Post by lenlenlen1 on Dec 11, 2017 19:09:28 GMT
So Robert Rodriguez's movie Battle Angel Alita just realesed a trailer. It looks good- not great, not bad. For a first trailer it looks decent. Check it out for yourselves...
I, in particular, have been waiting for this movie for a LONG time, so I'm very excited!
For those who don't know the history, its a manga series about a cyborg girl in a dystopian future where she has to learn who she once was. it got made into an animated movie that was just ok. James Cameron had the rights to make the live action movie and he was going to do it Avatar style. But as we all know the Avatar sequels have taken forever so he handed it off to another director, Rodriguez. Rodriguez may not be a lot of peoples first choice, but I think it will work because Rodriguez is a nerd (like us) who loves the source material, loves sci-fi, and knows how to do action and FX. It could be really good.
However, I have one problem already...
Whenever a movie is an adaptation there always comes up the tricky problem of how close do you stay to the original source material. True nerd fans almost always argue to stay as close as possible, while the average movie goer probably doesn't care too much. I always say "serve the movie first". What works in (for example) comics or books, doesn't always work in a live action movie. Sometimes things just don't translate well. But take a look at the pictures below:
The live action movie version:
The actress, Rosa Salazar, and the manga/anime version:
As you can see she has HUGE eyes. I think she looks kinda silly like this. She looks freakish. Why the hell are her eyes so big? Well, the answer could be that:
A) that's the way the original artist drew her so they're staying close to the original. problem is he didn't draw her that way because her eyes are actually that big. Its because that's the way he drew everyone! Its an affectation in manga style art that most everyone is drawn with huge stylized eyes. This is well known.
AND/OR
B) That the character is supposed to be Asian (To be perfectly clear, I don't think it says anywhere in the original manga that she actually is Asian in origin, but its a fair assumption. Why wouldn't an Asian creator make his lead characters Asian? No problem there.)
So, could it be that the movie makers have decided to stay TOO close to the source material, OR that they are doing this to dodge the Asian issue so that they wont suffer the same lashing that Ghost in the Machine got when it cast non-Asian actors in Asian roles? Thoughts?
