A Hollywood movie obtains its storylines and ideas from numerous sources. The traditional wellsprings came from books, the theatre or from an original screenplay.
In more recent times ‘inspiration’ can be found in sequels and even more recently in video games. This film is an example of the late, a Japanese style anime film based on the Dragon Ball video game.
Put the words anime and video games together and you will have produced the latest social phenomenon- cosplaying.
Accordingly most of the celebrities on the red carpet were people dressed as characters from the film. It was geek central at the Event cinema, CBD, geek no longer being a pejorative term!.
All pics by Ben Apfelbaum (c)
