battle royale book vs movie

Kong goes some way in bringing to the reader all the hard work that has been put into the film. Its bloody gritty violent and totally rated R making Hunger Games look like a trip to Weenie Hut Junior.

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I wouldnt read it again the way Ive read other books in its niche The Long Walk The Hunger Games even House of Stairs multiple times.

. Flag Dragondrool Oct 16 2012 1148AM 0 votes I definitely preferred the book to the movie. Batoru Rowaiaru is the first novel by the Japanese author Koushun Takami. Originally completed in 1996 it was not published until 1999.

With a colorful cast of characters and a better-structured and unpredictable story the 2000 Japanese film is simply better than its 2012 counterpart. It is a book that doesnt skimp on details pulling the unsung heroes into the light. Battle Royale Japanese.

Just to clarify theyre not going to release an American remake of Battle Royale a movie theyve been trying to get made since 2006 which itself is based off of a book released in 1999 because studios are worries that audiences would assume it was a rip off of a movie based on a book that wasnt released until 2008. So while I still appreciate the movie for introducing me to the franchise the novel is my favorite version of Battle Royale by far. May 11 2009 1520 0 0.

A comparison of the battle royale series comparing the Battle Royale film to the novel and manga. Battle Royale producer Roy. In the book the Program is a tool to further authoritarian control by sowing fear and distrust in an entire generation of children.

Indeed Battle Royales fame when compared to similar films is unmatched. The Art of the Ultimate Battle Royale Titan Books The Art Of Godzilla vs. The story tells of junior high school students who are forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by a fictional fascist totalitarian Japanese government.

This is an experimental. In the movie it was a pot lid. Parents need to know that Battle Royale is a super-violent Japanese sci-fi film from 2000 telling roughly the same story as The Hunger Games but with a different perspectiveThe fights and killings are more over-the-top and cartoonish with a great deal more blood.

The blatant rip-off that the author of the Hunger Games books whatever her name is did is almost as bad as Disneys The Lion King being a copy of Kimba The White Lion. The novel is a product of alternate history as Japan is assumed to have not lost WWII. Nov 9 2009.

Its a really great book but its a bit different from the movie some of the kills are different also back stories are different as well. Why is Battle Royale such a highly regarded film. Shuyas weapon in the manga was an army knife.

It thinks of itself as taking place in todays world. The book really makes you wonder about what itd be like to be in that situation. The first person perspectives and back story behind the characters.

There were a number of equally remarkable Japanese movies made within a few years of Battle Royale such as Takeshi. Facebook Prev Article Next Article. I thought the movie followed the book fairly well excepting the swapping out of some of the weapons.

A more serious video than usual. You know youre screwed when the government expects you to kill all your friends with a spoonFollow me on Facebook. Some sexual violence is implied and teen crushes develop though nothing intimate occurs.

To us they are faceless names in the credits. I have not read the novel yet but here are some things I noticed were different between the movie and the manga mostly going off memory here A few of the initial weapons were different. Personally I enjoyed Battle Royale as a short action novel but the characters were all pretty flat.

Let the real battle begin--between The Hunger Games franchise and Japanese cult author Koushun Takamis Battle Royale which explored similar themes years earlier. When you name a vs. Battle Royale isnt a postapocalyptic movie.

The concept is awesome but it deviated too far from the book and the format removed a huge part of what made the story so interesting. One of the best movies Ive seen in a while. Thread Battle Royale apparently referring to a particular story you create one heck of a double meaning.

Near the end an intertitle offers some very sincere advice to the teen-agers in the. In the movie it is a revenge mechanism by an adult japan increasingly hysterical over a youth it fears it cannot control.

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