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Director of WhiteWashed Akira Remake Says Something Eurocentric/Racist About Japanese Cinema

Feb 10, 2014 23:01

In interviews with entertainment news websites Collider and ComingSoon, director Jaume Collet-Serra, who was previously in talks to work on Warner Brothers' stalled live-action Akira film project, mentioned that he's still working on the film, and that he hopes it will be his next one ( Read more... )

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chaya February 11 2014, 18:28:19 UTC

That's part of the Japanese culture, they never have strong characters.

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baka_tenshi February 11 2014, 19:43:52 UTC

mte bobby

qara_isuke February 12 2014, 05:37:04 UTC

THIS.

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bloody_vixen February 13 2014, 13:49:00 UTC

how the characters were too exotic to identify with.

what
WHAT
how does that even compute

dafairyness February 11 2014, 18:35:57 UTC

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sandstorm February 11 2014, 18:54:16 UTC

Can I point out that people who somehow will and hope for this movie to come back is kind of weirdly parallel to the original.

I hope it dies and stays dead tbh.

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astridmyrna February 11 2014, 19:22:42 UTC

lso lmao the weeaboo in me is gonna show full force here but ahahaha I fucking beg to differ on the Japanese culture having no strong/interesting characters and I'll just stop there tbh because I'd run out of character space in a comment so

This was so me last night when I first read this.

Like

why else would these images be so powerful?

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astridmyrna February 11 2014, 19:35:31 UTC

I rage-quit shortly after the time skip so I'm a bit behind too, but it's that sort of series that you need to take a break from at times or you'll just get burned out. Naruto never really caught my interest, but I read enough of it to know about the characters.

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