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GATSU
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And here's Jet Li as the original Goku from Journey to the West in Forbidden Kingdom. Pic courtesy of the forums on his site.
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Asian Guy
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This movie will fail because they are not using Japanese or atleast Asian person as the characters especially the main characters. Seeing the same fate have fall into one missed call, but I just hope even they are not using Japanese or Asian, they are not putting any racial scene stuff on it.
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LordPrometheus
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This is ridiculous. Dragonball Z didn't have any "Asian" main characters in it. Goku was a friggen alien, as were all the Saiyans and Piccolo. The only one you could make a case for being Asian is Yajirobe, but he was just an annoying side character. Stop playing the race card. |
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Asian Guy
Posts: 118 Location: ASIA - Land Of Anime - |
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First of all you should know who made Dragon Ball and why Asian cosplayer looks better when cosplaying as Anime characters. Even most DBZ characters are alien based on the story but their form [ the human one ] are Asian form.
Yajirobe? you forgetting about Chi Chi, Videl, Satan, and the others? This is not about race because Asian will not do good if Batman or Superman made into Japanese or Asian version since the characters are American, or Kim Possible made into live action with Asian peoples as the characters. I'm just stating fact. |
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GATSU
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Asian Guy: Um, Batman just got made into an anime...And DBZ is probably inspired from Superman. Of course, I do agree that the adaptation in itself should respect the Asian nature of the series, but
making your own version of the same idea is not impossible. |
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Shadowrun20XX
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IDK I've seen some crazy shit,here in Vegas,and just about every hairstyle you could imagine. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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Why are any of you arguing with "Asian Guy" whose avatar says "proud asian" and whose location text says "asia land of anime" when he argues that this movie will be horrible because Asian actors aren't involved?
When do you stop and say "yeah well maybe this one I shouldn't really respond to"? |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Maybe asianguy and Kyuu should be locked in a room for a few hours. That would probably be entertaining and we could take bets on who would win that street fight.
As for me I'm remaining cautiously optimistic. The odds are it will probably not be very good but I'll wait for the actual movie to be out before passing judgment. Maybe we'll all be pleasantly surprised and it won't be a complete suck fest. Maybe during shooting of the film all the other actors took acting lessons from Chow Yun Fat heh. Plus the one positive factor regardless is other movie companies are starting to take real notice of anime as a medium and the potential for movie adaptations off of the material. Hopefully this will get more American companies interested in pumping some money into the industry and taking some chances.
And if the green screening helps make things more realistic then what's the problem? I also suppose Chow Yun Fat isn't big enough for your tastes. Don't say that to asianguy or he might lose his mind heh. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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And how hard (or cost effective) is it to get a frickin' stylist a/or a wig maker to make Goku's spikey hair? It doesn't have to be super-duper accurate, but man, that actor's hair is as flat as some anime characters bustlines. |
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Asian Guy
Posts: 118 Location: ASIA - Land Of Anime - |
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No DBZ not inspired from any other existing show before it is made by Akira Toriyama, you can only hope.
I don't see the decision the American made to use their own peoples as the character as something that disrespect the Japanese or Asian nature of the series. It is just I'm saying the movie will fail like one missed call for not using Japanese or Asian characters especially DBZ are based from Anime thus characters are Asians. Not to mention it is involving Asian martial arts such as Kung Fu. |
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LordPrometheus
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lol, good point. Those are the classic earmarks of a troll. My bad for feeding him. |
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GATSU
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Asian Guy: One Missed Call failed, because no one big was in it, and because the theme wasn't that great in the first place.
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Zac
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Not to mention I think they spent $10 marketing it. Also it's kind of funny to think that the average American moviegoer was like "Hm, what's this movie about.... what, no asians are this?! Well, count me out!" |
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ANN_Bamboo
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I think they were shooting for realism, dude. No one's going to run around with 2 ft. spikes, because it's a) not feasible to do in a time-efficient manner every morning before school/work/your day, and b) it would just get squashed while fighting anyway. They decided on Chatwin's hair probably because it was realistic, yet resemblant of Goku's hair. And they *do* have a stylist-- who decided on that style. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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I'm actually a girl..... |
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