Disney´s Atlantis - total copy of Nadia : the secret of blue water. Also the statment and praise from the makers of Kimba, did they get a secret paycheck or what ? It seems they were very happy in the end.
If you mention James Cameron, how about Avatar and the main story in Dances with wolves ? ( Also, all the sci fi elements of that movie came from the Poul Anderson book " Call me Joe "... )
Carpe Diem The problem there is that Kurosawa seems to have been engaging in a little theft himself, since the "Yojimbo" plot is taken from Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest".
Regarding Death Note, you'd think that they'd just tell the story as written, rather than try to "reimagine" it. "Reimagining" something that's nearly perfect always ends with cringing.
TJS 1701. That's so backward... The original Kimba was named Leo in the original Japanese. But they have to change it in America because it's the same name as the MGM's lion mascot. So they took the Swahili language of Simba and change it to Kimba, just like how the Japanese version named him Leo from Lion. It's smart how they try their best to keep the wordplay. Disney, on the other hand, was just plain lazy.
TJS 1701. It wasn't the Japanese, it was the American company which bought the broadcasting right who pick the name Kimba. The Japanese version used Leo from English word Lion. You're implying that Disney used the name Simba because it was the Swahili language for lion and it's just a coincidence that it sounds like Kimba. But I point it out to you that Kimba was actually taken from the same word. So Disney did name the character very similar to another cartoon character from a story that also contains a lot of the same elements of story and visual. Disney without a doubt stole it and shamelessly denied it.
9:33 _"Our company's general opinion is that The Lion King is a totally different piece...and is an original work completed by [Disney's] long-lasting excellent production technique."_ Now please tell me where my family is.
"Our company also wants to state that this statement was not written by Disney or their expansive legal team as part of the settlement they told us to accept."
Its what happens when you have a feudal culture base that goes back centuries and so have all these stories to create from. Tony B, my radio producer is a huge Japanese culture enthusiasts and we cover Japan and manga/Anime every week.
@@CzarsSalad is it ripping off? Or an appreciation of the work? Both exist. But its in the way its handled... Like artists of today are inspired by picaso. Also kurasawa was a u.s. western movie fan.
"Kimba: The White Lion" was the Americanized title. The original Japanese title was "Jungle King" which is a lot closer to The Lion King than Kimba. I smell a payoff.
Me three. When I was an adult, I said, "I saw Kimba when I was a kid on Paul Long's Adventure Time. Why would I pay MONEY to see what was free the first time?" OTOH, in 2006 I had aisle seats on the Broadway musical, which, barring plot, characters, and some dialog, was nothing like the bad Japanese animation version.
What's interesting is that the entire TF&TF franchise is one rip off after another: TF&TF = Point Break 2F2F = Miami Vice TF&TF: TD = Initial D anime FAST & FURIOUS = 2F2F (they actually ripped themselves off that time!) FAST FIVE = BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (with a bit of OCEAN'S 11) FAST SIX = M.A.S.K (two teams of super car warfare) FURIOUS SEVEN = Mission Impossible Not sure what the latest movie cribbed from I wouldn't be surprised if it did. I just find it interesting that for the longest time the F&F franchise kept going by ripping off other movies and cartoon shows.
Albion65 very good analysis there and you are spot on. I suppose it is because they are using a 'formula and archetype' as a basis for their own vision of it, so many comparisons can be made with different movie franchises as such. Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime) and the Pacific Rim movie is another.
The Force Awaken is almost literally a New Hope: A protagonist is running from the bad guys and sends a droid to a dessert planet carrying vital information, they encounter a mentor who is later killed in front of them, the heroes learn about a giant battle station, go on a rescue mission to the station to save the female lead, and later blow up said station.
Protagonists running from the bad guys describes almost every single movie ever. I would love to live on a dessert planet... what's the ground made out of, brownies? Does it rain chocolate syrup? An older mentor who is later killed in front of them describes too many movies to be a fair comparison too. I will absolutely give you the battle station thing... they even say it's another Death Star in the movie! The rescue mission in A New Hope is more of an accident, and the circumstances of why and how it occurs are totally different. The destruction of the station is the only way it could end and not be shitty, are you serious?
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." Many misunderstand the real sentiment behind this quote. Looking at this list the films that they were based on are all much more obscure. Every artist takes their inspiration from other artists they admire and the world around them. But it takes a great artist to take an idea that maybe only mediocre and make it into a masterpiece.
VogtTD good artist copy and trace, they follow one specific path but great artists, while they do copy and steal, they’ve got a lot of sources that makes it their own so instead of when your artists stops drawing and you no longer can improve bc they’ve been doing the work, branching off is easy and even makes it possible to surpass role models
The only reason why Kimba's creators didn't raise a fuss is because they knew that they were gonna get railroaded by Dinsey's army of lawyers. They made a wise choice.
The main reason was probably because Kimba's creator, Osama Tezuka, has admitted in the press for years that he was inspired by WALT DISNEY himself to start creating comics! Tezuka's comics had a cinematic style because. Mr.Tezuka loved Disney movies! That would have been the end of the lawsuit!
Star Wars is more of an inspired movie than a ripoff of Hidden Fortress, as I don't remember laser guns and galactic fascists in Hidden Fortress. Lucas also acknowledged the references and homages present in Star Wars, which also included references to Flash Gordon.
I immediately thought of Hunger Games and Battle Royale before I even watched this. I find it hard to believe that the HG author never heard of Battle Royale
Exactly, it also reminds me of the reality TV show - Survivor. Constants were stranded in remote places, elimination took place until there is a sole winner, except, those eliminated in HG were killed.
inception and paprika are completely different, except for few scenes. Black swan and perfect blue has a striking resemblance but i think they could have brought how many elements are original and could have gotten away. And maybe i am wrong, but Darron did buy the rights, just to put the bathtub scene in requim for a dream.
Inception shares a plot with a lesser known film called Extracted. Inception came out a few months before it did, so many think Extracted did the ripping. If anything, Inception could have been inspired by The Cell, a forgotten film with a similar plot. Or to a lesser degree, Dreamscape which could have been the inspiration for the others.
