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Yeah, and in the Ghost in the Shell 1996 the fact that you can look the city very clearly is used in favor of the story, in how the personality of the character can't be found in this vast city.

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Beyond the "don't know how," it very much also feels like "don't even feel like trying." Back in the day, crews would literally invent ways to _make it happen_ if they didn't know how, and now other than very few specific companies like Weta or whatever they don't bother to put in effort.

I rewatched it recently. Amazing how you know exactly what the character is feeling just watching his mask.

This was going to be my suggestion too; it's adapted from a graphic novel, and while it has its flaws I think on the whole it's *extremely* well done, as Weaving absolutely nailed the acting in a mask, and in a way we do get a kind of inner monologue/narration at times but delivered as conversations to others (predicting future events that then play out etc.). There are also a lot of style shots purely for the flare of it and also for dramatic effect and many of these use slow motion, but not for dodging. And of course it's from the Wachowski siblings, so it has a lot of that Matrix energy. Also I might be *slightly* biased because I bought one of the production grade fibre-glass masks, a proper replica hat, tracked down a wig with the correct styling, and memorised the entire "voila, in view a humble vaudevillian veteran" speech for a halloween costume one year… (note for others, you can get wasted *real* fast when you're drinking through a straw, so take care!)

Plus you would expect them to use Hugo Weaving‘ stave in marketing, as he is so famous.

Karl Urban in Dredd too.

The original actor who was supposed to play V actually complained that he couldn't show his face in the movie and I believe that's why he got replaced by Weaving. The actor completely missed the point of the character and the ambiguity he was supposed to convey due to his ego. A lot of times the actors agents will put that in the contract. Especially in high budget movies. If they are paying $10-20 million to the actor they want that face in the movie.

I think it's because they spend so much money on getting the actor. Not to mention, they probably don't trust people to recognize the actor if their face is covered. I was watching "Somebody's Watching Me" the other day. And there were so many comments of people who just weren't sure if it was Michael Jackson on the chorus. So while it is a bit different in a visual medium, the concern is still a real possibility. Still, I'd rather the movie try to be as faithful as possible to the source material.

i remember being so happy when the film finished and they never took off his helmet

@@tiacool7978 its crazy how many times the trust american executives dont have in people lead to weird decicions. its almost uniqely tied to americans too for some reason

Dredd is best, I hope they do more with the Angels or the Death Judges.

Another good example is V for Vendetta.

all Stephen Chow works really near with anime live action should have

i watched one recently, Fist of Fury , kinda hard to find, that is basically iron fist/one punch man, he is a farmer with an absurdly strong left punch but, no skill

his other movie journey to the west also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fun Fact : Inazuma Eleven was actually inspire by Shao Lin Soccer

Mmm those two are so great.

reminded me of the Baccano! anime

YES-it’s so absurd but in the best possible way

There are a bunch of good anime-esc movies but not many good live action adaptations. And I think a lot of it is bc the animation itself is so integral to the show’s personality.

Well it doesn't help when the actresses and show runners maliciously attack the fans because they're completely abandoning the source material. Critical Drinker covers this very well.

@@TheVinster how is it bad?

Edgar Wright, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, and Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron did something good. Even Bullet Train feels like anime-like.

@@mrfacestab5758 There's nothing anime like, it's just feels "out of Japan" because is the adaptation of a japanese novel.

Scott Pilgrim takes direct inspiration from the beats of the comic, and it shows

@@wtfsalt It takes so much inspiration that they filmed in all the actual locations the graphic novel based it's locations on and not only that but there's many many times in the movie where you can take that same scene in the original put em side by side and they look exactly the same THIS is how adaptation should be done take the strong points of the original and just do that but in live action and if it's possible to replicate the scene exactly then just do it the original is beloved for a reason. The entire point of an adaptation is bringing something good to a new audience not changing said thing till it's unrecognizable I just wish studios would realize this.

@@wtfsalt in terms of the style, yes. Everything else is a different case tho, as the movie started being worked on when the comics first came out, so the movies development actually inspired stuff in the books and vice versa

Sin City and Sucker Punch, while not perfect, did a good job at the visual part, they looked like a noir comic or an anime come to life.

Agreed.

I think a very good example of an actual Anime adaptation is "The Edge of Tomorrow" adapted from "All you need is kill". I know it has flaws here and there, but the pacing and characters build up is really nice.

