To quote another ancient proverb, A camel is a horse designed by a committee. Life or Something Like It is the movie designed by the camel.

No, said Heidi. Not that way. That was me, trying to be different. He was as undifferent as you can get, but he was somebody else's undifferent. I just had this feeling that I could step into somebody else's shoes. […]

Over came all the herd, one by one, hinds and calves, “brockets” and “staggarts,” then the “warrantable deer,” the rear brought up by a magnificent old stag.

he with his famelie, famylyers, and ditionaries, of desperate mynde fledde to the mountaynes