Crayon Shin-chan (dubbed or original) is pretty hilarious, but youre absolutely right that it'd never fly in the US. the elephant dance is funny because it's pretty fuckin absurd.
Do I even want to click play on this?
Because that's autistic?
As long as they look the part, I don't care. Scarlett Johansson being cast as a cyborg with synthetic skin is not the reason why Ghost in the Shell sucked. We all know the real reason why it sucked.
I wouldn't. This person doesn't deserve our time.
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Spike is a 50 year old korean, Jet is black, Faye is a latina with a-cup tits and probably no ass and Ed is a mutt.
They didn't stay true to the original, they just lifted a lot of iconic scenes and failed to connect them in a meaningful way. They botched character writing for every single character. Every. Single. One. The plot twist of her origin made no sense whatsoever, was some cartoon-tier nonsense, poorly thought out and made everyone in Section 9 look even dumber than before. The movie lacked the smart commentary and plot structure of other GitS works, period.
I would have said this all myself if I weren't aware that Jellycar was baitposting to get a textwall rant in response, hence the out of hand dismissal of the video response.
It begs the question why they didn't just use the same script from the original. You could make the argument that it's because that'd be boring to recurring audiences, but part of the reason it's being remade in live action is because it's being translated for another audience. The real answer is that Hollywood only has a handful of story structures it understands and can't cope with nuance, only with archetype. So since Motoko is a cyborg they decided to go with the "Who am I?" identity crisis plot, and make her the first of her kind because characters have to first be important in the world-scope before they can be important in the story-scope.
It is a core aspect of the original movie, but there, it ties into a larger context, whereas in the ScarJo version it peters out pretty boringly. In the original, the questions of "Who am I?" and "Am I a real person?" tie into the themes of "What is a real person?" and "What even is a person?". Throughout the original movie, you watch that theme from many angles, the movie starts with us watchig how Kusanagi (or a body similar to hers) is made, Motoko sometimes muses about her own Ghost, wondering if she's actually human. The technology that replaced her flesh and bone raises the question on whether she ever was a human being to begin with. At the same time, we see the garbage man and that dude that gets beat up in the water getting false memories to make them do what the Puppet Master needs them to do. The movie suggests that a human's identity is based on their memory and resulting individuality, and finally, we have an artificial intelligence.
I can understand taking issue with Ed being sorta stocky instead of a clampish noodle monster, but Ed was always a random pile of genetics.
My problem with how the movie handled it was that it handled it in a very weepy and meek fashion rather than the more clinical examination form the original. The original is more about what Motoko is and the nature of identity rather than simply being absent of a known origin, which to my knowledge was never a problem for Motoko in GITS at all. If I recall correctly, Motoko had a
Absolutely, instead of a philosophical contemplation of a theme, we get some sappy dime-a-dozen stuff.