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10-19-2011, 09:33 AM
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That said, I argue that after ripping off from a sufficient number of sources a fiction gains its own being, a bit like a piece of space debris gaining mass until it becomes its own body*. But at that point people seem to tell me to shut up.
Essentially I think you're correct, but there's still a line to be drawn when an inspiration becomes plagiarism.

Look at that Limbo of the Lost game. Or don't.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’