I like ScarJo a lot, but I remember being astounded (negative) at her being cast as the Major. RINKO KIKUCHI IS *RIGHT THERE* AND WE ALREADY KNOW SHE CAN PULL OFF THE HAIRCUT BECAUSE SHE *HAD IT* IN PACIFIC RIM
You know what would have fixed it? Keeping the original plot point that mokoto uses a common uncustomized default model in the film, and putting a dozen Scarlets in the back throughout the movie.
Actually yeah, that is a good compromise. Or even just have ads in the background showing her face and some throwaway dialogue from an engineer asking if she wants a unique face.
I was wondering why they never used the entire reasoning of the Scarlett Johansson character being an Android because with that context it completely makes sense that you don't want to have a dead person running around so you make them look totally different. Right, that was a incredibly soft layup. They lowered the hoop for that one and still couldn't dunk
There's a scene in the anime which would have been perfect... When the major sees someone on the street with the same model body and face as hers, proving that face is just chosen from an assembly line... Just had to play that up, motoko is walking around wearing a model 3 scar Jo face.
@@ellonganiza Just because you don't have the critical thinking skills to understand why casting Scarlet was fucked up, doesn't mean other people don't understand stories and context.
The part that pisses me off is that major is not a name, never was, I saw the animated version because i liked the movie and the animation is even better, but, she has a name, and in the end of the movie they go like "my name is major", no, it's not, major is a title, that's the dumbest thing ever, it's like people going arround "my name is soldier", "my name is general" it's not, it's a freaking title
One of these stories that always stuck in my mind, Aziz Ansari wanted to find Indian Hollywood actors to interview about building a career in Hollywood, and one of the first people he thought about was Ben from Short Circuit...and that's how he found out Fisher Stevens played him
To be fair, Hollywood can't make money off anime fans alone. They need the parents and uncles too. The people who go "turn off those darn Chinese cartoons". It's like looking at Call of Duty sales and inferring that my mother is gonna buy tickets to watch a military thriller with a lot of emphasis on guns.
My impression of the original was the question of how bound to the body the sense of identity is... The scarjo movie brought in the whole amnesia and "you're not who you think you are" stuff.. throwing away the original "what if you could be copied like software" question. They really should have leaned into, "your body now looks nothing like your original body." side of things.
I remember Chloe Bennett who plays Quake in Agents of Shield said she had to change her last name to get hired because it was Asian. Apparently right after she changed it she got like the first role she tried out for.
I'm Korean-American and I am perpetually both repulsed and highly amused by how Hollywood continually fucks up Asian depictions in cinema. Cloud Atlas is a particularly good example - the cosmetic attempt to make a character look Japanese made me think he was combined with a frog. It did not immediately register as "This person is supposed to be Asian", it registered as "This man is a lab-grown homunculus made from toad parts, what the fuck is going on in this film" Once I found out that the character was supposed to be Japanese, it was a combination of amazement at how poorly it was done, and revulsion that it was attempted at all.
i am thinking with cloud atlas, the characters didn't look like asian people; they all looked like THE SAME ASIAN PERSON, like they were mutated clones. it's like if you made a movie and tried to make asian people look like white people and they all ended up looking like hugo weaving.
I think, as a [former] immigrant to the US, I've almost immediately given up on seeing good Asian representation in Hollywood. Like, when I was a child, if I wanted to see good representation of Asians in media, I would go and see one of the hundreds of Jet Li or Jackie Chen movies. Asking a culture as young as America to represent a culture much older than itself just seems like a task doomed to failure.
Never forget that time Power Rangers made a season in which all the characters are supposed to be the direct descendants of samurai clans...and only 2 are asian, one of which is played by an asian actor yet the character is supposed to be hispanic, and also neither of them is the main character. The main character is a white guy whose last name is "Shiba". Power Rangers Samurai was one of the few seasons in which the producers were mega lazy and instead of doing their own thing like most of the previous seasons did, they decided to adapt the sentai beat by beat. The problem is that the Samurai sentai was mega tied to Japanese culture, history and tradition...but for some reason they decided to not cast an asian or even half asian actor as the main character yet kept all of the ties to Japanese heritage and traditions for the character's background. It's weird because historically Power Rangers is one of the most diverse shows out there. They had an inclusive cast from day one! But for some reason for that season the producers simply could not see why making a story heavily tied to Japanese culture might have worked better if they gave the main character's role to an asian actor instead of a white guy...
