Talk:Assault of the Killer Bimbos

Subsequent Plagiarism
Is there any good reason not to mention the well established and widely noted fact that Thelma & Louise (which even won an Oscar for Best "Original" Screenplay!) was just a remake/rip-off of Assault of the Killer Bimbos — recycling not only all of the basic plot elements, but even the nickname "Peaches" for one of the main female characters?

Joe Bob Briggs demonstrated this conclusively over 20 years ago, showing both movies back-to-back on The Movie Channel, and then pointing out in excruciating detail all the elements of Thelma & Louise that were lifted straight out of Assault of the Killer Bimbos. I'm not able to find his review of Thelma & Louise, in which I believe he also enumerated all the points of commonality, but a quick Google search can establish that the debt — or at least similarity — of Thelma and Louise to Assault of the Killer Bimbos has indeed by now become well and widely known.

I know Wikipedia has a weenie-ish aversion to statements anyone might label "controversial," but it is extremely unlikely that anyone would find a paragraph or section on this point defamatory, let alone suit-worthy. Especially if it were merely to point out some of the parallels and similarities, without actually asserting plagiarism. Certainly it is fair and incontrovertible to point out the numerous similarities, and that Assault of the Killer Bimbos came first. With or without a final sentence pointing out that "This has led many to speculate that Assault of the Killer Bimbos may have influenced Thelma and Louise," or something like that.

Truth is an absolute defense to a charge of libel, and it certainly is true that people have noted the many similarities. And wondered whether these similarities are purely coincidental. So long as the section or paragraph is worded appropriately, every single sentence in it will be true and incontrovertible, and therefore libel-proof.

2001:5B0:24FF:2EF0:0:0:0:3E (talk) 10:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

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