Plots That Were Stolen From Other Movies
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Date: 2020-07-14
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prying
You should have mentioned Black Swan. It's a rip-off, going so far as to steal very complex, element-for - element screen compositions from Perfect Blue (aside from the very specific plot itself. It wasn't the first time Aaronofsky stole from the film, as the bathtub scene from Requiem for a Dream might as well have been rotoscoped from Perfect Blue.
Occasionally shot for shot comparisons have been uploaded to YouTube, but they're copyright stricken, which is ironic as sht. Aaronofsky had even met with creator Satoshi Kon years earlier, likely asking for permission to remake Perfect Blue, which he openly intended to do, but it fell through, and Aaronofsky remade it anyway, while lying through his teeth about his pathetic theft.
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You should have mentioned Black Swan. It's a rip-off, going so far as to steal very complex, element-for - element screen compositions from Perfect Blue (aside from the very specific plot itself. It wasn't the first time Aaronofsky stole from the film, as the bathtub scene from Requiem for a Dream might as well have been rotoscoped from Perfect Blue.
Occasionally shot for shot comparisons have been uploaded to YouTube, but they're copyright stricken, which is ironic as sht. Aaronofsky had even met with creator Satoshi Kon years earlier, likely asking for permission to remake Perfect Blue, which he openly intended to do, but it fell through, and Aaronofsky remade it anyway, while lying through his teeth about his pathetic theft.
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Charles
Yes, american film-makers freely shoplifted more than a few good ideas from Akira Kurosawa's films. Would you like to know why? Most of his films were inspired by american iconography! Seven Samurai is Kurosawa's own understanding of a Western, Hidden Fortress was pretty much a medieval adventure saga translated into japanese, and Ran, while being an adaption of Shakespheare's King Lear seems to borrow pretty heavily from family-driven dramas like The Godfather andGiant. The only thing worse than stealing, is stealing from thieves and getting caught.
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Yes, american film-makers freely shoplifted more than a few good ideas from Akira Kurosawa's films. Would you like to know why? Most of his films were inspired by american iconography! Seven Samurai is Kurosawa's own understanding of a Western, Hidden Fortress was pretty much a medieval adventure saga translated into japanese, and Ran, while being an adaption of Shakespheare's King Lear seems to borrow pretty heavily from family-driven dramas like The Godfather andGiant. The only thing worse than stealing, is stealing from thieves and getting caught.
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Jay
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1: 9
There are countless Japanese and Chinese, Nollywood, Bollywood movie plots stolen and made into American original script movies. I watch so many foreign movies alot, the storylines truly have some uniqueness to them and they're just more entertaining. Every once and a while I watch a movie and I'm like isn't there a US version. made after. renamed most times, with no credit given.
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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1: 9
There are countless Japanese and Chinese, Nollywood, Bollywood movie plots stolen and made into American original script movies. I watch so many foreign movies alot, the storylines truly have some uniqueness to them and they're just more entertaining. Every once and a while I watch a movie and I'm like isn't there a US version. made after. renamed most times, with no credit given.
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MichaelAarons1701
If youre gonna list _Star Wars_ then it should be with _Force Awakens_ to the original.
That said, while I can get behind the whole _Doc Hollywood_ and _Cars_ angle, if Michael J. Fox is gonna be here, it should be because _Atlantis: The Lost Empire_ ripped _Stargate_ off.
As for _Yojimbo, _ there was a huge fad of making westerns as remakes of samurai films like _The Outrage_ to _Rashomon_ or _Magnificent Seven_ to _Seven Samurai. _
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If youre gonna list _Star Wars_ then it should be with _Force Awakens_ to the original.
That said, while I can get behind the whole _Doc Hollywood_ and _Cars_ angle, if Michael J. Fox is gonna be here, it should be because _Atlantis: The Lost Empire_ ripped _Stargate_ off.
As for _Yojimbo, _ there was a huge fad of making westerns as remakes of samurai films like _The Outrage_ to _Rashomon_ or _Magnificent Seven_ to _Seven Samurai. _
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aLwE17
Dang, I have to watch The Island again, I remember watching it by myself when I was in High School, I can't believe it's been a long time. I like watching movies by myself, there's something fulfilling about fully absorbing the whole movie on a gigantic screen without anyone disturbing me. It was also much much cheaper to watch movies before all the 3D craze blew up ticket prices because studios now have to film it in 3D or superHD and ultra high FPS.
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Dang, I have to watch The Island again, I remember watching it by myself when I was in High School, I can't believe it's been a long time. I like watching movies by myself, there's something fulfilling about fully absorbing the whole movie on a gigantic screen without anyone disturbing me. It was also much much cheaper to watch movies before all the 3D craze blew up ticket prices because studios now have to film it in 3D or superHD and ultra high FPS.
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Mr.
If you want to talk about blatant plot ripoffs, try watching Mr. Holland's Opus (1995, Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis) back-to-back with Follow Me, Boys! (1966, Fred MacMurray, Disney Studios. Your head will spin at the incredible lack of originality in the later film and how much was stunningly stolen from the far more obscure Disney movie. Of course, this doesn't justify what Disney later did with The Lion King.
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If you want to talk about blatant plot ripoffs, try watching Mr. Holland's Opus (1995, Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis) back-to-back with Follow Me, Boys! (1966, Fred MacMurray, Disney Studios. Your head will spin at the incredible lack of originality in the later film and how much was stunningly stolen from the far more obscure Disney movie. Of course, this doesn't justify what Disney later did with The Lion King.
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hydrolito
Star Wars also copied Flash Gordon with scrolling letters at beginning space ships, also Buck Rogers being frozen with Han Solo being frozen and brought back to life and The Wizard of Oz, with Chewbacca similar to cowardly lion, robots instead of Tin man, hologram image as was done by the Wizard. Darth Vader dressed in black like the Witch. Little people like the munchkins.
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Star Wars also copied Flash Gordon with scrolling letters at beginning space ships, also Buck Rogers being frozen with Han Solo being frozen and brought back to life and The Wizard of Oz, with Chewbacca similar to cowardly lion, robots instead of Tin man, hologram image as was done by the Wizard. Darth Vader dressed in black like the Witch. Little people like the munchkins.
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Carlo
Most of the people that worked on The Lion King said that they didn't know about Jungle Emperor (the original name of Kimba the White Lion. That may be true but I saw a big comparison video. However, Matthew Broderick did know about the manga and at the least the remake gave Scar a new color design. Heck, the remake should've had an entirely new story.
October 22, 2019
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Most of the people that worked on The Lion King said that they didn't know about Jungle Emperor (the original name of Kimba the White Lion. That may be true but I saw a big comparison video. However, Matthew Broderick did know about the manga and at the least the remake gave Scar a new color design. Heck, the remake should've had an entirely new story.
October 22, 2019
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Winston
When I was very young, I saw the Kimba cartoon, specifically when the young cub Kimba must swim an ocean, occasionally seeing his mother's image in the sky to guide him. In the early 1990s, when my kids dragged me to see The Lion King and I saw the exact same scene enveloped by a very similar premise and community of jungle animals, I held my tongue.
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When I was very young, I saw the Kimba cartoon, specifically when the young cub Kimba must swim an ocean, occasionally seeing his mother's image in the sky to guide him. In the early 1990s, when my kids dragged me to see The Lion King and I saw the exact same scene enveloped by a very similar premise and community of jungle animals, I held my tongue.
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