I don't know what amount of drugs were involved in this process, but the sum total must be truly massive.
Hollywood is making a live action version of Akira. Now. This, this I could deal with. There was word about a live action Evangelion movie for a while there, and an adaptation of Cowboy Bebop (and, if I'm remembering right, Keanu Reeves was going to be Spike, which could work). I'm not opposed to the idea, per se, but the execution, well now this is where everything starts imploding.
Akira is a movie / comic with a couple, uh, what do you call them, themes. Turns out, they're part of what makes it a "good thing". One of these is "Being Fucking Japanese", another is "Oh shit, our civilization and cities are fragile things".
So, the Hollywood decision to move the setting from Neo Tokyo to New York and re-cast the whole thing with the whitest people this side of Sarah Palin . . . displeases me. I can only assume changing Tetsuo's name to Travis was done purely out of spite.
Can we get a law or rule passed? Something to the effect of "If you have to rape all of the originality, characterization, themes, and settings out of a foreign movie to show it in America: Don't Show It Here."
Christ. Brockway has an opinion as well, his has pictures.
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