Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Appeal to plagiarist

(Warning: Spoilers)

Dear Sanjay Gupta,

You are a movie director. You are bereft of any creativity, or neurons for that matter. I have no problem with that. Unable to conceive of something original, you lift foreign movies, again I approve of this subversion of capitalism.

However you have this rather annoying habit of poor judgement at getting inspired. You simply pick the wrong movie/copy the wrong part


Examples

1. You copied Reservoir Dogs. Now Reservoir Dogs has not much of story to speak. Its strength or USP is non linear narrative (typical of Quentin Tarantino), and dialogues. But being idiot you copy its story ! Result Kaante, Hey Bhagwan !

2. You lifted Oldboy. While it is highly stylized and full of violence (sort of heroic bloodshed), it is in no way its USP, which is its story which pushes the social norms.
Yet you copy the style and decaffeinate the story, of course it was nearly impossible to use the original story in a Indian film.

But still the punch of the story was

"Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions. " [*].

Result Zinda, Hey Bhagwan, again !

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