I never expected that!
Last week I wrote an article talking about how the sitcom Not Going Out starring comedian Lee Mack had based one of their episodes on the popular 1954 Hitchcock film Rear Window starring James Stewart.
Last night, when I finally settled down to relax in front of the television, I noticed something familiar about the episode of Whitstable Pearl that my wife was watching.
For those of you who don’t know, Whitstable Pearl is a drama based on a series of novels by Julie Wassmer.
It is set in Whitstable, Kent, and follows Pearl, an ex-police officer, single mother and restaurant owner, who decides to become a private detective on the side…. as if she doesn’t have enough on her plate!
At first, Pearl becomes an annoyance to Mike, the tall, dark, and handsome detective who has just moved to the area.
While trying to solve crimes that were happening in the small fishing town, his path crossed with Pearl’s on many occasions. Eventually the pair become friends and allies working together to solve crimes… with a sprinkling of sexual tension thrown in as expected.
In this episode, Mike is laid up with a leg injury after being tackled badly playing five-a-side football with his police colleagues.
Being housebound and unable to do much, Mike spent his day looking out of his rear window at the apartments across from him. And as I’m sure you can guess, he spots some unusual behaviour between a married couple in one of the apartments.
Concerned that the husband was planning on killing his wife, Mike tells Pearl what he had seen and so she decides to join him one evening for a ‘stakeout’ to watch the apartment and see if anything sinister happens to the wife.
Spotting the husband with the knife heading up to the bedroom, Pearl hotfoots it out of Mike’s apartment and across the street to try and prevent the murder of the wife only to find the husband dead on the bed.
Like all new versions of classic stories, there is a twist. I won’t tell you what the twist is in case you want to go and watch the show for yourself.
What I found interesting is that just over a week after writng that first article where I talked about Rear Window; I am once again watching a television show using it as the inspiration for the episode.
As I said in that previous article:
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There’s Nothing New Under The Sun!
That’s twice in two weeks that I have seen television shows which have been based on that one 1954 film… which itself was based on a book from 1942.
As I said in that previous article, you can’t simply take another person’s work and pass it off as your own, but you can use it as inspiration and create something new with a twist.
I also said that very little is actually unique.
The story of a man witnessing a crime from his window cannot be fully copyrighted due to the fact that millions of people across the planet witness crimes from their windows.
It must be quite a common thing really, as are detectives investigating a crime.
While writing this I have experienced a flashback… I believe, if my memory serves me well, the BBC drama Father Brown did a similar story where he too was housebound and witnessed criminal activity from his bedroom window.
It’s quite a common theme.
It’s not just fiction that you can reference and turn into a new product.
Someone somewhere wrote the first book about how to write a profitable sales letter and become a well paid copywriter, and since then, there have been hundreds of copywriters and publishers who have also published books on that subject.
They use their own personal experiences and stories, but the actual bones of their product, is the regurgitation of copywriting principles which have been around for well over 100 years.
How many authors have written books on how to write a book?
Yes, each author has their own style and preferences, but writing is writing… it doesn’t differ that much between people really. The books all have a lot of similarities and share the same main writing principles.
Truth is… there is very little stopping you from creating products which are similar to others. You just need it to be different enough to not be seen as being the same.
As long as you are not using their personal experience and knowledge and passing it off as your own, you should be fine.
Obviously you won’t steal something that one person has developed or invented which is completely unique. You cannot take new research that a scientist has just done and pass it off as your own or without acknowledging them.
There is a lot of money to be made if you take something old and modify and adapt it for a newer audience or even improve it so that it works better.
However…
If that sounds like a lot of hard work and not something you want to get involved in, there are many other ways to make money.
Some are incredibly easy and can make a lot of money for little effort.
Such as Ian Williams’ Island Reversal Strategy.
Ian Williams is a professional trader who discovered, by accident, a simple ‘signal’ which indicated that the markets were about to ‘do something specific’.
Ian was surprised to spot the ‘hidden’ signal, because it was hidden in plain sight.
If it hadn’t been for all those years making money as a professional trader he wouldn’t have spotted it.
Once he realised what it was and what it meant, he knew that he had found an easy and simple way to make money.
He had been given a license to print money… a lot of money.
Ian also realised that it was actually easy to spot once you knew what to look for and that it could be learned quickly.
It takes just minutes to learn how to spot the signal and how to profit from it.
Once you know what to look for and how to use it, you can use it for a lifetime.
What’s more, this can be done from the comfort of your own home and so if you ever find yourself housebound with a leg injury, you’ll be able to spend time watching your neighbours out of your Rear Window AND make money.
To learn more about Ian Williams’ Island Reversal Strategy, click the link below:
The Island Reversal Strategy
Kind regards
John Harrison
PS… I just want to emphasise that this is incredibly simple. You can learn to spot the signal in a matter of minutes and then use it for a lifetime.
Here’s that link again: