10th April 2004, 11:25 PM
OB1 Wrote:I forgot one thing. While Kill Bill isn't supposed to be a live-action anime, The Matrix was. It copies a dozen things from Ghost in the Shell alone.
Actually, it didn't. It copied a paper RPG called Cyberpunk which was popular in the early/mid 80's. Alot of animes copied from it. And Cyberpunk copied alot from Blade Runner... who copied alot from popular japanese comics in the 70's. The idea of "jacking in" or becoming God-like over a virtual network has its roots in the early 70's when the internet was just getting its first real legs between colleges. It's also where Role Playing video games as we know them (as a text RPG, but with the same gameplay ) were born, even with LAN play.
I wouldn't say that movie going people are stupid, they see a movie and they want to get inside it and find a way for it to be real. They invent huge back stories to explain characters or events in the movie and try to take as much as they can from it to apply it to day to day activities. It's extremely imaginative and it's why movies are popular today.