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small44 ,

Kaiji anime did it first snyway

adam_y ,
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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.

OlinOfTheHillPeople ,

This was my first version:

https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/0/3413/236922-smash_tv.jpg

adam_y , (edited )
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Exquisite.

Also the first twin stick arcade game I played.

mysticpickle ,

I’d buy that for a dollar!

lolcatnip ,

Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

—a whole lot of people who stole from each other

ohwhatfollyisman ,

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.

phdepressed ,

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

ohwhatfollyisman ,

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.

Bluefalcon ,

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

Zorque ,

PUBG?

Deceptichum , (edited )
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https://quokk.au/pictrs/image/e3ec28fa-5a5d-4762-a633-91646aed40b8.gif

Kolanaki ,
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They’re both just rip offs of Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel “10 Little Indians.”

BreadstickNinja , (edited )

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.

Kolanaki ,
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Loved it; but I thought the ending was cheating. How was I supposed to solve that on my own?!

mox , (edited )

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.

todd_bonzalez ,
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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 ,

We could quibble about the circumstances that led the characters to their situation, but all of them are last-man-standing competitions.

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

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

Hard to steal content from the future.

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