not so much Americanised
as just rubbishised.
( giant_squid, Mon 16 May 2005, 10:20, archived)

^ this

( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Mon 16 May 2005, 10:48, archived)

Ok...
I could rephrase it as "The classic story has now been given the hollywood treatment*"



* 'bollocksed up'
( Beastie is doing science with his arse, Mon 16 May 2005, 10:49, archived)