I was going to say, "Pretty sure Shakespeare isn't going to sue over the Lion King!" (not that Shakespeare told original stories either, but there was no copyright for him to break)
People get so bent out of shape when they see film plots being reused. It's almost like they don't realize that it's not the plot, but the STORY, that matters. The bones can be similar, but it's what's laid over those bones that counts. Some of these examples are of plot similarities - no big deal, as far as I'm concerned. Others show blatant story pilferage, which is far worse. But when they steal the plot, the story, AND specific scenes? That's just sad. George Lucas said he wanted to do a "Buck Rogers"-style sci-fi serial with a plot similar to the Kurosawa classics he loved. It was intentional. Even so, the STORY was different. The particulars were different. In general, it was "the same", but when you get down to the specifics it wasn't the same at all. Many commenters mention The Fast and the Furious ripping off Point Break. It could easily have been something like the screenwriters saying "Let's do a movie based on this article called 'Racer X' about the underground street racing scene. We could do it like Point Break, but with cars." What's wrong with that? It's not a rip-off any more than the Ford Model T being a rip-off of the Benz Patent Motor Car, or of the Beretta 92FS being a ripoff of a Colt 1911. We're talking about the IDEAS being similar, but the EXECUTION and DESIGN being different.
I guess Shawshank Redemption and Saw are the same movie: they're both about someone who's unfairly imprisoned and does what they can to get out to freedom. Also the Mona Lisa is a ripoff, like it's just an actual woman that ol Leo copied :P
A very good way of analysing it. Especially when filmmakers dont deny that the other stories inspired them sometimes they are paying homage to other great films and filmakers that they admire by using some basic stotylines and putting their own spin on it. George Lucas said he was inspired by Hidden fortress he made Star wars many people inspire others to do great things not in films but in life. Some are terrible remakes absolutely and the makers seem to be lying when they say they didnt get the idea from somewhere else but came up with it on their own as the its so obvious some are not bad though
Exactly!!! Emulating, not stealing. When it is anything other than information, when you steal something, the original owner doesn't have it anymore. Calling 'unauthorized copying' "stealing" devalues the definition of stealing. If you make an excellent movie emulating a Japanese movie I am never going to watch because I can't stand subtitles, YAY!!! Somebody do an English Scifi version of Crouching Tiger, quick!!
I agree with your main point; that there's a difference between being inspired by someone else's work, as in the case of Lucas and Star Wars, and doing a remake as in the Disturbia. The difference is easy to distinguish between the two; if you have seen the source material you will either be able to predict how the movie will go or not based on that alone. To be inspired means you take the source material and still use it in some sort of novel way that makes something new and different despite any similarities that might remain. A remake only adds certain superficial differences, even if it is an improvement on the original, it is still essentially the same movie. How much of a rip-off would it be if someone basically made the exact same movie as Fast and the Furious but about motorcycles instead of cars? Too similar and it is no longer is inspiration, but a copy. But, if only inspired by Fast and the Furious to make something of similar sort with motorcycles, then while it may have similarities (as most such movies usually do anyway) it will also be its own thing rather than a motorcycle remake.
Most animated movies with sentient animals or objects have groups of similar animals without sentience. For example: Micky Mouse has a pet dog. Arthur the Aardvark (TV show) has a pet dog but has classmates who are also dogs. It is everywhere.
The Fast and the Furious has the exact same plot as Point Break. A young FBI agent infiltrates a group of criminals. Learns their skills from them. Falls for their girl. Has a dramatic chase at the end and then ends up letting the guy go. The only difference. Cars instead of surf boards. EXACT SAME PLOT!
Jose Jose If I'm correct No Strings Attached and friends with benefits were being made at the same time and No Strings Attached also was going to have the same name. It was just a coincidence
Saying Alien stole its plot from It: The Terror from Beyond Space, is like saying Catcher in the Rye stole its plot from the Great Gatsby. This is the weakest argument I have ever heard you guys make.
Kurosawa had some nerve. He stole the entire plot from the novella "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammet, which had TWICE been turned into a film prior to Yojimbo. In the book, nameless agent is called "The Continental Op."
I am a story writer and yes it is hard to write an original story. Now, its okay to "rewrite" a story. Many movies and books are like this. People like stories retold because they have good messages or just plain fun. Now if someone copies my story, I will sue them for millions because I think my stories are more original than others because I took my time to think through my stories. They might not be good stories, but I love my stories to death.
Someone could have an idea thats been done over a billion times but have a much better spin on it. There's always many sides to a story to tell. Pick one and go with it.
There are general, common plots and tropes that tend to go with said plots (like the Hero's journey, revenge stories and characters like wise old masters, evil rulers and young heros). The problem comes from when specific details get lifted and copied.
Anyone who thinks Star Wars Ep 4 is lifted from The Hidden Fortress needs to actually watch both those movies. They have very little in common other than a symilar character dynamic.
Jupiter Ascending is a story that has been done SO many times in anime i would say close to a hundred times by now and yet people who don't watch anime say it was a first and totally new story idea.
That one was actually on the up-and-up. They got permission and paid for it. "Warner Brothers signed a $1.8 million deal in 2003 with the Hong Kong film studio Media Asia Entertainment" -Forbes Online
I was told as a child, Shakespeare did not originate "Romeo and Juliet." It was an old plot he simply wrote the best version of. Which, as we all should know, was redone as "West Side Story". Same with Mark Twain's jumping frog story. An old folk tale he riffed on. Writing numerous versions, including foreign translations done by himself. All of which were eventually published together in one book. Possibly making him the first writer to have his own directer's cut multi-version edition.
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to." - Jim Jarmusch People suing over stuff like this is absofuckinglutely ridiculous and does the industry and creativity no favors.
Men with lots of guns (i.e., the government and its courts) disagree. And, like I said, they have the guns to enforce their views. What does Jim Jarmusch have, a fan club? You can get away with ripping off 20 sources, but when it is just one, you will need to pay, either before the fact (licensing rights to the original) or afterwards (in court).
Unless you steal an entire story from someone else. Yes, everyone steals bits and pieces from their accumulated storehouse, but swiping an entire narrative is just plain plagiarism. It certainly does the cause of creativity no good to abide such intellectual laziness as plagiarism.
Let's not forget James Cameron' s "The Terminator " which ripped off The Outer Limits episodes "Demon with a Glass Hand" and "Soldier" which were both written by Harlan Ellison. If you check out the end credits you see that the producers wish to acknowledge the works of Harlan Ellison, which was part of the settlement.
+videodrone101 "He ripped off 'The Winds of Altair' by Ben Bova for Avatar." Don't forget Ursula K LeGuin's "The Word for World is Forest," also widely recognized as a major source for Avatar. And we won't even mention the origin of the "I see you" catchphrase (that would be Heinlein's "Double Star" -- a 2ndary book in the Heinlein canon, but in anyone else's oeuvre, it would probably rank 1st). But as has been said before, mediocre artists imitate; great artists steal.
Honestly, most of these are instances of movies/books with deeply archetypal stories with stock characters and genre mainstays. Similarities are unavoidable and artists who think differently are stuck up their own asses.
How about how the film “Gamer” is almost exactly like “The Running Man?” A wrongly convicted man is forced into a Death game that is a form of mass entertainment. He gets free with the help of a resistance force. The villain is the face of said mass entertainment. There’s many more similarities as well.