The most frustrating thing about the GitS Movie is that they didn't even TRY. Like fine the average schmo might not be able to tell someone from Japanese VS someone from Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean descent so we just hired the best Asian actress we could, but no, they did the weird retooling.
22:00 - another idea of what they could’ve done; they could’ve gone back and filmed a extra couple of scenes for a cold open where the Major is played by an Asian actress and her shell gets damaged so they transfer her into a new body and say that the only spare body they had was a white one so she’s stuck with it while a new Asian body is on back order. Still would’ve been better to cast an Asian actor first as last though.
I really liked that teaser they did in the style of the opening credits. It was super energetic with great editing and fight choreography. Shame they couldn’t follow through
@@djbloodrender6537 i saw some of it and it felt as though some characters were just in there to be in there and after talking to some friends who watched yu yu hakusho they all said it felt as though they just went through a highlight reel of popular moments.
I was just about to come comment this!! The choreography alone is honestly amazing. Whoever was in charge of the choreography and the horror effects did an incredible job. That entire first episode is a masterpiece. That entire fight scene with the worm monster under the skin??? Sickest shit I’ve seen in a long time.
As an asain who has done some acting, yes it doesn’t matter if you’re attractive intelligent or skilled, the racism persists. In an entire audition where the casting call was for an handsome asain man living in modern New York, they hired an Caucasian Italian who never acted before
One of my favorite movies as a kid was Dragon: The Bruce Lee story and there’s a scene where Bruce is on a date with his future wife and they got to see Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
8:20 the actor for Piccolo literally had to fight for Piccolo to be green, originally he was going to be gray, and also originally going to be Pilaf but still a Namekian
Been whatching fact friend for years got my partner into it by oddly buying the same cat ear head phones as lucius (i didnt plan that) we're hoping in the summer you have a karaoke sesh so we can go
One example of a white lead in an asian movie is Matt Daemon in a movie about the great wall of china holding back monsters (I forget the name) but he was specifically brought in to pull americans to theaters for it.
I would really set the sights on direction of the adaptation from the studio (and the screenplay). Hanka Robotics made those types of shells to reflect white actors, as in the antagonist in the film was also a white actor. My 2 cents is that she did look like the Major to me, but just a personal opinion. No one seemed to have issue with Bato not being japanese (not sure if he was meant to be foreign in the original anime).
Like sure the nukes were bad but I feel not enough people mention the Tokyo fire bombing in between the nukes that killed more than both nukes combined.
In that universe everyone gets to choose their shell unless they are not rich enough. In GITS - Stand alone complex series, I thought they said that the major chose that body form every time it got destroyed and that some thought her weird for it. Pretty early on in the show if I'm remembering right. They didn't say why and she never said anything about it afaik All the more reason why its so friggin weird they didn't at least make her Asian, much less where from on the continent
re: the aladdin thing. I think “we couldn’t find enough actors”, while already completely absurd, is an especially insane thing to say when you consider that they’re talking about not being able to find actors from INDIA. the country with the incredibly active film industry that specializes in high energy musicals
Motoko was drawn to be very broad in her appearance, been a fan of gits since season 1 and the only thing that instantly turned me off of this live action film was Batou being played by budget Jack Black and not Ron Pearlman.
I made a joke before the movie came out about how hey could salvage the issue by saying she had a white lady body. I didn't think they would actually do it.
What they need to do is contact the news, and be like, "look... We want to make our movies look better, we are trying to hire people to film a futuristic japanese setting and we need extras, so we are having a massive open casting call for ______ movie of people who actually look Asian" because "we want to do the film justice". As long as its "we want to do this right and need people to do it" people will step up! People will literally fly cross country to try out for a role as an extra ... Just to be in a feature film.... Ive seen them do it!
It was filmed in New Zealand. I don't think you understand just how small the population is. While there are a lot of Asian people, and they definitely were cast, most don't look like the East Asian stereotype. I think you're also not considering the fact that most East Asian-looking people are Chinese, who aren't particularly keen on representing Japanese people. Edit: I didn't mean to be so rude. Sorry about that.
