What is the connection between The Phantom Menace (1999) and The Shadow (1994)?
Introduction
Today, I was leafing" through the IMDb page of the 1994 movie The Shadow. I stumbled across the Connections page and found, to my utter surprise, that Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, is listed as a connection. According to the page, The Shadow is referenced in The Phantom Menace, but I find that highly doubtful.
Question
What, if any, is the connection between The Shadow (1994) and Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace?
References
I've linked to the Connections page of The Shadow above, but below is a screenshot for convenience:
Best Answer
The "Connections" section in IMDB is meant to cover explicit connections between the two movies, such as:
- characters in the later movie watch or discuss the earlier movie. For example, in The Martian (2015), Mitch Henderson (played by Sean Bean) talks about The Lord Of The Rings (2001), without mentioning that Sean Bean played a major character in it.
- one movie is a prequel or sequel to the other. For example, Die Hard (1988) was technically a sequel to The Detective (1968).
- both movies come from the same source material. For example, both Kiss Me, Kate (1953) and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999 ) were based on the 1592 play The Taming of the Shrew.
They are not literary or thematic connections, similar genres, or other subjective judgements like that.
I think what you are seeing in this case is a data error.
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