While Heathers might seem a more obvious teen film for the fashion world to plunder, Back to the Future is, surprisingly, an easier sell.
But then he takes you where you really want to go: the Caribbean, in piracy's "golden age," roughly 1660 to 1730, when ships taking a continent's worth of colonial plunder back to Spain were irresistible targets for seafaring robbers.
Throughout the 90s he continued his work, commissioned by Elektra Records to plunder their back catalog for Rubáiyát, and by the Grateful Dead for Grayfolded, where he "folded" 100 live performances of their song "Dark Star" into one gorgeous, 109-minute-long opus.
Plundering your back catalogue is an old Hollywood trick, but it doesn't always work out.
After years of seeing its animated features outclassed by the competition — not least from Pixar, now its own subsidiary — the company has realized that its strength lies in plundering its back catalogue and making sport with the spoils.
After years of seeing its animated features outclassed by the competition—not least from Pixar, its own subsidiary the company has realized that its strength lies in plundering its back catalogue and making sport with the spoils.
Many of these acts get away with plundering their back catalogue; Weller, however, who has been making music for more than 30 years, has surprised everyone by moving on and releasing what critics have rated the best album of his career, Wake Up the Nation.
Once is never enough, of course, and having seen Rory McIlroy last year and Jordan Spieth this year gallop on with back-to-back plunder, Rose is minded to flesh out his own legend at a place steeped in myth and wonder.
By plundering her back-list, they've published a new book every four months, each one with a huge ad campaign.
Instead, he has returned to what I think of as the "If it's Tuesday, this must be Barcelona/London/Paris/Rome" period, where he tried to distract us, with dazzling tourist vistas and exotic European locales, from his wafer-thin plots and his late tendency to plunder his own back catalogue for inspiration that is no longer there to be had.
So to pull all this logic together, God anoints priests to work in the church directly and kings to go out into the marketplace to conquer, plunder, and bring back the spoils to the church.
