Some examples off the top of my mind where hollywood recently copied plots and elements from E Asian cinema or just remade E Asian movies entirely:
- Infernal Affairs HK
- Lake House is a rip-off copy of superior Korean romance movie
- Matrix copied back-of-the-neck plugs, bullet-time, even the opening credits lettering style from the infinitely superior and not-to-be-compared Japanese animation from 1995. Bullet-time was done again in a late-nineties JP animation before Matrix came round to copying it.
- Firefly/Serenity premised on very specific (setting, background, context) ideas that were done far better (in every way) in a Japanese animation series
- Ringu (JP), Two Sisters (KR), Ju-on (The Grudge?) and others remade or set to be remade
- Disney's Atlantis and/or Treasure Planet (can't remember anymore which) ripped off entire plot parts from Japanese animation, while they held onto the rights of distributing the same Japanese animation which they only released later on
- Every jump and action-related move in Matrix (see trailer Reloaded(?) or Revolutions of female biker) is a rip-off of traditional Ninja moves. For example, the way the robot lands, breaking the floor in I Robot and then the same with Jovovich in Ultraviolet. This movement is stolen frame for frame from a Japanese animation which is itself of course based on well-known Ninja moves (the moves should be copyrighted). Those movements are not random in Japanese movies, but are a reference to their own history and culture. But they are ever so lamely out of place in American movies. Actually, I am practically convinced that we can find an E Asian precedent for every cool action move in any American cinema involving martial arts or Asian swords.
More than half the time hollywood does not even refer to let alone credit the originals, it's only viewers who note it (if that).
- Infernal Affairs HK
- Lake House is a rip-off copy of superior Korean romance movie
- Matrix copied back-of-the-neck plugs, bullet-time, even the opening credits lettering style from the infinitely superior and not-to-be-compared Japanese animation from 1995. Bullet-time was done again in a late-nineties JP animation before Matrix came round to copying it.
- Firefly/Serenity premised on very specific (setting, background, context) ideas that were done far better (in every way) in a Japanese animation series
- Ringu (JP), Two Sisters (KR), Ju-on (The Grudge?) and others remade or set to be remade
- Disney's Atlantis and/or Treasure Planet (can't remember anymore which) ripped off entire plot parts from Japanese animation, while they held onto the rights of distributing the same Japanese animation which they only released later on
- Every jump and action-related move in Matrix (see trailer Reloaded(?) or Revolutions of female biker) is a rip-off of traditional Ninja moves. For example, the way the robot lands, breaking the floor in I Robot and then the same with Jovovich in Ultraviolet. This movement is stolen frame for frame from a Japanese animation which is itself of course based on well-known Ninja moves (the moves should be copyrighted). Those movements are not random in Japanese movies, but are a reference to their own history and culture. But they are ever so lamely out of place in American movies. Actually, I am practically convinced that we can find an E Asian precedent for every cool action move in any American cinema involving martial arts or Asian swords.
More than half the time hollywood does not even refer to let alone credit the originals, it's only viewers who note it (if that).