, is kidnapped, to facilitate a team of robbers in perpetrating a heist.

Life; In 2009 a bank official from the BOI, College Green, is kidnapped, to facilitate a team of robbers in perpetrating a heist.

Chuck Stone · 01-09-2011 06:59PM

Art. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team

Life. Joooeeeee Duffffaaayyyyyyyyyy

MrStuffins · 01-09-2011 07:13PM

Art: Orwell's 1984. A society where privilage to the elite and control of the proletariat is guaranteed. A time when there would be a screen in every room feeding occupants propaganda. The exploitation of technology in order to control what we think, do and buy. Servailance in every street, being watched by "Big Brother". Lotteries in action to raise more money for Government and to give the public false hope, despite the fact there are very few winners. Constant wars in order to keep the military machine rolling.

Life: Modern life and the world in 2011

Adyx · 01-09-2011 07:27PM

I can't remember the details now, but wasn't there a book that came out a few years before the Titanic sank about a ship called the Titan that sank after hitting an ice-berg in the same part of the Atlantic and with a similar number of passengers as the Titanic?

policarp · 01-09-2011 08:05PM

Art:- Painting of Brian Cowan in the bog.
National Gallery.

Life:- Brian Cowan in the sh!thouse.
Who would've thought?

cml387 · 01-09-2011 08:09PM

Neville Shute wrote a book in 1948 (called No Highway) about a new aircraft crashing under mysterious circumstances.

It turns out that the accident was caused by metal fatigue. The scientist hero of the book had a full aircraft under static test (i.e. on the ground having the sh!t shaken out of it) until it failed as he predicted.

Five years later and the De Havilland Comet had a series of mysterious accidents. The accident was caused by metal fatigue, discovered after a test aircraft failed under static testing exactly as envisged by Neville Shute.

Luckily,Neville Shute's later novel "On the Beach" about a nuclear war has not,as yet, been so prophetic.

bnt · 01-09-2011 08:39PM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

That's crazy! Something similar also happens at the end of a Tom Clancy book, a disgruntled Chinese pilot flys a 747 into capitol hill.

It was a Japanese pilot, the book was Debt of Honor (1994). The similarities did not go unnoticed at the time - CNN interviewed Clancy on 9/11 or /12. There was speculation that the hijackers got the idea from the book.

In the movie Demolition Man, set in the future, the President of the USA was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Obviously a joke, since he's not currently eligible (being from Austria), but he was Governor of California, and there has been talk of amending the Constitution to allow him to apply for the top job.

Snakeblood · 01-09-2011 08:49PM

bnt wrote: »

It was a Japanese pilot, the book was Debt of Honor (1994). The similarities did not go unnoticed at the time - CNN interviewed Clancy on 9/11 or /12. There was speculation that the hijackers got the idea from the book.

I don't think there was anything to that. I didn't see the book republished with 'FRom the man who brought you 9/11' anywhere on the cover.

Liam Byrne · 01-09-2011 09:16PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

It often happens by accident or complete coincidence, but sometimes when it happens, the results can be quite eerie.

One example of it struck me the other day when I was watching a film...

Art.. "The Adjustment Bureau"

A politician falls in love with the wrong person, with irrevocable consequences. His election campaign is scuppered when the press publish the details of a public scandal he gets involved in.

His name is David Norris.

Life.. The Presidential Campaign.

A politician falls in love with the wrong person, with irrevocable consequences. His election campaign is scuppered when the press publish the details of a public scandal he gets involved in.

His name is David Norris.

Anyone got any more examples of incidents where life imitates art?

You're seriously comparing The Adjustment Bureau to David Norris' f**k up ?

I must have missed the part of the film where the female that Matt Damon hooked up with raped a girl.

Wasn't she just a ballerina who did nothing wrong whatsoever, just was "not the match" that the Bureau wanted for Damon's character ?

No "imitation" involved whatsoever.

starbelgrade · 02-09-2011 01:07PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

You're seriously comparing The Adjustment Bureau to David Norris' f**k up ?

No. I was comparing the two, but it was hardly meant to be taken seriously!

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