Scarlett Johansson to star in GHOST IN THE SHELL feature film from Dreamworks
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The Clown Prince of Crime
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Landis is right about the film industry.When it comes to Japanese anime, most of those characters don't even look Japanese, imo....so I don't mind if they get a Western actor as long as they look like the character. I remember when Dragon Ball Z fans complained about a western actor playing Goku in the live action DBZ film, but to me, he looked just like Goku and I thought it was good casting....until I saw him acting. Most Japanese anime characters don't look Asian anyway, they look more like elves.
devilof76
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If anyone tried to make a live action Evangelion with western actors, I would riot.
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devilof76
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I admit, it would look strange. Stranger would be all those Japanese names on caucasians.
The real solution would be to not ruin the greatest cartoon in history by making it live action.
The real solution would be to not ruin the greatest cartoon in history by making it live action.
The Clown Prince of Crime
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I agree that all live action anime films should use Japanese actors, because it's their product, but all I'm saying is, if they don't and the actors look like the source material, then I'm ok with that decision.
Agreed. Top Cat should never be made into a live action movie.
What about Asuka, she's 3/4 German and a quarter Japanese.
Lejuan
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RIP Whacky Races movie. What might have been...
devilof76
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Nothing personal kara, but you have abysmal taste in cartoons.
I don't care who made it. Evangelion happens in Tokyo-3, and it's principal plot agents are Shinji Akari, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Soryu, and Misato Katsuragi. None of them are adopted, and none of them are androids. The source material is gospel, unless you want to make Pacific Rim.
A full 3/4? Then it would make sense.
I don't care who made it. Evangelion happens in Tokyo-3, and it's principal plot agents are Shinji Akari, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Soryu, and Misato Katsuragi. None of them are adopted, and none of them are androids. The source material is gospel, unless you want to make Pacific Rim.
A full 3/4? Then it would make sense.
higgins1989
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As long as there is gratutious nudity of Scarjo in this movie it can't fail in my eyes, if it turns out to be a good movie then even better.
how about everyone protest and boycott until Anime artists stop drawing the cartoons to look white then? because thats the funny thing, no one has protested the fact that anime characters dont look Japanese, how about we start by drawing them not white looking?
or something? why are artists making them look like that to begin with? maybe the "whitewashing" starts with the anime itself?
i mean.....
come on
or something? why are artists making them look like that to begin with? maybe the "whitewashing" starts with the anime itself?
i mean.....
come on
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fosing
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life imitates art vs art imitates life
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how about everyone protest and boycott until Anime artists stop drawing the cartoons to look white then? because thats the funny thing, no one has protested the fact that anime characters dont look Japanese, how about we start by drawing them not white looking?
or something? why are artists making them look like that to begin with? maybe the "whitewashing" starts with the anime itself?
i mean.....
Here's an interesting article on the subject of Japanese animation and how the Japanese view anime characters.
https://thesocietypages.org/socimag...why-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/
Why do the Japanese draw themselves as white? You see that especially in manga and anime.
As it turns out, that is an American opinion, not a Japanese one. The Japanese see anime characters as being Japanese. It is Americans who think they are white. Why? Because to them white is the Default Human Being.
If I draw a stick figure, most Americans will assume that it is a white man. Because to them that is the Default Human Being. For them to think it is a woman I have to add a dress or long hair; for Asian, I have to add slanted eyes; for black, I add kinky hair or brown skin. Etc.
The Other has to be marked. If there are no stereotyped markings of otherness, then white is assumed.
Americans apply this thinking to Japanese drawings. But to the Japanese the Default Human Being is Japanese! So they feel no need to make their characters “look Asian”. They just have to make them look like people and everyone in Japan will assume they are Japanese – no matter how improbable their physical appearance.
You see the same thing in America: After all, why do people think Marge Simpson is white? Look at her skin: it is yellow. Look at her hair: it is a blue Afro. But the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear, stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white.
When you think about it there is nothing particularly white about how anime characters look:
huge round eyes – no one looks like that, not even white people (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).
yellow hair – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all the rest. Therefore hair colour is not about being true to life.
small noses – compared to the rest of the world whites have long noses that stick out.
white skin – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans.
Besides, that is not how the Japanese draw white or even Chinese people. The otherness of foreigners is clearly marked by physical stereotypes – just as Americans do with people of colour. In anime White Americans are stereotyped as having yellow hair, blue eyes and a long or big nose:
Gone are the big round eyes and the strange hair colours. Because those things have nothing to do with whiteness.
Note that the Japanese drop the markings of otherness if the action is set in a foreign land, like China or America. In that case the characters are drawn in the regular anime style. Because for that story the Default Human Being is understood.
Some Americans, even some scholars, will argue against this view of anime. They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness and use anime to prove it. But they seem to be driven more by their own racism and nationalism than anything else.
devilof76
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That's interesting. I've never thought the Simpson's were white.
what did you think they were?
devilof76
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Yellow.
devilof76
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Have I been unclear about my racial ambivalence?
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