American born Vietnamese film makerVictor Vu heads back to his cultural homeland Vietnam to create the slick thriller INFERNO.
Vu made a name for himself with Spirits which like many of his other fellow vietnamese compadres pushed his countrys film industry into the world stage.
Inferno will be out in Vietnam on September 17th, trailer after the break...
SAIGON, DISTRICT 7. Heavy rain falls from the dark sky. A car speeds across an intersection and loses control, smashing into a delivery truck. The car flips through the air and explodes in flames. The man in the car is severely burned - his face completely disfigured. To make matters worse, he suffers from amnesia and cannot remember anything before the accident.
The man wakes up several weeks later in the hospital and learns that he is MANH, a wealthy real estate tycoon with connections with politicians as well as the underground world. Later, he knows he has a beautiful wife named Trang and a man who is assumed to be his best friend named Bao. He also knows that he has business relationship with a son of a powerful mafia family named Hung. And .... there is a mysterious young girl who always follow him with strange messages.
Manh finds that he is in a mysterious journey through the connections with various characters. As the stories told by them, the secrets of his life are gradually revealed. PAST & PRESENT connects...
In the effort to get his memories and piercing his broken life back together, the ugly truths behind his true face and the secrets from the accident come to light....
Victor Vu and Irene Trinh should stop stealing and apologize! I saw Inferno and thought story was good then after reading about their plagiarism I watched Shattered and WHAT SHAMEFUL SHOCK! Victor Vu copied EXACTLY EVERYTHING in Shattered into his film Inferno, didn't change ANYTHING. What disgrace he and Irene Trịnh duped the Vietnamese. I just read that his earlier film Oan Hon was a copy of a Chinese film too. Victor Vu and Irene Trinh should admit their deceits and apologize.
ReplyDeleteVictor Vu got caught red-handed plagiarizing and is the most corrupt dishonest filmmaker in Vietnamese film communities. Victor Vu picked the film "Shattered" to plagiarize because the film came out in 1991 when Vietnam was still completely closed to the outside world and the open-door policy had not started, so he was sure that no Vietnamese could have ever seen it so he thought he was safe and he duplicated Shattered down to the tiniest detail. That's why Victor Vu's film "Giao lo dinh menh" (Inferno) is exactly IDENTICAL to "Shattered" scene by scene, exactly identical lead characters, exactly identical support characters, exactly identical opening, identical story progress, identical twists, identical ending. His motive was clear when the film came out he bragged all over the press that he is a "Hollywood-style filmmaker in the Hitchcock way"... Now that his plot to con Vietnamese audiences and get fame by stealing has been uncovered, Victor Vu should admit his deceit and apologize instead of more lies.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen both movies? I just did!! Con man Victor Vu has no shame he copied Wolfgang Petersen's film "Shattered" scene by scene, character by character for his "Inferno" (vietnamese: Giao lo dinh menh) he even copied Shattered's poster and music design, everything. By the way Roger Ebert wrote in his review of Wolfgang Petersen's Shattered in 1991 that "This movie is one vast secret that shouldn't be revealed". So guess what slogan Victor Vu used for his copycat "Inferno" in Vietnam: "Some secret shouldn't be revealed", my god even the slogan is copied! And Victor Vu is still lying to the Vietnamese that he's "never seen, never heard of and knows nothing about Wolfgang Petersen's Shattered" and that his film's identicalness to Shattered is just "a completely normal coincidence only professionals can understand"... He calls himself "the new Hitchcock" and said since he's on the same level as Hitchcock then coincidental similarities between him and Hitchcock "are unavoidable"!! What a liar! Well at least one secret that he thought would never be revealed has been uncovered by Vietnamese audiences: that he's a swindler!
