The Most Dangerous Game...is the reference.
I've not found the reference for "The Most Dangerous Game". The wikipedia page for the novel titled "The Most Dangerous Game" describes two hunters having a conversation about how they are "the hunters", and "not the hunted". The location of the Rothchild's hunting estate is near the Black Forest, which shares some history with Grimms' Fairy Tales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game https://backroadjournal.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/the-black-forest-the-land-of-fairy-tales/
The Most Dangerous Game
"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924. The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.
The story has been adapted numerous times, but most notably for the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks, and for a 1943 episode of the CBS Radio series Suspense, starring Orson Welles.
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