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[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You're not gonna hear this anywhere else but Kojima pretty much stole a ton of Death Stranding from American Cyborg: Steel Warrior. Its not the first time either. People think he's an auteur but he's just a typical USAphile feeding their own recycled and remixed slop back to them.

That is his real trick and at that he certainly prefigures the rise of the LLM era.

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

He does it lovingly though, he has always had a big interest in American action and horror cinema since he was a kid. I don't think it reduces his auteurism, he fills his work with references and callbacks to all the classic tropes of Hollywood but still makes it something new.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

It's always been obvious that he steals shit from goofy American movies - just look at Snatcher lol

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior was also ripped off by Children of Men. Cannon was always ahead of its time.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

but AC:SW released in 1993 and Children of Men was published in 1992

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

very hard to imagine AC:SW is actually doing anything original tbh, it seems more like a vehicle to do a yo dawg I heard you like robot apocalypses cash grab

That was a joke lol, I do wonder if it was actually the other way around? Or they just coincidentally had a similar world plot of everyone being infertile.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Gemini" just means "twins" or "a pair", like the star sign

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Google Janus would have been too on the nose(s)

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

They stole this meme I've stolen before from TikTok and only replaced the portrait.