+Samularis I think so? I don't remember much more than that it was lousy, like Gerard Butler's career as a whole. I saw it once near to when It came out and I've no desire to see it again.
Gamer and Running Man are nothing alike, when you break them down in to such general plot overviews they sound alike but the specifics and tone are so different.
The lion king and kimba are both based on Hamlet. The wicked Uncle kills his brother and usurps the throne from the rightful heir: his nephew. The side kicks Timon and Pumbaa are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Both see the spirit of their fathers. There's a graveyard... There are many parallels in theme and characters. The big difference is that in Hamlet everyone dies but 1 to tell the tale.
One way to deal with taking large inspirations of an existing story is to have it play in the background on tv. It basically says "yeah, we know where we got the idea, cuz we liked it that much".
Shakespeare also used materials from other artist to make his plays so you comment is kind of idiotic since nothing ever have been original neither in the past or today.
Only things from ancient times are original, like Greek Mythology or the Bible. Everything after that was just reused, even medieval plays and Shakespeare
Actually, besides Kurosawa, star wars is HEAVILY influenced by Joseph Campbell, and his hero of a thousand faces. Lucas has fully talking about these influences before. This is not so much a "copy" per se, as it is more about classic themes that are common in many cultures over the millennia - Campbell refers to this as "the hero's journey" - star was is just another modern telling of it.
The judge who ruled on Disturbia was 100% correct. Yes, the general premise of Rear Window was stolen, but Disturbia is - in no way - "the exact same movie". I would say Rear Window is a little better, but they are two different stories.
Hinger games and battle royale have very little in common aside from children being forced to fight. The themes, the messages, and the stories are completely different.
Hmm, both have a dystopian society that requires children to fight in a televised arena. Both are given weapons and 'gifts' are given during the battle. Both announce the deaths of the contestants at the end of the day in a fanfare. Both have ways of restricting parts of the battlefield that will force the combatants to face each other. Both have players that are trained to accomplish the victory of the arena though it is supposed to be a lottery that chooses them. Both are supposed to end with only one winner and yet a romantic couple survive the ending. But, sure, "completely different".
So Simba dies in the end along with Scar and Simba's mom (who married Scar, call him King and is blissfully happy about it), and Simba murdered Rafiki, thinking he was Scar? And then Nala drowns herself, and in the end the entire Lion Kingdom (Pridedom?) falls under the rule of the cheetas. Funny that I remember The Lion King differently.
How about Earogon? It was Star Wars with dragons! It wasn’t the basic premise but specific plot points that were more or stolen, one after another. Dead uncle leads to a quest with an old man, then they go to a run down town, then a quest to save a princess. And a big epic battle sequence.
Thanks to this video, I immediately looked up ‘Battle Royale’ and found it on Vudu. I LOVED it!! Such a great film. I never did really care for ‘The Hunger Games’ movies.
I guess the people behind Kimba were smart enough to realize that a lawsuit would be too expensive, and that the publicity of people pointing out the similarities would be great exposure to their product, which is over 50 years old now. I used to watch Kimba as a child, and immediately noticed the similarities when The Lion King came out.
The 2 Pilot sync training, atombomb suicide run, the new models of mechs turn into bizzare monsters and they need to stop the enemy to reach a special spot Adam/Mt. Futji.
Holy hell. I wondered that when I saw "The Island" That this was a ramped up version of Clonus, which was an MST3K classic, or I wouldn't have known it so well. (I can watch the movies, learn the plots to the point I'm no longer watching the movies and trying to listen to the MST3K crew and time and time again I keep finding new jokes in the show I've seen... Countless times. I've been going to bed with that show on recently and especially since netflix has like 20 episodes (including Clonus) that I've played night after night (mainly because netflix stops your videos and asks if you're still watching at a point and I'm usually already asleep by then and don't have to turn "off" netflix to have an action sequence or loud anything wake me once I'm out. But the light itself often wakes me and getting to the screen to turn it off takes a lot. I end up usually putting a pillow in front of my face to block the light.) Well, I hoe you wanted to know all that, otherwise quit reading you weirdo!
It was the widow of the creator who made that decision, who inherited the rights from her late husband, Osamu Tezuka, a legendary pioneer of Japanese Manga.
Just to reiterate, The Departed is a scene for scene take away of infernal affairs, it may have been a legitimate licensing deal but infernal affairs deserves its own recognition; definitely watch it if you like The Departed and this is a prime example of how we "borrow" from Asian film very often.
I knew Disturbia wasn't original, but figured they cleared doing a remake version. Didn't know that they straight up copied it and it's super bogus that the creators got away with ripping it off in court. It wasn't an original idea, it is fully based on the original work with the most minor of details being changed.
Other Examples: 1. Spectre - Ripped off the premise of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. 2. Cool as Ice - Ripoff of Rebel Without a Cause. 3. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar - It's heavily debatable whether or not it ripped off The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. 4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - May or may not have ripped off the Israeli film Lemon Popsicle (which was later remade by the same director as The Last American Virgin). 5. The Fast and the Furious - Aside from its similarities to Point Break, the film also copies the 1987 action thriller No Man's Land.
Among other things, but those are in the Public Domain. Anyone can copy as much of them as they want without even the requirement of crediting the source.
No, they were effectively sacrificed to the minotaur, unless they could kill him and make it out which they were not expected to do. They were not in a dystopian society that forced them to kill each other until one survived, and then break the rules and two lovers survive instead.
Not so much. No similarity to storyline, which is what this video is about. Lotteries or volunteering for a lordly decree that could put people in danger or certain death had already been shown in tales earlier or during the same era. Clash of the Titans (1981) skewed the story of Andromeda to having her be sacrificed, due to public lottery, to the Titan that Perseus saved her from (the original Greek myth not having the same story) could also be a "based upon" idea.
Battle royal and hunger games are nothing alike except for in the future where kids fight each other, neither of those books/series are anything like one another. And I don't think anyone who watched both would remotely claim the movies were either.
An orignal script for the third film in the Escape series would have seen Snake Pliskin going into a space station to rescue someone important, it was rumored to be titled "Escape from Earth". Its said Carpenter and Russell weren't really interested in coming back for a third film, so the script stayed with the studio and they went with Lockout. Carpenter has the rights to the film, and its likely he didnt give permission to use any of the characters
Very good observations, Looper, and thanks for bringing those things to our attention. I would like to object about a few things though: Alien for example. The plot is too generic. Landing on a planet with alien creatures on it. Besides, directors can have been inspired by other plots and this can actually happen subconsciously sometimes. Cheers
The plot of Alien was not generic at the time and was a sci-fi horror movie that took some interesting concepts and made it into a non-stop thriller that never lets up unlike so many modern horror movies.
