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It seems that Hollywood has been hiding secrets from the people by allegedly making movies and getting“inspired”by other directors from Asia and other continents. Satoshi Kon, a Japanese filmmaker, called out Natalie Portman’s 2010 masterpieceBlack Swanas being copied and not just a homage to him.
The director also went on to pinpoint and namedrop several of the Hollywood movies that he believed were copied from his movies without giving the proper credit. The report also insinuated that Christopher Nolan’s 2010 masterpiece,Inception,was also Satoshi Kon’s idea!
Satoshi Kon Did Not Like Natalie Portman’sBlack SwanHomage
Back in 1997, Satoshi Kon directed the animated movie titledPerfect Blue.The movie depicts a young Japanese singer who is encouraged to pursue a career in acting instead of singing with her first role in a murder mystery TV show.
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She slowly goes insane when a fan starts obsessively stalking her and her life turns upside down. The plot inspired American director Darren Aronofsky to create his 2000 and 2010 masterpiecesRequiem For a DreamandBlack Swan. The 2000 film also featured several scenes that were strikingly similar to the 1997 movie and worked as a “homage” to the Japanese filmmaker. In an interview onTwitter, the director stated that they weren’t more of a homage but directing copying of ideas.
“It’s a pitiful tale when the person being paid homage to has less name recognition, less social credibility and less budget to spend”.
Alongside this, the director also talked about how visionary director Christopher Nolan was also inspired by Satoshi Kon’s 2006 movie titledPaprika.
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Christopher Nolan Was Also Inspired By Satoshi Kon
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Not justBlack Swan,but Satoshi Kon also created the 2006 animated movie titledPaprika.The premise of the movie is an agent by the name of Paprika who works as a dream detective at night. The 2006 movie received great ratings and in 2010,Christopher NolandirectedInception.
Reports of the iconic hallway scene inInceptionbear a striking resemblance to Satoshi Kon’s own moviePaprikabut as usual, there have been no credits given to the Japanese filmmaker. Although Nolan had stated that he had been working for 10 years on the screenplay forInception,it could be that Nolan didn’t really steal any ideas. Satoshi Kon’sPaprikareceived a rating of 7.7/10 on IMDB and 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and is available to rent on Apple TV+.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
