This Battle Royal troll has an insane level of commitment.
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riekondoh-116-326404 — 10 years ago(May 16, 2015 07:51 PM)
This is a pretty poor example, in terms of 'defending' the Hunger Games; especially since it doesn't even get the facts completely right.
Just to name a few blatant errors:
The article bases everything off of the Hunger Games and the Battle Royale Movies. Both the Hunger Games and the Battle Royale come from books, however, which is where you'll find the most similarities.
It is stated that the Hunger Games is punishment for the whole country (punishment being an extremely poor choice of words), and that the Battle Royale was just one class to punish the children. This is completely off, because the Battle Royale is made out to be a national sorrow, with the leader weeping over the 'tens of thousands of lives'. The reason why it affects the whole nation is because each year 50 classes are chosen. Not one, as falsely stated in the article. Fifty class rooms of 15 year old children.
Let's not forget that any family members who resist are killed as well. It's unquestionable that in both books and movies, it's a national affair.
The rest of the points are very well-thought out either, all going somewhere along the lines of 'Battle Royale is more violent'. This includes the arguments on:- the way the children are tracked
- in Battle Royale the trackers can kill them
- the way the it is televised
- in Battle Royale it's shown as a tragedy [shock], in Hunger Games it's shown as entertainment
- the way the children were abducted
- in Battle Royale it was more forced; but it is noteworthy that in the original Novel, nobody was 'beat' while on the bus, and all of them succumbed to sleeping gas
- the way the children fought
- in Battle Royale there was great outrage at first. During the introduction, many declared their outright objection and attempted to rebel. When the parents were informed, a few of the parents had rebelled as well. The result of this was that the involved parties were killed. The difference between Battle Royale and the Hunger Games is that Battle Royale understands the concept of a 'totalitarian government'.
This is hardly a comparison. Whoever wrote this is basing everything solely off of the movies, and is drawing at straws to find a 'difference'. Every single serious argument basically dwindles down to 'Battle Royale is more violent', and some of the arguments are just plain wrong.
If your high school English teacher had read the Battle Royale, and you submitted the Hunger Games, you would undoubtedly be failed for plagiarism. But of course this isn't high school, this is mainstream media. We have people scrambling to defend the blatant theft because it's oh-so-popular at the moment.
Now it's funny, because all of the violence justifies itself, and everything is self explaining. It's a totalitarian government. How do they maintain control? How do they handle people who object to the game? In Battle Royale everything is solved with violence cause that's how totalitarian governments work. In the Hunger Games, the involved members seem much more lax at the concept of them being forced to kill each other. "Oh well we get a nice feast, so I guess it's not that big of a deal".
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Mahmood-Buttrumps — 9 years ago(June 14, 2016 11:36 AM)
you can't judge unless you've watched both, and in my opinion, read both as well. People who read HG will beep about how terrible the movie was. It's the same way for BR, but the director actually did a terrific job portraying the true nature of the book despite the time period (about 2000) and his resources. But the book, like always, is better than the movie. So before you go waving your stick around in declaration, have something to back you up or else you look like either a troll/an idiot/or and attention seeker.
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riekondoh-116-326404 — 10 years ago(July 28, 2015 08:13 PM)
Not only has the troll various accounts, but he or she is trying to convince us that there will be a Hunger Games theme park in the heart of the Middle East XD
There was a story being circulated about this, but its not so much a "theme park" as a t-shirt stand where they sell hotdogs and stuff to people who are completely oblivious to the existence of the Hunger Games franchise? -
summerinertia — 10 years ago(December 17, 2015 10:40 AM)
There have been hundreds (if not thousands) of inventions that were simultaneously invented by more than one person; including the cotton gin, the radio, using electricity, light bulbs, and the telephone, where the inventors had no idea someone else was working on the project. The names in the history books though are the "first" ones to patent their ideas. The point is - it happens every day when someone comes up with something they think is unique but someone else, somewhere else, has already thought of it.
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Mahmood-Buttrumps — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 11:52 AM)
Fukasaku has certain power over the scripts he want to direct, but he did not come up with the story and the script. However, the important thing is - Production company Toei DID buy the right to make the novel from Takami Kousen (the person who came up with the story). Now the story rights belong to Production company Toei.