@@scratchy996 I agree sucker punch only really lacked on the story but visuals are amazing

My favorite scene is Lucas Lee starting his run towards Scott. Very stylish very anime. They convey motion so badass in that film

Alita was amazing

the only that ruined alita for me was that generic teenage love plot 🥲🥲

@@MoeruHoeru That was in the original manga & OVA as well. But it worked better for a couple of reasons. In the manga, it serves 2 important functions... A) it establishes Alita core principles, going from a moon-eyed teenage girl to a stubborn young woman who will never compromise on her principles B) it establishes a contrast between being that moon-eyed young naif & the bad-ass topple-the-system living macguffin she is later. The thing to bear in mind though is the manga has the narrative runway to tell that story without it being cheesy... which video & animation just DON'T, because they're time constrained by nature. The other thing with both the manga & OVA was that they ameliorated the saccharin of the love story with gory, gory ultra-violence... that generic love story between Alita & Hugo is a lot less aggravating when Alita is literally splattering brains against the wall, & Hugo ripping out spines isn't bowdlerized. Heck, the generic teenage love plot becomes the anchor of normalcy at that point. Which kind of tells you what I found lacking in the Rodriguez film :/. Lack of gore for Hollywood/Western sensibilities sacrificed a lot of the original aesthetic & tone, making it both too clean & less tragic, sadly emphasizing the goofy.

Alita was fucking incredible and I wish the film came out with the full 16:9 scan in theaters instead of the super wide screen, cuz the 16:9 was in IMAX but you have to pirate it to get that aspect ratio since they decided to go with the theatrical for the 4k bluray.

i would have liked alita more if it followed the manga and not the OVA, they changed so many things like how alita came to be in the scrapyard, desty nova is the villain in the shadows running the show and removing makaku (who introduces desty) entirely due to the ova setting, not to mention motorball seemed to be a forced inclusion when it should have been it's own arc. i waited for something like a decade for that movie and i didn't particularly like any of it, i like that others like it and they will hopefully read the source material, with any luck we will finally get a complete animated series that follows the manga like FMA:brotherhood

I think he threatened to leave the set when they tried to make him remove the helmet. He wanted to bring Dredd to the screen, not himself.

V for Vendetta, where Hugo Weaving NEVER shows his face.

Excellent movie!

as did Lena Headey. Wow she was an incredible force in that movie.

@@BenjiSun Such a pretty face and it was a joy to see her execute the law.

True!!

I'd definitely love to see some of the less action oriented anime like Makoto Shinkai's movies being covered. Those quiet environmental moments that build the scenes are so expertly executed.

@@WhoIsRaphaelLerauxhat’d be awesome! They could also talk about some of the insane animations happening in Nichijou

React to SODAZ animations

I was just rewatching that video today! We need more of those!

a very common thing is that the director doesn't actually care about the source material and just have their own thing in mind instead.

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I second this

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Omg yes

There's a fan film on KZfaq that nails the characters pretty well, and has a pretty good fight scene as well.

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Does the story gets better after the timeskip in book 1? The sudden timeskip ruined my immersion so I stop reading it.

Inner monologue is less desirable in live action though. Film is a visual medium so exposition is better delivered visually. Exposition through monologue is needed more in the written world simply because there’s no visual language to use. Think of a lovecraft story. If you make a lovecraft movie you use those monologues as a blueprint to build the visuals off of.

@@tylerjacobson8012 anime also benefit from this a lot, but sadly they often don't take advantage of it because the source material used monologue/dialogue instead.

There was still the problem of whitewashing though... like in the live-action Dragon Ball movie, and of course, The Last Airbender.

And Shaolin Soccer too

Many people don't notice but for many characters they don't even tell you their names.

That movie rocks,I love the old couple lol they're great

Yep pretty much Stephen Chow has managed to pull it off effortlessly. (I also think Tarantino would probably be able to pull it off)

rurouni kenshin

oh my god you're right.

American Psycho is the best anime adaptation

Also the scenes in Sin City. Film Noir movies have always relied heavily on Internal Monologues, and Sin City absolutely captured the feeling of the Comic with it's use of them.

I just can’t unsee Paul Allen’s morning routine meme every time this movie is mentioned

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas also has a bit of it as well.

This ⬆️

100% agree, the Ruroni Kenshin movies are by far the best movie adaptations ive seen

Just watched the first 3 and really enjoyed them because that's a genre that is solid and already established, samurai films.

It's worth mention that the actors and crews are experienced in tokusatsu series, they know how to make action scene look cinematic.

I remember they replicated Kenshin's funny way of talking in the first movie and then they cut that out in the sequels. I'm glad they did, cuz it just wasn't working. It's fine in the anime, but live action not so much.

