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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That reminds me, the last time they tried to get an American Akira remake off the ground word got out that Testuo's name had been changed to Travis. I'm okay with Travis Touchdown.
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Tars Tarkas posted:If they are doing Akira, they better make it as dumb as possible, this is my white whale of potential so awful it becomes legend movies and I will claim it's blubber! I'm talking majority white cast with Asian names, cyberpunk dystopia that's less depressing than reality, weird spirituality that makes no sense, pointless bullet time, action scenes that are confusing, Mr. T having a supporting role, the villain based on Bernie Sanders, Johnny Akira dating an underage girl, a Jesus allegory, Nazi dinosaurs, and pseudo-philosophical debates where the hero is revealed to be a death cultist. Yeah, Scott Pilgrim was loving garbage.
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Young Freud posted:It's not just the nuclear annihilation, but also occupation, both the fear of foreigners' occupying your land as well as living under occupation. A good part of the manga is people living in the aftermath of Akira's singularity and living under this new almost-unknowable power that's being exploited by criminal elements. In addition, Japan is forced to bring in the UN and the Americans to help deal with the situation. It even plays out on a small-scale, with the revolutionary Ryu, who is aimless now that the revolutionary cells have been either wiped out or meaningless after Akira dropped his bomb, meeting who he thinks is a scout of some sort but finds out that he's an Japanese-American Green Beret sent to assassinate Akira and Tetsuo with a biological weapon. Right, but the problem is that this has little to do with 'the unique aspects of the Japanese psyche'. Akira is perfectly well-accepted by and understandable to western audiences. Your description above is borderline identical to Red Dawn, its superhero remake Dark Knight Rises, and - frankly - more than half of the films in the postapocalyptic / alien-invasion genres.
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Look what you don't seem to understand is that Akira and GitS are uniquely Japanese, because they have Japanese names and are anime, the only medium that understands me back.
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Apr 5, 2017 04:47
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The Saddest Rhino posted:anime is bad tho no
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get this: anime is better than wrestling
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Vegetable posted:get this: anime is better than wrestling Why not combine the two 
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muscles like this! posted:Lol, Shia LeBeouf's latest movie, Man Down, premiered in the UK and literally ONE person went to see it in the entire weekend. I think. I dunno I never saw it
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Feldegast42 posted:Why not combine the two
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Right, but the problem is that this has little to do with 'the unique aspects of the Japanese psyche'. When was the last time someone drop atomic weapons on America? When was the last time America was occupied by foreign troops? When was the last time America had a coup de'tat? All those where recent memories when Akira was made, if not held by Otomo or the generation of Japanese "baby boomers" following the war, but by their parents and elder colleagues.
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Young Freud posted:When was the last time someone drop atomic weapons on America? When was the last time America was occupied by foreign troops? When was the last time America had a coup de'tat? All those where recent memories when Akira was made, if not held by Otomo or the generation of Japanese "baby boomers" following the war, but by their parents and elder colleagues. The implication of this is that not only can't you translate Akira into an American film, you can't translate Akira into a Japanese film. If you need to have experienced all this to connect to it, it's all but dead as a work of art. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:The implication of this is that not only can't you translate Akira into an American film, you can't translate Akira into a Japanese film. If you need to have experienced all this to connect to it, it's all but dead as a work of art. That's probably true
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Young Freud posted:When was the last time someone drop atomic weapons on America? When was the last time America was occupied by foreign troops? When was the last time America had a coup de'tat? All those where recent memories when Akira was made, if not held by Otomo or the generation of Japanese "baby boomers" following the war, but by their parents and elder colleagues. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot Close enough
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CharlestheHammer posted:That's probably true Except, it obviously isn't, considering all the Americans who seem to have enjoyed the cartoon. And it's not like moving it to America would make it less relatable somehow. It would just continue to be what it already is for most of the audience: a story set in an understandable but somewhat alien setting, much like many sci-fi stories.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Except, it obviously isn't, considering all the Americans who seem to have enjoyed the cartoon. And it's not like moving it to America would make it less relatable somehow. It would just continue to be what it already is for most of the audience: a story set in an understandable but somewhat alien setting, much like many sci-fi stories. Who said anything about enjoyable. That's not a high bar to hurdle
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CharlestheHammer posted:Who said anything about enjoyable. That's not a high bar to hurdle You're right about my phrasing, but there's plenty of fantastical stories that use unfamiliar circumstances to valuable ends. Battle: Los Angeles puts Americans in the position of the technologically-outmatched peoples that America goes to war with. That this is an alien experience to Americans is part of what makes the movie interesting. It is entirely appropriate and valuable for film to take inspiration from unfamiliar life experiences to communicate those experiences to an audience. The ability to do so is part of the power of film. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:Battle: Los Angeles puts Americans in the position of the technologically-outmatched peoples that America goes to war with. That this is an alien experience to Americans is part of what makes the movie interesting. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film) ... and hundreds and hundreds more. America getting invaded by superior forces has been a popular theme for a long time.
