Josh Hutcherson schüttelt Tarantino ab und behauptet, die „Tribute von Panem“ seien ein Abklatsch von „Battle Royale“: „Jeder leiht sich von jedem“

I dunno, after his Fortnite sellout collaboration, maybe Tarantino should shut the hell up and continue to not make his final movie rather than tearing into Paul Dano and spouting off about a decade-old movie for teenagers.

But that’s just my opinion.

Just sounds weird coming from Tarantino…who borrowed plenty, and Id say pretty blatantly.

The phrase „steal like an artist“ exists for a reason. Even Shakespeare took from previous works.

Josh Hutcherson is so wholesome.

Everyone points out the hypocrisy of Tarantino saying this because he obviously “rips off,” classic movies himself, but what actually bothers me most about this is that Hunger Games is WAY more of a “rip off,” of the myth of [Theseus and the Minotaur.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus)

A powerful overlord subjugates a people, every seven years said overlord demands seven young men and seven young women as tribute (yep). These tributes are dropped into a Labyrinth to die.

Sound familiar?

All you could argue it took from Battle Royale was the competition and entertainment aspect, which is far from a novel idea, Stephen King has been bashing that idea round for decades.

Everything Tarantino has ever done has been derivative of something that came before. And most of the time it’s intentional and he calls “homage.” He’s just up his own ass.

Also bit rich for him calling out Hunger Games for stealing a concept from an Asian film, when Reservoir Dogs is a massive rip off of Ringo Lam’s City On Fire.

And is Tarantino acting like he hasn’t borrowed from someone before?
Also, while Collins may have taken the aspect of kids fighting in an arena, the overall themes of BR and THG are SO VASTLY different!

Did Battle Royale kind of invent the “teenager forced into a survival death match” thing? Yeah. Is there not enough meat on that particular bone for other people to take a crack out it though? Like you can all sorts of different dressing and theme to that basic idea to create something new and great in its own right

Its funny he says this, because it literally wasn’t. Its based inspired by The Long Walk and The Running Man, both written by Stephen King under the pen name Richard Bachman

Reservoir Dogs is the last 25 minutes of City on Fire as a feature film

Kill Bill is equal parts Lady Snowblood and Death Rides A Horse

Molding portions of foreign cult classics into American films is a significant portion of his own films.

I mean, yeah. This is not a new take, it was a new take when the movies were being made in the 2010s.

And Tarantino is the last person who should be calling foul about movies lifting from other movies. I love his work, but he knows fully well what he does.

Tarantino is good for a quote. That’s just how he is. Don’t expect consistency from quote to quote. Part of the game

Pulp Fiction has a couple scenes right out of Foxy Brown.

It wasn’t even a unique concept with either of those stories. The Running Man was also around before either of them and before that was Most Dangerous Game or whatever it’s called by Ray Bradbury. 

It’s an idea that’s been around for a very long time. 

Its true. Buts its so broad to be pointless. The idea of players forced to play a contest of some kind, with death as the penalty for failure, its not unique to either property nor was either property the first.

Its the same basic plot as squid games, just not high schoolers.

Shit, its not even very far removed from the plot of 1983’s Deathstalker (the best warriors in the land are gathered to a central location by the bad guy, the winner is promised a spectacular prize, but really its just so the bad guy can get rid of his most likely competition), which is just a Conan the Barbarian rip off.

Yeah directors do borrow but hunger games is blatantly a much worse rip off of battle royale