Blatant Hollywood rip-offs
G'day,
This stirs me every time, maybe I shouldn't let it, but when in my profession I may be influenced by an element of something and may incorporate an aspect of it into my work, but never to rip-off someone else's work, then it annoys me when I see blatant copies.
Sure you can say to what or how much can you stretch the incorporation of an idea into your own? I think that falls to your morals.
I know it's all about the big $, which in the case of Hollywood doesn't matter that someone had pitched an idea for a movie to a producer or a producer to a movie syndicate, knowing too well that 'their' movie is a copy. But when they go so far as to strictly enforce their copyright, they forget they are infringing on someone else's intellectual copyright. Which leads to the David and Goliath (which really is a bad phrase when you think about the events behind the phrase), I'm bigger than you and have more money than you, so come on, take me on in the courts.
The latest one to soon hit our screens is Valkrie, a blatant rip-off of Operation Valkyrie, which for the second time last night was screened on SBS.
"The world is a big place", to use the old SBS tagline, which "with over 6,000,000 stories and counting" (using the new tagline) some seem to be blinkered in the belief that no one will recognise that 'my' work is a copy of his.
May be this is the reason I have always watched foreign movies - I like something original and acted well, not over acted, over dramatised by wannabes and can't act actors.
Rant off.
