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It’s strange to me that the article focuses on Requiem for a Dream when Black Swan is much more directly inspired by Perfect Blue - if you wanted to you could e
by jowday 5y ago
It’s strange to me that the article focuses on Requiem for a Dream when Black Swan is much more directly inspired by Perfect Blue - if you wanted to you could even argue that it’s a remake of Perfect Blue. The plots are that similar. The article touches on Black Swan briefly, but I think it gets stuck focusing on the tub shot.
- pizza 5y agoThought so myself too. There are like.. a lot of similarities lol eg https://dbmoviesblog.com/2016/11/02/perfect-blue-1997-vs-black-swan-2010-is-aronofskys-black-swan-perfectly-blue/ https://dbmoviesblog.com/2016/11/02/perfect-blue-1997-vs-bla...
- toyg 5y agoThat piece says > Aronofsky bought the rights to “Perfect Blue” to use one of its scenes for his “Requiem for a Dream” (2000) which TFA actively denies. It's actually puzzling how Aronofsky went back to Perfect Blue, after being caught effectively plagiarising it once already and likely knowing that Kon, beyond the formal politeness typical of the Japanese, wasn't really happy about it. It's like he was daring to be sued. Both directors don't come out of this particularly well - Kon for being a frustrated but ultimately weak character, Aronofsky for achieving success with fundamentally plagiarized work.
- wodenokoto 5y agoIts because the article is not about the similarities between two movies, but about the directors feelings towards those similarities. Satoshi Kon died before the release of Black Swan. He has no opinion on it.
- aidenn0 5y agoIndeed; the tub shot was arguably the only thing in Requiem for a Dream that was clearly a Perfect Blue ripoff. As TFA says, several other things that pissed of Kon were already present in the source material for Requiem.