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.
This was my first version:
And that is pretty much just a ripoff of the movie The Running Man.
Exquisite.
Also the first twin stick arcade game I played.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale
I wouldn’t be surprised if the theme also showed up in books that predate all of these films.
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.
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.)
Remind me again where Fortnite and Hunger Games got the ideal for Battle Royale stories.
PUBG?
Bollywood applying for stolen ideas is like China claiming their knockoffs are actually the original
The movie “Luck” came out 13 years before Squid Game…
Hard to steal content from the future.
Reread the comment above you, because they are claiming the opposite of what you’re thinking
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.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Also pretty terrible to blame one dude for the faults of an entire national industry.
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.
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.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
—a whole lot of people who stole from each other
Kaiji anime did it first snyway
They’re both just rip offs of Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel “10 Little Indians.”
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.
Loved it; but I thought the ending was cheating. How was I supposed to solve that on my own?!
For those who want to know, the original title was “10 Little N----s.” Yes, really.
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