News culture “Plagiarism” For Quentin Tarantino, the Hunger Games saga, which grossed more than $3 billion, is a pale copy of this Japanese cult film
If The Hunger Games was both a literary and cinematic success, many people don’t necessarily understand the excitement surrounding this work. Including the director Quentin Tarantino.
Looking for the new Harry Potter
In 2008, Scholastic published the first volume of the trilogy Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The work shows the young Katniss Everdeen in a post-apocalyptic America where society is divided into “districts”. One of the most important originalities of the work lies in the “Hunger Games” of the same name. Two tributes selected from each district then take part in death games, from which only one survivor can return victorious.
The literary success ofHunger Gamescoupled with an industry that is just emerging from film exploitationHarry Potteris pushing Lionsgate to get its hands on the fledgling license’s adaptation rights in hopes of creating a new phenomenon out of so-called literature Young adult. A rewarded initiative since Hunger Games It ended up being a lucrative license, grossing more than $3 billion at the box office across four films (and that exceeds 3 billion if we include the prequel released in 2023).
Hunger Games vs Battle Royale
On the other hand, there is one filmmaker who openly expresses his disdain for licensing: Quentin Tarantino WHO, on the set of “Jimmy Kimmel Live”He didn’t hesitate to take a little dig at the film.
I’m a big fan of the Japanese film Battle Royale, the film that inspired The Hunger Games. In fact, The Hunger Games completely plagiarized it. – (Quentin Tarantino)
It is true that Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 film has become a monument of genre cinema which clearly served as the inspiration for Suzanne Collins’ book.