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To stimulate a creation.
To give a person an urge to suddenly want to write or create a work.
Today, it's commonly mistaken to mean 'copy cat'.
Inspired by used to mean influenced by based on or thanks to. Now it can mean a more politically correct word for copied off of or remake.
Examples of modern misusage : "Quentin Tarantino is inspired by many movies." Does not mean he created something when he was given some small ideas and ellaborated them into greater ones. Instead, it literally means he copies off another movie and claims credit as his. Plaguarizing if you may.
Movies like Reservoir Dogs has inspired by City of Fire a Chinese movie. This does not mean it has the basis of the creation, but more accurately, it was done almost nothing to it but translated.
More examples such as The Ring inspired by The Ringu. Vanilla Sky inspired by 1997 Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)
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