• @adam_y
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    592 months ago

    So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?

    Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.

      • @adam_y
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        Exquisite.

        Also the first twin stick arcade game I played.

      • Flying SquidM
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        52 months ago

        And that is pretty much just a ripoff of the movie The Running Man.

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      192 months ago

      Battle Royale is about kids killing each other, not being killed in the course of competitive trials.

      If anything, Hunger Games is a bigger culprit for that.

      • mox
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        We could quibble about the details, but all of them are fundamentally last-man-standing competitions.

        The Hunger Games was indeed one of them. I didn’t mention it because it’s the most obvious one in current cultural memory (no need for me to point it out) and because Battle Royale came a decade earlier, and Battle Royal half a century before that. The characters’ situation is probably older than printed words.

        Even if a competitive game format was unique to the Hindi film, it would be tough to argue that nobody else could have thought of that detail when making their own variation of the same theme. Calling it a “blatant rip-off” of Luck (2009) is quite a stretch.

        (Incidentally, the Luck synopsis that I read says it focuses on gambling, not competitive trials or children’s games. A quick look at the video confirms it.)

  • @[email protected]
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    232 months ago

    Remind me again where Fortnite and Hunger Games got the ideal for Battle Royale stories.

  • @ohwhatfollyisman
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    212 months ago

    the hindi film industry is itself littered with corpses of stolen ideas from other film industries across the world for decades now.

    seems karma’s come home to roost if this story is true.

    • @[email protected]
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      -42 months ago

      Two wrongs don’t make a right. Also pretty terrible to blame one dude for the faults of an entire national industry.

      • @ohwhatfollyisman
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        32 months ago

        nobody’s saying either wrong is right. nobody’s blaming the one dude.

        as an indian, i’ve always cringed at movies like baazi, kaante, aatank hi aatank, hum tum, chachi 420, zinda, ek ruka hua faisla, satte pe satta, sholay, qayamat, ghulam, and a boatload of other shameless rip-offs and i was just marvelling at the irony of the situation.

      • ms.lane
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        02 months ago

        It’s not a wrong though and even if it was, it’s not their idea to begin with, they stole it from Hunger Games and Battle Royale.

  • @mlg
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    182 months ago

    Bollywood applying for stolen ideas is like China claiming their knockoffs are actually the original

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      22 months ago

      The movie “Luck” came out 13 years before Squid Game…

      Hard to steal content from the future.

      • @[email protected]
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        02 months ago

        Reread the comment above you, because they are claiming the opposite of what you’re thinking

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

    —a whole lot of people who stole from each other

  • @small44
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    132 months ago

    Kaiji anime did it first snyway

    • @BreadstickNinja
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      Now known as “And Then There Were None.”

      10 Little Indians was actually the second title for the book. The first one was worse.

      Great mystery though.

  • Flying SquidM
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    32 months ago

    STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH ME, NETFLIX! I TOLD YOU, IT’S OVER BETWEEN US!