A game! Thanks to Jason Pinter, who tossed it up on Twitter, here’s the idea: Come up with the worst possible cross-pollinated literary titles.
Such as:
- @wawoodworth: The Joy Luck Fight Club
- @CParkhurst1: Lord of the Flies and also the Rings
- @PaulaMatter: Gone, Baby, Gone With the Wind
My contributions so far include:
- Eat, Pray, Jaws
- Jacob Marley and Me
- Cannery Ronin
Come on, what can you come up with?
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This requires more coffee….but I’ll give it a shot:
Dreamcatcher in the Rye
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince of Tides
A Time to Kill a Mockingbird (my apologies to Harper Lee..)
One more:
Slaughterhouse Five People You Meet in Heaven.
The Lost World According to Garp
Bleak House of Seven Gables
The Valley of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Enough! I have to get back to work. Meg: You’re a bad influence.
The Dirty Secrets Joy Luck Club
No Country for Old Men from Mars or Old Women from Venus
The Shining Through
Paradise Lost Horizon
(If we could mix films, Lost Event Horizon would be better…)
Laughing. Excellent titles.
Go on, mix films with book titles. It’s a game. I like Lost Event Horizon.
By the way, more of mine:
Dracujo (The Vampire Puppy)
First Blood Meridian
Gorillas in the Mystic River
Jurassic Spock
One Fish, Two Fish, Devil in a Blue Dress
China Lake Wobegon Days: Garrison Keillor Meets The Remnant!
The Longest Day of the Triffids
Jericho Point Blank
Othello, Brother, Where Art Thou?
East of Eden Lake
Land of the Lost Event Horizon
First Blood Meridian is awesome: Rambo should have been written by Cormac McCarthy… Throw Daniel Day Lewis (“Milkshake!”) in there and you have First There Will Be Blood Meridian. But perhaps we shouldn’t “cross the streams”.
Ha! First There Will Be Blood Meridian — a Nobel prizewinning title if there ever was one.
And yes, I know individual titles don’t win Nobels. Hence the “if”.
Where’s Alice in Wonderland?
G.I. Jane Eyre
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Tibbs
Fatal Mummy Attraction
Bambi the Lion King
Beauty and the Borat Beast
Crash into the Night
Dr. Strangelove or How I Met Your Mother
The Island of Dr. Doolittle
(stop, I’ve got to get back to work….More later. Loving the entries already.)
G.I. Jane Eyre First Line: “There was no chance of leaving the barracks that day…”
Empire of the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dracu l.a. Confidential
The Crying Game of Lot 49
Damn you. I’ve been trying for 24 hours to come up with something incorporating L.A. Confidential, and you did it, with bonus points for vampires. Well done.
To complete the set of Gardiner mashups:
The Mission Canyon (Evan has to deal with homicidal jesuits Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons)
Crosscutter’s Way
Kill Bill Chain (or should that be Kill Phil?)
The Bone and Memory Collector
Liar Liar’s Lullaby
Nature Girl Interrupted (An average Florida comes to grips with herself)
Cemetery Dance Of Death (Do I lose points for using the same authors?)
The Girl Who Kicked The Great Gatsby …
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice. At least I think it was advice. I was too busy setting him afire.”
Keep ‘em coming.
Tender is the Nightmare on Elm Street
From my son Mark:
How To Train Your Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
O Brother, Where Are The Wild Things?
Incepshawn of the Dead
The Killer Inside Marley and Me
(That’s my boy!)
Tender Is the Nightmare on Elm Streetcar Named Desire
…under the Elms
My final volley:
Angels and Demons and Insects
Gone with the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
I Am Samson Agonistes or Summer of Samson Agonistes
The Remains of the Day the Earth Stood Still
A Room with a View of the Ruins
Shutter Island of Lost Souls
The Sign of Four Weddings and a Funeral
A Swing Time to Kill
To Catcher a Thief in the Rye
The Hunchback Shrugged to Eternity
1984: A Farewell to Catcher-22
Tess of the Baskervilles
The Old Man and Superman
And my personal favorite: Anna Karenina and the King of Green Gables
So this is what happens on a day when I decide to be focused and concentrate on work…. Better late than never!
Puss and Kinky Boots
The Faerie Queene of the Desert
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Angel (no match for yours, Dan!)
The Dead of Jericho Point
In a Sunburned Country for Old Men
The Other Boleyn Girl, Interrupted
300 and One Dalmations
Jane Eyre Bud (it’s the happy version!)
Blue Velveteen Rabbit
Stand and Deliverance
To Sir, With Love Among the Ruins
Never Cry Beowulf
Romeo and Julie and Julia
As You Like Three Children and It
Othello Dolly
Ok, ’nuff. For now.
I *love* Othello Dolly! I am already writing music and lyrics in my head!
Hee. So much wonderfulness.
Lolital Women
…and, once you’ve gone there, why not: The Handmaid’s Tale of Two of the Best Lolital Whorehouses on the Prairie
and finally (for now): The Old Man and the Little Women: A Tale of Crime and Punishment
Boratatouille
Running with Edward Scissorhands (courtesy of our son, Nate)
I love these, love these, love these. I plan to add a new post with the greatest hits, but… so much to choose from.
Watership Down Among the Dead Men
The Ninja and Mrs. Muir
On The Road Less Traveled Again
Lust For Life In The Fast Lane
If You Give A Mouse The Cuckoo’s Egg
The Sound and The Furious (also from my son Mark)
War and Peas. And the Princess.
The Taming of the Screwtape Letters
For Whom the Tollbooth-Caged Opera Sings
Okay….
The Beekeeper’s Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
One Flew over the Girl who kicked the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Old Curiosity Shopalohic
Vile Bodies in the Library
The Invisible Man for All Seasons
Nineteen Eighty Four Charing Cross Road
The Count of the Full Monte Cristo
Five Quarters of the Clockwork Orange
Wonderful.
Endless Love in the Time of Cholera
The Diary of Anne Frankenstein
Things Fall Apart on Your Knees
Paradise Lost in Yonkers
The Little Old Curiosity Shop Of Horrors. (I don’t know how much of mash up is allowed.)
F Is For Fugitive From A Chain Gang
I left this on Facebook, but the action’s over here, I see.
“A Tale of Two Cites,” in which precedent is inaccurately applied in one case and overruled on appeal.
The Lord of the Human Bondage
The Girl Who Played With Pale Fire
The Heart of Darkness is a Lonely Hunter
Watership Down and Out In Beverly Hills
…or Watership Up in the Air
Great Expectations of Mice and Men
A Tan and Sandy Silence of the Lambs
Gone with the Wind and the Willows
The Phantom Tollbooth of the Opera
For Whom the Bell Jar?
Arrgh…. I have other things to do!
How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls
The Last King of Scotland on $10 a Day
The Lost Cymbeline
Anne of the House of Seven Green Gables
The Da Vinci Code of the Woosters
Barbarians At The Anubis Gate
Crash: A Bend In The Road Not Taken
The Canterbury Tales Of The South Pacific
A Bridge Over The River Kwai Runs Through It
In A Little Cold Blood Night Music (I think I’m trying too hard!)
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The Hellbound Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Time to Kill a Mockingbird
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles of Narnia
The Moscow Rules of Attraction
Is this still ongoing? Because I’ve just found about it and want to join in…
The Time Traveller’s Saratoga Trunk
War & The Single Girl
The Girl Who Kicked Oliver Twist
Pudd’n'head Gatsby
Superfudge and the Deathly Hallows
Superfudge and the Deathly Hallows! Love it.
A Christmas Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
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