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Mad Detective = MPD Psycho ?

posted 16 years ago by eoffermann
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See Takashi Miike's odd but not exceptional tv miniseries "MPD Psycho", and the exceptionally *good* manga of the same name on which Miike's series was based.

From the characters to some of the dialog (mainly from plotlines in the manga that weren't adapted in the miniseries), Mad Detective seems clearly inspired by the detective with multiple personality disorder (the "MPD" in MPD Psycho) who tracks down serial killers.

So for that reviewer that was talking about the 'losers' in Hollywood ripping off THIS movie in a couple years, remember there aren't that many really new ideas: just a few you don't know about yet.

(And before anyone gets their panties in a wad - I'm not badmouthing Mad Detective here, unless you're the sort of zealot that needs to believe it's original in order to feel that it's good. Then take it how you want.)

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[–] eoffermann 16 years ago

*nods*

I was actually very excited by the similarities since I had seen the Miike series first, then got interested in the Manga and have been wishing someone would make a film a little closer to the original and a bit better.

Mad Detective fits that nicely, though I'm still waiting for a really good MPD Psycho film. The imagery is so simultaneously brutal and beautiful - Miike could have done it, but not with the budget he had and not for television...

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[–] Tyler_Durden_pt 13 years ago

I also thought about the resemblance, as MPD Psycho is my favourite manga. Haven't watched Miike's series, but this film is quite good and probably influenced by the manga.

I do agree that an "original idea" or script is virtually impossible these days, we just have to accept that. Pretty much everything has been done before, even when it seems to us it hasn't. If you keep going back to "who did it first", you'll only stop when you get to Homer - and probably he too took ideas for his stories from oral folk lore.

[–] Jersey_Mike 13 years ago

Interesting, I have never seen Miike's series or read the manga, but I felt this story would make a good TV show while watching the movie. Strange.