I have heard "The Hunger Games is a watered down Battle Royale" - which I always found a little weird since Battle Royale is a far simpler film. The two both feature kids fighting in an arena, but that's where the similarities end. While both are dystopian, Battle Royale is an alternate 1990s, while the other is post-apocalyptic distant future. The plot structures are otherwise unrelated to one another. It's like calling 300 a ripoff of Troy or Alexander because they feature wars in ancient Greece.
What other stolen plots should've made this list?
Dredd. It's pretty much idential to The Raid. "I am the law!" More like I am the lawsuit. Lol.
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN OBVIOUSLY
Disney´s Atlantis - total copy of Nadia : the secret of blue water. Also the statment and praise from the makers of Kimba, did they get a secret paycheck or what ? It seems they were very happy in the end.
The Terminator. Utter "Harlan Ellison" within James Cameron's earshot and he goes nuclear at you.
If you mention James Cameron, how about Avatar and the main story in Dances with wolves ?
( Also, all the sci fi elements of that movie came from the Poul Anderson book " Call me Joe "... )
Japan. Helping Hollywood creatively since the beginning
Carpe Diem The problem there is that Kurosawa seems to have been engaging in a little theft himself, since the "Yojimbo" plot is taken from Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest".
And they still managed to ruin Death Note
Regarding Death Note, you'd think that they'd just tell the story as written, rather than try to "reimagine" it. "Reimagining" something that's nearly perfect always ends with cringing.
@@yohannbiimu The problem is then the public whines it has nothing original, you cannot please everyone.
At lease The power Ranger we All know That it come From Super Senti from japan and there is not quralls about it
I always thought Disturbia was a Rear Window remake
Dan Nigro me too!!
It was! The judge got it wrong.
It was, but it was transformative enough to not be plagiarism.
Even the trailer screamed Rear Window rehash.
so someone bought a judge, not the first. doubt its the last time
"The Magnificent Seven" is the Western version of "The Seven Samurai"
There is a phenomenon called "poly-genesis' where two creators have a similar idea but have never met nor read each other's work.
Unfortunately this video is about rip-offs, not co-incidences.
@@tripchaup1831 LMAO tell him one more time.
That happened with hunger games.
Sounds like Disney gave the makers of Kimba a good chunk of change to have em say something like that hahaha
Bea-MT my thoughts exactly
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Out of court settlement (a fat one at that)
I thought so too
The rip off is just way too obvious. Same as with the shape of water and THE SPACE BETWEEN US.
When they said “the lion king” while they were going on about the originality of the film I said Hamlet out loud.... then I learned about Kimba....
ShoulderShot I knew it was both after I saw Kimba. I saw Hamlet and Lion King similarity ages ago
Lion king is meant to be hamlet. All the parallels were intentional on disneys part. It did rip off kimba
They weren't chill, they realized that there is nothing they can do against Disney in court, not with Disney's money and expensive lawyers.
TJS 1701. That's so backward... The original Kimba was named Leo in the original Japanese. But they have to change it in America because it's the same name as the MGM's lion mascot. So they took the Swahili language of Simba and change it to Kimba, just like how the Japanese version named him Leo from Lion. It's smart how they try their best to keep the wordplay. Disney, on the other hand, was just plain lazy.
TJS 1701. It wasn't the Japanese, it was the American company which bought the broadcasting right who pick the name Kimba. The Japanese version used Leo from English word Lion.
You're implying that Disney used the name Simba because it was the Swahili language for lion and it's just a coincidence that it sounds like Kimba. But I point it out to you that Kimba was actually taken from the same word. So Disney did name the character very similar to another cartoon character from a story that also contains a lot of the same elements of story and visual. Disney without a doubt stole it and shamelessly denied it.
USA: can i copy your homework?
Japan: sure but change it a bit so its not obvious you copied
Kimba
Simba
9:33 _"Our company's general opinion is that The Lion King is a totally different piece...and is an original work completed by [Disney's] long-lasting excellent production technique."_
Now please tell me where my family is.
"Our company also wants to state that this statement was not written by Disney or their expansive legal team as part of the settlement they told us to accept."
To Many PLOT Were Stolen From The Japanese Movies !!!
Its what happens when you have a feudal culture base that goes back centuries and so have all these stories to create from. Tony B, my radio producer is a huge Japanese culture enthusiasts and we cover Japan and manga/Anime every week.
Because till recently nobody cared about foreign cinema.
*too
case in point: Seven Samurai
A Bug's Life and The Magnificent Seven would not have been made without ripping off Kurusawa's masterpiece
@@CzarsSalad is it ripping off? Or an appreciation of the work? Both exist. But its in the way its handled... Like artists of today are inspired by picaso. Also kurasawa was a u.s. western movie fan.
You could say he was sued and had to pay... a Fistful of Dollars
Alexgaby YEAAAAAAHHH!!
Plays The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".
That's a massive ass fist
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Hey-Oh!
🤣🤣🤣Yeah but he made a few dollars more back.😁
"Kimba: The White Lion" was the Americanized title. The original Japanese title was "Jungle King" which is a lot closer to The Lion King than Kimba. I smell a payoff.
There was a Lawsuit Disney paid them off
The quote from Kimba's creators sounded like they had a gun to their head the whole time.
@@antoinerobinson7064 there wasn't,
Stop misinforming peoples.
CAWF Network TV Nah Simba has a meaning in Swahili, that why he is called Simba.
@@antoinerobinson7064 and the statement wasn't written by Disney's legal team.
I thought Disturbia was supposed to be a remake of the original.
Always knew Lion King was taken from Kimba the White Lion. *Blatant Rip-off!!*
Me too. When i was a kid i thought Lion King was the movie version and Kimba was anime series version
Me three. When I was an adult, I said, "I saw Kimba when I was a kid on Paul Long's Adventure Time. Why would I pay MONEY to see what was free the first time?"
OTOH, in 2006 I had aisle seats on the Broadway musical, which, barring plot, characters, and some dialog, was nothing like the bad Japanese animation version.
I knew before all of you
You realize they both got their plot almost entirely from Hamlet right?
Star Wars force awakens ripped off of a new hope 🤣
At least they won't have to worry about lawsuits😂
Also The Magnificent 7 is 7 Samurai as a Western. Again, remaking Kurosawa.
However I heard that Magnificent 7 actually was based on that
The Fast and the Furious stole the plot from Point Break.
Super Critic Yes, but the criminal life of the two are very similar in nature.
Super Critic agree!!! Shock it didn't make this list.
Super Critic all though it is a bit painful to admit, yes the plots and character arcs are very similar.....
