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Can anime be ported into successful live-action franchises?

post #1 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:16pm
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With the recent rumblings of bringing Transformers live action to a screen near your in the year... who knows, what do you think is the potential upside financially to support these films? If you think it is a huge upside, why have more film projects spawning from animation/anime not been announced?

I know WETA is working on Evangelion and I gotta admit I am pretty psyched. What I want to know REALLY is why has nobody has brought Gundam to life (in a non robot-jox or Babylon 5 kinda way)?

Maybe I am showing my stripes here, but I have to believe that showing a 50 foot mecha trouncing through a city scape in a completely believable way (and here I am talking needing to exceed what was achieved with Gollum on screen) could move some tickets.

Is it franchising problems? Is it that Americans really don't care to see a giant robot piloted by a whiney-ass punk? Is it that there are not sufficient Otaku producers that give a ripe shiat?

I am throwing this out because I love a good debate and I am always keen to hear other people's perspectives.

Cheers,

JB
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post #2 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:18pm
I think "Big O" would make millions... on all single-screenings.
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post #3 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:25pm

Re: Can anime be ported into successful live-action franchises?

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Originally posted by jb_audit
Is it that Americans really don't care to see a giant robot piloted by a whiney-ass punk?
Yeah, that could have something to do with it. It seems the vast majority (I admit, my experience is limited) of large robot drivers are either shitheads or whiny-ass punks, both are annoying as hell.
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post #4 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:34pm
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Re: Re: Can anime be ported into successful live-action franchises?

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Originally posted by otisthecat
Yeah, that could have something to do with it. It seems the vast majority (I admit, my experience is limited) of large robot drivers are either shitheads or whiny-ass punks, both are annoying as hell.
I hear ya. So maybe we should do what American's have always been accused of: Export some cultural imperialism and annex the mecha part but leave the whiney-ass punk part and replace it with Kurt Russel (just a thought).

I think in the same way that X-men would have been strange if the actors wore yellow and blue spandex, maybe we need to inject some of our own cultural symbolism and "reinvent the mecha story arc in our own image."

-JB
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post #5 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:35pm
I don't think live action Anime's could be too successful, because odds are they'd be too weird for the mainstream, but too Americanized for Anime fans. Just go read some of the bitchy letters in the AICN talkbacks when they posted that concept art from the film. Anime fans are fucking sticklers. And crazy.
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post #6 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:41pm
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a good point

Werbal:

You make a good point about not satisfying everyone. So, maybe you just make the decision to "homogenize" it for general audiences so that they can get some entertainment value. If nothing else, the Otaku backlash could serve to highlight a funny Jeanne Moos story on CNN.

I am all for milking the free marketing machine.

-JB
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post #7 of 10
6/3/04 at 5:47pm
I think the movie _The Crow_ kind of felt to me like manga/anime.
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post #8 of 10
6/3/04 at 8:52pm
I think someone should just film the Otaku backlash.
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post #9 of 10
6/3/04 at 11:24pm
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Otaku 9-11

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Originally posted by The Sphinx always gets the sake
I think someone should just film the Otaku backlash.
Hey Sphinx!

I think I hear the next Michael Moore flick. "Bowling for Otaku."

Or maybe we should let the old, fat version of Lucas (think old vs. young elvis here) frag it up and call it "The Phantom Otaku Attacks...With $60M Shiatty CGI Talking Heads."

Damn.... I'm feeling salty in the dark hours of the night.
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post #10 of 10
6/4/04 at 2:25am
I bet we will see an Otaku/Anime documentary in the next few years on the big screen.

That is, if there hasn't already been one. As for live action Anime, well... well, fuck. I don't see it working at all.
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