Akira, Live Action by Warner and DiCaprio

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Postby jikap » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:15 pm

well... at least this "New Manhattan" was rebuilt by Japanese money, according to this article...
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Postby Mithroch » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:38 pm

DocturKnowles wrote:Dude! How many anime characters actually look Japanese? Green, pink, and spikey yellow hair aside. :D

Akira, Tetsuo, Kaneda... they all looked pretty Japanese. Anyway... I guess you could find a reason for Leo to be in Japan. Maybe he's a caretaker for an elderly woman that live in a haunted house... or a cop sent to escort a Yakuza boss from the US to Tokyo where his partner is decapitated by street thugs...
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:11 pm

The vast majority of anime characters look Caucasian, so that's irrelevant. As for the movie(s) in general... i'm not sure what to think. I don't watch many movies to begin with, but i'm looking to the whole new era of Western live-action adaptations of anime in a SoaP kind of way. They'll create tons of hype because people will assume that they'll be bad.
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Postby Malificus » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:01 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:The vast majority of anime characters look Caucasian
Right up until an actual Caucasian appears usually. |:
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Postby DocturKnowles » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:01 am

NO WAI!!1

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Postby Sukunai » Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:24 pm

I'm so caucasian it hurts. I'm Scottish decent and I define "white".

My sister at no time ever looked like that :)

Granted she was cute when she was young.

But it's a given that Japanese girls have different skin tone, and well we all know the eyes are wrong, and the hair, well even when they colour it, you know it was originally black.

It takes more than a fuku or kimono to make a girl look Japanese.
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Postby Sukunai » Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:29 pm

"Harder to sell Japan to an American audience..."

Actually it's hard to sell ANYthing non American to an American audience apparently. Which explains how so many films set in moments of history always seem to get invaded by Americans that were never really there.

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Postby DTJB » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:51 am

Ishbalan wrote:WHYYYYYY???

Why? MONEY! That's why.

lestheanimesarge wrote:Why can't they leave it where it originally was?

Because then it wouldn't be an adaptation to begin with, it would just be the same shit we've already seen. Making an adaptation identical to the original is completely pointless; it's alreadly there, why make a mirror image? That's why I couldn't watch the Psycho remake, it was the exact same movie line for line, shot for shot.

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Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait! What? :shock: Are you fucking serious?!?
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Postby Sukunai » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:21 am

Just so long as they never again try anything with Sailormoon I suppose I'll be ok.

Not referring to Sailormoon Live Action that we all know, I'm referring to the other horror that almost happened that some of us want to forget :)
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Postby DocturKnowles » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:02 am

@DTJB - Didn't mean to cause severe emotional distress there. I wasn't serious in the slightest. Just displaying one of the "Worst Case Scenario"s I had laying around to illustrate my opinion on the whole adaptation thing.
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Postby Madi~chan » Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:06 pm

DiCaprio...that is just scary :?
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Postby Ishbalan » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:53 pm

Madi~chan wrote:DiCaprio...that is just scary :?

Don't worry, he's not in the movie. He's producing it.
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Postby DTJB » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:28 am

DocturKnowles wrote:Didn't mean to cause severe emotional distress there. I wasn't serious in the slightest. Just displaying one of the "Worst Case Scenario"s I had laying around to illustrate my opinion on the whole adaptation thing.

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Postby Gaarasan » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:37 pm

what the hell are you people worried about, otomo is apparently the executive producer, shut the hell up all of you right now.
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Postby ZephyrStar » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:53 am

hahahaha hahaha hahaha oh wow. This should be fun.
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