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When copycat becomes cultural norm in China:Foreign movie posters ripped offA lia | March 3rd, 2012 - 4 :32 am

It is not an easy task to design a really original and creative movie pos ter. Given the number of

movies in existence, no matter what is put into a movie poster, it probably has already been

used somewhere else.

But what you will see below has nothing to do w ith draining creativity. It is plain copycat. For all

the movie posters shown below, the Chinese movies on the right were released a fter theforeign ones on the left. (Click links to see deta ils about movies on IMDBor Mtime China).

Most of them are movies o f similar genres . For example. Phobia 2from Thailand and Midnight

Beating, both are horror movies. Street Kingsfrom the US and Chongqing Blues, both

are gangster movies.Addicted toLovefrom the US and Sophies Revenge, both a re chic love

comedy.

Other pairs, however, almost have a wicked sense of humor such asTheIdes ofMarchvs. Lao

Nan Ren Li Xian Ji(translated as The Adventure ofa Middle-aged Man), Takenvs. The Killer

Who Never Kills, and Fahrenheit 9/11vs. Dear Enemy(love drama).

South Korea: Sad Movie(2005) VS. China: You Ren La Wu Mi(2011) VS. China: The

Allure of Tears(2011)

US: Vantage Point (2008) VS. China: Seven 2 One(2009)

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[...]When copycat becomes cultural norm in China: Foreign movie posters ripped off |

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Chinas Copycats From Tech to Movie Posters duncanleung.comsays:

May 1, 2012 at 2:13 am

[...] enough ranting from me. I just wanted to show these Chinese movie posters from the

blog Offbeat China that were pretty unoriginally copied from other movies. [...]

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perez-fox.com Chinese Copycat Movie Posters says:

March 30, 2012 at 3:32 am

[...] other day, I came across a rather comprehensive collection of copycat posters in China,

with the layout, photographic style, and general concept lifted directly from Hollywood

movies o f [...]
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Movie posters ripped off | | NewVibesays:

March 16, 2012 at 4:43 pm

[...] Maar de voorbeelden hieronder, afkomstig uit China waar copyright wordt vertaald als

right to copy, zijn van een andere categorie. Categorie jatwerk. Het betreft hier niet een

Chinese versie of remake van een bestaande film (links), maar een compleet andere

Chinese film, meestal van een soortge lijk genre. Meer hier. [...]

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Copycat Nation | POSTCARDS FROM NEXT DOOR Letters in Developmentsays:

March 16, 2012 at 6:11 am

[...] found this website and article, When copycat becomes cultural norm in China: Foreign

movie posters ripped off, on CNN, and lets just say that the Chinese movie industry is not

very shy about their movie [...]

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rollosays:

March 16, 2012 at 3:27 pm

The Chinese are like, the Borg from star trek. They assimilate everything and every idea.

It is never about ethics or personal integrity; It is about ripping everything off that is notnailed down. There modern culture distils down to, not just imitating, but assimilating,

then pretending that those intellectual ideas belonged to them all along.

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#@%$says:

October 27, 2012 at 2:03 am

Youre Borg fROM STAR TREK!

YOU #$%@ %$@+#*

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Skippysays:

March 15, 2012 at 10:48 pm

The font in Welcome to Shamatown looks very much like the font from the Harry Potter

movies.

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Rocketsays:

March 15, 2012 at 8:22 pm

On the girl poster for Diary of a Wimpy Kid (the American poster): broach=brooch. I bet the

Chinese posters a re spelled right.

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Chandrasays:

March 28, 2012 at 5:26 am

actually broach is a less common spelling of brooch.. all the same. be cool.

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March 15, 2012 at 7:24 pm

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[...]When copycat becomes cultural norm in China: Foreign movie posters ripped off |

Offbeat China[...]

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Pali Breezesays:March 15, 2012 at 6:31 pm

The inferior copy.

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Flychick86says:

March 13, 2012 at 4:50 am

This was really interesting to look at. I thought about how some of them were and when

they called them rip-offs.

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Flychick86says:

March 13, 2012 at 4:49 am

This was rea lly interesting to look at. I kinda thought about when they called them rip-offs.

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niiorklsays:

March 13, 2012 at 3:47 am

If you look at the daddy day car one, you can see that the chinese rip-off has even cloned

the guys body and only copy-pasted the chinese actors face on itpretty lame, even forthem

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Dave Bartlettsays:

March 12, 2012 at 4:43 pm

Well if these are all classed as rip-offs, I want to claim originality, since A Tale of Two

Sisters (2003) and Illusion Apartment (2010) are BOTH obvious rip-offs o f My mum and

my auntie sitting on their two seat sofa with my grandparents standing behind (about

1947, I think.)

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Ussefsays:

March 12, 2012 at 12:11 am

Some are really blatant rip-offs, but others do just convey the same idea or the original

isnt that original to begin with

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Even if some of the posters may look generic they are still original artArranging a few

photos in a particular way still conveys an idea and is a copyrighted material.So, yes, no

matter how innocent they may look, the Chinese ripoffs are still rip offsand should not be

defended.

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| Laowaicastsays:

March 10, 2012 at 12:43 pm

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The View Beyond Parallax more reads for week of March 9 | Parallax Viewsays:

March 9, 2012 at 5:39 pm

[...] Some of these Chinese movie posters arent copying other examples so much as

offering variations on a generic designor maybe I just cant contemplate somebody

actually bothering to rip off Addicted to Loves foursomebut others are so nakedly

plagiarist theyre almost charming. [...]

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Millersays:

March 7, 2012 at 7:34 am

No surprise there. Fabulous shanzhai work.

That said, the posters for Taken and Yours, Mine & Ours are common looking enough

that the Chinese poster paired with it could be a direct rip-off or could just be following the

same archetype. The people crowded behind a door being shut especially is something Ive

seen in other movie posters (off the top of my head, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is ).

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David Wertime, Co-Editor, TeaLeafNation.comsays:

March 4, 2012 at 11:22 pm

Very funny stuff. The ones near the bottom seem more like they *may* be coincidences. In

particular, Sleepless Fashions poster seems pretty original. But a lot of them are, well,

shanzhai.

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Rensays:

March 4, 2012 at 5:25 pm

Okay to be fair, some are pretty gene rica bunch of faces in a heart is not copying. But, that

said some are pretty blatant copies!

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nicksays:

March 4, 2012 at 6:57 am

A lot of them are just generic. Those US romantic comedies tha t are copied look like 1000s

of other romantic comedy covers from all over the world.

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