Match Stick Men and The Game (Spoilers)
The movie ending is a cross between the ending of Match stick man and The Game. Did anyone else feel the same way? All in all, a good movie.
sharei think they took some sceans from "The criminal"..i think its more like that...
such as ..life scean, ending, and planning
the whole concept of bluffmaster is stolen from the movie The Game. I dont know what has happened to bollywood now a days, every other movie is a copy. Ek khiladi Ek haseena (blatant copy of Confidence), neal n nikki (copy of my sassy girl with scenes from meet the parents et al). I know this lack of imagination existed earlier as well in bollywood but now it is reaching epidemic proportions.
shareTaking inspiration from Hollywood then...
shareThe game is a copy of "Nine Queens", the great Argentinian movie.
Hollywood screwed it up far more than Bollywood -- so kudos in some sense.
oh yeah...
a shameless xerox of 'The Game'
the moment Abhishek Bachchan falls from the terrace, I was like 'OMG. THIS IS THE GAME'. Haha, even b4 he hit the ground i knew what teh end would b. But I enjoyed the movie nonetheless...
Nothing is original when it comes to Bollywood. They're expert counterfeiters.
shareI'd just like to point out Dittu states at the beginning of the plan to con Chandru that his ideas are taken from films. In Bluff Master we seeing an effort by the writers and directors to create a postmodern/post-structuralist indian film. Admittedly the film drags in parts, and its representation of the Muslim other is stereotypical, but it is to be admired for the postmodern qualities it displays in the many references to hollywood and indian films that it uses to construct the conceits between director and spectator, both in the music (use of remixes) and plot. Also the fragmentation of the personalities of all the central characters, and repeated pointing out that it is a movie with stylised wipes, introduction cards and even the shouting of cut at the very end are postmodern choices the director has made. It's the same tendency we have seen in Main Hoon Na and Bunty aur Babli. When Tarantino does it it's postmodern, but when Bollywood does it it's copying. In this age of globalisation we need to appreciate directors may be going for something a bit more intelligent, even in Bollywood. Ek Ajnabee and Zinda are out and out copies, but this is something else, primarily due to its amalagamation of several films, that it admits it will steal from anyways! Some good postmodern stuff coming from India, now it just needs some stronger/tighter scripts.
shareThe concept was definitely a mix of Matchstick men and the game. The joined the stories well though. Dialogue was definitely spunky (esp with Nana Patekar). Song picturisation was good too.
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+1! couldnt agree more with you
shareI think most of what everyone's saying is that the premise/content of the film was taken from other movies, not so much the style in which it was done. But I agree with you that this is by far more successful in its originality of tone and style.
shareNow now, we shouldn't generalize here. Bollywood movies have a lot of bad movies simply because India makes the most movies in the world. There quite a few diamonds in the rough!
shareThis reply was intended for Jobatra 1.
Here's the thing The Game was released/made before Nine Queens 'The great Argentinian movie'.
Game is not a copy of Nine Queens.
Nine Queens is about a con and hustle behind revenge theme where as Game is about a lesson on life.
-:Only when you lose everything you have something to gain:-
I think you mean "Criminal", because "The Game" was made in 1997, whereas "Nine Queens" was made in 2000. Also Criminal clearly and openly states it is based upon Nine Queens. You'd be hard pressed to find such a statement coming from plagiarizing Bollycrap directors.
Ironically, this isn't even ironic at all.
Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina had cons from matchstick men too.
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holy crap !
the game and matchstick men copy?
comon, bollywood needs a life !