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>>9067719
It wearies me to see people pushing the notion of everyone unapologetically ripping-off each other using superficial similarities as an evidence, while forgetting that we live in world where actual plagiarism exist.
Some of the more famous examples of plagiarism which usually come to my mind are Buratino and The Wizard of the Emerald City, both known to start as a straight forward translations of Pinocchio and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but with the authors taking insane liberties.
The Wizard of the Emerald City is especially weird, because the author paraphrased certain sections of the story to be much darker, made Toto into a talking dog and also wrote a bunch of original sequels to it unrelated to Baum's works.
I'd doubt that James Cameron being the radical anime apologist he is, would for some reason forget to mention Princess Mononoke's influence on Avatar.
It's also funny how people usually draw parallels to Japanese entertainment, while the Japanese culture itself is so hinged upon self-reference and copying, that entire genres were born out of it (Mecha, Magical-girls, Isekai).
As for Tarantino, he is quite open about his references to other things and even invites some of the actors who starred in these old films (Gordon Liu, Franco Nero, etc.).