11th April 2004, 11:19 AM
lazy Wrote: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.
I wasn't referring to the plot, I was referring to the action. GitS' plot is nothing original, but the action was. The Wachowskis even talked about trying to do a lot of the GitS stuff in live-action in one of the Matrix DVD docs.
DJ Wrote:Yeah, it's irrelevent what the creators intended it to mean. It's what we, the viewer, draw from it that matters in the end.
That is absurd. You can ignorantly think that Kill Bill is supposed to be like anime, but it definitely is not and if you know your movies you can clearly see what it is trying to be. Being ignorant to this fact and perceiving it in the wrong way does not make it correct, DJ. If I play Zelda and think that it's an homage to The Muppets because of one reason or another doesn't mean that that's what it was supposed to be.