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'The Ring' copied 'Ring Virus', NOT 'Ringu'


The Ring and The Ring Virus are more simular to each other then Ringu, appently. This is shown in the poster here...

This is the one for 'The Ring Virus', I saw it a few years ago when it was relised in U.K, I saw again on this web site...

http://www.strangethings.nu/bildsidor/ringvirus.htm

And here is 'The Ring' poster, I'm sure loads of you have seen it in the posters and in the adverts.

http://www.crankycritic.com/archive02/posters/thering.jpg

Would be harm a butterfly like me?

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Thank you, and for everyone else... here is what I noticed (I need to watch it again, I bought it from ebay). But here you are-

1. Both Chou (The doctor in Ring Virus) and Noah hold up x-ray pictures.
2. Eun-Suh's face in the well.
3. The well, same design.
4. Samara/Eun-Suh's mother both dress the same.
5. Samara/Eun-Suh's mother both threw themselves into the sea.
6. Samara/Eun-Suh's mother both have a scene where they get read to jump.
7. Both Samara/Eun-Suh show their faces, but Sadako never does in 'Ringu'.
8. The ex character was annoying (and hopeless, not helpful either)
9. Noah's appartment/home/office/crap pit, lol!

Okay maybe saying that the ex's were annyoing is a bit unfair, but they could be couldn't they? Dr idontcarewhathisnameis was really annoying, when he died at the end I went, "YES!"

Anyway, do you remeber anything else?


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Yes that's true, but they are meant to be close to being lovers... I mean in all three movies, they wanna make it look like mummy, daddy and babykins (Girl or Boy) are all gonna get together and be a nice happy family.

Though in 'Ring Virus' him? Be a step-dad... very funny (Do we ever find out what happened to Boram's real dad? Did I miss it, cause I think he died, didn't he?)

Water Play, water play... It will never end

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You're probably right I need to watch 'The Ring Virus' again. Oh dear... It just gets lower and lower...

In Ringu, Yoichi is the result of an eight year marriage (And five of those years he was there)

In The Ring, Aiden was the result of a bottle of wine, a lousy g/f and b/f relationship.

In The Ring Virus, Boram was the product of a one-night-stand, gone horribly wrong.

The fact that Boram isn't Dr Chiou's (I know I can't spell his name) daughter, it loses some effect on the movie. Some, not a lot, but some a lot, but it is lost.

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Heh, considering that the original relationship was a man and his self-professed rapist friend...one might say it has not quite reached that level again and is still, therefore, up. heeheh...

Frankly, I still prefer the original Ryuji. He was, in my opinion, a more interesting character than the love triangle tends to warrant...though infuriating at times.

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Was there a love triangle? Where?

I liked movie Ryuji more because he was mysterious. Ryuji in the book was a self-professed rapist friend... and I's found him a nasty piece of work as well as a pal of our anti-hero in the book.

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There are aspects from "The Ring Virus" in "The Ring"... but I still consider it a remake of "Ringu"

And the box for "The Ring Virus" you posted was made after "The Ring" came out, around late 2001/early 2002

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Still... I am in a way right. Both og them are simular to 'Ringu' but 'The Ring' and 'The Ring Virus' have very simular parts in them.

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It's just that the US feel's a foreign movie can't be good so they have to remake them. Just look at 3 hommes et un couffin (1985) & Three Men and a Baby (1987), Mon père, ce héros. (1991) & My Father the Hero (1994), plus Three Fugitives (1989) and Catch That Kid (2004) were both coppied from French movies I can't find right now.

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'Catch That Kid' = 'Klatretosen'

'Three Fugitives' = 'Les Fugitifs'

Many other examples at http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.4195. Some aren't quite remakes though - for example they list "Twelve Monkeys" as a remake of "La Jetee", which is a bit of a stretch.

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Some aren't quite remakes though - for example they list "Twelve Monkeys" as a remake of "La Jetee", which is a bit of a stretch.


Well, the lineage here is actually pretty clear: the producer bought the rights and hired screenwriters to come up with a feature-length version. What emerged may have been substatially different, but 12 MONKEYS still seems to qualify as a "remake" of "La Jette" (semantic quibbling aside).

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you seem to forget one important point. the producers of the ring never saw ths movie. they saw the origianl japanese movie and decided to remake it.

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No, one of the writers or someone did see this movie, and took some of it's elements.

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There were things in The Ring Virus that The Ring took, such as the well design, the fact that Samara/Sadako/whatever her name is in Ring Virus survied in the well for seven days, but those are the only two I noticed while watching the movie. If I watched it again I could probably figure out more but I hated the film.

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If you visit The RING CYCLE webpage, it features a thorough, frame-by-frame comparison of RINGU, RING VIRUS and The RING, which shows how the three movies resemble and differ from each other. Aspects and imagry from RINGU-2, RINGU-0 and even DARK WATER were also incorporated into The American RING. The makers of The RING (at least the screenwriter and the director) obviously did their homework. The American remake was influenced (in varying degrees) by ALL of the previous RING movies.

You can visit the RING CYCLE webpage at:
http://www.mandiapp le.com/snowblood/the ringcycle.htm.

Another good source of information is at RING WORLD:
http://www.theringw orld.com/

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- cskull-1: Well... Both the well design and the X-ray thingy also appear in the novel. The well in the novel is clearly a circular, stone well, since the view from the well is described as a moon in the cursed video and the well is described as a pile of stones when Asakawa and Ryuji find it.

And the X-ray thingy was also there. When Asakawa and Ryuji find Sadako's file among Miura Tetsuzu's files (Miura Tetsuzu used to evidence all psychic people from throughout Japan), and they find two such photos there - of the characters sada (chastity) and yama (mountain), which are parts of her name, Yamamura Sadako.

And about Eun-Suh showing her face... the Sadako of the novels wasn't that face-covering monster as in the movies. Heck, we have the rape situation in the novel as well, and there, I guess her face was shown more than anywhere else. ;)

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i heard that gore verbinski watched and took notes on all of the ring movies. including ringu 2 and ringu 0. i dont know about rasen, though

Is this your homework Larry?

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I feel that The Ring is a remake of Ringu mostly, although I am sure that The Ring borrowed some other bits from other movies (That poster, for example. The Becca in the mental hospital scene is from Ringu 2, where Takano visits Masami, similar microbe style thing in the cursed videos from The Ring Virus and The Ring, Katie and the leaking water by her feet shot is similar to that of Dark Water). There are many visual and plot similarities that link Ringu and The Ring.

**http://www.livejournal.com/users/xsadavirusx/ << the diary of Sadako (my LiveJournal)**

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I just got RING VIRUS today here at the library. It was in our foreign film section. At first, I wasnt sure if this was actually Ringu or a remake of Ringu. Hope someone here can officialy clear the mystery up for me. Thank you and glad to be here.

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