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The fear of foreign invaders, whether real or imagined, is inherent to the concept of a nation state. The US isn't exempt from it just because it sat at the top for the past few decades.Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also make it a shared cinematic universe with Ghost In The Shell and .... um ..... Fist Of The North Star, I guess?? Don't forget Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. Snowglobe of Doom posted:That reminds me, the last time they tried to get an American Akira remake off the ground word got out that Testuo's name had been changed to Travis. Doesn't work. You need three syllables for the name to be properly shoutable.
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Only the Japanese can comprehend the highly advanced concept of Children Of Men But With Telekinesis.
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Vegetable posted:get this: anime is better than wrestling Wrestling is actually real life anime. 
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Samuel Clemens posted:Don't forget Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. Wrong time period, they'd have to use it's futuristic sequel Dint King, Inside King (Super Powerful Man) instead to fit in with the other films It's never been translated into English because it's really not worth the effort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkMNvizlSo
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Just have Tetsuo transform into a giant blubbery mutant Trump
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They made a sequel to Riki-oh and translating it wasn't worth the effort???? what in life is worth the effort, then?
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Punkin Spunkin posted:They made a sequel to Riki-oh and translating it wasn't worth the effort???? what in life is worth the effort, then? Don't watch the video I posted, it's super disappointing.
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Who is ready for a whole bunch of Call of Duty movies and tv shows? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/05/call-of-duty-franchise-activision-blizzard-next-disney-marvel-film-franchise quote:Call of Duty’s makers Activision Blizzard are planning an assault to rival Disney’s Marvel Universe. It plans to use the multi-layered, interconnected approach that has made Marvel’s superheroes a dominant force in cinema to turn the first-person shooter into an all-conquering film franchise of its own. "Marvel'esque"
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That is going to be the worst multimedia empire I watch every iteration of. Jesus, these loving people can barely write for video games, a medium with a much higher tolerance for nonsense.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:They made a sequel to Riki-oh and translating it wasn't worth the effort???? what in life is worth the effort, then? There are (bad) anime spinoffs too
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Just imagine all of those many great, memorable characters from the Call of Duty franchise up on the silver screen!
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Enos Cabell posted:Just imagine all of those many great, memorable characters from the Call of Duty franchise up on the silver screen! Cant wait to see who they cast as the 1911 or the M4
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Samuel Clemens posted:Doesn't work. You need three syllables for the name to be properly shoutable. So call him Theodore.
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Enos Cabell posted:Just imagine all of those many great, memorable characters from the Call of Duty franchise up on the silver screen! There was a dog in one of them, right? Nothing in the rules says a dog can't kill terrorists.
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Get Out is now the highest grossing debut film based on an original screenplay. quote:Jordan Peele's Get Out has passed The Blair Witch Project as the highest-grossing feature-length debut for a writer/director of an original screenplay. 1999's The Blair Witch Project held the top spot for nearly 20 years, until the huge success of Peele's first film.
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I realize it is technically his feature length writing and directing debut, but he's done so much writing on television and acting in films and television I feel he's a known name to the point where it's a little weird to call it a debut. I really enjoyed the first 30 and last fifteen minutes of the movie. I had to go outside and take a work call for the middle 45, but coming back in late the parts I missed were easy to pick up.
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I must've missed it, but what was the consensus on the power rangers movie? Would a male in his late 20s who thought the saved by the bell segments of the original pr series to be kinda lame but serviceable and the actual morphed fights and megazord fights to be the coolest things ever enjoy it?
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The movie is kind of the opposite. The saved by the bell segments are legit good, the robot fight is servicable.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:There was a dog in one of them, right? "Ramerirez! I've been a good boy today, I wanna treat!"
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Cod4 had that great bit where you were trying to defuse the nuke but it went off anyway, that was pretty novel for videogames, where you usually reload every time you die. Only movies I can think of with the hero failing to stop a nuke are Sum of All Fears and Dr Strangelove.
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I will happily support a Call of Duty film franchise if everything is based on Black Ops2, so it's all conspiracy nuttery and slightly advanced but not too outlandish technology All other Call of Duty is garbage and will not be supported 
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got any sevens posted:Cod4 had that great bit where you were trying to defuse the nuke but it went off anyway, that was pretty novel for videogames, where you usually reload every time you die. Only movies I can think of with the hero failing to stop a nuke are Sum of All Fears and Dr Strangelove. What about Fail Safe or Miracle Mile.
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