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Hollywood Sci-Fi Films Are Ripping Off Anime [message #249844] Fri, 18 April 2014 23:21 Go to next message
AnimeFan188 is currently offline  AnimeFan188
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"Transcendence's tale about cybernetic potentiality is ingenious, but it
was also done 16 years ago. Hollywood has been borrowing liberally from
Japan's anime and manga past."

See:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/18/hollywood-s ci-fi-films-are-ripping-off-anime.html
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Re: Hollywood Sci-Fi Films Are Ripping Off Anime [message #249868 is a reply to message #249844] Sat, 19 April 2014 15:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:28:25 -0700, animefan188 wrote:

> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/18/hollywood-s ci-fi-films-
are-ripping-off-anime.html

Um, yeah, except that "Transcendence" plays off "Max Headroom" more than
anything else.

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Re: Hollywood Sci-Fi Films Are Ripping Off Anime [message #249924 is a reply to message #249844] Mon, 21 April 2014 12:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 2014-04-19, Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@gweep.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:28:25 -0700, animefan188 wrote:
>
>> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/18/hollywood-s ci-fi-films-
> are-ripping-off-anime.html
>
> Um, yeah, except that "Transcendence" plays off "Max Headroom" more than
> anything else.
>

I'd go a step further and say that they took parts of the film "Demon
Seed", too.

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Re: Hollywood Sci-Fi Films Are Ripping Off Anime [message #251786 is a reply to message #249868] Thu, 15 May 2014 17:39 Go to previous message
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