Infernal Affairs is totally a better movie.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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Dana - Nov 05, 2011 2:04:02 pm PDT #16662 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Liese S. - Nov 05, 2011 2:38:15 pm PDT #16663 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
You take a movie, you translate it into your culture, and you retell it. So, yeah, it turns out to have the racial demographics of your culture.
What are the characters' names? What will their backstory be?
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 3:09:58 pm PDT #16664 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They haven't announced their names. But they will be from New York. That's all we know so far. Helena Bonham Carter has also been cast.
Liese S. - Nov 05, 2011 3:43:11 pm PDT #16665 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
If their names and backgrounds are not supposed to be Japanese, then I guess I'm okay with the casting not being Japanese. Although I'm not sure what would make it Akira if it's not that character set. I was pretty upset with the original announcement, and I'm not yet placated by the move to New York.
I guess just, overall, you have the opportunity to have a major motion picture with a Japanese cast and you remove it entirely from its original cultural trappings, then you take away a rare opportunity for Japanese actors to perform for a mainstream audience. Again, if it were possible for Japanese actors to play roles perceived as white in the normal process, then I wouldn't have such an issue with it. I'm Caucasian (or any other race), you know.
DavidS - Nov 06, 2011 3:32:16 pm PST #16666 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm determined to finish the rest of my Halloween list, but I've got so much else to do. Okay, once I finish my next Horror piece for HiLo.
Emmett and I are back from seeing 50/50.
It was very funny, and very affecting. Just really had the details of dealing with cancer down. The humor came from inside the experience. And the two biggest crypoints for me were Adam's breakdown in the car, and Adam finding Kyle's copy of Getting Through Cancer Together (or whatever it was called) and seeing all the underlined and annotated passages.
Emmett's crypoint was Adam's little freakout as he's getting anesthesia.
amyth - Nov 06, 2011 4:14:39 pm PST #16667 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Mine was the same as Emmett's.
And also: just before that, when he told his dad that he knew that it was confusing for him, but that he loved him.
Burrell - Nov 06, 2011 4:44:43 pm PST #16668 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
50/50 looks like a good movie, but I have to get a lot farther away from cancer before I can see it, that's for sure.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 4:51:09 pm PST #16669 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, fuck yeah. My sister saw it shortly before my mother's diagnosis. I wish I had.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 4:55:18 pm PST #16670 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Finnick? I have no idea how well he can act. Someone just showed up on The Secret Circle that looked kinda like my mental picture too.
smonster - Nov 06, 2011 5:04:11 pm PST #16671 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Finnick? I have no idea how well he can act.
Huh. All I've seen him in is the atrocious Aquaman pilot and Smallville, so it's hard to say. But visually he's golden god enough, and he'd be about the right age, yes?