What's interesting is that the entire TF&TF franchise is one rip off after another:
TF&TF = Point Break
2F2F = Miami Vice
TF&TF: TD = Initial D anime
FAST & FURIOUS = 2F2F (they actually ripped themselves off that time!)
FAST FIVE = BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (with a bit of OCEAN'S 11)
FAST SIX = M.A.S.K (two teams of super car warfare)
FURIOUS SEVEN = Mission Impossible
Not sure what the latest movie cribbed from I wouldn't be surprised if it did. I just find it interesting that for the longest time the F&F franchise kept going by ripping off other movies and cartoon shows.
Albion65 very good analysis there and you are spot on. I suppose it is because they are using a 'formula and archetype' as a basis for their own vision of it, so many comparisons can be made with different movie franchises as such. Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime) and the Pacific Rim movie is another.
The Force Awaken is almost literally a New Hope: A protagonist is running from the bad guys and sends a droid to a dessert planet carrying vital information, they encounter a mentor who is later killed in front of them, the heroes learn about a giant battle station, go on a rescue mission to the station to save the female lead, and later blow up said station.
It's not really a rip-off though, they're both Star Wars movies.
You can get away with it when you own the rights.
Harry Potter is almost literally a New Hope.
Protagonists running from the bad guys describes almost every single movie ever. I would love to live on a dessert planet... what's the ground made out of, brownies? Does it rain chocolate syrup? An older mentor who is later killed in front of them describes too many movies to be a fair comparison too. I will absolutely give you the battle station thing... they even say it's another Death Star in the movie! The rescue mission in A New Hope is more of an accident, and the circumstances of why and how it occurs are totally different. The destruction of the station is the only way it could end and not be shitty, are you serious?
Yea i was wondering if he was going to mention that as well. They are basically the exact same movie.
there's a difference between copyrighting and influenced
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." Many misunderstand the real sentiment behind this quote. Looking at this list the films that they were based on are all much more obscure. Every artist takes their inspiration from other artists they admire and the world around them. But it takes a great artist to take an idea that maybe only mediocre and make it into a masterpiece.
Personally, I always took that phrase to mean good artists copy, great artists take inspiration but make it their own.
@@VogtTD Exactly, many misunderstand
VogtTD good artist copy and trace, they follow one specific path but great artists, while they do copy and steal, they’ve got a lot of sources that makes it their own so instead of when your artists stops drawing and you no longer can improve bc they’ve been doing the work, branching off is easy and even makes it possible to surpass role models
The only reason why Kimba's creators didn't raise a fuss is because they knew that they were gonna get railroaded by Dinsey's army of lawyers. They made a wise choice.
Is Kimba a better movie though? It looks really corny to me
The main reason was probably because Kimba's creator, Osama Tezuka, has admitted in the press for years that he was inspired by WALT DISNEY himself to start creating comics! Tezuka's comics had a cinematic style because. Mr.Tezuka loved Disney movies! That would have been the end of the lawsuit!
You should talk ! ...You guys stole your publisher name from the movie "Looper" !
"The Fifth Element" is pretty much the "Harry Canyon" short in the movie "Heavy Metal."
Star Wars is more of an inspired movie than a ripoff of Hidden Fortress, as I don't remember laser guns and galactic fascists in Hidden Fortress. Lucas also acknowledged the references and homages present in Star Wars, which also included references to Flash Gordon.
Well like 2 things were sorta similar so you're wrong!
/sarcasm
Haha I knew the star wars one was gonna strike some nerves
I immediately thought of Hunger Games and Battle Royale before I even watched this. I find it hard to believe that the HG author never heard of Battle Royale
Yer Mama The HG author is full of crap. HG was just a sanitized version of Battle Royale.
I just saw Battle Royale a couple of weeks ago and I immediately said Hunger Games ripped this off.
Yer Mama if i got caught stealing a story, red handed, i lie to your face about it too
Exactly, it also reminds me of the reality TV show - Survivor. Constants were stranded in remote places, elimination took place until there is a sole winner, except, those eliminated in HG were killed.
They both stole from "The Running man". (Arnold Schwarzenegger is in this movie)
what about inception and paprika ,black swan and perfect blue ?
cartman I know Firefly is admitted by Josh Weddon as an homage of Cowboy Bebop
inception and paprika are completely different, except for few scenes.
Black swan and perfect blue has a striking resemblance but i think they could have brought how many elements are original and could have gotten away. And maybe i am wrong, but Darron did buy the rights, just to put the bathtub scene in requim for a dream.
Inception shares a plot with a lesser known film called Extracted. Inception came out a few months before it did, so many think Extracted did the ripping.
If anything, Inception could have been inspired by The Cell, a forgotten film with a similar plot. Or to a lesser degree, Dreamscape which could have been the inspiration for the others.
There's a video where Black Swan & Whiplash were heavily compared and rightly so
Black Swan is The Red Shoes meets Repulsion.
"Pure Tarantino" IS ripping off other movies.
To be fair, it’s tough coming up with new ideas and stories, especially when Hollywood is releasing 438 new movies every week.
Lion King? That's Hamlet with savannah wildlife. Edit: Hamlet.
Hamlet, not Macbeth
Etterra its Kimba the lion
Etterra hamlet bitch
I was going to say, "Pretty sure Shakespeare isn't going to sue over the Lion King!" (not that Shakespeare told original stories either, but there was no copyright for him to break)
They don't mess around with books here - just films. :P
Lockout wasn't stolen from Escape From New York. It was stolen from Escape From L.A.
To be honest I loved Lockout
The Revenant (2015) is a close copy of the 1971 Richard Harris movie Man In The Wilderness.
They're both adaptations of the real life story of Hugh Glass. It was printed in newspapers in the 1800s.
That statement by the Kimba makers sounds like it was written at gunpoint lol
In other words Disney paid off the makers of Kimba the lion.
Disney paid off Kimba for sure.
People get so bent out of shape when they see film plots being reused. It's almost like they don't realize that it's not the plot, but the STORY, that matters. The bones can be similar, but it's what's laid over those bones that counts.
Some of these examples are of plot similarities - no big deal, as far as I'm concerned. Others show blatant story pilferage, which is far worse. But when they steal the plot, the story, AND specific scenes? That's just sad.
George Lucas said he wanted to do a "Buck Rogers"-style sci-fi serial with a plot similar to the Kurosawa classics he loved. It was intentional. Even so, the STORY was different. The particulars were different. In general, it was "the same", but when you get down to the specifics it wasn't the same at all.
Many commenters mention The Fast and the Furious ripping off Point Break. It could easily have been something like the screenwriters saying "Let's do a movie based on this article called 'Racer X' about the underground street racing scene. We could do it like Point Break, but with cars." What's wrong with that? It's not a rip-off any more than the Ford Model T being a rip-off of the Benz Patent Motor Car, or of the Beretta 92FS being a ripoff of a Colt 1911.
