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Originally Posted by Horror_Writer
Not sure who originally said that, but it is oft-quoted in writing circles.
Also, they say that all stories can be categorized as one of the following:
(1) Man against himself
(2) Man against man
(3) Man against nature
In this broad sense of course, you could say there have only been three stories and everything else are variations on one of these three themes. For whatever that's worth--probably not much.
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Hahaha. Yeah, all stories have words and characters too. I guess when people think in terms
that vague and general, then yeah, it's probably all been done already.
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The only one of the four you list that I have seen is "Saw" and I did not think it very original at all. Mostly because I wrote a novel in 1998 that is somewhat similar--a serial killer who captures people, usually using drugs, and then keeps them in his basement. He then plays games with them until he gets to the point where he has two people chained up and he makes them play against each other where the winner will be supposedly allowed to go free. In one game, each person is only allowed to eat body parts of the other. They take turns in choosing parts of the other person to eat.
And if I came up with something that similar, then I'm sure many others have too--they just never reached the exposure that the "Saw" movies have.
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Is your book published? I'd probably check that out (after I finish The Rising & City of the Dead).
Anyways, I'm sure the concept has been thought up before, but it was never committed to film (to my knowledge) prior to Saw. While that would not make Saw a completely original story, it would still make it an original film. That's sorta what I was saying, but I guess I coulda phrased it better... There's plenty of good ideas and original concepts that have yet to see the big screen. Someone just needs to get those good, fresh ideas to put them on film instead of more remakes, sequels and/or hackjobs.