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iAmDot
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 Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:50 am
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this actually look pretty good. can't wait to watch it haha
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Chrno2
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:27 am
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For a second I was thinking Akira with that song. Well, with CG anything is possible, as long as you can make it look good.
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levonr
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 3:05 pm
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My worry is it will be toned down. Based off the trailers it doesn't look very bloody but hopefully there will be in the movie. I mean that parasyte bites that women's head off and its like beef jerky with no blood. This is live action, I expect it to be more realistic in its violence not less realistic.
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mdo7
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 3:15 pm
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| Levonr wrote: | | My worry is it will be toned down. Based off the trailers it doesn't look very bloody but hopefully there will be in the movie. I mean that parasyte bites that women's head off and its like beef jerky with no blood. This is live action, I expect it to be more realistic in its violence not less realistic. |
Unfortunately, I think this is another example of self-censorship (as in production committees doing the censorship, and not government censorship) that is plaguing the Japanese film industry, as this article from Variety reported and it seem to backed up Takeshi Kitano's criticism on the mainstream film industry in Japan. I'll quote the article from Variety:
| Mark Schilling of Variety wrote: | | The way that films are made in Japan may be to blame.
Most commercial films are produced by TV networks and other media companies in a system of “production committees” (or seisaku iinkai) in which partners share investment, PR and other chores in return for a share of the profits. Six or eight partners, ranging from video distributors to radio broadcasters and advertising agencies, is common. And 12 partners is not uncommon.
Significantly, the partners not only have a say in what gets made – most commonly adaptations of popular novels, comics and TV dramas — but also how it gets made.
Veteran scriptwriter and indie director Junichi Inoue says this leads to “jishuku” — which literally translates as “self-restraint,” but really means “self-censorship.” “It’s more effective than official censorship, actually,” Inoue told a seminar audience at the 2014 Nippon Connection Film Festival in Frankfurt, where his hard-hitting WWII drama “A Woman and War” screened.
“You can’t show a body in a trunk as car makers would object,” Inoue says of TV dramas and network-produced feature films. “Also, you can’t show someone being killed by drink or drugs — beverage makers and pharmaceutical companies wouldn’t like it.”
“The basic reason we are making these films is to broadcast them on our network,” admits Chihiro Kameyama, former Fuji TV production head and current president. “So we have to appeal to the widest possible audience.” |
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LinkSword
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:50 pm
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It looks terrible to me, but it's probably this live-action film that sparked the wonderful Madhouse anime project, so I guess I'll give it a look in respect for that.
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levonr
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:06 pm
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| LinkSword wrote: | | It looks terrible to me, but it's probably this live-action film that sparked the wonderful Madhouse anime project, so I guess I'll give it a look in respect for that. |
What happened was the New Line Cinema rights expired in 2013 so when Japan got it back they decided to make both at the same time for 2014 release. I don't think one influenced the other to be made. I could see this being true if the the live action movie came out first and was popular where they then decide to make an anime to ride that success but thats not what happened.
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LinkSword
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 4:09 pm
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| Levonr wrote: |
| LinkSword wrote: | | It looks terrible to me, but it's probably this live-action film that sparked the wonderful Madhouse anime project, so I guess I'll give it a look in respect for that. |
What happened was the New Line Cinema rights expired in 2013 so when Japan got it back they decided to make both at the same time for 2014 release. I don't think one influenced the other to be made. I could see this being true if the the live action movie came out first and was popular where they then decide to make an anime to ride that success but thats not what happened. |
The impression I had in mind was that the anime was (firstly) made to hype people up for the film, which I guess is the one of the two projects using a bigger budget (despite the fact it's going to be far worse). They could have been thinking differently about it, though, I don't really know either way. However, I seem to remember I learned about the live-action adaptation before the anime was announced.
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