I’ve been trying and failing to find the video on that really handsome guy they mentioned at the start of the video. Not even looking it up directly into the search bar worked. Has anyone else found it?
To be fair, and I mean being AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE: Altered Carbon did the same thing with its MC Takeshi Kovacs. Twice. But it probably has the benefit of the show telling the audience what Sleeves are right off the bat and Kovacs' situation being more forced on him than anything, so we let it alide. Kimmelman's performance really helps too.
I always think of the Italian American guy (Espera Oscar de Corti) who took the name Iron Eyes Cody and always played members of the First Nation ... being mixed, with alabama coushatta ancestors, it always bothered me as a kid when it when i saw him in anything....
Anime and manga character designs are typically highly stylized with the big ass eyes, puny nose, and wacky hair. If the anime and manga is placed in a realistic setting with realistic character designs like Ghost in The Shell, Psycho-Pass, Five Centimeters Per Second, Death Note etc. The characters appear normal; many mistakenly say these realistic looking characters designs appear to have western characteristics. The manga artists and animators are not attempting to make an Asian character look western. The reason why these characters look normal is not complicated! The artists and animators plus their audience view Asian physical characteristics as normal! The producers had an in universe reason for making Motoko Kusanagi white in an Asian setting. This explanation was even there in original animated movie when Motoko is on the ferry where she sees a non-cyberized person with her same face in a restaurant and a mannequin in a clothing store with her face; this was beautifully done in the animated movie without any lines from character or narrated exposition. The producers of the live action movie did not understand GITS at all; They did not take what was best of GITS but instead went for what was most base. The way Scarlett Johansson looked like in the live action movie is not far off the designs of animated movie. The execution of the in universe explanation of Motoko's physical appearance in live action movie was so poor that it was insulting and made everything worse.
I like to think I could do a decent enough Akira in America treatment. All I know is it would have kids on quad runners in the desert near the suburbs of Las Vegas, and it would need Asian American actors to make it work.
So, see if I've got this right, you can't have an Asian man getting off with white women....but white men lusting after Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese women, (often teenagers) is OK.....double standards or what. As a kid one of my favourite TV shows was "The Water Margin", a Japanese production of a Chinese legend, that's what got me into anime......Sanae Tuschida ❤❤❤❤
I mean, Tom Cruise did play a Japanese manga character in Live, Die, Repeat, & no one seemed to care. Adding in the Robocop plot to GitS made it feel a bit redundant, but one of its biggest faults was cribbing so much from Mamoru Oshii’s ‘95 anime version, which Masamune Shirow hates with a burning passion
Honestly, the fact that they insisted on shooting the movie in New Zealand when it is supposed to look like Cyberpunk Japan, is also hilariously absurd. And you can tell, it hurts the movie. They try so hard to make New Zealand not look like New Zealand, when they could have just done better location scouting.
Apparently it's set in whatever region the game is localized in, while name dropping both Japan and USA as countries people are from. So basically the country isn't important to the story.
I loved The Martian, but yeah... Some of the casting choices. Like one that made me roll my eyes. Recast a Hindu, Indian man as a "Hindu and Baptist" man
I think they wanted to use her star power, but they did it completely wrong.. You guys were right about the layup.. Now for my L take: If the actor/actress is good enough, they should be able to play the role. And before I get a bunch of movie roles with interesting actor choices, I'm know there are some exceptions to this. Still what's worse, not hiring a trans person to play a trans role, or hiring ScarJo to get more people interested in seeing her play a trans role?
For Akira, I haven't seen the movie so take this with a grain of salt but I suspect that a majority of the potential audience are fans of anime and are already used to seeing stories set in Japan with Japanese actors and would prefer that.
Not so fun fact, Piccolo was only green because James Marsters, the dude who played him, is a huge DB fan and had to convince the production team to make him green.
Yes! There is a really good live action adaptation of an anime I really liked. Wakakozake. Is it 100% faithful to the manga/anime? No. Is it still enjoyable to watch? Yes. Wakakozake is about a woman, Wakako, who, after work, goes to find restaurants to eat and drink sake at. That's it. The anime were just shorts. The TV series injects plot and character development, which, makes it a good time. I've also heard goo things about Hana Yori Dango live action because I'm Taiwanese. I also think Gantz did a pretty good job to. Fuck Alita. Alita isn't even the original name of the anime or manga. Her name was Gally or Yoko.
