[DigitalFreak]

Bollywood is turning more and more into another Hollywood hype train. In under 8 mins I saw ripoffs from The Matrix, Kill Bill, various Jackie Chan movies, and Hong Kong styled Bruce Lee thrown in for good measure.

 

[ardgedee]

Bollywood is turning more and more into another Hollywood hype train. In under 8 mins I saw ripoffs from The Matrix, Kill Bill, various Jackie Chan movies, and Hong Kong styled Bruce Lee thrown in for good measure.

 
Nah. They've been at this for decades. For example, in the 1960s, there were spy thrillers. In the 70s, gangster movies and martial arts flicks...
 
It's going on all the time in international cinema (1960s Japan also made some pretty remarkable James Bond-influenced flicks, but nobody outdid the Italians at that). If there are fewer instances of American movie makers ripping off foreign films wholesale, it would have more to do with Americans generally being culturally inward-facing rather than because they were above such behavior. 

 

[mutabor]

Bollywood is turning more and more into another Hollywood hype train. In under 8 mins I saw ripoffs from The Matrix, Kill Bill, various Jackie Chan movies, and Hong Kong styled Bruce Lee thrown in for good measure.

 
Not only rip offs but Bollywood started to make official remakes of Hollywood movies. For example, Indian branch of Fox Star released this year remake of 'Knight and Day' called 'Bang Bang'.
 

 
I was pleasantly surprised that there is such music in Kazakhstan - a group Project Zenit. They sing in English. I'm wondering how are they going to survive here?
 

 

 

[Mimouille]

   
Nah. They've been at this for decades. For example, in the 1960s, there were spy thrillers. In the 70s, gangster movies and martial arts flicks...
 
It's going on all the time in international cinema (1960s Japan also made some pretty remarkable James Bond-influenced flicks, but nobody outdid the Italians at that). If there are fewer instances of American movie makers ripping off foreign films wholesale, it would have more to do with Americans generally being culturally inward-facing rather than because they were above such behavior. 

Let us not forget that the Americans are ripping of a lot of the great movies from Asia and Europe, because they know their public will not watch the original version. It some instances these remakes are quite a scandal. A few examples: Infernal Affairs, Old Boy, Let the Right One In, Dark Water, Ring, etc.

 

[ardgedee]

For a few of those examples at least, the American versions are fully, legitimately licensed, and the controversy was mostly over how much worse they were than the originals. If the U.S. production of The Ring was not above-board, they would not have given Koji Suzuki a writing credit.

 

[Mimouille]

For a few of those examples at least, the American versions are fully, legitimately licensed, and the controversy was mostly over how much worse they were than the originals. If the U.S. production of The Ring was not above-board, they would not have given Koji Suzuki a writing credit.

of course they are legitimate... It is just the principle of doing a remake a couple of years later just to make a movie palatable to the American public

 

[mutabor]

Today in Ukraine
 

 

[DigitalFreak]

I never knew Dark Water was a ripoff. Loved that movie, the filmatography with its use of shadow and color during the spooky scenes was interesting.

 

[Mimouille]

I never knew Dark Water was a ripoff. Loved that movie, the filmatography with its use of shadow and color during the spooky scenes was interesting.

The Japanese is wonderful.

 

[ardgedee]

of course they are legitimate... It is just the principle of doing a remake a couple of years later just to make a movie palatable to the American public

 
I agree. Calling it a "ripoff" is a stretch, though. That implies the remakes were completely unauthorized in addition to being disappointing. 

 
(The Magnificent Seven is kind of the opposite: A great movie in its own right but a literal remake of Seven Samurai, and I don't know if the studio that produced it ever admitted to that. They'd have owed Kurosawa's producers a lot of money if they had.)

 

[Mimouille]

Never seen it but love the Kurozawa to bits...

 

[Silent One]

Thanks man. I appreciate it. I hate being this drama whore, but today's been an exceptionally bad day.

"Happy 2015" to you; the others in this thread. And specifically wishing you brighter tomorrows, Coq de Combat.
 
 
 

 

This vid gave me a HUGE smile. 

 

[barleyguy]

   
I agree. Calling it a "ripoff" is a stretch, though. That implies the remakes were completely unauthorized in addition to being disappointing. 

 
(The Magnificent Seven is kind of the opposite: A great movie in its own right but a literal remake of Seven Samurai, and I don't know if the studio that produced it ever admitted to that. They'd have owed Kurosawa's producers a lot of money if they had.)

This post somehow reminded me of Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. It was influenced by many eastern movies. One of my favorite films, BTW.

 

[Mimouille]

Man today is a sad day for democracy... A couple of terrorists shot 12 people in Paris, in one of France' key historical satirical newspapers, because the paper had published caricatures of Mahomet. Among the dead are some of the greatest satirical comic strip artists that were part of my childhood. Such a sad sad day.

 

[mutabor]

The same type of "a believer" as terrorists in Paris showed up in a church today: