First Primary Source: The Beatles Abbey Road vs The Simpsons Abbey Road
Abbey Road was the last album by The Beatles to be recorded in 1969 but not the last album to be released. The album photograph, taken by Ian Macmillan, has since become one of the most famous and influential album cover in the history. This iconic cover shows the Beatles walk across the zebra crossing on Abbey Road in a single line with some significant symbols, including the bare-footed Paul McCartney who was out of step with the other three and the presence of VW Beetle car that is used as a pictograph.
In November 2002, Rolling Stone Magazine released a parody magazine cover under the headline 'The Simpsons Make Rock History'. Here is how The Beatles iconic album cover gets recreated with a little help from The Simpsons. In this case, Abbey Road serves as comedic reference to give special impacts to the audience by totally shifting the human characters to the cartoon characters. Even though the original idea is kept the same, however the character change and the vibrant color usage in this version has drawn different response and perception from the audiences.Implicitly, this cover version has broadened the audience scope ranging from elderly stage to even the younger ones. Importantly, the historical value from the original version has faded away due to humorous effect that belongs to The Simpsons characters.
Second Primary Source : Super Mario Bross vs Mario Rescues Princess
Mario is a famous retro video game character that was created by Shigoru Miyamoto. Super Mario Bross is the name of its video game series. It was developed by Nintendo back in 1985. The game objective is to win challenges throughout the Mushroom Kingdom, survive the monster Browser's force and save Princess Peach.
Have you ever watched the Family Guy animated TV series? It was founded by Seth McFarlane whom has been known to poke fun at Super Mario Bross Games in his official website called McFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. He used different approaches to represent the plot lines of the story. The parody called Super Mario Rescues Princess was aired on February 2010. It uses exaggerated details by compiling quarrel parts between Mario and Princess Peach over kissing issue, while by the end of the story, the princess got eaten by the monster Browser. The story contradicts the original game version with the implementation of adult theme, thus narrowing down the audience scope to adult solely.The primary idea has totally changed from an interactive video playing games to a slot of cartoon comedy. The other noticeable distinctions include their body figure and sound composition where the animated characters seem fatter and verbal.
I really like your idea of the Beatles Abbey Road compared to the Simpson's Abbey Road. Although there are many similarities, I am sure there are a lot of differences that you could find between the two. It seems like it is a very interesting twist on the Beatles who were such a popular and prominent group. You could probably find a lot on the reason to why Rolling Stone magazine created the change of characters.
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