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INTEREST: Some Upset Over Change in Parasyte Live-Action Film's Climatic Scene

ikillchicken wrote:

-Also have a problem with demanding the director change it for the BD release though. Look, you can think its a bad decision but at the end of the day it's the decision he made. I don't think you should start editing an existing work just because fans don't like one of your decisions.

Um, do you fail to see the irony here? You claim that one shouldn't edit an existing work but the director was the guy who changed the existing plot in the first place. To send your own words back at you, he may not have wanted toxins because he thought they were no longer relevant, but at the end of the day it was the choice of the mangaka to use toxins instead of something else, so he should have respected that decision.

Instead of criticising fans for wanting change you should understand that they're only responding to the unnecessary and frankly atrociously-written change that the director made to the plot. Had the new script not introduced several new plot holes, and had it not come about simply because of the luddite director's pet peeve, then it wouldn't have been nearly as much of an issue.

The headline should say "Climactic" not "climatic".

It isn't necessarily a good change, but this is the director's take on the manga. If you want to see the original authors take on the material, you can just read the manga, it still exists!

Fans shouldn't get offended by every little change in an adaptation. If we do, the quality of adaptations will slowly but surely worsen over time.

Anyone who's complaining, it's their fault for watching the 2nd movie in the first place.

...and even an entire character (Shinichi's dad) no longer existed.

glitchhunter wrote:

Anyone who's complaining, it's their fault for watching the 2nd movie in the first place.

So no-one is allowed to criticise the second movie at all? Ehhhhh . . . ?

glitchhunter wrote:

...and even an entire character (Shinichi's dad) no longer existed.

I can actually understand why they made this change; it almost certainly was done to reduce runtime. Like I said before, adapting a long-running manga into a movie (even two movies) is simply impossible without cutting out some things. Shinichi's father wasn't important to the core story and so was a logical candidate for being excised. If I was the director I would have done the same.

I'll put it this way. The Parasyte anime was around seven and-a-half hours long, excluding logos, OP/ED theme music and next episode previews. Nearly half of the runtime has to be chopped down for the story to fit inside two feature-length movies. That means tough decisions about what is important-enough to leave in and what can be safely left out.

The headline should say "Climactic" not "climatic".