Ghost in the Shell movie trailer. Why? :/

[Traitorfish]

Another person mentioned the hatred for Korean laborers, this however is true. But it also works the other way around. It seems that in Korea a lot of people, especially younger people, adore japanese culture but have an irrational hatred for japanese people. At least this in grounded in a historic event, I have no idea where japanese hatred for Koreans comes from. Propaganda maybe? Pretty sure in almost all of japanese history it was them subjugating Koreans, not the other way around..

Why do so many in Britain hate the Irish? Empires, and ex-empires, seem to reserve a particular contempt for the peoples they've subjugated the longest and most thoroughly.

Part of the reason it's been sustained this long, at least, is due to anti-DPRK sentiment, I think. There were a lot of ties between the more militant Korean civil rights groups in Japan and the DPRK, back before it became such a hell-hole and/or people realised what a hell-hole it was becoming, so they were widely regarded by the Japanese right as a communist fifth column.

 

[aelf]

Great, so the movie is sticking to convention 100%.

Err, it's obviously a live action movie, not an anime movie.

There's in-universe justification for casting a white actress, but I think the casting is uninspired and missed a good chance at promoting Asian actors.

 

[Traitorfish]

I suppose the problem is, for all its prominence in anime and sci-fi circles, Ghost in the Shell isn't really all that well known in the West. It's not a bankable property, so the studio want a bankable lead to guarantee their investment, and there really aren't any Asian actresses who fit that bill. That somebody convinced major studies to remake a weird Japanese cyborg cartoon on a big budget is a miracle in itself; it would probably be too much to ask the creative team to pull off a second miracle and get a relatively unknown actress cast in the lead role, even if it would have been the better creative choice.

 

[Kyriakos]

For the record, in my OP i actually was meaning that Scarlett looks like the anime character more or less... My issue is with the film itself, cause unless either the manga is the base and that manga has hugely more cerebral plot than Gits1, OR they fuse this with more cerebral plot (maybe they will), a remake in film form of Gits1 won't be intellectual or psychological even on the level we are used to with current movies that aspire as much. Remember that back in the early 2000s when Gits appeared the norm was far less to make anime or movies with an intricate plot, and Gits1 anime was very core-centered on action scenes and style of animation of those anyway.

 

[Traitorfish]

The manga is also stuffed with cheesecake, because the artist was worried that his philosophical meanderings would lose audience interest. This would not likely have been as successful in the films or anime, so they went with more action. Anything intended for mass consumption makes compromises, it's simply a question of which compromises and where.

 

[Kyriakos]

Having non-naked Scarlett was a bad compromise imo

 

[Traitorfish]

The human body doesn't actually look as good moving at high speeds as it does in animation; even if they are going for cheesecake, the catsuit was absolutely the smart choice.

 

[Kyriakos]

The human body doesn't actually look as good moving at high speeds as it does in animation; even if they are going for cheesecake, the catsuit was absolutely the smart choice.

I am not sure whether japanese art really cares, i mean:

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Gits is a really bad abbreviation.

 

[lesliestock01]

Hmm.. some anime turn real is bad but we will see..

 

[PhroX]

The manga is also stuffed with cheesecake, because the artist was worried that his philosophical meanderings would lose audience interest. This would not likely have been as successful in the films or anime, so they went with more action. Anything intended for mass consumption makes compromises, it's simply a question of which compromises and where.

Interestingly, these days, the author of GitS (Masamune Shirow) has given up on the philosophical meanderings and pretty much exclusively draws hentai....

 

[Kyriakos]

Interestingly, these days, the author of GitS (Masamune Shirow) has given up on the philosophical meanderings and pretty much exclusively draws hentai....

Lol