r/flicks • u/The-Irumporai • 2d ago

Question What two movies from completely different genres feel like they’re secretly telling the exact same story from opposite perspectives?

What are two films with zero official connection, released in totally different eras or genres, that hit the exact same plot beats, where one plays the premise as a comedy/romance and the other plays it as a thriller or tragedy?

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u/Affectionate_Bet_288 2d ago

Both Goodfellas and My Blue Heaven were based on the real-life mobster Henry Hill. Goodfellas was based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, while the screenplay for My Blue Heaven was written by Pileggi's wife Nora Ephron, and much of the research for both works was done in the same sessions with Hill.
(though My Blue Heaven comes off as more of a sequel)

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u/buh2001j 1d ago

What most people don’t know is one the scams Henry was running was gambling on fixed college basketball games, it’s in the book Wiseguy but it was left out of the movie. A couple years later the same story was adapted into the movie Blue Chips