I thought the idea was good since it created a sense of body dysmorphia for the major. But i think the casting could have been better. The idea that the major doesn't know who she is after the accident and the cybernetic body, and the army wanted her to not know who she ever was. I will not defend the choice of doing scarlet johanson, i think others would have been better while still keeping the theme of the dysmorphia. It was a shit movie anyway....
As much shit as it gets, I say GITS was pretty decent, there's really good parts in there actually. My biggest gripe with it was the whole "Motoko was a Japanese migrant with no military background".
I used to think people who didn’t like English dubbing in films as being snobs until watching the first 5 min of The Raid 2. The English dub of that film was absolutely terrible and sucked all the soul out of it. It just sounded like bland line reading instead of putting in some effort and emotion into it.
Ah, so it was just for like one screen test? Ok. Also, I mean, GITS touches on trans-humanism, a lot, Motoko's prosthetic body is very much purposely western looking in all adaptations. I really think people went a bit overboard with this one, a lot of it is literally is about what makes us human, and how it doesn't matter how you look as your physically body is basically just an avatar.
Kyle knows the origins of the EXTREMELY white name of the actor hired to play a Japanese character. I think he used that pronunciation to further emphasize the point.
I like ScarJo a lot, but I remember being astounded (negative) at her being cast as the Major.
RINKO KIKUCHI IS *RIGHT THERE* AND WE ALREADY KNOW SHE CAN PULL OFF THE HAIRCUT BECAUSE SHE *HAD IT* IN PACIFIC RIM
She would have been AMAZING!!!
Wait till you hear about the terrible Sodastream controversy
The goat pacific rim back at it again
You know what would have fixed it? Keeping the original plot point that mokoto uses a common uncustomized default model in the film, and putting a dozen Scarlets in the back throughout the movie.
Get this perfect creature to HOLLYWOOD!!
Actually yeah, that is a good compromise. Or even just have ads in the background showing her face and some throwaway dialogue from an engineer asking if she wants a unique face.
I was wondering why they never used the entire reasoning of the Scarlett Johansson character being an Android because with that context it completely makes sense that you don't want to have a dead person running around so you make them look totally different. Right, that was a incredibly soft layup. They lowered the hoop for that one and still couldn't dunk
wouldnt have worked. logic doesnt work with the type of crowd that was complaining in the first place.
There's a scene in the anime which would have been perfect... When the major sees someone on the street with the same model body and face as hers, proving that face is just chosen from an assembly line... Just had to play that up, motoko is walking around wearing a model 3 scar Jo face.
@@ellonganiza Just because you don't have the critical thinking skills to understand why casting Scarlet was fucked up, doesn't mean other people don't understand stories and context.
The part that pisses me off is that major is not a name, never was, I saw the animated version because i liked the movie and the animation is even better, but, she has a name, and in the end of the movie they go like "my name is major", no, it's not, major is a title, that's the dumbest thing ever, it's like people going arround "my name is soldier", "my name is general" it's not, it's a freaking title
One of these stories that always stuck in my mind, Aziz Ansari wanted to find Indian Hollywood actors to interview about building a career in Hollywood, and one of the first people he thought about was Ben from Short Circuit...and that's how he found out Fisher Stevens played him
Hollywood looks at American anime sales and thinks "Americans can't handle a story set in Asia"
To be fair, Hollywood can't make money off anime fans alone. They need the parents and uncles too. The people who go "turn off those darn Chinese cartoons".
It's like looking at Call of Duty sales and inferring that my mother is gonna buy tickets to watch a military thriller with a lot of emphasis on guns.
My impression of the original was the question of how bound to the body the sense of identity is...
The scarjo movie brought in the whole amnesia and "you're not who you think you are" stuff.. throwing away the original "what if you could be copied like software" question.
They really should have leaned into, "your body now looks nothing like your original body." side of things.
I remember Chloe Bennett who plays Quake in Agents of Shield said she had to change her last name to get hired because it was Asian. Apparently right after she changed it she got like the first role she tried out for.
