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NEWS: True Grit Producer in Live-Action Star Blazers Talks

Also, I liked Speed Racer. Flopping means lack of sales, not quality.

do you ever think for a moment that maybe Hollywood is doing these live-action movies as alternatives for North Americans who don't watch anime, hoping to largely increase the anime's fanbases in North America because most North Americans aren't into anything anime, whether they assume that all animation on Earth is strictly for children and the immature at heart or that they don't relate well to what they see in them?

I'm sure Hollywood is carefully adapting only anime where Japaneseness has no importance to what the stories in them are meant to be about.

Also, I liked Speed Racer. Flopping means lack of sales, not quality.

reynardine wrote:

Well, if they actually make this movie, they must keep the English-version Star Blazers theme. Because it was all kinds of awesome.

Have you heard the original Yamato theme 'cause that's pretty cool.

and I for one think that if you are going to make a live action movie based on an anime, then you should stick to the content, not change it, keep akira in tokyo, stop changing things, if they want us to watch star blazers, then just give us a subbed titled version of the movie that just came out in japan, did they re-shoot spider-man for the japanese audience, or how about iron man, come on, some things are just best left the way they are

and I for one think that if you are going to make a live action movie based on an anime, then you should stick to the content, not change it, keep akira in tokyo, stop changing things, if they want us to watch star blazers,

then just give us a subbed titled version of the movie that just came out in japan,

did they re-shoot spider-man for the japanese audience,

or how about iron man, come on, some things are just best left the way they are,

making an american version of yamato,

and the Japanese "Witchblade" maintains the Witchblade armor concept but with a different set of characters in place of those from the U.S. "Witchblade" comics (ex: Japanese cop Masane Amaha is the Witchblade heroine, not Sara Pezzini from the comics).

Star Blazers is the American version of the Japanese Space Battleship Yamato, so it's American to start with. Just like the live-action Speed Racer movie is based on the American Speed Racer, not the Japanese Mach Go Go Go. It had already changed things to start with.

enurtsol wrote:

Star Blazers is the American version of the Japanese Space Battleship Yamato, so it's American to start with. Just like the live-action Speed Racer movie is based on the American Speed Racer, not the Japanese Mach Go Go Go. It had already changed things to start with.

Star Blazers is as much American as Ankronikka (Duck Tales) is Finnish. Just because you change the title of the show and character names and censor some content doesn't change its country of origin.

Japan did a live-action "Spider-Man" T.V. show back in the 1970s, only to have its cast pure Japanese with its protagonist being a Japanese motorcyclist maintaining the Spider-Man mantle, not Peter Parker.

Those changes would also be reflected in the American movie. And we're not debating about country of origin (like the Japanese word "anime" is not Japanese in origin neither, but it's a Japanese word now).

For example, that My Darling is a Foreigner movie thing. They could've easily gotten some Japanese pretty-boy with more pull for the white husband.

enurtsol: Well, the thing about Starblazers was that it was "neutral" in how it Westernized stuff, while the idea that you'd turn Yamato into, say, the U.S.S. Arizona, totally destroys the context of the original series. And Mach! Go Go was barely "Japanese", so the only failure of the Speed Racer movie was the godawful pacing and writing.

enurtsol wrote:

Those changes would also be reflected in the American movie. And we're not debating about country of origin (like the Japanese word "anime" is not Japanese in origin neither, but it's a Japanese word now).

check any Japanese dictionaries, it will tell you that anime is a shortened form of アニメーション (animēshon), which is the English word animation transcribed in katakana. so it is a Japanese word. the shortened form was made up in the Japanese language and doesnt come from a foreign one.

No they can't, because My Darling is a Foreigner is semi-autobiographical.

He's literally her English teacher, not really an actor.

Every culture has their own "Yamato" equivalent in their history; nothing is unique despite what the Japanese keep believing among themselves.