Why does every one think this is a copy of battle royale?
Watch sliders season 3 ep 1 Rules of the game. It came out 4 years before BR . It's on Netflix.
shareBecause Battle Royale is the first famouse movie that used people under 18 fighting eachother in "games till death". therefore any movie with similar premise will forever be labeled as a copy by people that dont know how things work.
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I think you forgot about 'Lord of the Flies' but you are close. It's more like BR is the only movie these people have heard about that has this concept in it. It's not that BR is famous, it isn't. It has a certain amount of notoriety now, but it's still not famous. It's a movie some people may have heard of, but very, very few had seen. And that includes those who kicked up this fuss. They never saw it till after THG came out in 2012. That's when the DVD finally went on sale. It's interesting that the actual BR DVD went on sale in March 2012 and made No50 in the April 2012 DVD chart. It was No 100 in May and in June it wasn't on the chart at all. So much for popularity.
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I think you forgot about 'Lord of the Flies' but you are close.Could we stop repeating this lie, please?
I actually bought a copy of 'Lord of the Flies' hoping for some death match action, but it turned out to be the (extremely dull) story of some British school kids who get shipped on an island and the social order that is created among them.
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Well Dippy, you just proved that your know as much about 'The Lord Of The Flies' as you do about 'The Lord Of The Rings'. Nothing at all. You could at least read the Sharp Notes. But it wouldn't kill you to actually read a proper book now and again. You could even try reading 'Battle Royale'. It's a bit big and fairly dense but if you got it and kept a dictionary alongside to help with the big words you could get through it in a coupe of years.
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Battle Royale was a very popular cult film in America well before the Hunger Games.
In 2009, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino praised Battle Royale as the best film he had seen in the past two decades, stating that, "If there’s any movie that’s been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made, it’s that one."
Suzanne Collins should have admitted a long time ago that she plagiarized Battle Royale. Then there wouldn't be so many angry BR fans on these boards. It is a slap in the face to Asian cinema. It's even more obvious with the continuation of the sequels in parallel with the sequel of Battle Royale.
Battle Royale was a very popular cult film in America well before the Hunger Games.
No, it wasn't. It was never shown in North America and that includes Canada. Now there were a few people who were curious about Tarantino's statement, but not very many. After all he was the one who said it was unknown in the US. This is not the film's fault but no one can say that BR was well known and had a large following, because it wasn't. This was proved when the DVD was al last released and it didn't sell, even when marketed on THG coattails.
In 2009, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino praised Battle Royale as the best film he had seen in the past two decades, stating that, "If there’s any movie that’s been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made, it’s that one."
Tarantino saw the film in Japan and again he mentioned the fact that it was unknown in the US. And by 2009 Collin's book was already on the Best Sellers List.
Suzanne Collins should have admitted a long time ago that she plagiarized Battle Royale. Then there wouldn't be so many angry BR fans on these boards. It is a slap in the face to Asian cinema. It's even more obvious with the continuation of the sequels in parallel with the sequel of Battle Royale.
Why should she admit to a lie to satisfy some trolls' sad delusions? The film was unknown, it's biggest proponent said so in that interview you mention. You really should look up the hard facts instead of believing what you read on a troll post. Hand on heart, when did you first know about the film, let alone watch it? If you ever did. You mention the film, when did you read the book?
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Not to mention that the editor told Collins NOT to read 'Battle Royale' when she asked if she should read it.
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And have you noticed, they never say when they first heard about the movie and they don't even know about the book.
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Lord of the Flies 20,344 votes
Battle Royale 126,526 votes
These numbers seem to indicate that BR is at least 6 times as famous as LotF.
