A variation on the traditional body swap is mind swap, wherein two characters don't swap bodies, but they do swap personalities and temperament. The key difference being that things such as intellect, skills, and abilities don't alter.
Sometimes it's the same person, sometimes it's a man and woman sharing one body. If a man and a woman share bodies, we can call it as a rip off of our body swap theme. Just call it cohabitation if you are into taxonomy and all that weird stuff.Check out ' All of Me (1984) ' for a better understanding of this subtype.In this movie, Lily Tomlin has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer(Steve Maritin).
When this plot is done in animation, usually the voices also switch — that is more than helpful in pg rated movies so that you dont have to explain which charector is whom to your kid.Remember what happened to Donkey and Puss in shrek the third
then the brain transplant theme.Not for zombies,strictly with functioning lovable brains.I think this theme was uniquely used in Steve Martins classic "man with two brains"
some movies with body swap theme
Mary Rodgers's Freaky Friday has been adapted to film three times (1976 and 2003 theatrical films, 1995 TV movie). The two main characters are switched after they coincidentally wish for the other to be in their shoes.
1989's Dream a Little Dream exchanges the minds of a senior citizen (Jason Robards) and a teenager (Corey Feldman),much like a familial acute varient of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button syndrome
Big: Tom Hanks trying to live with the mind of a 12-year-old boy after an overdosing on growth hormone and misplacing some wishes.H e should have gone to a church.
Being John Malkovich: John Cusack using John Malkovich like a puppet! Cameron Diaz looking ugly!Still for most part it was enjoyable.
13 Going on 30: Jennifer Garner skips her teenage and wakes up to a perfect apartment, career and star-athlete boyfriend at 30. We'd like to wake up there, too.
In The Hot Chick,Jennifer Garner is bodyswapped with a (male) criminal.In Electra she defies death. Man that girl is talented.
Prelude to a Kiss has Alec Baldwin is given a taste of female psyche when he kisses her on their wedding day.
It's a Boy Girl Thing swapped the high-school jock and the unpopular geek girl. It... wasn't too awful, actually.
1996 Disney Channel television-movie Wish Upon a Star (starring Katherine Heigl and Danielle Harris) concerns two very different sisters who unintentionally switch bodies while wishing upon a shooting star. They learn to love each other, do some math tutoring, go to the Big Dance, and get their bodies back.
then there is
Down to Earth (2001):After dying before his time, an aspiring comic gets a second shot at life...by being reincarnated as a wealthy but un-likeable businessman.
Dating the Enemy (1996):A couple wake up one morning to find they have now switched bodies.
Scooby-Doo (2002) - Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma accidentally swap their minds in one scene after demons use their bodies as hosts.
18 Again! (1988) - By means of an accident the soul of David and his swinging grandfather get swapped. While the grandfather's body is still in coma.
Shrek the Third (2007) - Donkey and Puss in Boots switch their minds
17 Again (2009) - About a guy whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.
Face/Off (1997) - is another one ,
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