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2009-09-03, 20:26 | Link #63 | |
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If I haven't mention, I'm a American Born Chinese and I'm pretty much indifferent towards Japan and Japanese people since I don't have any problems with them (also, I do like their music, anime and food)... except there are people on my father's side who still have something against the Japanese people and refuse to buy products from Japan. The point is, it's not right to go around bashing other people's country because they done something that may not be right when it's only a group of people or a individual. Although I'm not happy with them blatantly plagiarizing other anime, they will eventually break out of the cycle and create their own shows with their original ideas, probably in the next few years hopefully... Like mentioned before, it's not only them that did it before, it could happen anywhere in the world... (just read the earlier posts and you will know what I'm talking about)
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2009-09-04, 00:20 | Link #65 |
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It's certainly deplorable for a company to outright copy the work of another company and to present it as its own. However, it does seem somewhat unfair to use the actions of that company to tar and feather an entire country. While China does have its share of blame for having weak IP and consumer protection laws, I don't see why there's any need to exaggerate the seriousness of the problem; nor should this thread be used as an excuse to engage in "bashing". On the other hand, I don't think that one needs to be particularly mindful of China's real weaknesses in terms of lack in these areas as an excuse for Chinese corporate actions.
On a ironic note, I've just watched "The Magnificent Seven". It's possibly the iconic western film - with classical elements that stretch across the entire genre; reshaping many subsequent films. It has great performances and cinematography and it's also one of the best anythings I've watched all year. However, it's also a very close remake of "The Seven Samurai", often down to using the same dialogue. As far as I know, this was done without Kurosawa's permission, so was this better or worse than the ripoff of "5cm per Second"? As an aside, the Samurai 7 anime is pretty good, but it's utterly put to shame by "The Magnificent Seven" - the latter may be 49 years old now, but it's ridiculously good.
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2009-09-04, 00:57 | Link #66 |
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Well I would like to point out that in chinese culture, the way people are taught to "learn" is to imitate, I remembering reading my chinese lessons and it would be a story of a great artist who kept copying images of an egg until he could draw an egg that looked like the real thing. The moral of the story is muscle memory, hard work, perserverance, and making knowledge your "own" is the way to progress intellectually. If you look at the way chinese children are taught compared to western education and specifically american education, chinese are taugt to memorize and over practice and through that we are supposed to be able to apply concepts where here its application is taught. Copying is the way I first learned to write a book report, I copied the structure of the example and manipulated to fit what I needed. I've always been told that once I've read something, no one can take that away, which is why I think it's also a cultural perception of knowledge and information.
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2009-09-04, 02:53 | Link #67 | |
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One could also point to the Sergio Leone films (Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns), they were Italian versions of the old Edo Samurai tales overlaid onto the Western cowboy setting. The recent Japanese film Sukiyaki Western Django directly acknowledges that feedback loop in their "ramen western"
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2009-09-04, 03:25 | Link #68 | |
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Anyways, apparently this series is 52 episodes and is supposed to be propaganda anime. It's probably sponsored directly by the government so they don't really care if things are stolen as they don't care about the artistic merit of the work at all, just that it promotes the communist party views and that it can grab viewers' attention. |
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2009-09-06, 22:05 | Link #74 |
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But this isn't a borrowing of ideas, this is direct copying of a finished product. Like I said before I don't see the relevance in all the mentions in this thread of things like "all ideas build on others". Which is fine and true, but this is just outright plagiarism, nothing more, nothing less.
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2009-09-08, 05:28 | Link #75 |
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Someone on ANN forums did say that animators from China are not happy about plagaism. Remember CCTV is the state TV station (their news is only EVER about politicians going else where, they never report anything 'bad'), likely to force the animators shortest time yet wanting the highest quality as possible. I 'could' see the animators doing this to not to lose their job. It's not something that one can be proud of.
I have seen this China made cartoon on the chinese channel the other day. The animation was awful, the animators probally spent about 20 minutes learning flash and started making this. The script was awful too. At least they tried to make something on their own. Slightly random. I'm chinese, my grandma lived through WWII, she had to flee to Hong kong. Yet, one day, in the afternoon my brother decided to watch the Kid's Channel. Onegai My Melody was on, then my grandma suddenly said 'Look at how good those Japanese-kids draw, they're always pretty unlike chinese made stuff' (lets not say I thought Onegai My Melody animation was awful). The thing is, not all chinese people have something against Japanese people. It's most likely my grandparent spent most of their life in Hong Kong, japanese products are very accessible there, not all chinese hate the japanese. Talking about knock-off ipods, my aunt bought me one. There's tons of them at Hong kong, to be honest, some was better then the original ipod. There was 'ipod' shuffle 2G with a screen and fm radio (although the Sansa clip looks like a better option then that)! My 2nd generation fake-pod could play videos, yet the real one couldn't. So it was quite funny. The quality was awful, so I bought myself a Sony Walkman Mp4 (it's still made in china), I don't even like the original ipod. Plagarism is nothing in China compared to poisionous baby milk powder, lead paint, dangerous work eniviroments and just everything that is not regulated. China just got bigger problems then plagarism.
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2009-09-09, 10:26 | Link #76 |
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I am a Chinese and I am a Hong Kong jin, like Shoujo no Shooting Star above. I have to say a lot of Chinese are disappointed in this plagarizing incident that some even went to popular Japanese chatrooms to apologize about this.
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2009-09-12, 01:33 | Link #77 |
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On the flip side, this reminds of the common trick in many anime where they would have very obvious commercial products changed ever-so-slightly so as to claim they are not using such products without permission. Starbucks for some reason is the ubiquitous design to copy for cafes and coffee cups.
Lots of electronic products as well with logos and names modified just enough to claim it's not the same, such as a one letter difference.. it's as if they took their cue from real knock-offs, like Coby |
2009-09-16, 17:15 | Link #78 | |
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