ReplyDeleteI just got the DVD of "Shattered", they're selling pirated Shattered DVD all over Vietnam now and guess what Vietnamese title they gave to Shattered: Giao lo dinh menh, the same title as Victor Vu's film, because the two films are so identical. I watched Shattered and 10 minutes into it you can already see Victor Vu's film is an identical ripoff scene-by-scene, same car accident, same memory loss, same doctor saying same line "amnesia could be a week or... permanent", same surgery, same making love scene, same walking home holding a cane (yep even the props are copied)... everything in Shattered was duplicated (except the acting is much better in Shattered). All of Vietnam now knows Victor Vu is a plagiariser. Talk about you can run but you can't hide.
ReplyDeleteSo sad that some bad Vietnamese Americans use what they know in the US to go back to Vietnam to prey on fellow Vietnamese people. Victor Vu and Irene Trinh carefully picked Shattered from 1991 cause they knew in 1991 Vietnam was shut to outside world so no one in VN ever saw Shattered. They launched their copycat Inferno giao lo dinh menh bragging they were "Hitchcock" and so on, but a few weeks later they were caught as plagiarisers so I guess they underestimated Vietnamese people.
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud when I saw both films. In Inferno Victor Vu copied Shattered down to the nitty details, not only the story is exact same but he had the same characters with same profession working in the same business doing the same actions holding same props speaking the same dialogue in the same location as in Shattered! And he shot it the same way and had actors do the same acting. I laughed so hard at Victor Vu's extreme plagiarism, this guy really proved Vietnamese only copy and steal from others.
ReplyDeleteVictor Vu is also a disappointment and a discredit to his alma mater Loyola Marymount. Loyola certainly did not teach filmmaking for its student to go back to his home country and swindle its people.
ReplyDeleteDamn devious fraud uncovered! Victor Vu and co-conspirator Irene Trinh took advantage of Vietnam's isolation from the world in the 90s to hatch this fraud plagiarizing Hollywood movies from that period and release in Vietnam today with hoopla as their own work to exploit vietnamese investors and people, Victor Vu gets both money and fame using others' work. Devious way to get rich and famous, just requires lack of conscience.
ReplyDeleteI saw both movies and scene-by-scene plagiarism the way Victor Vu copied Shattered to make Inferno would be laughed at in the West but in Vietnam where people are unknowledgeable Victor Vu was able to use that copy-by-number to pretend he's "the hot new Hitchcock of Hollywood" and successfully duped investors, audiences and the media in Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteI think a film director got to have creativity, integrity and responsibility. By copying wholesale Wolfgang Petersen's Shattered Victor Vu showed he has no creativity, by using plagiarized work to brag to Vietnamese people that he's Hitchcock in Hollywood Victor Vu showed he has no integrity, and by holding press conferences in Vietnam to tell more lies like "everybody in Hollywood knows making identical movies is no problem but Vietnamese can't understand Hollywood things" Victor Vu showed he has no responsibility.
ReplyDeleteWhy I read the same comments regarding this topic in different articles from different websites????? Who are these people trying to post the same thing over and over again from many places on the internet???? What are their purposes????
ReplyDeleteI got curious about Victor Vu stealing Shattered and searched around the internet for reader's comments. Unbelievably, there are a number of people posted the same comments from ANY articles or website mentioning about Inferno. Must be something going on here. What are their purposes?????
ReplyDeleteI got curious again so I looked around the internet for movies similarity and movie copyright infringement cases because I don't believe that this Vietnamese film is the only case in the world. And supprisingly again, here what I found. You will be supprised.
ReplyDeleteSteven Spielberg's Disturbia v.s. Alfred Hitcook's Rear Window
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6077837/Copyright-Infringement-Lawsuit-COMPLAINT-DISTURBIA-Movie-Against-Steven-Spielberg-Universal
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486822/faq#.2.1.1
Micheal Bay's The Island v.s. The Clonus Horror
http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/The_Island_2005.aspx
You could tell them thiefs as they were called when there movies came out. But the court did not think so. And they are the best Directors in the movie world.