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Mr. sickVisionz
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Aren't almost all of the characters white or white looking to begin with? |
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chefneer
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Until the show is actually produced and aired we can't really know if it will be good or bad but I am definitely looking forward to it. Much will depend on how serious Starz is about doing the show justice, i.e. budget. Noir is one of my most favorite anime and I think it has the potential for a pretty good adaptation, even if it ends up diverging from the original a bit.
I also think that it would be a very good thing if Yuki Kajiura were to be involved in the project, especially for those of us who are familiar with the original soundtrack. I don't think the entire original soundtrack necessarily has to be used, but if Salva Nos and Canta per Me, at the very least, are not used it could make enjoyment of the show more difficult. |
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maaya
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Yep, but if Mireille won't be played by a corsican actress, fans will still rage. (But it seems that actually Kirika's, Chloe's and Altena's nationalities etc. aren't really known.) |
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John Casey
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Just get some exotic actresses nobody's ever heard of, and they'll shut up.
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vega427
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Hope for the best, expect the worst. That way the disapointment isn't so bad
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JackCox
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This could work, however, please for the love of all that is good and holy can we quicken the pace of this show?
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John Casey
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You obviously have never seen a Sam Raimi movie. Most of his films go at about this speed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzXk3nfEdMY |
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enurtsol
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And that would actually help the live-action because fewer fans would remember the anime. 
One word: Xena - produced by Robert Tapert and Sam Raimi (yes, the same people producing this live-action Noir). -Shippers would find slashes on anything, and these producers are more than happy to tease.
Most likely, the girls could be any hot chick of any ethnicity but would have to be a bit older like young adults, to get around child-labor-wise and child-sexploitation-wise (they can get away with sexploitation on young adults).
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Rime of the Ancient Otaku
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Well, I notice in the Variety article that the show will not be called NOIR, but Skein--as in a loose ball of yarn on a reel, often tangled. Whether that was due to the fact that for most folks noir is a genre all by itself (I'm no critic, but I don't think NOIR is noir enough  ) and the series title was changed to avoid confusion/expectations (while still hinting at the "grand retour" of the anime), or the premise has been tweaked and the Chosen Ones are now known code-wise as the Three Fates of Greek mythology is anyone's guess.
All I know is that I read "Skein" and With a Tangled Skein by Piers Anthony immediately leaped to mind...
If the best they can do for a Kajiura/NOIR musical nod is a pocket watch/music box that plays "melodie" when opened, I'd be happy.
Chloe aside, NOIR to me was as yuri as you wanted it to be: yes, they slept in the same bed...because in 90% of the places that had a bed visible, the place (flat, hotel room, etc.) was too small for more than one. I always figured that if they were to a level of trusting the other in a firefight, they were able to come to a practical understanding about how much blanket-hogging was allowed...before it came down to bullets anyway. There's no doubt Mirelle and Kirika were close. Close enough to be romantic? Unless you actually desire fan consensus, I thought it was left ambiguous enough to make everyone-- yuri fan or not--happy. ...What I could never understand were the folks that assumed the gunfire-and-casing sounds after the credits of episode 26 meant spoiler[ they went down together in glorious double suicide]. 
I can guarantee that there's at least one person out there saying 'if Chloe doesn't have purple hair, they might as well not bother to make the show'.
I personally am in the What's Not to Like category: so long as the folks they face aren't all Sentai show reject Ninjas, "Mireille" isn't totally outshined by "Kirika" and "Kirika" is badass, bring it on! |
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JaxsonJaguar
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if you think about it this show is pretty much idiot proof when it comes to converting to live action in America. Seriously this project will not be that hard to convert.
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Egan Loo
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The live-action take on Noir will not be called "Skein." "Skein" is Variety's entertainment industry jargon for "television series," as in, "the Smallville skein ended this past season." http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage_result&slang=skein&page=Slanguage&display=skein |
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Surrender Artist
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I agree, which is why I always find myself slightly ambivalent about every adaptation. Certainly no matter how wildly an adaptation diverges from its source, I wouldn't hold that against if it turns out to be excellent, but then I'm left wondering what the point of alleging that it was an adaptation was. That would be little more than an indifferent footnote in my opinion of something, but it would nag me anyway. If, on the other hand, it were an utterly slavish recreation of the original, then I would be equally as uncertain as to the point, at least creatively, since it would then seem superfluous. So, I suppose that I'm looking forward to some substantial changes, just so if I should happen to watch this new series, I'm not encouraged to glance at my discs of the original and wonder why I'm not watching that, but not sure of what kind of divergence would be wise.
One's a Yukaghir from the depths of Siberia, the other is a ǃXóõ with a mysterious past, they fight crime -sorry, force of habit- I mean, together they kill people for money in Alice Springs. I could probably go all night with those. At some point a hunter gatherer from the hills of New Guinea would end up teaming up with an amnesiac pygmy to become the most feared assassins on the hot streets of Centralia.
The nice thing about Noir is that I don't think it would need a particularly extravagant budget, except perhaps if they try some ambitious location filming or action choreography, since there are, assuming they don't diverge greatly in this regard, very few regular or even recurring characters and there isn't much need for elaborate special effects. Mostly squibs and blanks, I suspect.
I didn't even think that Yuri required outright romance, only some sort of close relationship, but I'm not well versed on the subject. At any rate, I would be leery of Mireille and Kirika's relationship being made explicitly romantic. I think that some ambiguity and subtlety makes it more interesting.
That would probably be good for increasing its appeal and I suspect that the producers will do effectively that, but funnily enough, to me, and a few others who like the original series, its, shall I say, languorous pacing was part of the appeal. Crazy, but true. I Swear. Last edited by Surrender Artist on Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:44 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Mohawk52
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DangerMouse
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Very true.
Yeah, it would be awesome and I hope that whoever they get as composer will be familiar with and open enough to push for trying to do a little more than expected/hoped for in this area given how linked to the success of the show her music and her style of music was for this and license at least some of the really key pieces if they intend to tell the same excellent story, (and ofcourse selfishly I'm sure most of us wouldn't if having those pieces also gave a better chance that new show original music would try to be done in a similar style  ), but I do agree that would be a "feel good" starting point to hear the pocket watch theme play when it's opened and as a strong foundation for the show's soundtrack.
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RoverTX
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For some crazy reason that actually makes me feel better about this show going forward, even though I know it shouldn't..... At least they wont take them selves too seriously. |
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