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Originally Posted by Nathander
P.S.: About the claim that "The Matrix" was stolen from an African-American writer, I can already disprove that. The original "Matrix" was obviously stolen, or as the Wachowski siblings would try to put it, "inspired", by the writings of Philip K. Dick.
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I don't believe anything is as simple and clean as "stolen". When I think stolen I think taking someone's purse or your car or something, to me, getting ideas from other ideas isn't stealing because in a way, you can say EVERYTHING we do, make, and sell is stealing.
Every single TV show, movie, song, and book was inspired by something else. Every big movie director or novelist like J.K. Rowling got their ideas from something else, be it many things or just one thing, everyone gets inspired by everyone else, its a fact of life, all our ideas can be construed to be someone else's.
Matrix can be construed to stolen ideas from The Terminator, Digimon can be construed as Pokemon clone despite the fact the 2 are VERY different, the TV show Moonlight can be construed as stealing from the show Angel and blah, blah, blah. We all get our ideas here and there from this and that, there's no artist in this world that can honestly say no one or nothing inspired them or gave them ideas.