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MajorZero
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Lol, Hollywood has hundreds of original scripts which waiting till some studio will pick them up. Have you ever checked The Black List?
Should I inform Ed Boon that he suddenly became Japanese? |
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Nice Tea
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Woops, my mistake...
I deserve a punishment. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJ955wYSE0 |
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Nitsugalego
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No. "The Japanese" don't own Ghost in the Shell. Anyone from anywhere around the world can adapt this if they wish as long as both the publisher and the original author agree, which they have. All you people who care about social justice should go back to tumblr and stop getting offended on behalf of other people. |
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Kikaioh
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[quote="Nice Tea"]
Mortal Kombat, Super Mario and... Fist of the North Star... |
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Agent355
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Well, yeah. But there are always people in whitewashing debates who insist that movie casting is based on actors' *talent* or creators' *artistic vision*. Lol, nope! It's all based on outdated racist and sexist notions from Hollywood! You know the ones: Audiences won't pay to see blockbuster movies starring a woman (like The Hunger Games?) or a diverse cast (Fast & the Furious, anyone?) or unknown actors (well, I didn't see Twilight, but it sure made a lot of money!). TV is a little bit better at hiring actors based on talent, or at least willingness to give them a chance. Look at the highest rated American cable TV show right now, The Walking Dead, with its diverse cast of mostly unknowns. Steven Yeun is probably the most well known Asian American actor in the United States right now. They could have whitewashed Glenn. If Glenn were the protagonist and The Walking Dead were adapted as a movie, they probably would have. Not even giving actors of color a chance to audition because its assumed that a well known white actor will make more money is the travesty here. Even Max Landis agrees with that. |
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hojo 360
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I'm impressed people really care in the first place i mean it's not in our hands as is so the film will suck or it will some how be very good. Anyway you look at it the worlds not going to end
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Nice Tea
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MK was my mistake, its an american game. Super Mario and Fist of the North Star are examples of failed japanese game/manga live-action adaptations. (in the video link) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._%28film%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star_%281995_film%29 |
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Kikaioh
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@Nice Tea: I guess my wonderance was more that you said Hollywood's turning to Japanese/Asian media was a "trend nowadays", but those particular movies you'd listed all came out over 20 years ago.
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Nice Tea
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By trend I mean recent/upcoming/planned adaptations, there's a lot of them.
The examples I mentionned were to illustrate how almost every adaptation were bad and unnecessary. |
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BadNewsBlues
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....Akira has notierity for many things this alleged "realism" isn't one of them.
Given that Robert Kirkman has been involved in the TV production from the outset not likely. Last edited by BadNewsBlues on Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:00 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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ChrissyC
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http://www.vox.com/2016/4/15/11438080/ghost-in-the-shell-white-washing-johansson
I plan on watching this film due to the lack of anime adaptions being made and I want to support the fact that good adaptions of any form of media can be indeed done. However, above is a great article that cites Jon Tsuei`s tweets about The Ghost In The Shell film adaption. Essentially he is saying the narrative of Ghost In The Shell isn`t made as a universal story, because when Ghost In The Shell`s manga released in 1989, it was during the time in which Japan was the leader in technology. Not anywhere else. --- If you wish to reply to this post, please read the article before hand. |
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MajorZero
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Isn't they're adapting The Laughing Man arc? If so, I don't see anything Japanese specific about it, moreover, after Edward Snowden, it'll be very timely to tell a whistleblower story set in the USA. |
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Kikaioh
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Really? What other Japanese/Asian adaptations are coming up? I would also say that the first Mortal Kombat film was actually decent, and the Super Mario Bros. Movie is "so bad it's good" too.
I actually really disagree with John Tsuei. Back in the 80's Japanese anime and manga were greatly inspired by Hollywood sci-films and blockbuster movies (Star Wars, 2001 A Space Odyssey, etc.), as well as Hong Kong action cinema. My understanding is that the first GiTS movie was heavily influenced by Blade Runner (which also dealt with themes of emerging artificial consciousness), and that the original manga was also influenced by a book called "The Ghost in the Machine", a psychological/philosophical work that dealt with the topic of the duality of consciousness and physicality. I think the production team of the first movie have also stated that they based the setting on Hong Kong, which at the time was still under British rule. So thematically speaking I think GiTS is actually largely the product of foreign influences, and not necessarily Japan's technological status during the 80's. Really, with the body-swapping that's touched on in GiTS, the original movie's message seemed to be more about human consciousness and transcending the physicality of the human body (that people seem to be focusing so much on right now). |
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Gemnist
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Well, in terms of human designs and facial expressions, Akira was actually revolutionary. And the parts of throwing stuff around, riding motocycles, and exploding people to bits have obviously been done before. I wasn't referring to the part where Tetsuo goes Jell-O Monster as "realistic", but I think even that could be filmed since it really just needs a bunch of muscle CGI. |
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12skippy21
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Agree completely. As a White British Male how dare any of you adapt Shakespeare to your own countries morality and ethnicity! It is solely ours! |
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