That’s fucked up
I'm Korean-American and I am perpetually both repulsed and highly amused by how Hollywood continually fucks up Asian depictions in cinema. Cloud Atlas is a particularly good example - the cosmetic attempt to make a character look Japanese made me think he was combined with a frog. It did not immediately register as "This person is supposed to be Asian", it registered as "This man is a lab-grown homunculus made from toad parts, what the fuck is going on in this film"
Once I found out that the character was supposed to be Japanese, it was a combination of amazement at how poorly it was done, and revulsion that it was attempted at all.
i am thinking with cloud atlas, the characters didn't look like asian people; they all looked like THE SAME ASIAN PERSON, like they were mutated clones. it's like if you made a movie and tried to make asian people look like white people and they all ended up looking like hugo weaving.
I think, as a [former] immigrant to the US, I've almost immediately given up on seeing good Asian representation in Hollywood. Like, when I was a child, if I wanted to see good representation of Asians in media, I would go and see one of the hundreds of Jet Li or Jackie Chen movies. Asking a culture as young as America to represent a culture much older than itself just seems like a task doomed to failure.
@@zenzmurfy i totally agree with your point, and yet w/ the hugo weaving thing i was like oh hell yeah, another matrix sequel
Hollywood's been racist towards Asians for a hundred years ever since Sessue Hayakawa was way more sexy than the limpdicked white leads lmao.
Never forget that time Power Rangers made a season in which all the characters are supposed to be the direct descendants of samurai clans...and only 2 are asian, one of which is played by an asian actor yet the character is supposed to be hispanic, and also neither of them is the main character. The main character is a white guy whose last name is "Shiba".
Power Rangers Samurai was one of the few seasons in which the producers were mega lazy and instead of doing their own thing like most of the previous seasons did, they decided to adapt the sentai beat by beat. The problem is that the Samurai sentai was mega tied to Japanese culture, history and tradition...but for some reason they decided to not cast an asian or even half asian actor as the main character yet kept all of the ties to Japanese heritage and traditions for the character's background.
It's weird because historically Power Rangers is one of the most diverse shows out there. They had an inclusive cast from day one! But for some reason for that season the producers simply could not see why making a story heavily tied to Japanese culture might have worked better if they gave the main character's role to an asian actor instead of a white guy...
The most frustrating thing about the GitS Movie is that they didn't even TRY. Like fine the average schmo might not be able to tell someone from Japanese VS someone from Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean descent so we just hired the best Asian actress we could, but no, they did the weird retooling.
happy to find fact fiend from you taking over top tens("interim"), quite enjoy your format and the discourse with Lucas
22:00 - another idea of what they could’ve done; they could’ve gone back and filmed a extra couple of scenes for a cold open where the Major is played by an Asian actress and her shell gets damaged so they transfer her into a new body and say that the only spare body they had was a white one so she’s stuck with it while a new Asian body is on back order. Still would’ve been better to cast an Asian actor first as last though.
Cowbot bebop's adapation of Jet(t?) was a spot on adaptation. Shame that they botched so much around him.
I really liked that teaser they did in the style of the opening credits. It was super energetic with great editing and fight choreography. Shame they couldn’t follow through
The best adaption is obviously Akira by Kanye in the Stronger music video
Now I have to look this up.
Huh... Valiant attempt, dodgy CGI, but not terrible.
The live action yu yu hakusho was on point and REALLY good. Mostly because it wasn't made by western studios
didn’t they try and shove like 50 episodes into 5 or some shit?
@@jico5147 they did, but it was really well done and the story compression kept everything cohesive
@@djbloodrender6537 i saw some of it and it felt as though some characters were just in there to be in there and after talking to some friends who watched yu yu hakusho they all said it felt as though they just went through a highlight reel of popular moments.
I was just about to come comment this!! The choreography alone is honestly amazing. Whoever was in charge of the choreography and the horror effects did an incredible job. That entire first episode is a masterpiece. That entire fight scene with the worm monster under the skin??? Sickest shit I’ve seen in a long time.
Way too rushed, and bad wigs
I remember the PR nightmare for Ghost in the Shell. I was just 🤦♀️ Hollywood done it again!
Speed racer was the best anime adaptation hands down. I absolutely love that movie.
