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The phrase "there is nothing new under the sun" doesn't mean there's no originality left in the world. It means all stories resonate because of the human condition. Remixing the tropes is entirely the point of storytelling. The tropes are the substrate and how our brain likes patterns, not the patterns themselves. Enjoy what you enjoy and not what you're told.

Everything is a remix. Most creative work inherit ideas from other work. Sometimes it’s intentional. Other times it’s unintentional. Almost no creative work is purely original.

They actually don't have the same plot, they just have some similarly laid out shots.