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Pestilence, you may have a point there. Do you think Hollywood copied the Japanese? If that is true i'm glad they did not copy their acting as well.  Sice i'm just 18 i did not watch many old Chinese or Japanese movies. But what i saw, i did not like. They have terrible acting skills and many of their present films show the same thing. Perhaps i have that impression because i'm European and i'm not used to Chinese and Japanese acting and i can not see the "value" of it. What is your impression?
Onceupon, you may be right about Kill Bill being a parody sice you know Tarantino. But what if you didn't know him? I think that is the case for a lot people who see that film. You said you made a similar "mistake" when you first saw Kill Bill. Well, as you probably know, the first impression when watching a movie is the most important one. If i (or someone else) see a movie that i do not like the probability is that i will never watch it again.
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It's more of an homage, in my opinion, than a parody since Tarantino doesn't seem to be making fun of the style.
Hollywood definately copied the asian styles. But looking back, a lot of the asian cinema copied the older Hollywood stuff. Kurosawa himself claimed to have been inspired by our old westerns. He just gave it an oriental spin, plus a whole lot of his own genius. And it's not like our westerns were very original either. Almost everything is in some way inspired by what came before.
Tarantino basically wanted to make a film with his own vision that captured the styles of many genres of martial arts/anime films that he always enjoyed watching himself. I think he's said as much in interviews. And yes, despite this I still hate it when an iron ball to the face leaves almost no mark. I stub my toe and it seems to hurt more than that iron ball. Maybe it was a nerf iron ball.
Along this line, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was heavily based on old 1930s-1940s serials, like Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers, that Spielberg liked as a child.
--p
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The fans know best 
Is the Flash Gordon you're talking about the same guy from Half-Life?? 
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Flash Gordon was a comic strip in newspapers in the 1930s-40s which then became popular serial movies. A new installment would be shown before a different full length movie each week or each month. It's a lot like cartoon shorts they sometimes show before movies only they weren't animated and they were in a continuous story form. Each installment usually ended with a cliffhanger and began with a resolution of the last installments cliffhanger. They were often crap, but kids liked them since they were, in some sense, among the first things on the screen to resemble modern action movies.
The guy in Half-Life might have been named after him, but that's about where the similarity ends. And Gordon is a common enough name that he might not even be named after him. He could be named after Commisioner Gordon from Batman, for example.
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