As an asain who has done some acting, yes it doesn’t matter if you’re attractive intelligent or skilled, the racism persists. In an entire audition where the casting call was for an handsome asain man living in modern New York, they hired an Caucasian Italian who never acted before
I feel like they did a live action Akira already with the movie chronicle. It’s the closest thing we’re going to get.
Always thought Chronical was Hollywoods attempt at making an Akira remark
i adore this channel i haven't stopped watching keep it up!
One of my favorite movies as a kid was Dragon: The Bruce Lee story and there’s a scene where Bruce is on a date with his future wife and they got to see Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The Alice in Borderland adaptation was good.
Casting lead: "I want a cocky asian"
...
8:20 the actor for Piccolo literally had to fight for Piccolo to be green, originally he was going to be gray, and also originally going to be Pilaf but still a Namekian
Been whatching fact friend for years got my partner into it by oddly buying the same cat ear head phones as lucius (i didnt plan that) we're hoping in the summer you have a karaoke sesh so we can go
"At least they made piccolo green" 😬 about that... he was almost grey... thats another story
Finding out that most horrible things were made solely because of racism has become my least favorite thing.
Would it be better if racism led to good things?
I remember them talking about this topic during Karl and Lucas' Borderlands 2 playthrough. I'm glad to see they went in depth for this, awesome.
One example of a white lead in an asian movie is Matt Daemon in a movie about the great wall of china holding back monsters (I forget the name) but he was specifically brought in to pull americans to theaters for it.
Id comment on how early i am, but im not a virgin, so im just bitching instead.
Based
Technically Goku is Saiyan :)
I love this channel (allegedly)
I would really set the sights on direction of the adaptation from the studio (and the screenplay). Hanka Robotics made those types of shells to reflect white actors, as in the antagonist in the film was also a white actor. My 2 cents is that she did look like the Major to me, but just a personal opinion. No one seemed to have issue with Bato not being japanese (not sure if he was meant to be foreign in the original anime).
They cast her because she's a well known actor and super hot
Like sure the nukes were bad but I feel not enough people mention the Tokyo fire bombing in between the nukes that killed more than both nukes combined.
Do you show off the tiny scar from a stab wound that almost killed you, or the flashy gunshot scars?
@@xerothedarkstar both
Holly wood really likes to be racist to gingers as well
They love to rearrange the letters
In that universe everyone gets to choose their shell unless they are not rich enough.
In GITS - Stand alone complex series, I thought they said that the major chose that body form every time it got destroyed and that some thought her weird for it. Pretty early on in the show if I'm remembering right. They didn't say why and she never said anything about it afaik
All the more reason why its so friggin weird they didn't at least make her Asian, much less where from on the continent
re: the aladdin thing. I think “we couldn’t find enough actors”, while already completely absurd, is an especially insane thing to say when you consider that they’re talking about not being able to find actors from INDIA. the country with the incredibly active film industry that specializes in high energy musicals
She's put her foot in it more than once, she once defended Woody Allen and didn't believe the allegations against him.
great video guys.
I remember the Majors eyes in the cinema falling into uncanny valley territory
Wait it’s been a while . Where did the green screen go?
Its back there
Motoko was drawn to be very broad in her appearance, been a fan of gits since season 1 and the only thing that instantly turned me off of this live action film was Batou being played by budget Jack Black and not Ron Pearlman.
I forgot that this movie existed. Why did you remind me of it?
9:40 hold on how would that not have been worse? to have them white wash not only the shell but the interior of the shell as well?
I made a joke before the movie came out about how hey could salvage the issue by saying she had a white lady body. I didn't think they would actually do it.
You know whenever this topic of white people playing Asian roles Cloud Atlas
always seems to get looked over
"So far away N..Lucas?"
What they need to do is contact the news, and be like, "look... We want to make our movies look better, we are trying to hire people to film a futuristic japanese setting and we need extras, so we are having a massive open casting call for ______ movie of people who actually look Asian" because "we want to do the film justice". As long as its "we want to do this right and need people to do it" people will step up! People will literally fly cross country to try out for a role as an extra ... Just to be in a feature film.... Ive seen them do it!