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263 in Books
Reviews;2,294 customer reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Flies-William-Golding/dp/0399501487/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432034974&sr=1-1&keywords=Lord+of+the+Flies
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,832 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Reviews; customer reviews 257
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TQGGCL0/ref=dp_mv_of_dp_1
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Reviews;154 customer reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Royale-Novel-Koushun-Takami/dp/1421527723/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432035306&sr=1-3&keywords=battle+royale
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,739 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
Reviews; 429 customer reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Royale-Chiaki-Kuriyama/dp/B006L4MWVE/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1432035196&sr=1-2&keywords=battle+royale
I like reviews from people who put their money where their mouths are. Would you like the number of schools where it is required reading? Or the number of reviews on GoodReads.
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Would it not be more fitting to compare Battle Royale with Peter Pan, the Goonies, Gilligan's Island or any other movie that has kids stuck on island?Believe me. They have.
One moron even claimed BR was ripoff of Lord of the Rings xD
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I take it you didn't read the book. Takami did.
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And here i thought we were discussing movies, not books....
Also i dont think you know what the word "popularity" means. its not the same as "high ranking".
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When you are talking about BR you can only talk about the book which was published in the US. The film is moot because Tomie Corp wouldn't pay for it to be released in the US. And as for popularity, well that is quite important. Which is why it is so interesting to see just how unpopular BR is since it was released. It was released in March 1012 on DVD and Blu-ray. It reached No 50 in the April 2012 chart and then it fell to below 200. That's as far down as the charts go. The sales ranking number is on the Amazon sites, B&N sites and even on the Walmart charts. Go and look for it. You wont find it. It's biggest fan club on the Internet boasts 500 members...worldwide. Or you could look at YouTube and count the views it's had on there since it was put up You can check out the reviews here here on the IMDB, the activity on the relevant page. I rather take that as a measure of popularity. . These things can be found you know.
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When you are talking about BR you can only talk about the book which was published in the US. The film is moot because Tomie Corp wouldn't pay for it to be released in the US. And as for popularity, well that is quite important. Which is why it is so interesting to see just how unpopular BR is since it was released. It was released in March 1012 on DVD and Blu-ray. It reached No 50 in the April 2012 chart and then it fell to below 200. That's as far down as the charts go. The sales ranking number is on the Amazon sites, B&N sites and even on the Walmart charts. Go and look for it. You wont find it. It's biggest fan club on the Internet boasts 500 members...worldwide. Or you could look at YouTube and count the views it's had on there since it was put up You can check out the reviews here here on the IMDB, the activity on the relevant page. I rather take that as a measure of popularity. . These things can be found you know.
That's an odd claim regarding BR's fanclub, as there are over seven million members in the club I joined, and it is by no means the largest.
Sure, there might have been a small boost in popularity among some US highschoolers who understandably haven't heard of foreign movie despite its being well-known among the previous generation, but it didn't really add much to BR's status. While the book sales took off because it was a must-read for anyone who enjoyed the Hunger Games series and wanted more. I don't think you can really chart the film's popularity on a handful of western-based retail sites. Let's not forget BR's popularity grew even in countries where it was never even officialy released. share
the problem with your entire claim here is that you think US = whole world
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As I live in Scotland I hardly think so. I'm well aware that BR has been shown twice on Film 4 in the past 15 years and if you order the Novel you can get it from Amazon. You can't get it at Waterstones or Forbidden Planet. And the manga is unheard of. This I know because I get mangas for my grandson.
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In which case you should have realized that US charts and releases should matter very little considering it only accounts for 5% of population.
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It's where Suzanne Collins lives and works and where she wrote 'The Hunger Games' series. It is rather important to her. Do you understand the meaning of context?
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The context here is people who watched the movie and possibly comapred it to another movie. its irrelevant where or who Suzanne Collins is.
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Are you deliberately trying to came across as idiotic? Because I have to admit you are doing a bang up job of it.
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yes, battle royale was and is original. it may not seems so on paper, but then what does? no one has brought Kinji Fukasaku's surrealism to the screen before or since in the way lynch did. it is a testament to him that it was made at all let alone become such a huge phenomenon.
Fukasaku is a creative genius. Francis Lawrence is, and always will be, a talentless, derivative and over blown name. he got lucky with Constatine. a film in itself which is totally unoriginal in which the twist is obvious in the first five minutes.