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The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


SlipUp posted:

White on white crimes goes totally unnoticed of course.

I always thought anime depicted a near unattainable Japanese ideal of beauty, which among other things include a very light skin tone. (Where this is because of a western standard of beauty who knows.)

The Japanese obsession with white skin goes back long before they were ever aware of European people. If anything it probably ties into class structures and has just carried over into modern life - a farmer would be tanned by the sun, while more noble/rich people would be able to remain indoors (especially during the devastatingly hot summers), keeping their skin light. It would also explain why so much art back then depicted purely white skin, why one of the common aspects of geisha is to paint your skin with white makeup, and so on. It's just a deep-seated part of their culture.

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The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


That's the trailer release date.

The "Tokyo" is where it'll premiere, probably projected on a building, which is a weird little thing that some studios do in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxokE_RhQ0M

The Cameo fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Nov 7, 2016

The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


90% of any creative endeavor is writing down something that every time you look at it makes you feel stupid, such as that note card, because once you're actually in the throes of the making of a thing, it's real easy to get lost. The essence of a card like that is to serve as a reminder of who the story is centered around, and what the basic idea of the character is. The arc itself is formed in treatments that delineate who your characters are, how they react to things, how this snowballs into new things that they react to, little things like whether they're hesitant or bullheaded, passive or active, the stuff that's the actual writing and filming and editing and whatnot.

I feel like anybody mocking a note card that reminds a guy that all this odd stuff he wrote that serves no purpose that he really liked in the second act has nothing to do with the character he's centering his story around and has been completely useless and should probably delete it or at least revise it into something that actually feeds into that second act directly is the sort of person who has never really sat down and tried to build something especially long-form before in their life.

Ghost in the Shell will probably be bad and Rupert Sanders is a blasé filmmaker for the most part, but this is divining for water with a random stick in the woods, guys. This is about as bad a complaint as "the initial (read: assembly) cut of this movie was four hours, it's a mess".

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