Paranoia Agent is a great place to dip your toes in first

Was looking in the comments for this. I second Rurouni Kenshin. I think it could stand alone as purely a live action film series and is still incredible to watch but I think they faithfully adapted the source material in a way that wasn't cringey at all. Amazing series.

I agree

its also the perfect example because you can directly compare it to Judge Dread with Stallone. Where he takes the helmet off after his first intro scene.

Dredd is fucking amazing, everyone should watch it.

As good as Karl Urban was, Lena Headey was also great as the main villain.

Technically Sin City was the best, it literally adapted panel to panel into movie scenes with the same style.

And the most important thing about Death note live action is that Kira is not Kira if you know what I mean. He would not scream at the event he planned. He won't even bat an eye. That what makes most live action adaption fail. It doesn't understand the characters.

@@Shinesart I legitimately don't think it was trying to understand the characters because it was trying to tell it's own story with an American take. Which is fine! But then don't use Kira, L, etc. Like so many other shows these days it felt like someone skinsuiting a character, although at least in the Death Note world it works to have infintely many spinoffs that never cross over into the Kira/L battle because it doesn't need to

100% agree. Like if they called it a Death Note story, a story set in the death note world. Rename the characters. Instead of Light Turner, call him Timmy Turner or something. Then I would not have had such a dislike for that movie when I first watched. When they make so many parallels to the OG content you can't help but compare it and that overall hurt the perception of it .

The Japanese one was pretty good tho.

The universe would even allow an unlimited number of original stories, Kira is just one of an unspecified number of death note users. But no, they had to do a bad attempt at squeezing a 37-episode story into one movie.

Seconded they need to watch Eizouken

I did not know Eizouken was Yuasa's but it totally makes sense. Another great one by Yuasa is Kaiba

It's kinda childish and elevated realism, why go for that when you can be topically accurate and mention Bakuman. The Death Note authors wrote a story genuinely about getting into the actual manga industry and fighting the market pressure as a young professional. There's also film and anime adaptations. And straight drama about industry positions is pretty common in anime, like White Box and Hataraki Man and Barakamon and Sakura Quest and okay I shuold stop.

I like how instead of counting the tatami galaxy first, you counted its spin off as among his most known work XD And instead of devilman and especially lu over the wall (which is neither that well known nor that criticially acclaimed) you should've counted ping pong the animation, kaiba or mind game.

One of my favorite things about the show, LOVED getting the chance to dive into his fucked up little brain and figure out how he works. They do a similar thing in "You", and it has a similar effect.

As a massive Alita fan from way back, It's a fantastic movie. They changed just enough o make it a movie but you see that they wanted as much of the original as possible.

Yes, why did I forget about American live action adaptation of Alita. In my opinion, it's better than the source material.

@@demzre better than the anime yes, Debatable about the manga.

@@BoomerZ.artist I hated the first part of the manga, it looked too much like a shojo than a shounen. I’m so glad the author “remade” the series for a more mature, refined audience and made every character so much better.

Speed Racer definitely doesnt get enough love

I agree. Loved Sin City, but that was nothing to do with anime - it was pure noir.

@@pmdesigns5798 well, it's based on a graphic novel, so similar origins, in a way

@@Ausdoerrt True!

@@Ausdoerrt and that graphic novel in turn is based on film noir

Agreed. The actors overall did good jobs. It was the writing and directing that didn't live up to what it could have been.

I love Mustafa but I wish someone like Michael Jai White was cast instead. I keep wishing Mustafa was like 10 years older than he is now since that would fit the role better. Jet had the grizzled older cop vibe going in Bebop but with Johnny Cho being older the roles were changed. Am I wrong?

You know what's funny, if they were more utilized in an original property that happens to be inspired by CB, it could've been passable.

In what world is John cho anywhere near remotely as cool as spike? It felt like watching a boy trying to act tough.

@@blazenfate Spike was half goofball and half too-cool-for-school. I think Cho's Spike was pretty decent but the writers absolutely dropped the ball when it came with the main villains, which are a reflection of Spike since their back stories are so intrinsically tied together. Making Vicious a spoiled entitled man baby was the wrong call, and making Julia a conniving backstabber who betrays Spike just ruined her character and Spike's.

Yeah this 100%. Also why they favor characters that have high neck line clothing to make it easier to do cheap head movements, ala Hanna-Barbera.

While true, the Cap mask doesn't cover that much of his face. You can still see more than enough to see his expressions.

Masks are cool. Animating anime mouth flaps isn't hard, they don't even change jawlines.

