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The Hole vs Tangled - who stole from whom?


Already having seen "The Hole" some time ago I watched "Tangled" yesterday and discovered parallels between the two films:

- Both of them have the same kind of a tragic love story in it where the protagonist is desperate to win the heart of another protagonist but doesn't succeed (well, in "Tangled" he does basically, but it took him very long)

- Both have kind of a triangle in realtionships in it (in "The Hole", it's Liz, Frankie and the guy Liz fancies; in "Tangled" it's the two guys and the girl - two friends and one of them is fancying the boy or the girl)

- In both movies the protagonists are trapped in a building in the forest - in "The Hole", it's - well, the hole; in "Tangled" it's this house in the forest. In both movies one of the protagonists is responsible for them being trapped and another freaks ot - however, creepy things happen.

- In both movies the innocent, good protagonist turns out to be the bad, murderous freak.

- In both movies there are two detectives being involved in the case and one usually asks the questions, the other one observes the place where all happened.

and so on and so on

I have read that both films were released in 2001. So the question is: Who stole from whom?

What do you think about all this?

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Huh? How do you get that those two movies stole from one another? I've seen both, don't remember them being anything alike. Maybe the same genre, taht's it. I enjoyed them both.

I mean, you wanna see a movie that stole from another one, watch BLINK then THE EYE.

trufflesauce

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The Hole was actually written years before it was made by the author Guy Burt while he was still in Uni. I love both these films. My favorite kind of movie...

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