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EPISODE · Nov 28, 2012 · 30 MIN

048 | Movies | Hunger Games & Battle Royale

from ECHORIFT | Pop Culture Interceptor (Yes, a fast car from a dark future)

Many people claim that Suzanne Collins stole the idea for The Hunger Games from a Japanese Book/Movie titled Battle Royale by author Toushun Takami. In this third installment of Girl Talk the girls get together and and compare the two stories. Plus, we answer reader mail about Doctor Who and Regenerations. Past Hunger Games episodes include Episode 08: Girl Talk and Episode 26: Girl Talk Rises Be sure to check out our comic, Hurry The Rabbitoid Knight: Prelude to Epilogue! Radio Free Echo Rift is your the twice weekly Pirate Pop Culture Podcast brought to you from Deep Beneath the City of Philadelphia! We have thirty minutes to record each episode here in the confines of the Waiting Room - the only place our evil overlords, the Researchers, can’t monitor our activities. If we were ever caught, we’d be atomized for sure! Subscribe and rate us on iTunes! Download Episode 48: Girl Talk Royale 00:34 - Intro01:14 - Listener mail: Doctor Who Regenerations?05:34 - Girl Talk Returns!06:30 - Battle Royale Overview (Film Adaptation by Kinji Fukasaku)07:47 - Similarities between Battle Royale and The Hunger Games as we see them09:14 - Differences, noting we haven't read the Battle Royale novel11:47 - Comparing the Situations13:24 - Brutality and Violence in Battle Royale - Melodrama in Japanese Drama15:27 - Battle Royale is some kind of commentary on Teenagers18:52 - Battle Royale's Japanese Johnny Rotten and Victors21:03 - There is NO Katniss Everdeen in Battle Royale22:05 - So is Hunger Games a Rip Off?24:56 - One of these movies is clearly Superior to the other27:24 - We agree that Girls can have machine gun fights27:40 - Suzanne Collins on Battle Royale28:27 - Hasn't EVERYONE seen The Running Man?!?29:16 - Girl Talk OUT Call-in number: 856-208-RIFT Letters: [email protected] Follow @echorift for podcast and comic updates Follow @Don_Garvey and @Connelly_Mike Music for the Radio Free Echo Rift Podcast is provided by Home At Last, show them love by liking HAL on Facebook!

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