What you have to ask, actually you don't because since Quentin Tarantino is white you know
But for the sake of arguing you have to ask whether Quentin Tarantino intentionally ripped off or paid homage to those movies
Quentin Tarantino is white, and white people very rarely have an original idea in their whole fucking heads.
White people rip off so much shit that they call original after its repackaged under there more popular name that the world would be astounded by how many inventions and content were partially or completely stolen from Black or some other peoples.
The Chiba Bodyguard thing...fucking wow. Didn't know that, but that just makes my point
I don't know the person he stole it from but I do know Quentin Tarantino and now Tarantino is famous and the person he stole it from is not
Then there is the unintentional
As many of you know, I am an author or rather aspiring author. I honed my craft on you guys writing stories, entering short story contests on this board or coming up with some story to regale you all.
One of the early stories I wrote I posted here first. This is a similar example of Quentin Tarantino. My story is a slight rip off from something I heard years ago when I was a young child, probably 8-10 ish.
I recalled the story and many of the details and creatively I was able to fill in the rest.
I've got absolutely no idea how or where I can find the actual true story, but I used what my ten-year-old mind could recall and built a story from that. The real story would never get the credit if I publish this story, but by that time people will know me as an author
Unlike Tarantino who very clearly intentionally ripped off Chiba, I don't know the origin of
The Grizzly but the vast majority of the details are my own. Only the bear, and some details about the maulings aren't mine (see below)
This is a story of a grizzly bear attack at Yellowstone National Park on four Wisconsin men. Four guys spotted a grizzly, decided to follow it and got more than they bargained for... The Grizzly - By Gordon Oscar Whitten Jason Manning, Dean Winstead, Jared Greene, and Daniel Harding had...
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Another story that I wrote in 2014 in another contest here on BGOL,
End of a Nightmare, I wrote about some badass female serial killer and when I posted it someone said, "She sounds like a female Dexter"
At this time I didn't know who the fuck Dexter was. And ironically, I discovered later the drug I used to incapacitate one of the victims in my story was used in season 2 of Dexter.
That's the difference of someone intentionally ripping something off and creating something only to discover that there is something else similar out there
I enjoy the storytelling aspect. Putting a hook in someone and then Reeling them into my sick twisted creative mind. Having them twist and splash about the side of the boat hooked on my story is a pleasure of mine.
The Grizzly is paying homage, my other piece End of a Nightmare, was unintentional.
Quentin Tarantino as you stated is a clever hack who just happens to be more popular then the people whose work he is stealing. He is more knowledgeable of film history than the people who are watching his work who don't realize that it is all stolen from here or there or somewhere from yesteryear
@geechiedan I don't know who the hell you are, but you sir are that dude. Very profound post