Quote Originally Posted by adoc
FYI, Mr. Spielberg is not too shy to exploit the achievements of the international cinematography and has never been caught red-handed and sued for plagiarism, thanks to the notorious interest of the american public to foreign cultures and probably to the all-powerful gang of world-class lawyers behind him.
I don't know what you're talking about, really, but I would suspect that if he is indeed ripping stuff off, it has far more to do with the latter than the former. Yes, foreign films don't get the audiences in the US that they probably get in many other countries, but that's hardly important. All it takes is a handful of people to say,"wow, that bastard just ripped that whole scene off" to get some attention. The problem, though, is that I would imagine it INCREDIBLY difficult to actually go to court, invest all that money in what is a low percentage chance of winning the case, and then endure years and years of motions, legal jockeying, negotiations, etc. AND actually WIN, in ANY sense of the word... Presumably they'd basically have to have a video tape of Spielberg calling up Satan, asking him if he knew of any good scripts he could steal, then signing, for the camera to see, a deal that says "I, Steven Spielberg, hereby agree to steal scenes from the film "Come and See," with the aid of my good friend and business associate, Lucifer J. Satan."