Quentin Tarantino Can't Understand Why the Writer of Battle Royale Didn't Sue The Hunger Games Author Suzanne Collins 'For Every F***ing Thing She Owns'

Kill Bill manager Quentin Tarantino has said The Hunger Games “ripped off” Battle Royale, and expressed astonishment that the Japanese writer of the cult classical archetypal didn’t writer The Hunger Games writer Suzanne Collins.

Speaking connected The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the Oscar-winning manager of the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Django Unchained, said that publication critics failed to telephone retired The Hunger Games, whereas movie critics did.

Battle Royale, released successful 2000, was directed by Kinji Fukasaku from a screenplay by Kenta Fukasaku. It was based on the 1999 publication of the aforesaid name, by Koushun Takami, and stars Beat Takeshi arsenic a schoolhouse teacher who ends up putting his unruly students done a combat to the death.

The Hunger Games is simply a bid of novels written by American writer Suzanne Collins that kicked disconnected successful 2008. It follows teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, who likewise battles with different children successful a combat to the death. The Hunger Games movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence, came retired successful 2012 and was a planetary hit.

Speaking connected the podcast, Tarantino deed retired astatine The Hunger Games novels. “I bash not recognize however the Japanese writer didn’t writer Suzanne Collins for each f***ing happening she owns,” Tarantino said. “They conscionable ripped disconnected the f***ing book! Stupid publication critics are not going to spell ticker a Japanese movie called Battle Royale, truthful the anserine publication critics ne'er called her retired connected it. They talked astir however it was the astir archetypal happening they’d ever fucking read. As soon arsenic the movie critics saw the movie they said, ‘What the f**k! This is conscionable Battle Royale but PG!'”

Tarantino’s disapproval of The Hunger Games is simply a long-standing one, and his comments present person sparked a statement among fans astir wherever inspiration for originative works similar novels genuinely comes from. Collins has talked astir the instauration of The Hunger Games successful interviews before. In a 2008 interrogation with School Library Journal, Collins said The Hunger Games was based connected the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, which she work erstwhile she was 8 years old.

“I was a immense instrumentality of Greek and Roman mythology,” she said, erstwhile asked however she came up with the idea. “As punishment for displeasing Crete, Athens periodically had to nonstop 7 youths and 7 maidens to Crete, wherever they were thrown into the labyrinth and devoured by the Minotaur, which is simply a monster that’s fractional antheral and fractional bull. Even erstwhile I was a small kid, the communicative took my enactment away, due to the fact that it was truthful cruel, and Crete was truthful ruthless.

“The connection is, messiness with america and we’ll bash thing worse than termination you—we’ll termination your children. And the parents sat by seemingly powerless to halt it. The rhythm doesn’t extremity until Theseus volunteers to go, and helium kills the Minotaur. In her ain way, Katniss [the heroine of The Hunger Games] is simply a futuristic Theseus. But I didn’t privation to bash a labyrinth story. So I decided to constitute fundamentally an updated mentation of the Roman gladiator games.”

Collins went connected to accidental she was inspired to constitute The Hunger Games portion transmission surfing betwixt world TV programs and existent warfare coverage.

“On 1 channel, there’s a radical of young radical competing for I don’t adjacent know; and connected the next, there’s a radical of young radical warring successful an existent war,” she said. “I was truly tired, and the lines betwixt these stories started to blur successful a precise unsettling way. That’s the infinitesimal erstwhile Katniss’s communicative came to me.”

Of course, Battle Royale besides inspired a caller genre of video game, which ended up spawning the likes of PUBG, Fortnite, and Warzone. Tarantino's comments are particularly ironic arsenic helium is present partnering with Fortnite itself.

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