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I have been a fan of GITS for more than a decade. since just after the Japanese release of the first movie (tokurode, which pales in greatness when compared to the manga).
Why is it so hard for the moneyed elite to accept that people come in different shades of skin tone and from different cultures?
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)14 Anime movies or series
1 live action movie
2 manga sries
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Movies are localized all the time, shall we go lecture Bollywood about cultural appropriation for their horrendous remake of Fight Club?
romanic
(2,841 posts)But i don't think that's what this whole debacle is about. It's more about taking a really great Japanese anime series and turning it into a shitty generic American Michael Bay-esque piece of shit movie and slapping the GITS name onto it.
redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)The Anime film is decent as it is. We never asked for this...
Oh, cash of course
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)eShirl
(18,503 posts)All comes down to $$$ in the end.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)Considering Mickey Rooney has been dead for two years.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)a global audience and that is a very important aspect of much of the casting fuckery we see in films today. I'd rather avoid naming nations and the races and types they would rather not see in films but I think most people can add up some obvious things. LGBT characters are not going to be welcome in countries that literally outlaw LGBT people and execute us. Such a film is not even going to be allowed in all countries. So when the goal is 'box office in all countries' they must in fact market to bigots and racists and sexists. And the top name has to be a Big Star.
China is a huge market for films. Do you think China loves to see Japanese military figures as heroes in films? You do the math.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)I really wasn't all that impressed when I first saw it.
that aside, white washing of an Asian "classic" anime is just business as usual in moron hollywood.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Hollywood movies are international at this point. GITS is going to played everywhere worldwide. This is going to be a big Hollywood production which means big time $$$$ is involved.
No studio is going to back any multi-million dollar production with an unknown/untested star being responsible for drawing audiences with no fan base. Johansson is not only one of the most recognizable stars in the world, but has a respectable reputation for playing fierce action roles. Not only is she the right star for this role, she's the right star for right now. Besides she's playing a human/cyborg hybrid, where the only "human" part left of her, is her brain. Give us a break.
They got the legendary Beat Takashi to play Section 9 chief Aramaki. This is very cool.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)A lot of big stars became big stars due to a breakout role in a great movie. And now, there won't be a Japanese break out star.
I have the Manga sitting behind me on a shelf. It takes place in a pretty diverse Japanese city. The majority of the Caucasians in the story are Russians. There is a health population of mixed ethnicity people. Major Kusanagi is ethnic Japanese, it is an integral part of the story.
The first line of the entire series/franchise/story/capitalistic electro-dystopian nightmarescape is
And on the edge of Asia, in a strange corporate conglomerate-state called "Japan"....
But the huge international audience that has accepted the story as originally presented for more than a decade (so much so that one of the mega corporations in Hollywood is willing to risk a fraction of it's vast wealth to assimilate the work of others to make more wealth) is going to be shocked, bothered, or turn away from something they love because the main character stayed true to the story line?
Whatever..........