Godzilla 2000's "stolen" music

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Godzilla 2000's "stolen" music

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Hey I've known about this for years but I got some reason haven't told anyone. Anyways I went through a phase of listening to a lot of classical music and I remember while I was listening to Erik Alfred Gynopedia 1 or whatever the notes sounded very similar to something I heard before. Anyways after listening and thinking I realized the track "Godzilla appears in Nemuro" from Godzilla 2000 totally riffed on it. If you want to hear the comparison between the two I think you'll quickly notice the similarities:

http://youtu.be/S-Xm7s9eGxU
This is the classical music clip, the similarity is the piano at 0:10 seconds to around 0:20.

Here's the Godzilla clip:
http://youtu.be/kjrp5eNCJMc

Instantly from the beginning you hear the similarities. So what do you think guys, plagiarism?
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No, but it may be a homage.

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Possibly a homage, a "borrowed" piece, or just a coincidence. Happens a lot. Listen to the Doom soundtrack. :P

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I think it's a total coincidence. There's only so many ways you can combine different musical notes that, with a billion years of music produced, there's naturally going to be similarities between pieces that are completely unrelated. It's not just entirely possible for two isolated people to come up with the same ideas, it's extremely common.
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Sorry, but outside of one 2 second sound, I just don't hear it.

Plus, we are talking about Hattori here, who is far too inept to even understand what plagiarizing is. Hell, I wish he would have plagiarized his scores for both movies he did, as that would have been an improvement.

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