It was filmed in New Zealand. I don't think you understand just how small the population is. While there are a lot of Asian people, and they definitely were cast, most don't look like the East Asian stereotype. I think you're also not considering the fact that most East Asian-looking people are Chinese, who aren't particularly keen on representing Japanese people.
Edit: I didn't mean to be so rude. Sorry about that.
..didn't the Major have (at one point in the anime) a literal room somewhere with several different alternate bodies available if she needed them?
I’ve been trying and failing to find the video on that really handsome guy they mentioned at the start of the video. Not even looking it up directly into the search bar worked. Has anyone else found it?
Talk about Hollywood wanting to cast Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman 😂😂😂
Toilets were also "banned" in movies.😆
you guys did one piece dirty at the start. that was a great adaptation. Best I've seen tbh.
To be fair, and I mean being AS OBJECTIVE AS POSSIBLE: Altered Carbon did the same thing with its MC Takeshi Kovacs. Twice. But it probably has the benefit of the show telling the audience what Sleeves are right off the bat and Kovacs' situation being more forced on him than anything, so we let it alide. Kimmelman's performance really helps too.
goku isnt asian... hes an alien raised by asians.
I always think of the Italian American guy (Espera Oscar de Corti) who took the name Iron Eyes Cody and always played members of the First Nation ... being mixed, with alabama coushatta ancestors, it always bothered me as a kid when it when i saw him in anything....
Will Fact Fiend do a video on One Piece and Oda?
They couldn't find brown people in southern california...
Edge of Tomorrow was pretty good for a manga adaptation
Speed Racer is a great adaptation.
Anime and manga character designs are typically highly stylized with the big ass eyes, puny nose, and wacky hair. If the anime and manga is placed in a realistic setting with realistic character designs like Ghost in The Shell, Psycho-Pass, Five Centimeters Per Second, Death Note etc. The characters appear normal; many mistakenly say these realistic looking characters designs appear to have western characteristics. The manga artists and animators are not attempting to make an Asian character look western. The reason why these characters look normal is not complicated! The artists and animators plus their audience view Asian physical characteristics as normal!
The producers had an in universe reason for making Motoko Kusanagi white in an Asian setting. This explanation was even there in original animated movie when Motoko is on the ferry where she sees a non-cyberized person with her same face in a restaurant and a mannequin in a clothing store with her face; this was beautifully done in the animated movie without any lines from character or narrated exposition. The producers of the live action movie did not understand GITS at all; They did not take what was best of GITS but instead went for what was most base. The way Scarlett Johansson looked like in the live action movie is not far off the designs of animated movie. The execution of the in universe explanation of Motoko's physical appearance in live action movie was so poor that it was insulting and made everything worse.
I like to think I could do a decent enough Akira in America treatment. All I know is it would have kids on quad runners in the desert near the suburbs of Las Vegas, and it would need Asian American actors to make it work.
So, see if I've got this right, you can't have an Asian man getting off with white women....but white men lusting after Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese women, (often teenagers) is OK.....double standards or what.
As a kid one of my favourite TV shows was "The Water Margin", a Japanese production of a Chinese legend, that's what got me into anime......Sanae Tuschida ❤❤❤❤
I'm surprised the words black face didn't get brought up, isn't that what they did with Aladdin..
I mean, Tom Cruise did play a Japanese manga character in Live, Die, Repeat, & no one seemed to care.
Adding in the Robocop plot to GitS made it feel a bit redundant, but one of its biggest faults was cribbing so much from Mamoru Oshii’s ‘95 anime version, which Masamune Shirow hates with a burning passion
can u put smol pngs on the tiny green screen sometimes
Alita - Battle Angel
Honestly, the fact that they insisted on shooting the movie in New Zealand when it is supposed to look like Cyberpunk Japan, is also hilariously absurd. And you can tell, it hurts the movie. They try so hard to make New Zealand not look like New Zealand, when they could have just done better location scouting.
Surely Short Circuit 1 & 2 has got to be near the top ten of this from Hollywood.
So The Major is essentially a reverse Psylocke, the British Women in a Asian womans body.
It's funny because Johannson already did half of the work to look more Asian with her reduction surgery.
Isn’t ace attorney localized as being in a very Japanese California or am I thinking of another series?
Eat your hamburgers, Apollo!