We're talking about the IDEAS being similar, but the EXECUTION and DESIGN being different.
I guess Shawshank Redemption and Saw are the same movie: they're both about someone who's unfairly imprisoned and does what they can to get out to freedom. Also the Mona Lisa is a ripoff, like it's just an actual woman that ol Leo copied
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A very good way of analysing it. Especially when filmmakers dont deny that the other stories inspired them sometimes they are paying homage to other great films and filmakers that they admire by using some basic stotylines and putting their own spin on it. George Lucas said he was inspired by Hidden fortress he made Star wars many people inspire others to do great things not in films but in life. Some are terrible remakes absolutely and the makers seem to be lying when they say they didnt get the idea from somewhere else but came up with it on their own as the its so obvious some are not bad though
Exactly!!! Emulating, not stealing. When it is anything other than information, when you steal something, the original owner doesn't have it anymore. Calling 'unauthorized copying' "stealing" devalues the definition of stealing. If you make an excellent movie emulating a Japanese movie I am never going to watch because I can't stand subtitles, YAY!!! Somebody do an English Scifi version of Crouching Tiger, quick!!
I agree with your main point; that there's a difference between being inspired by someone else's work, as in the case of Lucas and Star Wars, and doing a remake as in the Disturbia. The difference is easy to distinguish between the two; if you have seen the source material you will either be able to predict how the movie will go or not based on that alone. To be inspired means you take the source material and still use it in some sort of novel way that makes something new and different despite any similarities that might remain. A remake only adds certain superficial differences, even if it is an improvement on the original, it is still essentially the same movie.
How much of a rip-off would it be if someone basically made the exact same movie as Fast and the Furious but about motorcycles instead of cars? Too similar and it is no longer is inspiration, but a copy. But, if only inspired by Fast and the Furious to make something of similar sort with motorcycles, then while it may have similarities (as most such movies usually do anyway) it will also be its own thing rather than a motorcycle remake.
Where are the MULTIPLE films "inspired" by Seven Samurai?!?!?
It's 20th on IMDB's list of all time best movies. The highest non-English production, so known by a handful of people. What better to rip off?
The Magnificent Seven is a remake, not a rip off
In cars; why isn't the tar machine alive?
SAY UNCLE!!! Ahhh, the real questions.
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What's inside them?
SAY UNCLE!!! Yes.
And that tractors r cattle?
Most animated movies with sentient animals or objects have groups of similar animals without sentience. For example: Micky Mouse has a pet dog. Arthur the Aardvark (TV show) has a pet dog but has classmates who are also dogs. It is everywhere.
You forgot to mention that Jojimbo (A Fistful of Dollars) got ripped of again in the 90s as "Last Man Standing" staring Bruce Willis.
They had permission on that one and gave credit.
The Fast and the Furious has the exact same plot as Point Break. A young FBI agent infiltrates a group of criminals. Learns their skills from them. Falls for their girl. Has a dramatic chase at the end and then ends up letting the guy go. The only difference. Cars instead of surf boards. EXACT SAME PLOT!
Claw/Scar , Kimba/Simba... c'mon now.
No Strings Attached/ Friends With Benefits. Antz/ Bugs Life.
Jose Jose If I'm correct No Strings Attached and friends with benefits were being made at the same time and No Strings Attached also was going to have the same name. It was just a coincidence
A Bug's Life is basically a remake of The Seven Samurai, which had also been remade as The Magnificent 7.
Not to mention that ST:DS9 was a rip-off of Babylon V (which both ripped ideas from Cassablanca).
Seven Samurai is probably one of the most ripped-off film ever... and that includes the movie A Bug's Life
Saying Alien stole its plot from It: The Terror from Beyond Space, is like saying Catcher in the Rye stole its plot from the Great Gatsby. This is the weakest argument I have ever heard you guys make.
It's more inspiration, and Ridley Scott totally made it his own thing
@@walrusArmageddon Absolutely. I don't know what the video is on about.
What about Pandora stealing Fern Gully? The only thing Pandora left out was the evil spirit Hexxus. Everything else is EXACTLY the same.
Kurosawa had some nerve. He stole the entire plot from the novella "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammet, which had TWICE been turned into a film prior to Yojimbo. In the book, nameless agent is called "The Continental Op."
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Plus he didn’t credit Shakespeare for his Throne of Blood - (Macbeth)
I am a story writer and yes it is hard to write an original story. Now, its okay to "rewrite" a story. Many movies and books are like this. People like stories retold because they have good messages or just plain fun.
Now if someone copies my story, I will sue them for millions because I think my stories are more original than others because I took my time to think through my stories.
They might not be good stories, but I love my stories to death.
writerpatrick True, true.
Sue them for millions, lol. Get over yourself.
Jeremy You don't understand how long I took to write these stories.
Someone could have an idea thats been done over a billion times but have a much better spin on it. There's always many sides to a story to tell. Pick one and go with it.
There are general, common plots and tropes that tend to go with said plots (like the Hero's journey, revenge stories and characters like wise old masters, evil rulers and young heros). The problem comes from when specific details get lifted and copied.
Lion King ripped off Kimba but they both ripped off Hamlet
Anyone who thinks Star Wars Ep 4 is lifted from The Hidden Fortress needs to actually watch both those movies. They have very little in common other than a symilar character dynamic.
Jupiter Ascending is a story that has been done SO many times in anime i would say close to a hundred times by now and yet people who don't watch anime say it was a first and totally new story idea.
Watch Casablanca and the Barb Wire. It's the exact same story except instead of Humphrey Bogart you have Pamela Anderson.
And Old Cold... even have the line "Out of all the bars in all the ski towns in Alaska, she had to walk into this one."
suzanna talks about shonen jump.. she obviously plagerised it..
The Departed (2007, Scorsese, won oscar) ripped off " Infernal Affairs" (2002, Wai-Keung Lau, honkg-kong movie)
Departed is a remake of Internal Affairs.. remake and rip off are different things.
That one was actually on the up-and-up. They got permission and paid for it. "Warner Brothers signed a $1.8 million deal in 2003 with the Hong Kong film studio Media Asia Entertainment" -Forbes Online
I was told as a child, Shakespeare did not originate "Romeo and Juliet." It was an old plot he simply wrote the best version of. Which, as we all should know, was redone as "West Side Story". Same with Mark Twain's jumping frog story. An old folk tale he riffed on. Writing numerous versions, including foreign translations done by himself. All of which were eventually published together in one book. Possibly making him the first writer to have his own directer's cut multi-version edition.
