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Indian Movies Thread V
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<!--QuoteBegin-Swamy G+Feb 27 2008, 08:12 PM-->QUOTE(Swamy G @ Feb 27 2008, 08:12 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->How and why should the moves be copyrighted?[right][snapback]79043[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Was referring to Ninja moves. Just expressing my opinion that they should not be put to the kind of criminal use as appearing in ultrabad movies ('ultraviolet'... ewwww, 5 minutes and it was off - there was no warning on that one). Also Ninjas are Shinto, hence when their arts are used in western action flicks these look totally out of place and out of context - in the movies I'd seen, anyway. There should be a law against (mis)using cool moves in uncool movies <!--emo&Tongue--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The movies that are listed are comparatively less and not the most popular ones when one compares to the copies done by Bollywood.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->You wanted a list of Asian movies that were copied by hollywood that were <i>as/more popular</i> than the hollywood movies copied by Hindi cinema? I wouldn't be able to help you. For one thing, I wouldn't have a clue which movies have been copied into Hindi cinema. I've watched a sad total of 3 Hindi movies so far. Kuch Naa Kaho was my most recent (I don't <i>think</i> that was copied). Also, it's been a while since I watched American box-office movies. Am ignorant both ways.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Is there list of Hollywood movies that copied ideas/stories from European<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There were a number. I have heard of remakes of German movies, but never seen the remakes. No comment. French ones I know of include Besson's Nikita (remade as Point of No Return, sadly not to be compared to the stylish original), the comedy Nine Months with Grant and Moore is a remake, Mon Pere ce Heros was remade with Depardieu himself again for English audiences. Others will know of more. The problem is I'd have to have seen both to know, and these are the only ones of which I had seen both original and remake. There are certainly several Russian ones, but at the moment all I can remember is Solaris (Lem's Russian book made into incredibly famous Russian movie, then more recently remade in US; but that's based on a book so it doesn't really count, unless the American filmmakers never read the book and based it on the first movie instead...). I happened to like both versions, though purists may have got out a hitman already. Then again, I think US generally does sci-fi really well and are even better at making original sci-fi material, so I have no reason to complain. It's where they shine, IMO.

<b>ADDED:</b> The fact that I don't understand a language (Hindi in this case) has never stopped me from watching movies; the reason for why I've watched only 3 films in Hindi is because:
(1) Don't want to support piracy - who knows, the money may go to Pk which is famous for making pirated copies of Indian films;
(2) Don't want to support Dawood and his kind or cinema mafia by paying for legal rental copies;
(3) Don't want to support psecular filmmaking - meaning, movies I hired that turn out to contain stuff insulting Hindus. Why should I pay for that? (Even Kuch Naa Kaho had a little bit of a bad taste here and there: a 'Hindu wife liberation' sermon in the end artificially grafted onto the plot, and Javed Akhtar had a very psecular lyric talking about 'stone idols' and God. Of course it was immediately obvious that his lyric was about his Kaaba and his gawd mohammed-jehovallah.)
(4) Going by some dvd back-covers: Brainless plots about 'modern, progressive' Indians (and which may involve them unrealistically and tackily flirting with each other) is lost on me, I'm afraid. I'd like to care about protagonists or at least understand their motivations. And contrived, sham-relations make me want to watch paint dry instead.
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Indian Movies Thread V - by Guest - 02-02-2008, 10:02 PM
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