The Hunger Games is way classier than Death Race 2000. That’s the plot for Death Race 2000.īut don’t get me wrong. If you think I’m still talking about The Hunger Games, I’m not. You’d love to strangle those expressions off their face.Īdding no sympathy to their cause is that they prop up a seemingly benign dictatorship masked as liberty and they encourage participation in a televised sport where winner takes all and the losers die. You really hate their insincere grinning mugs and condescending comfort with what they are doing.
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Maybe the presenters from this classic’s TV sequences just happen to share that same glib awfulness that the aristocrats in Hunger Games also seem to possess. That said, whoever made the Hunger Games films undeniably had a copy of Death Race 2000 on their shelf. So a lot of The Hunger Games has been done and redone before and nobody owns the idea.
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One notable is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 classic The Running Man. This theme appears a lot of times and even televised bloodsports have been around for a while.
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It’s not a new idea anyway – the concept of the last-one-standing post-apocalyptic game show is a long running one, a subset in the ‘bloodsport’ trope. The two films are nothing alike and if Suzanne Collins did copy her idea from Battle Royale, she changed everything else.
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Yes, they have similar themes, but the shared genealogy pretty much ends there. I’m going to go out on a limb here and argue that when The Hunger Games hit our screens, it wasn’t really a rip-off of Battle Royale.