7 ms·
There is a much stronger connection between Battle Royale and Hunger Games, than Squid Game. Very similar government depiction, the announcement of deaths etc.
by postexitus 2y ago
There is a much stronger connection between Battle Royale and Hunger Games, than Squid Game. Very similar government depiction, the announcement of deaths etc. Moreover, we should appreciate Battle Royale even more - because it was done waaay before any prior art existed.
- csswizardry 2y agoAmen!
- Lich 2y agoLord of the Flies?
- postexitus 2y agoDefinitely relevant and maybe inspirational, though I find "fight to death game show" format quite distinctive, so much so that it created its game genre 15 years later even with the same name as the movie.
- sitkack 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game
- postexitus 2y agointeresting, had no idea!
- JKCalhoun 2y agoYeah, that was the oldest reference to humans hunting humans I could muster.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoSmash TV arcade game is from 1990. Not that distinctive in gaming.
- MrFoof 2y agoBig money! Big prizes! … IIIII LOVE IT!
- dllthomas 2y agoThe term predated the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royal_(professional_wrestling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royal_(professional_wre...
- rubatuga 2y agoManhunt?
- dr-detroit 2y ago[dead]
- commandlinefan 2y agoIIRC, Stephen King's "The Running Man" and "The Long Walk" predate both Battle Royale and Hunger Games and deal with similar themes.
- russdill 2y agoThe Long Walk is cited by the Battle Royale author as an inspiration.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- Dunan 2y agoHe also has his protagonists hail from the fictional town of Shiroiwa-cho 白岩町, which is a direct translation of King's frequently-seen "Castle Rock". I wonder how many Japanese readers of the original spotted that.
- mlok 2y ago"The Running man" by Stephen King was published in 1982, the movie starring Schwarzenegger was released in 1987 (another adaptation will be released this year in 2025) The story is similar to a Robert Sheckley's short story from 1952,"The Prize of Peril" adapted into a movie in Germany in 1970 "Das Millionenspiel" and in France in 1982 "Le prix du danger" (same year as King's Running Man novel) I would say "The Prize of Peril" is the grandfather of these books, movies and series, as far as I know. Battle Royale is the start of another branch, though : it's not one vs many anymore, it's many vs many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize_of_Peril https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize_of_Peril
- croes 2y ago> it's many vs many. More like everyone against everyone.
- blacksmith_tb 2y ago
- kelseyfrog 2y agoThere's also mechanical similarities to Fortnite and PUBG. Especially the variety of weapons and an ever-shrinking map.
- Nullabillity 2y agoUnsurprisingly, since PUBG was essentially "what if Battle Royale was a video game?", and Fortnite is a PUBG clone.
- butlike 2y agoWell, the free side of Fortnite is a PUBG clone. The old, paid zombie/horde side is coop
- codetrotter 2y agoPUBG and Fortnite are both directly inspired by Battle Royale. The whole video game genre exists and is named such because of that movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game PUBG was inspired by the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUBG:_Battlegrounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUBG:_Battlegrounds Fortnite added Battle Royale game mode because they saw how popular PUBG was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale
- AustinDev 2y agoBrendan Greene made the ARMA Battle Royale mod before he PUBG. ARMA BR, H1Z1, then PUBG. https://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2q7xie/hey_folks_this_is_playerunknown_i_created_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/h1z1/comments/2q7xie/hey_folks_this...
- arrosenberg 2y ago> The whole video game genre exists and is named such because of that movie. If so, then it is ultimately named for the pro wrestling free-for-all format. The author says in the foreword that's how he chose the name for the book.
- MrFoof 2y agoYou know what they call Battle Royale in France? Hunger Games with Cheese. I saw Battle Royale as a subbed bootleg around 20 years ago. Fantastic B-movie, and I understand some of the young actors got some notable roles as they got older (Takeshi Kitano was there because he was Takeshi Kitano), but it’s still a B-movie. Good time though, even today. As an aside on Takeshi, for those who want to go down a rabbit hole, dig into “Takeshi’s Challenge” on the Nintendo Famicom. That game is a trip.
- KPGv2 2y ago> battle royale was a B movie Yeah, if it's not an American movie, it's some cheap shit! /s My brother, it was nominated for nine Japanese Academy Awards, it was helmed by one of Japan's top directors, is an adaptation of a best-selling novel, is regarded by critics as one of the best films of the era, has high production values, stars arguably the most famous actor in Japan, was scored by a famous and prolific composer (you might have heard his music in another movie called Django Unchained), etc. That's not even getting into the economics of film in Japan. A successful film in Japan nowadays earns around $10M on a budget of half a million. BR, produced nearly twenty years ago, had a budget nearly ten times that much and grossed triple. Suffice it to say, Battle Royale is a high production cost movie, which forecloses the possibility of it being a B movie. and because I'm just some guy, https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/japan-ethics-of-making-cheap-films-1202825001/ https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/japan-ethics-of-making-ch...
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoI’ll stick my neck out and assert that “cheap” films are better, anyway: movie budgets’ sizes are inversely proportional to the producers’ risk tolerance; therefore, big money films are devoid of originality and any message they carry is nought but masturbatory self-aggrandisement. The best films I’ve ever watched, that which had the biggest effect on me, were TV-plays and self-funded documentary-films.
- sandworm101 2y ago>> big money films are devoid of originality That may be true for some but at the really high end, writers have the resources to so some fun things. Even many high-end marvel-style movies have hidden jokes and themes that 99% of viewer don't ever pick up on.
- jdwithit 2y agoI vividly remember watching Battle Royale with my college roommate, and when it was over, we looked at each other and said "this would be an incredible premise for a video game". This would have been like 2004. We even tried to mod it into the original FarCry engine (the island setting was perfect), but it was too difficult for us. Too bad we didn't actually have the chops to do it, could have gotten the jump on Fortnite/PUBG by over a decade lol. Really wish we had stayed motivated, looking back on it. edit: But yes, Battle Royale is a great movie, and Hunger Games totally rode its coattails.
- sd9 2y agoI had the same idea after watching Hunger Games. Played around with the concept for a few weeks and then eventually tossed it. My first interaction with Fortnite was when I saw them selling t-shirts in a brick and mortar shop. But I don't feel hard done by, I'm sure many people had similar ideas around that time, and I never executed. I also have no idea how I would get a large multiplayer game off the ground without funding. The idea of making even a two-player game scares me.
- automatic6131 2y agoBefore Fortnite released its Battle Royale game, it was a PVE survival/crafting shooter. It did the Battle Royale game mode copying the absolute sensation that was PUBG in 2017 But PUBG began as a series of mods for Arma 3, before moving to its own game with its own monetization (and running like absolute crap on release too). I think there have been versions of PUBG mods for Arma for much longer than when I discovered it.
- WalterBright 2y agoStephen King's "The Long Walk" was published in 1979 "Every year, on the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known through- out the country as "The Long Walk." Among this year's chosen crop is sixteen-year-old Ray Gar- raty. He knows the rules: that wamings are issued if you fall under speed, stumble, sit down. That after three wamings... you get your ticket. And what happens then serves as a chilling reminder that there can be only one winner in the Walk— the one that survives"
- pockmarked19 2y agoSquid game reminded me a lot more of Liar game (the many variants) than a battle royale, though no one dies in the latter. I especially like the “minority rule” game.