Hunger Games is way, way closer to the concept of "The Long Walk" than "Battle Royale".
What. Hunger games is a direct ripoff of battle royal just with teen drama
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
- Jim Jarmusch
People suing over stuff like this is absofuckinglutely ridiculous and does the industry and creativity no favors.
Good post!
Men with lots of guns (i.e., the government and its courts) disagree. And, like I said, they have the guns to enforce their views. What does Jim Jarmusch have, a fan club?
You can get away with ripping off 20 sources, but when it is just one, you will need to pay, either before the fact (licensing rights to the original) or afterwards (in court).
Unless you steal an entire story from someone else. Yes, everyone steals bits and pieces from their accumulated storehouse, but swiping an entire narrative is just plain plagiarism. It certainly does the cause of creativity no good to abide such intellectual laziness as plagiarism.
Let's not forget James Cameron' s "The Terminator " which ripped off The Outer Limits episodes "Demon with a Glass Hand" and "Soldier" which were both written by Harlan Ellison. If you check out the end credits you see that the producers wish to acknowledge the works of Harlan Ellison, which was part of the settlement.
He ripped off the book "The Winds of Altair" by Ben Bova for Avatar.
+videodrone101 "He ripped off 'The Winds of Altair' by Ben Bova for Avatar." Don't forget Ursula K LeGuin's "The Word for World is Forest," also widely recognized as a major source for Avatar. And we won't even mention the origin of the "I see you" catchphrase (that would be Heinlein's "Double Star" -- a 2ndary book in the Heinlein canon, but in anyone else's oeuvre, it would probably rank 1st). But as has been said before, mediocre artists imitate; great artists steal.
Honestly, most of these are instances of movies/books with deeply archetypal stories with stock characters and genre mainstays. Similarities are unavoidable and artists who think differently are stuck up their own asses.
How about how the film “Gamer” is almost exactly like “The Running Man?”
A wrongly convicted man is forced into a Death game that is a form of mass entertainment. He gets free with the help of a resistance force. The villain is the face of said mass entertainment. There’s many more similarities as well.
I don't think many people really remember Gamer.
@@gavinhenderson7250 Didnt it star the dude from Dexter as the villain?
+Samularis I think so? I don't remember much more than that it was lousy, like Gerard Butler's career as a whole. I saw it once near to when It came out and I've no desire to see it again.
@@gavinhenderson7250 I have it on Dvd from Blockbuster b4 they died, I will check it out, I like some bad movies.
Gamer and Running Man are nothing alike, when you break them down in to such general plot overviews they sound alike but the specifics and tone are so different.
The lion king and kimba are both based on Hamlet. The wicked Uncle kills his brother and usurps the throne from the rightful heir: his nephew. The side kicks Timon and Pumbaa are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Both see the spirit of their fathers. There's a graveyard...
There are many parallels in theme and characters. The big difference is that in Hamlet everyone dies but 1 to tell the tale.
Which is why Kimba makers probably didn't sue
@@brandonreed09 exactly.
Hamlet was based on the third century story of Agaletto.
@@morrison999uk can't find Agaletto, only Amleth from the Norse legend upon which Hamlet is said to be based.
Doesn’t matter both are based off of hamlet when disney literally uses lions as well. Could of done anything else but they didn’t.
"The notebook" totally ripped the same storey line as "fried green tomatoes".
One way to deal with taking large inspirations of an existing story is to have it play in the background on tv. It basically says "yeah, we know where we got the idea, cuz we liked it that much".
Nothing is original these days...
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Shakespeare also used materials from other artist to make his plays so you comment is kind of idiotic since nothing ever have been original neither in the past or today.
Only things from ancient times are original, like Greek Mythology or the Bible. Everything after that was just reused, even medieval plays and Shakespeare
“The Dark Knight Rises” is “The World Is Not Enough”
“Pompeii” is “Titanic”
“Run All Night” is “Road to Perdition”
How is the dark knight rises the same as the world is not enough. Pompeii and titanic are based on real life events
@@tomcarpenter8420 in regards to the latter two, obviously real life needs to be more original.
Actually, besides Kurosawa, star wars is HEAVILY influenced by Joseph Campbell, and his hero of a thousand faces. Lucas has fully talking about these influences before. This is not so much a "copy" per se, as it is more about classic themes that are common in many cultures over the millennia - Campbell refers to this as "the hero's journey" - star was is just another modern telling of it.
The judge who ruled on Disturbia was 100% correct. Yes, the general premise of Rear Window was stolen, but Disturbia is - in no way - "the exact same movie". I would say Rear Window is a little better, but they are two different stories.
Hinger games and battle royale have very little in common aside from children being forced to fight. The themes, the messages, and the stories are completely different.
Hmm, both have a dystopian society that requires children to fight in a televised arena. Both are given weapons and 'gifts' are given during the battle. Both announce the deaths of the contestants at the end of the day in a fanfare. Both have ways of restricting parts of the battlefield that will force the combatants to face each other. Both have players that are trained to accomplish the victory of the arena though it is supposed to be a lottery that chooses them. Both are supposed to end with only one winner and yet a romantic couple survive the ending. But, sure, "completely different".
Yeah the novel is similar to Hunger Games. I mean the actual Battle Royale novel
@@RobertScythe You just owned this guy..finish him!
The Lion King is Disney's take on Hamlet and The Lion King 2 is Romeo & Juliet
So Simba dies in the end along with Scar and Simba's mom (who married Scar, call him King and is blissfully happy about it), and Simba murdered Rafiki, thinking he was Scar? And then Nala drowns herself, and in the end the entire Lion Kingdom (Pridedom?) falls under the rule of the cheetas. Funny that I remember The Lion King differently.
How about Earogon? It was Star Wars with dragons! It wasn’t the basic premise but specific plot points that were more or stolen, one after another. Dead uncle leads to a quest with an old man, then they go to a run down town, then a quest to save a princess. And a big epic battle sequence.
I'd say the all time thief would be "The force awakens" stealing almost everything from "New hope".
Both the Lion King and that Kimba movie borrowed heavily from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Hamlet was based on the third century story of Agaletto.
Thanks to this video, I immediately looked up ‘Battle Royale’ and found it on Vudu. I LOVED it!! Such a great film. I never did really care for ‘The Hunger Games’ movies.
Watch the second one too, the rest of The Hunger Games are also rip-offs
Who’s the actress in the screen shot for the video before it starts , looks like Cara but if it is she’s not mentioned in any of these films?
I guess the people behind Kimba were smart enough to realize that a lawsuit would be too expensive, and that the publicity of people pointing out the similarities would be great exposure to their product, which is over 50 years old now. I used to watch Kimba as a child, and immediately noticed the similarities when The Lion King came out.
