- AKA
- Fancy
What you’re saying about the world opening up in the past few decades and making foreign media more accessible now than ever before is true, but I don’t think it’s so much “changing things for American Audiences” than it is just adapting a popular story and telling it from a different perspective.
Japanese philosophies/values are not the same as American ones and Japanese media tends to portray things a bit differently than American media, so perhaps the American Death Note will offer something different enough from the Japanese original to warrant its existence. Kind of like how you can often count on Bollywood remakes to be a bit campier and melodramatic than the Hollywood original. Can’t forget the musical numbers either, lol. Besides, it’s not as though making this adaptation is going to replace the original; indeed, I’d wager that the majority of folks who are likely going to watch this series will have already been familiar with the manga/anime.
Now the implication that an “American Audience” needs a white actor is a different problem. They could have easily have casted a Japanese-American as Light and kept the last name "Yagami" as some anonymous voices on the internet have been arguing. That would have been just as fine, but still “American.”
Me, personally, my main beef is this plethora of remakes/reboots/sequels/prequels that’s been trending in film and television in general. I dunno if it’s always been like this but I never realised because I didn’t have the internet to tell me, or if Hollywood has been genuinely lazy in their efforts to put out original content. Methinks it's the latter.
Japanese philosophies/values are not the same as American ones and Japanese media tends to portray things a bit differently than American media, so perhaps the American Death Note will offer something different enough from the Japanese original to warrant its existence. Kind of like how you can often count on Bollywood remakes to be a bit campier and melodramatic than the Hollywood original. Can’t forget the musical numbers either, lol. Besides, it’s not as though making this adaptation is going to replace the original; indeed, I’d wager that the majority of folks who are likely going to watch this series will have already been familiar with the manga/anime.
Now the implication that an “American Audience” needs a white actor is a different problem. They could have easily have casted a Japanese-American as Light and kept the last name "Yagami" as some anonymous voices on the internet have been arguing. That would have been just as fine, but still “American.”
Me, personally, my main beef is this plethora of remakes/reboots/sequels/prequels that’s been trending in film and television in general. I dunno if it’s always been like this but I never realised because I didn’t have the internet to tell me, or if Hollywood has been genuinely lazy in their efforts to put out original content. Methinks it's the latter.
