Netflix’s Squid Game is rip-off of 2009 Hindi film, lawsuit says | The Straits Times
Netflix’s Squid Game is rip-off of 2009 Hindi film, lawsuit says | The Straits Times
Soham Shah is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction preventing Netflix from infringing his copyrights. Read more at straitstimes.com.
So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?
Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.
59This was my first version:
34I'd buy that for a dollar!
8And that is pretty much just a ripoff of the movie The Running Man.
4Exquisite.
Also the first twin stick arcade game I played.
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale
I wouldn't be surprised if the theme also showed up in books that predate all of these films.
27Battle Royale is about kids killing each other, not being killed in the course of competitive trials.
If anything, Hunger Games is a bigger culprit for that.
18We could quibble about the details, but all of them are fundamentally last-man-standing competitions.
The Hunger Games was indeed one of them. I didn't mention it because it's the most obvious one in current cultural memory (no need for me to point it out) and because Battle Royale came a decade earlier, and Battle Royal half a century before that. The characters' situation is probably older than printed words.
Even if a competitive game format was unique to the Hindi film, it would be tough to argue that nobody else could have thought of that detail when making their own variation of the same theme. Calling it a "blatant rip-off" of Luck (2009) is quite a stretch.
(Incidentally, the Luck synopsis that I read says it focuses on gambling, not competitive trials or children's games. A quick look at the video confirms it.)
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Remind me again where Fortnite and Hunger Games got the ideal for Battle Royale stories.
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10PUBG?
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the hindi film industry is itself littered with corpses of stolen ideas from other film industries across the world for decades now.
seems karma's come home to roost if this story is true.
20Two wrongs don't make a right. Also pretty terrible to blame one dude for the faults of an entire national industry.
-3nobody's saying either wrong is right. nobody's blaming the one dude.
as an indian, i've always cringed at movies like baazi, kaante, aatank hi aatank, hum tum, chachi 420, zinda, ek ruka hua faisla, satte pe satta, sholay, qayamat, ghulam, and a boatload of other shameless rip-offs and i was just marvelling at the irony of the situation.
3It's not a wrong though and even if it was, it's not their idea to begin with, they stole it from Hunger Games and Battle Royale.
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Bollywood applying for stolen ideas is like China claiming their knockoffs are actually the original
17The movie "Luck" came out 13 years before Squid Game...
Hard to steal content from the future.
2Reread the comment above you, because they are claiming the opposite of what you're thinking
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Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
—a whole lot of people who stole from each other
16They're both just rip offs of Agatha Christie's 1939 novel "10 Little Indians."
12Now known as "And Then There Were None."
10 Little Indians was actually the second title for the book. The first one was worse.
Great mystery though.
11For those who want to know, the original title was "10 Little N----s." Yes, really.
2Loved it; but I thought the ending was cheating. How was I supposed to solve that on my own?!
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Kaiji anime did it first snyway
13STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH ME, NETFLIX! I TOLD YOU, IT'S OVER BETWEEN US!
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