Add Pacific Rim, they didn't steal the whole story but the basic premise and look are clearly copied from NGE
I've seen both. It's inspired for sure but copied is an exaggeration.
J. Ackermann Do you think that is the only mecha anime?
The 2 Pilot sync training, atombomb suicide run, the new models of mechs turn into bizzare monsters and they need to stop the enemy to reach a special spot Adam/Mt. Futji.
Well they've tried for years to get an actual live-action Evangelion movie produced, but nothing from it ever came to fruitition
People don`t realize Kill Bill`s plot is from Lady Snowblood
Isnt it even mention in the credits ?
Both movies start with the same song i think.
People don't Realize nearly every QT movie was copied from something else.
There, I fixed that for you.
And The Bride Wore Black (1968)
what is the music used in this video?
Disney should sue themselves for ripping off scenes and almost entire plots of Disney movies and re-using them over and over
How about the Terminator 1 and Harlan Ellison's Outer Limits Episode 'The Soldier'?
The Lion King didn't even just steal its plot from that Japanese film. The whole thing is Hamlet.
Obviously Disney already paid the makers of kimba to give such a glowing review of their work
Holy hell. I wondered that when I saw "The Island" That this was a ramped up version of Clonus, which was an MST3K classic, or I wouldn't have known it so well. (I can watch the movies, learn the plots to the point I'm no longer watching the movies and trying to listen to the MST3K crew and time and time again I keep finding new jokes in the show I've seen... Countless times. I've been going to bed with that show on recently and especially since netflix has like 20 episodes (including Clonus) that I've played night after night (mainly because netflix stops your videos and asks if you're still watching at a point and I'm usually already asleep by then and don't have to turn "off" netflix to have an action sequence or loud anything wake me once I'm out. But the light itself often wakes me and getting to the screen to turn it off takes a lot. I end up usually putting a pillow in front of my face to block the light.) Well, I hoe you wanted to know all that, otherwise quit reading you weirdo!
What movie doesn't copy off the other?
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A japanese one I guess
Plenty of them.
The Room
Citizen Kane
The company that did Kimba is too scared to take Disney on. They practically praised them for stealing.
It was the widow of the creator who made that decision, who inherited the rights from her late husband, Osamu Tezuka, a legendary pioneer of Japanese Manga.
Just to reiterate, The Departed is a scene for scene take away of infernal affairs, it may have been a legitimate licensing deal but infernal affairs deserves its own recognition; definitely watch it if you like The Departed and this is a prime example of how we "borrow" from Asian film very often.
Cool story bro. How many other video critiques did it take you to start your own?
Don't be sarcastic.
Battle royal borrowed from what become the running man. Good times
I thought I was the only one who remembered KIMBA the White Lion.
And Yojimbo was a direct lift from the 1920s noir novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. Kurosawa has nothing to complain about.
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Plus a little bit of The Glass Key. And he didn’t credit Shakespeare for Throne of Blood.
Imperial Commander ‘... or given you clairvoyance enough to find the rebel’s HIDDEN FORT...’
Vader ‘I find your lack of faith disturbing’
You forgot about Den of Theives and Triple 9 being rip-offs if Heat.
Lockout was a fun movie though.
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Den of thieves also copied " The usual Suspect"...trying to do a Keyser Soze at the end.
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Avatar is a rip off of ferngully. Same concept
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I thought it was a ripoff of the Smurfs?
I knew Disturbia wasn't original, but figured they cleared doing a remake version. Didn't know that they straight up copied it and it's super bogus that the creators got away with ripping it off in court. It wasn't an original idea, it is fully based on the original work with the most minor of details being changed.
Other Examples:
1. Spectre - Ripped off the premise of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
2. Cool as Ice - Ripoff of Rebel Without a Cause.
3. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar - It's heavily debatable whether or not it ripped off The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - May or may not have ripped off the Israeli film Lemon Popsicle (which was later remade by the same director as The Last American Virgin).
5. The Fast and the Furious - Aside from its similarities to Point Break, the film also copies the 1987 action thriller No Man's Land.
Aren't Hunger Games and Battle Royale both based off the Greek myths of Theseus vs the Minotaur in the Labyrinth
Among other things, but those are in the Public Domain. Anyone can copy as much of them as they want without even the requirement of crediting the source.
No, they were effectively sacrificed to the minotaur, unless they could kill him and make it out which they were not expected to do. They were not in a dystopian society that forced them to kill each other until one survived, and then break the rules and two lovers survive instead.
Robert Scythe keyword: "Based"
Not so much. No similarity to storyline, which is what this video is about. Lotteries or volunteering for a lordly decree that could put people in danger or certain death had already been shown in tales earlier or during the same era. Clash of the Titans (1981) skewed the story of Andromeda to having her be sacrificed, due to public lottery, to the Titan that Perseus saved her from (the original Greek myth not having the same story) could also be a "based upon" idea.
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Isn't "Lion king" a "Hamlet" adaptation?
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Battle royal and hunger games are nothing alike except for in the future where kids fight each other, neither of those books/series are anything like one another. And I don't think anyone who watched both would remotely claim the movies were either.
An orignal script for the third film in the Escape series would have seen Snake Pliskin going into a space station to rescue someone important, it was rumored to be titled "Escape from Earth". Its said Carpenter and Russell weren't really interested in coming back for a third film, so the script stayed with the studio and they went with Lockout. Carpenter has the rights to the film, and its likely he didnt give permission to use any of the characters
"Rec" and "Quarantine"
Quarantine is remake of Rec.
That hunger games lady is a liar
nowano kbi Sorry that your shitty Asian movie was possibly ripped off.
Samularis "If you have an anime profile pic, your opinion doesn't count"
Vio Raissa, great logic kid.
What's a lier?
@@Richard_Nickerson ask the 36 people that agreed with me. Unoriginal attempt at standing out
Very good observations, Looper, and thanks for bringing those things to our attention. I would like to object about a few things though:
Alien for example. The plot is too generic. Landing on a planet with alien creatures on it.
Besides, directors can have been inspired by other plots and this can actually happen subconsciously sometimes.
Cheers
The plot of Alien was not generic at the time and was a sci-fi horror movie that took some interesting concepts and made it into a non-stop thriller that never lets up unlike so many modern horror movies.
I have heard "The Hunger Games is a watered down Battle Royale" - which I always found a little weird since Battle Royale is a far simpler film. The two both feature kids fighting in an arena, but that's where the similarities end. While both are dystopian, Battle Royale is an alternate 1990s, while the other is post-apocalyptic distant future. The plot structures are otherwise unrelated to one another. It's like calling 300 a ripoff of Troy or Alexander because they feature wars in ancient Greece.