I give Karl Urban credit for insisting he should wear the mask all the time in Judge Dredd. The guy pushed for the character NOT to take his mask off when the people making the film wanted to show his face.

Still tho, they are still afraid to keep characters that are known to wear their mask and just... remove it so we can see the actors face... like come on its not even funny anymore after seeing master chief and a rando actor we don't care like sylvester Stallonebeing Judge dredd.

Dexter as well. Inner monologue works really well for sinister thoughts

@@hoorahforsnakes which are hilarious too :D

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the entire film has ONE BIG MISTAKE... they aged the character. instead of the boy feeling like someone who doesn't know what they are doing, he look like an immatured brat that is why too old to be this stupid. and that literally ruined the feel of the film by making the character unrelatable. people are afraid to use young character because of the shit about star wars episode 1, but the issue with star wars was the story doesn't fit the age, the issue isn't the age itself, and when you change the character for a story that is written for a certain age, you just undo the story. it is sad because ABA could have been a classic. it was SO CLOSE, yet it drove itself into unrelatability by messing with the age.

It wasn't dark and gritty enough for a "dystopian" world. Everything was bright and happy. It was a great movie though. To me, it could've been a bit darker to set the mood and tone of the world.

Plus the battle within, solving a puzzle, putting pieces together, and feeling unsure when something does not fit till a solution

like Jin Ro

yeah I was thinking the same

The fact that you don't even see the character for the first few minutes of the movie until you meet the "Vengeance" first and not Bruce Wayne is what made me realise that I'm in for a treat in this one

You could even say Christopher Nolan did this in The Dark Knight. Opens without revealing any of the goon's faces. You get a sense of how the Joker operates before even being introduced to him through the plan of killing the person once they finished their task. Only removing his mask until the end, one quick line that isn't dumb like I'm the Joker, bus joins other buses again showing he is smart and methotical. Cut away not explaining who he is, what he is doing or why and that information doesn't get revealed to you until way later.

It's the first movie in which Batman gets to do actual detective shit as well. A very good break from the other movies.

The last Batman was trash, he is supposed to be the worlds best detective, but he didn’t detect anything, the villain gave home self up and told him the plan, plus that screeching Dana scene behind the glass was grating, bad acting, the cinematography in some scenes was pretty great, but his massively over bullet proofness was ridiculous, and who the hell cares if Cat woman is Falcones kid, that’s not the bomb drop they thought it was. penguin was played well by Colin farrel

also they mentioned the matrix. I think there was a rather memorable scene in the third movie where smith does get slo-mo punched in the face

@Phoenix when they are flying around in the rain? That's was pretty cool where the shock waves of the punches push the rain out as a sphere.

They have, briefly a while ago. Really enjoyed that one.

I was just having a conversation with a stranger at a comic shop about Dredd! Such an underrated movie. But specifically we were talking about the great work the Slo-Mo Guys did on Dredd and Sherlock Holmes- a movie where the slo-mo is definitely utilized on the impacts rather than just dodges.

@@ozkey1558 yes! I keep forgetting they are involved in actual movies. The cannonball run through the woods in Sherlock is awesome!

animation is cheap because no one will pay for 35 frames.

@@TheBlackDeck Most anime are pretty expensive.

@@TheBlackDeck Animation definitely isn't cheap...

They’re saying _hollywood_ looks cheaper. It doesn’t cost nearly as much to draw a building exploding as it costs to actually explode a building

animation isn't cheap... but animating a large explosion and animating a one vs one fight can end up costing the same... it's just a matter of how the action is shown. And it's true that in that way it's very different from live action.

Imagine how lame Darth Vader would have been without one

@@james3876 so true.

It makes me appreciate that they animated Deadpool's eyes while he wore his mask

I think Tom Holland really nails body acting as Spider-Man.

@@james3876 Not to mention that when they finally do reveal his face it's an important moment of making the monster into a man again, while he's making himself vulnerable to save his son.

The movies don't portray any frame shot fidelity to the anime, yet they still clearly showcased action and emotion in great artistic intensity that is specific to the series. Plenty to dissect if they choose to cover the adaptations for this story!

@@yoyo510 yes, they added their touch but maintained the adaptation faithful to the original. Out of the top of my head, maybe the best anime adaptation into live action

@@yoyo510 Good example of finding the essence of something and adapting that rather than just going through the plot beats.

@Seeyou Seemee He's first and foremost an assassin, of course he doesn't have to show his killing intent like a telegraph.

