I just read a brief overview. She's accusing them of plagiarism and claims her story inspired both.
First, inspiration is not even plagiarism.
Second, biblical links and savior characters is major theme in Western literature and film dating back thousands of years.
Third. Narratively, both Terminator and Matrix pull from classic narrative themes in western literature outside of religion as well.
Terminator takes its main inspiration from Frankenstein... or the idea that ambition for greatness will be the death of us. Matrix is Plato's Republic, specifically the cave allegory where what we perceive isn't the true reality, but shadows of things the people in the true reality want them to perceive, rather than seeing anything real. Robots have been a fairly big part of Western science fiction since Isaac Asimov in the 1950s, and he didn't invent robots, merely established them as a permanent fixture of the genre. Both themes have been covered extensively. So I would say the biggest crime these two films made was being generic.
Of course, I don't know the exact details, but from what I read, it seems one generic western story complaining that other similarly generic western stories were more successful. So, I'd be interested in if there are any comparative details that are any deeper than that?
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