ReplicantSavior
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I have to respectfully disagree; any movie being labeled "perfect" is subjective IMO. While I love Blade Runner and the original GitS I don't find it perfect at all.
Many of the movies that people here and elsewhere continue to want statues and figures for are well regarded as perfect or as close as you can get to perfection. They are usually recognized by film institutes and organizations as well. From films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien, Aliens, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Ghostbusters, Terminator 1 & 2, and the list goes on. So yes I believe there are perfect movies.
Other forums, videos, whatever can discuss all they want. If you claim whitewashing, you are buying into an agenda not in the spirit of GiTS period. Sometimes political correctness is just a farce for those looking to be offended. This is one of those cases. And I say that as someone strongly opposed to a majority of western remakes made simply to sell a story to people to lazy to read subtitles. All the Oscars in the world don't elevate The Departed beyond a pale shadow of Infernal Affairs (where was the white washing controversy there? Oh that's right, it was before everyone go offended at everything for the sake of being offended), and don't get me started on what they passed off as Oldboy. GiTS was one of those rare occasions they actually pulled off something worthy of the source material but the PC brigade have their agenda they must force down everyone's throats the truth be damned.
Well it's night time but I'm still not going to go too far into it. The agenda if you want to notice one was that of the movie studio and producers wanting to make a profit. That's the truth. Which is fine, they are a business. But when they start lying and putting out misrepresentations to sell a movie, that's the true agenda. It's not a claim of whitewashing as the movie is pretty much the definition of movie whitewashing. Which is when you take a character and turn them into another race. In this case a white person. And let's not forget they did it with both of the main characters. I could go on with what they did even more but it should be obvious.
The movie isn't even close to the "spirit" of Ghost in the Shell. As many fans rightfully pointed out, it's an empty shell of a movie with the only barely good parts being the ones taken from the original. And even those are better in the original. Scarlett's character and portrayal isn't even the character from the movie, tv, or manga series aside from those ripped off sequences. So I don't know how you think it's in the same spirit as Ghost in the Shell.
I hate the new thing of people throwing around terms like political correctness and being offended to cover other beliefs when it's none of that. What it is, is a studio and producers who didn't want to cast an Asian or even Eurasian to play a popular character with an Asian background. They didn't even consider it. But they'll sell it in all kinds of ways to the point of lying and saying that's how Hollywood works. And then we'll have a stupid scene in the movie where we find out what all fans of the character already knew. Which is that she's Japanese. But because another important character in the actual movie thinks the whitewashing is ok we as viewers should too.
I'm glad the movie was a failure as it's a poor movie that is not even close to the original and was only interested in sequels and profit. Thankfully none of those things happened.