I'd say this works better than others mostly of the genre itself. It is a samurai story. It can be translated from anime to movie very well just by that factor alone. The colorful clothes and aesthetic of the anime are easily adaptable into more realistic and historical image. Not every anime has this advantage though.

she was also supposed to be the character for the audience to identify with, that's gonna be hard if you never see her. Urban did an amazing job as dredd. (also yeah, eye candy)

Alice in Borderland really makes me wish Japanese, Korean or Chinese adaptations had that Hollywood budget.

@@biazacha Didn't need it, the budget of the show was as big as it should have been, especially for season 2. More money wouldn't have changed anything, they all they needed to adapt the manga.

Absolutely AiB was great

Honestly it is one of the best manga to live action adaptions imo. The show isn’t perfect but it is a really good adaption.

That was asian style of hollywood level big budget television & films like that.... ??? , how cool is that!!!! . Take that european - american snabby!!!! .

If only the actor agreed

@@james3876 he does for the most part if you’re talking about the time the show was nearly canceled because he was going to leave. Turns out that was a fake story.

But the actor hates it and wants his face showing more.

Not surprising when the story and style is pretty close to an old manga called Lone Wolf and Cub.

A lot of Indian movies (mostly 2010 onwards) have had the classic "anime" approach with the character-driven/visual storytelling, quickly moving between story beats and the use of "slow-mo on impact" in action direction. While the last was fairly goofy initially, they had gotten good with the first two down really early. RRR is basically the culmination of all three when done properly. Since then a lot of movies across India have been learning and incorporating similar direction techniques these days.

"Stylized physics" is the BEST phrase to explain indian action scenes and cinematography, you just opened my third eye

Which anime are you talking about? Anime is a whole medium. This may resemble baccno but is it like violet evergarden or aot or clannad? What people think of you say anime differs from person to person. For me personally I like the emotions and story stuff that gives me goosebumps, even slice of life is good. I rarely ever get goosebumps watching a holywood movie

@@shivamarya5225 I was kind of referring to the anime medium as a whole. How anime expresses both action and emotion is fairly well encapsulated in RRR. I more am referring to how Indian film making hits those marks more when compared to Hollywood. Watching RRR definitely brought me goosebumps, and fascinatingly in both its insanely well choreographed fight scenes, as well as its evocative, almost overbearing quiet moments. I think any attempt to bring about a live action anime would do well to look at those strengths and attempt to incorporate them.

@@theokid2000 i didn't think its emotional momennts had any punch because the story beats were so generic and the exprssions on some actors just didn't feel heartfelt but i see what you mean

Or Watchman; I recall that being pretty good narration.

This is the real answer. It did everything right and is very under-rated.

Rurouni Kenshin. Treat yourself.

@@AllTheArtsy true. Love all those movies.

They should stop picking battle shonen or other titles that rely heavily in the media of animation and pick titles that can actually work with flesh and blood

Perfect example.

It's the first time I ever hear bout it. Gonna check.

Except for Kenshin's stupid breakdance battling and sliding on the floor between mook's legs. Ruined the movie for me.

Japanese live action tends to get it right more regularly, but it makes sense--their film culture is much closer to the source material and will understand stylistic priorities, and storytelling will have to hit the marks more clearly.

@@Isnogood12 What, do you prefer they're doing still-frames like in the old anime? 😏

Awesome just commented the same before seeing this one. Kenshin is definitey how to do live action anme.

@@Isnogood12 ehh i think it’s the best we can get out of live action Hiten Mitsurugi Style speed. Unless you want him to magically disappear and reappear with enemies KO’d. Or seizure inducing frames when he fights Sojiro in the anime. What really bothered me was the amount of reverse grip Kenshin used.

Yeah, exaggeration feels natural when you get used to it. It feels like watching a play, where actors have to exaggerate body movements and voice so that everyone in the back can see.

China an Korea have this down more films like Detective Chinatown 1-3 and Hwayi a monster boy

I think that a lot of anime was inspired by that Blade Runner.

Serialized is also important, anime is longform storytelling. It makes no sense for Hollywood to try to package these grand stories into one movie. Kenshin was handled so well and also serialized into multiple movies that use the movie format more like volumes of a manga, not try to go from introduction to the end.

Rurouni Kenshin live actions are my favorite adaptation of an anime. The fights scenes are amazing.

Oh god. This comment section makes me wanna vomit. Grow up, man.

Watch Michiko and Hatchin it's very grounded most of the time an atmosphere an characters mix beautifully

Well, not Hollywood, but someone like Takashi Miike does live anime adaptation justice.

Agreed