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Splitter
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The movie's well-known and has been out for six years. What the hell took this guy this long to file a lawsuit? I call shenanigans.
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GATSU
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Quentin Tarantino stealing someone else's ideas? Unthinkable!
 Surprised he's asking for so little, though.
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penguintruth
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And half of those ideas were stolen by somebody else who stole them from somebody else. This lawsuit is stupid. Waiting this long to sue just shows how bogus it is. |
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GATSU
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penguin: Half the ideas in Pulp Fiction, you mean?
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jsyxx
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Tarentino does modern takes on exploitation cinema. It's his whole oeuvre. You would have to be some kind of moron to think that anyone expects him to use completely original ideas. Someone who would make a youtube video to criticize him for being influenced by other films probably needs to go out and get a job because they obviously have too much time on their hands.
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MarcFBR
 Posts: 47 Location: California |
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If the guy thought he had a legitimate case it certainly wouldn't be that low.
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Kruszer
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Yeah, I'm going to have to agree on it being BS too. Unless the guy was trapped in a cave for the past 6 years, it's a bit fishy. |
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GATSU
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J-Syxx:
Well, back when I was growing up, everyone was calling him "original", and that he just "improved" his source material. So acknowledging that he's just recycling at this point is a step down for him. |
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mrsatan
 Posts: 909 Location: Olympia, WA, USA |
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It's well known that Tarantino took her from Meiko Kaji's character in Lady Snowblood and the name O-Ren supposedly came from Etsuko Shihomi's character in Kage no Gundan IV. (The same "Shadow Warriors" series in which Sonny Chiba played Various Hattori Hanzos.)
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hyoumirai
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I wonder why he would wait this long... Did he not see the movie (or, more specifically, the anime segment) until recently?
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triangle_man
 Posts: 67 Location: Texas, USA |
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Oh Noes! Walt Disney Company was utilized as a criminal enterprise!!!111!!11!!!!1!
On reading the document further (still not done): Holy Crap. You'd think that somewhere in the four years he spent with his legal dictionary, he'd have someone who is familiar with GRAMMAR proofread it for him. Also I LOVE how he quotes the Uncyclopedia on page 11. The Uncyclopedia! I don't know if I have it in me to finish reading this crap. By the way, the Uncyclopedia article on Tarantino is hilarious. Last edited by triangle_man on Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:47 am; edited 2 times in total |
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walw6pK4Alo
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One million dollars to those defendants is like a nickel to us. I'm sure they still won't settle however, as they can hire legal help in excess of ten times that amount.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
 Posts: 3524 Location: Bellevue, WA |
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I think we should be more concerned with the Y2K bug. Oh, wait...
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ikillchicken
 Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Okay, let's just start by pointing out that the robbery bears absolutely no resemblance beyond being a robbery. Stuff like someone guarding the door and having a car waiting or having something go wrong and having the alarm go off are such old robbery cliches. The similarity is meaningless. In fact, anyone drawing comparisons between the robberies has presumably not actually seen Reservoir Dogs. They don't show the robbery. That's the whole bloody point. All Tarintino did was take the basic premise of a robbery gone bad leading to a confrontation over a traitor. If you call that stealing then half the writers in the world are thieves. The whole point you conveniently ignore though is that this material is practically not worth stealing. There's a reason nobody remembers City on Fire. It's a big old pile of cliched shit. The reason people remember Resevoir Dogs is because it took that cliched premise (the only thing it has in common with CoF) and made it brilliant. Who (other than people like you who are just looking for an excuse to bash Americans) gives a rats ass if he took the bare bones premise which wasn't even significant in the movies appeal from some C grade piece of crap. As for this lawsuit...the guy waits for years to sue and only asks for a tiny fraction of what he could ask if he really had a case. What does that tell you? It all just screams scam, like he's hoping they'll just settle for some insignificant amount to get him out of their hair and save on legal costs. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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It's not unknown for "ZOMG CREATIVE THEFT!!!! SUESUESUESUESUESUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lawsuits to sometimes take a while to materialize. Look at the whole Incarnate/Bleach Magma debacle. It took the Internet shy of half a year to really blow it out of the water. |
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