The Hunger Games Rip of Battle Royale.

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If you have not seen BR it was a novel in 1999 and a movie in 2000. It's based in present day Japan were kids in school every month to year have to fight to the death in atleast three days. Such as in The Hunger Games there is romance between characters and theres action. These two stories are very similar in many ways. To watch the first BR go on youtube.com/movies its free. The second one you just have to find yourself.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Battle Royale's an interesting movie. I feel like it has a better grasp on how absurd its own premise is than Hunger Games, and pulls fewer punches. Someone with a better familiarity than me on the generational thing in Japan would be better qualified to speak on it as a metaphor, though.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

I know this and I've not read or seen either.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

These two stories are very similar in many ways.

No they're not. The Hunger Games is a bad adaption of a pretty good novel about survival, loyalty and love, which was doomed to failure because you can't possibly stuff so many details in a film that short.

Battle Royale is an atrociously poorly written Japanese film without any setting or any background story that attempts to make violence so overblown it becomes funny, but fails miserably.

Based on a well written novel dealing with survival, loyalty and love.

Also, Shogo Kawada FTW!!!!

 

[Lucem712]

Yes, yes, things are similar. They are for two different audiences. This just in, BF is a rip-off of COD! (Or Vice versa, depending on which came first.)

As they say, 'there's nothing new under the sun'.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Everyone already knows about this since the film came out months ago and MovieBob made a note of it in an Escape to the Movies video. You're late. Like, very late.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

If you have not seen BR it was a novel in 1999 and a movie in 2000. It's based in present day Japan were kids in school every month to year have to fight to the death in atleast three days. Such as in The Hunger Games there is romance between characters and theres action. These two stories are very similar in many ways. To watch the first BR go on youtube.com/movies its free. The second one you just have to find yourself.

Having seen and read both versions of both things, I feel fully justified in saying that's a very basic assumption.

Two stories are similar in many ways, but those ways are incredibly basic. Whilst your at it, why not compare it to The Long Walk or Running Man, which also feature the same concepts and themes.

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/122/1221815p1.html <- That article puts it a lot more eloquently than I can.

My last point and the greatest distinction between the two franchises - The Hunger Games makes no mention of the song Born to Run and is therefore much less awesome.

 

[clipse15]

These two stories are very similar in many ways.

No they're not. The Hunger Games is a bad adaption of a pretty good novel about survival, loyalty and love, which was doomed to failure because you can't possibly stuff so many details in a film that short.

Battle Royale is an atrociously poorly written Japanese film without any setting or any background story that attempts to make violence so overblown it becomes funny, but fails miserably.

I agree with your battle royale assessment

 

[Pinkamena]

Well yeah. Haven't this topic been brought up before?

 

[Hoplon]

This just in, BF is a rip-off of COD! (Or Vice versa, depending on which came first.)

Medal of Honour. Interestingly, also created by the CoD boy's when they where 2019 studios.

History has not been nice to them.

OP: Actually Battle Royale has very little in common with Hunger Games other than the young people fighting.

 

[Kahunaburger]

I was working in a weapons factory that was a regular target for enemy bombing. During the raids, even though we were friends working together, the only thing we would be thinking of was self-preservation. We would try to get behind each other or beneath dead bodies to avoid the bombs. When the raid was over, we didn't really blame each other, but it made me understand about the limits of friendship. I also had to clean up all the dead bodies after the bombings. I'm sure those experiences have influenced the way I look at violence.

That's an interesting quote from the director. Very much fits the movie I remember seeing. Also fits this being one of Tarantino's favorite movies.

A common analysis of the movie is that it's an allegory for the cutthroat competition in the education system/admissions process/job market and the way the generation gap interacts with that. But once again, I'm a 'murrican who doesn't know much about growing up in Japan or the generation issues I hear are A Thing, so I'm not really in a position to assess that analysis. So you've certainly got similarities to Hunger Games in the sense of the "kids in gladiatorial tournament, Hobbes ensues" element, but the works seem to have very different goals.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Based on a well written novel dealing with survival, loyalty and love.

Even if that's true, they did an excellent job at removing any signs of such deeper motives from the movies.

And I haven't even gotten into the special effects yet. Like people with fatal wounds reacting like nothing at all happened, continuing a conversation, starting to walk, and then spontaneously dropping dead.

That was fun in Kill Bill because that was well acted and played right onto the absurdity. If it's done in a different setting it's just bad stuntwork and even worse research.

I was heavily disappointed in the Hunger Games, but the limited amount of stunt work, fighting and killing depictions that their 13+ years rating allowed to do was at least decent.

I've never seen the movie. I've read the book and the Manga... the Manga in particular was very satisfying that I would never watch the movie cause I really don't think it could live up to it.

 

[CODE-D]

Its just too cool a theme to murder your friends and classmates to be confined to one story.

 

[FalloutJack]

These two stories are very similar in many ways.

No they're not. The Hunger Games is a bad adaption of a pretty good novel about survival, loyalty and love, which was doomed to failure because you can't possibly stuff so many details in a film that short.

Battle Royale is an atrociously poorly written Japanese film without any setting or any background story that attempts to make violence so overblown it becomes funny, but fails miserably.

If by 'failure' you mean 'highly successful and entertaining', then yes. You're absolutely right. Sorry, but I'm more than a little familiar with the movies, and at least familiar with the book-source. I read about the Hunger Games and "Huh, that sounds familiar.".

Sorry, but this is clearly a Your Mileage May Vary moment. Try to remember that.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Spoiler: Worth the stupid amount of time it took me

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I liked the books and movie. I continue to consider Katniss to be the best female character in any of the young adults novels I read as a teenager (I will admit that I am not a huge reader). I'll admit that this Battle Royale thing is probably pretty cool. But I honestly think that you crazy people who think liking Battle Royale makes you some kind of master of culture, literature, and film are probably a step or two above illiterate. Clearly you are superior to me because you like foreign young adult novels, just like I'm better than MLP fans for liking foreign cartoons marketed to girls (Ouran High is a wonderful show). Or are you better because your story is older? I suppose that makes Gilgamesh the greatest story of all time, or Genji the greatest novel. Similarities you say? Lord of the Flies wins then, though there's likely an older form, and Shakespeare was terrible. Why don't you guys just like what you like and I'll like what I like. Maybe I'll look in on your book/movie later.
(This wasn't dirrected at anyone in particular, just the type I've people I've run into on the rare occasion I talked about this book. I have no beef with op.)

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Didn't everyone know that already?

 

[someonehairy-ish]

And the last horse crosses the finish line...

But yeah apart from the basic premise of "young people get locked up and have to kill each other" they don't seem to have a whole lot in common.