If you’ve followed Quentin Tarantino’s career, you know he is an encyclopedia of world cinema and that he has absolutely no filter. That's what makes him such a great podcast guest.In a recent appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, he unloaded on The Hunger Games franchise. He said the movies and books were blatantly stealing from Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 film Battle Royale."I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn't sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns," Tarantino said. "They just ripped off the fucking book!"For filmmakers, this reignites an age-old debate about originality, homage, and the fine line between influence and theft.Let's dive in. - YouTubewww.youtube.comTarantino vs. Hunger Games Tarantino has long championed Battle Royale as one of his favorite films (he famously cast actor Chiaki Kuriyama as Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill).During the podcast, he harped on the similarities in the premises of both movies—teenagers forced by a totalitarian government to fight to the death—and also with the critical reception of The Hunger Games."Stupid book critics are not going to go watch a Japanese movie called Battle Royale, so the stupid book critics never called her on it," he said.Tarantino vented, "They talked about how it was the most original thing they'd ever fucking read. As soon as the film critics saw the film, they said, 'What the fuck! This is just Battle Royale except PG!'"He’s not entirely wrong about the premise. Battle Royale (based on Koushun Takami's 1999 novel) features a class of junior...
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