Is anyone else tired of seeing Battle Royale on this forum when it's for The Hunger Games? Some people look at this for
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Hunger Games
averi-cole — 13 years ago(July 06, 2012 11:13 AM)
Is anyone else tired of seeing Battle Royale on this forum when it's for The Hunger Games? Some people look at this for enjoyment and what other people say, not that people keep saying THG is a ripoff of Battle Royale.
"Because she came here with me." Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games -
turdbadge — 11 years ago(February 18, 2015 01:00 PM)
I actually saw the sequel (Catching Fire) movie at an advanced screening and was struck by the identical story and story-elements, along this the overall entire premise, and thinly disguised characters (changing name, sex, etc.) from the poorly-recieved sequel to the award-winning Japanese Cinema classic, Battle Royale.
This lead me to check out the 1st HG film and rewatch Battle Royale on Youtube and jot down a "few" of the duplications:- Decreed by the government
- As a punishment for rebellion
- A group of children must fight to the death in an arena, with a sole survivor
- There is an instructional video
- And a lady with an extremely high pitched voice and cheery disposition
- The children are, for the most part, chosen against their will by a lottery
- But some volunteer to compete
- They have permanent tracking devices attached to them
- And theres nothing like the fear of being blown up to keep them on their toes
- There are supply packs with survival gear and weapons
- Although their contents could be a little more useful
- The plot surrounds two main characters - 1 boy and 1 girl
- With a history
- People keep quizzing him on his love life
- But hes just pining after you-know-who
- Even though another guy has the hots for her
- The arena is a large forest
- There are "safe zones" and "danger zones" in the (enclosed) arena.
- They hide in a cave
- Cave moment!
- They are mentored by someone who had competed before
- And likes to drink
- There is a control center where the gamemakers can track all of the competitors
- The children receive regular updates as to who has died
- Along with the occassional message of encouragement
- The first person is killed by a knife
- Someone gets shot with an arrow
- The main boy becomes badly injured
- A girl dies from poisoning
- And one girl in particular seems to enjoy the violence
- One crazy volunteer is the last foe they must defeat
- Who has the highest kill count
- But is oddly attractive, despite the whole sadistic killing thing
- Bird whistle signal
- The boy and girl are the only survivors to make it home
- The gamemaker dies
- Both have sequels in which the couple become targets of The Capitol after their victory in the games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Japan/Panem
NOTES:
Also, as a student of Neo-Platonism, any reference to the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur or the Romani Gladiatorial games just won't fly. All that says is that the Author used elements, names, and phrases from Ancient Greece to dress up the story's framework to distinguish it from the source material which it so audaciously cannibalizes.
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summerinertia — 10 years ago(November 10, 2015 04:29 PM)
The book Hunger Games was published in 2008 and the film released in 2012. It shows a sophisticated society. Although it is impossible not to notice all the similarities with the Japanese film Battle Royale, released in 2000, eight years before. In this film, students are kidnapped in a excursion trip and wake up with a head-explosive-collar. They were selected to a life and death game with only one survivor or none at all. Each one receive a backpack with food, drink, lantern and one weapon or survival device. Each six hours they are informed about the dead and the danger zones to be avoided in order not to explode their necks. Alliances are made and death follows the smallest suspicion. Previous infatuations and enmities are explicit. Enfasis centers in the animal inside all of us and how thick is the civil layer of our personalities and our survival willingness. Hunger Games is much more complex, however it is possible to deny so many similarities
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Mahmood-Buttrumps — 9 years ago(June 09, 2016 08:44 PM)
Alas, cultural thievery seems to run strong in the West at times (e.g Elgin Marbles, the Wicca movement). Itd be interesting to know if its as prevalent in others places around the world, or just a Western phenomenon. Cultural thievery does nothing to edify the people who stole it (cause it proves that they cant or dont want to create genuine culture for themselves), and it does nothing to help the victims whom it was stolen from. Everyone loses out. Its a shame.
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ikissedaguru — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 11:46 AM)
Cannot stop laughing. They 100% deserve it. This is what happens when you get greedy.
It needed to be a trilogy. Can we finally stop splitting the final movies into 2 unless it's entirely necessary like with Harry Potter?
It really hurt the hunger games too seeing as Mockingjay Part 2 made less than 1 which made less than Catching Fire. Catching Fire was so good and they could have ended the trilogy with a bang but nope. That series will be forgotten. -
shani_dayo — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 10:15 PM)
Another thing is the fact that both the older dude in BR and Haymitch from the Hunger games both fell in love with a fellow female contestant, who they both happened to comfort near deathand were heartbroken over afterwards.
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Twinkie81 — 13 years ago(July 08, 2012 10:08 AM)
You know, if you'd stop replying to their threads (and stop making new threads complaining about their threads), or even ignore the authors of those threads, you'd solve most of the issues with BR suffocating the board, but people seem unable or unwilling to do that.