ターミネーター2と寄生獣

Huluで、「寄生獣」を観て元妻との喧嘩を思い出した。
元妻にターミネーター2を見せたら、「これは寄生獣のぱくりだ」って言い出した。新型ターミネーターの指が鋭利な刃物に変型して頭を貫くアクションが、ニッポンの漫画からのパクリなんだそうだ。んなわけねえだろと激怒した思い出。

Another movie director who was briefly attached to Parasyte was James Cameron. Interestingly, there's a possibility that Cameron was already influenced by Parasyte when he made his own movie about a shapeshifting killer, Terminator 2. At least, Hitoshi Iwaaki thinks so. "This summer I met a major film director in Los Angeles, and he loved Parasyte, too!" a reader wrote to Iwaaki in 1991, as printed in volume 2 of the Del Rey edition. "The best movie I saw recently was Terminator 2," wrote Iwaaki in 1992."The transformation scenes made me laugh, reminding me of Parasyte. Soon, no one will remember which came first, but I hope nobody accuses me of stealing the idea." Was Cameron really inspired by Parasyte? It seems unlikely to me, because the time window between the first publication of Parasyte in Japan (January 1990) and the greenlighting of Terminator 2 (in late 1990) is pretty small. But Cameron is a known fan of Battle Angel Alita, another manga movie that's probably never going to get made (possibly for the better), so who knows?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2012-07-05

ターミネーター2 特別編 [DVD]