Apparently it's set in whatever region the game is localized in, while name dropping both Japan and USA as countries people are from. So basically the country isn't important to the story.
Hahaha what a story Mark
Just checked and aladdin was filmed in London. Literally one of the most multicultural places on the planet 🤣
It would have almost made sense if they CGI'ed her to look more anime, like they did in Battle Angel Alita.
Does Karl have a PO Box? I want to send him something from metal gear rising to put on the wall behind him
They did what!?!???
I loved The Martian, but yeah... Some of the casting choices. Like one that made me roll my eyes. Recast a Hindu, Indian man as a "Hindu and Baptist" man
I think they wanted to use her star power, but they did it completely wrong.. You guys were right about the layup..
Now for my L take: If the actor/actress is good enough, they should be able to play the role. And before I get a bunch of movie roles with interesting actor choices, I'm know there are some exceptions to this.
Still what's worse, not hiring a trans person to play a trans role, or hiring ScarJo to get more people interested in seeing her play a trans role?
For Akira, I haven't seen the movie so take this with a grain of salt but I suspect that a majority of the potential audience are fans of anime and are already used to seeing stories set in Japan with Japanese actors and would prefer that.
Maby it not a popular opinion i stil think the movie is the best live action anime i have watched and scarlet as the major didn't bother me at all
Not so fun fact, Piccolo was only green because James Marsters, the dude who played him, is a huge DB fan and had to convince the production team to make him green.
Why would an English VA have any say on the Japanese animators/directors' decisions? Also I don't think he plays him.
Guyver Dark Hero, the only good live action adaptation of an anime.
used to be?
I agree the one piece one is really good and techinncaly edge of tommorow
Yet no one bats an eye when Marvel hires black actors to play Norse (Scandinavian) deities in the Thor movies. But that's different, ain't it?
Yes! There is a really good live action adaptation of an anime I really liked. Wakakozake. Is it 100% faithful to the manga/anime? No. Is it still enjoyable to watch? Yes.
Wakakozake is about a woman, Wakako, who, after work, goes to find restaurants to eat and drink sake at. That's it. The anime were just shorts. The TV series injects plot and character development, which, makes it a good time.
I've also heard goo things about Hana Yori Dango live action because I'm Taiwanese.
I also think Gantz did a pretty good job to.
Fuck Alita. Alita isn't even the original name of the anime or manga. Her name was Gally or Yoko.
I liked Alita battle angel, i thought it adapted the material ok
I thought the idea was good since it created a sense of body dysmorphia for the major. But i think the casting could have been better. The idea that the major doesn't know who she is after the accident and the cybernetic body, and the army wanted her to not know who she ever was.
I will not defend the choice of doing scarlet johanson, i think others would have been better while still keeping the theme of the dysmorphia. It was a shit movie anyway....
As much shit as it gets, I say GITS was pretty decent, there's really good parts in there actually. My biggest gripe with it was the whole "Motoko was a Japanese migrant with no military background".
I used to think people who didn’t like English dubbing in films as being snobs until watching the first 5 min of The Raid 2. The English dub of that film was absolutely terrible and sucked all the soul out of it. It just sounded like bland line reading instead of putting in some effort and emotion into it.
The people who said Bryan Cranston shouldn't play a disabled guy were perhaps misguided considering it's acting. This isnt the same thing. 😂
Ah, so it was just for like one screen test? Ok. Also, I mean, GITS touches on trans-humanism, a lot, Motoko's prosthetic body is very much purposely western looking in all adaptations. I really think people went a bit overboard with this one, a lot of it is literally is about what makes us human, and how it doesn't matter how you look as your physically body is basically just an avatar.
26 seconds.
Like number 420 nice
I personally think ghost in the shell live action is better than the anime and that it doesnt matter if they white washed it as its acting
It’s not yohansen.
It's how you pronounce it in swedish. It is a swedish last name.
You don't have to pronounce it like that, but it's not wrong to do so.
It's pronounced like that in danish as well, and is also a common last name in denmark
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Kyle knows the origins of the EXTREMELY white name of the actor hired to play a Japanese character. I think he used that pronunciation to further emphasize the point.
@zigzagdevildog or he was literally just pronouncing the name (which came from her father, who was danish) as its pronounced by Scandinavian people?