5 "Genius" Films That Were Completely Ripped Off
Think all best-selling movies are a sign of real brilliance and talent? Think again.
Published 9 years ago in Wow
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Side-by-side comparisons like these just leave no room for argument. None. And the film student who created the short knows this. He's certain that Pixar - no doubt - simply helped themselves to his original work, as the project was part of his college studies and in his country, legally means he doesn't own the work.
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"ROOT" was a moderately decent selling novel which... let's face it, "The Village" was outright ripped off of. In it, a girl lives within an 1840's village and eventually must obtain medical supplies. This is despite the village leaders, who absolutely forbid anyone from leaving the confines of the land.
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Of course, when the girl manages to escape the limits of the land, it turns out it's not really 1840, but 1995, and the village really exists in the middle of a vast nature reserve. Apparently, Shyamalan thinks the secret of success lies in stealing an obscure novel and adding a few fake monsters for a "twist".
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The comic's author was "devastated" when it tuned out his own work was being stolen to make MacFarlane millions in the theater. The blatant similarities have all but cooked MacFarlane's goose, who still feigns complete ignorance as to the existence of "Imagine This" and wishes "Ted" continued success. Hopefully it won't take a court too long to decide that for him.
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