Bleach plagiarism?

[ryuuseipro]

The Lion King is about as bad. Disney ripped off Kimba the White Lion.

The film was originally gonna be called "The King of the Jungle" the translation of the original title Jungle Taitei. They even had Simba as a white lion for a time and were even fighting for the rights in the 80's prior. Also ,the people involved were absolute fans of the show and used several of the panels of the comic and used almost all the story (even if there are no humans). The American production crew for Kimba knew it was to similar to their work that they cried fowl. But ,the most ironic thing about all this is that Kimba was originally going to be a Japanese version of Bambi before they lost the rights, and Tezuka ,shortly before his death ,wanted to see that atleast one of works inspired the West, so that's why his family never brought issue against them.

But when they tried to release Jungle Emperor Leo stateside ,Disney tried to sue them for infringement even though they themselves took Tezuka's work without credit.

Things could be alot worse you know.

That wasn't the first case of Disney plagarism: That honor goes to Aladdin, which was a ripoff of Richard Williams' ill-fated masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler (a movie he worked on for 26 years), and was that film's ultimate undoing.

 

[Bigdog]

I died a little inside when I saw how similar it was. It's still a good movie, dammit!

I know. Since I found uot about that, I liked TLK alot more especially as a semi Kimba remake.

The Thief and the Cobbler was unfortunate ,but heck , that film almost never came out considering that it took 30 years to make , but the Alladin is much better in comparison plus has the quote "good teenagers ,take off your clothes."

 

[ryuuseipro]

Besides the Richard Williams workprint, the only version I recommend of The Thief and the Cobbler is Garrett Gilchrist's excellent fan-made "Recobbled Cut," which you should be able to find at any torrent site. The "Mark III" version is most recommendable, due to beautiful footage of key/deleted scenes from a 35mm print, Richard Williams' pitch reel for Warner Bros. (owned by an animation fan)!

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

That wasn't the first case of Disney plagarism: That honor goes to Aladdin, which was a ripoff of Richard Williams' ill-fated masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler (a movie he worked on for 26 years), and was that film's ultimate undoing.

And there goes my childhood more. Geez, I can't believe I was blinded by Disney's "supposed" masterpiece cartoon movies. :shakefist:redface2:

 

[KuroGAOH]

I hope Gene has some torture devices...

And I hope Kubo is OK and not popping blood vessels.

 

[Quark]

And there goes my childhood more. Geez, I can't believe I was blinded by Disney's "supposed" masterpiece cartoon movies. :shakefist:redface2:

They're still masterpieces of animation, just not necessarily storytelling. That's where Pixar comes in.

 

[Lynxara]

That wasn't the first case of Disney plagarism: That honor goes to Aladdin, which was a ripoff of Richard Williams' ill-fated masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler (a movie he worked on for 26 years), and was that film's ultimate undoing.

Entire segments of the Disney movie are also copied outright from the 1938 classic "The Thief of Baghdad." In particular, Aladdin's costume design is copied directly from this film, along with the Jafar and Sultan characters, as well as several segments of dialog.

Disney artists will plagiarize damn near anything with astonishing exactitude, if they think the source material is obscure enough that most people won't have heard of it.

 

[Quark]

Oh the joys of the internet. Nothing is obscure anymore.

 

[Lynxara]

Yeah, they learned that the hard way when nerds called them out over Atlantis... what with the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea novel not containing any exotic dark-skinned princesses.

(And parts of Atlantis are indeed copied nearly shot-for-shot from Nadia, right down to re-use of Hideaki Anno's trademark fish-eye lens shots-- a type of shot that has never appeared before or since in Disney films.)

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

They're still masterpieces of animation, just not necessarily storytelling. That's where Pixar comes in.

Yeah I know but then there were ripoffs that came in. That sucks but Pixar's CGI films? FTW! I love Frozone of The Incredibles.