In the lecture about intertextuality we learnt about how people link media with other media and how some producers/creators make references or copied designs. What I mean by this is a comedy cartoon like Family Guy make references to other media, for example from the film planet of the apes (the first one) you see the statue of liberty blown up and a guy start saying "you blew it up, damn you all to hell!" and in Family Guy Peter Griffin took the foot from the statue of liberty and Adam West quotes the exact same line when he sees this.
"Planet of the Apes (1968) Adam West sees the statue of liberty's foot that Peter got for Quagmire and says Charleton Heston's big line from the end of the movie" - http://www.planet-familyguy.com/pfg/episodes/84/ITakeTheeQuagmire/
Another example of self-conscious intertextuality is Marvel comics copying a villain from DC comics. DC Comics: Deathstroke (Slade Wilson). Marvel Comics: Deadpool (Wade Wilson). DC comics came up with the super-villian first but was original called "The Terminator" (before The Terminator film by James Cameron) then as the James Cameron film was such a success they changed the name to "Deathstroke". After the name was changed Marvel comics released a new super-villian very similar (in name, alias, appearance + attributes) the only difference is the Marvel comics version they made their character more comical whereas the DC version is much more serious. These are both rival comics using self-conscious intertextuality they both have more or less the same super-villian which makes them both better known in both comics for being almost exactly the same.
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| Deadpool - Marvel Comics |
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| Deathstroke - DC Comics |
The other version of intertextuality is unconscious. This is more or less the same principle, two different pieces of media which is very similar but the creator didn't plan on the similarity. For instance if someone sees a rock and thinks of the moon.
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