The sunshine of dawn will born
Rain falls at the end of the night
Wetting your face, your soul
Speed is your way of life
Soon you'll meet your face
Reflected on the wet asphalt
The red of your blood, your blood!!!!
The lights end everywhere
You feel your soul burning in pain
Now you see the face of death
Calling you for a silent kiss...
Something strange being inside of me
Am I awakening to a new life?
I can't stand this agony
Somebody please hear my screeches
From the silence
So, I just finished watching Netflix' 1899, and I wanna discuss it, but there are some things I need to get out of the way first.
There have been accusations that 1899's story was plagiarized from the graphic novel by Mary Cagnin, Black Silence, and I do have to agree there are a lot of similarities between the two.
1899 takes place on a steam ship traveling from Europe to America, along the way they encounter something out of the ordinary and the Captain decides to turn the ship around and head back to Europe. A decision that causes the passengers to mutiny and turn the ship back to its planned course. But more and more strange thing keep happening on board and members of the crew and passengers keep dying mysteriously.
Black Silence takes place in a far flung sci-fi future with the crew of military space ship on a mission to search for terrestrial planets that might be habitable. They land on one such terrestrial planet and find it to be an uninhabited dessert, except for one single and monolithic pyramid. Strange things start happening and members of their crew die. But military command orders them to continue the mission.
There are a number of similarities between the two. Such as the pyramid.
and the accompanying triangle symbolism.
Every member of the cast has experienced loss or tragedy.
and there is a suicide by jumping.
I can easily see how one could claim that 1899 was stolen from Black Silence. I'm not gonna say whether or not it was for sure, because I don't understand intellectual property law, nor do I have the training to tell if it was a malicious copy, or just a case of a later work being influenced by an earlier work (either consciously or unconsciously).
But, I do believe this controversy be acknowledged before I start posting about 1899.
Heavy metal outfit Suicide Silence (from left: Alex Lopez, Dan Kennedy, Eddie Hermida, Mark Heylmun and Chris Garza) of Riverside will perform as part of the Glenn Danzig-curated Blackest of the Black of the Black Festival at Oak Canyon Park in Silverado on Friday, May 26. (Photo by Dean Karr)