STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH ME, NETFLIX! I TOLD YOU, IT’S OVER BETWEEN US!
So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?
Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.
Remind me again where Fortnite and Hunger Games got the ideal for Battle Royale stories.
PUBG?
They’re both just rip offs of Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel “10 Little Indians.”
Now known as “And Then There Were None.”
10 Little Indians was actually the second title for the book. The first one was worse.
Great mystery though.
Loved it; but I thought the ending was cheating. How was I supposed to solve that on my own?!
For those who want to know, the original title was “10 Little N----s.” Yes, really.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
—a whole lot of people who stole from each other
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale
I wouldn’t be surprised if the theme also showed up in books that predate all of these films.
Battle Royale is about kids killing each other, not being killed in the course of competitive trials.
If anything, Hunger Games is a bigger culprit for that.
We could quibble about the details, but all of them are fundamentally last-man-standing competitions.
The Hunger Games was indeed one of them. I didn’t mention it because it’s probably the most obvious one in current cultural memory (no need for me to point it out) and because Battle Royale came a decade earlier, and Battle Royal half a century before that.
Even if a competitive game format was unique to the Hindi film, it would be tough to argue that nobody else could have thought of that detail when making their own variation of the same theme. Calling it a “blatant rip-off” is quite a stretch.
