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Disney stealing ideas again?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 18 May 2001 13:38:56 GMT
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Well, once again it seems that Disney cannot come up with ideas on their own.
Their upcoming animated movie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, bears startling
similarities to Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, a TV series by the Japanese studio
Gainax (the people behind Neon Genesis Evangelion). The main characters of
each are similar in design and temperment, and the plot is nearly identicle,
even down to specific events in the storyline. A article covering the
similarities can be found at the Anime News Network, however, it contains a
number of spoilers for both shows, so read at your own risk:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/archives/feature/atlantis.php
While Atlantis could have been inspired by Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle in the
Sky (as Nadia most likely was), I find it hard to believe that both shows would
coincidentally differ from Laputa in so many of the same ways. Any other
thoughts on this?
Jeff
"FLAT SIDE UP!"
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| (...) While I am not acquainted with that show and I am loathe to defend Disney on this point I will say that Atlantis is an old story and it has one basic archetypical approach: a guy finds a map, uses it to find "the lost city", the city rises or (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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