Review: Funny Games

Haven't you ever heard of the expression "Great Minds Think Alike?" Obviously this is what has happened here, two great minds had similar ideas about a movie and happened to call it the same thing. The similarity in the trailers is I am sure just an example that illustrates how certain iconic scenes have become so ingrained in the collective subconsciousness of the moviegoing public as a kind of representational shortcut to evoke certain moods/tones or convey some common information that two different directors with similarly genius inspired visions drawing from the same pool of conceptual virtual "stock footage" would end up creating things that looked similar.  The alternative that you propose, that this is some some kind of insane attempt by one director to "remake" a movie that's already been made by a different director is just that, insane.   If the movie were REALLY a remake, obviously the trailers would have been identical - the differences between the two obviously demonstrates that the two directors, while having similar ideas for the movie and having a shared encyclopedia of the cinematic shortcuts they drew on to convey that idea, used their own cultural lenses when appropriate to shape their visions.

Next time instead of accusing someone of copying someone else, try looking in the mirror and see if maybe you recognize a bit of the feline cultural copycat in your own face. For example, I have YET to see everydayyeah admit where it got it's inspiration for the website, when it's OBVIOUS to even a casual observer that you stole the idea for your cultural-based website from
http://ichigorori.blogspot.com/
and the name and tone of 'everydayyeah' is even more obviously a DIRECT rip off from this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhrdcfMFkKc

Look I may be gullible, but even _I_ am not gullible enough to believe your preposterous premise that these two films are by the _same_ director. It's obviously a transparent attempt to cover your butt. Besides, didn't you say that one film was American and one was German? Everyone knows Germans don't make films in America and vice versa, if you knew the first thing about the intercontinental film war of 58' and the resulting treaty that controls the creation and distribution of films by nationals on the international film circuit you would know just how tremulous your claim is.

The fact that an American director made the very same film that a German director made is an example of that not so rare phenomenon of the universal earth mother's expression of something that needed to be expressed. Sometimes when the yearning to be heard is so strong, the subconscious vision projected across the world by the earth mother is heard by more than one person. In this case it was heard by two different directors in two different countries on two different continents. This also explains the similarity - fueled by that same muse of divinity they both strove to recreate the divine visions in their heads - in this case the EXACT SAME vision!!! That these two directors on seperate continents would produce the same film is truly proof that there is a higher power. I think the fact that these two disparate individuals happen to have the exact same name shows a bit of that cosmic humor that the goddess is known for.

Sure gave me a chuckle.

by the way, you really should click on the youtube link, it's very inspirational. After watching it I spent the entire day singing "every day yeah!" to myself.