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   Ken Sugar ☑️ (ken_sugar@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 10:37:09 JST Ken Sugar ☑️

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   "Everything Is a Remix"

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 10:37:10 JST Chris Trottier

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     People get angry when I saw the word "rip-off". But "rip-off" is the term people use to dismiss derivative works of art.

     Nevertheless, the best art in the world is often derivative:

     1. Michaelangelo's David
     2. Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans
     3. Most hip hop albums ever made

     Maybe we should re-claim the term "rip-off".

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 10:37:11 JST Chris Trottier

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     Whenever someone gets upset about small studio animators making a knock-off of a Disney film, I just ask them, "Well, what about the Lion King?"

     And then I tell them about Kimba: The White Lion, and how the Lion King is a rip-off of an anime.
     
     Thereafter, I ask the following question: how many Disney movies are actually based on stories in the public domain?

     Why get upset at small studio animators who also make movies based on stories in the public domain?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 10:37:12 JST Chris Trottier

     The most blatant of Disney-made knock-offs is The Lion King.

     Which was clearly swiped from the anime Kimba: The White Lion—which was originally broadcast by Fuji Television in 1965.

     In fact, in an early version of The Lion King, Simba was white!

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     Vincent Van Dinsky (vvandinsky@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 11:25:18 JST Vincent Van Dinsky

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     @atomicpoet
     On the Road is derivative of Huckleberry Finn
     Huckleberry Finn is derivative of Paradise Lost
     Paradise Lost is derivative of The Divine Comedy
     The Divine Comedy is derivative of the Aeneid
     The Aeneid is derivative of The Odyssey