what is going on in here
Not really. He was a sociopath, but everyone around him thought he was pretty much a perfect specimen.This implies that Light wasn't already an edgelord.
Come on
S2 onwards in the anime was straight up shit
would be hard af to not top it
Dude called himself a god. Even him eating a chip was portrayed as a cold and calculated move by himself.Not really. He was a sociopath, but everyone around him thought he was pretty much a perfect specimen.
Light Turner ≠ Light Yagami
I have no idea how you can critique Light Turner in this American movie adaptation without seeing how well his character fits within the context of the setting and story.
Come on
S2 onwards in the anime was straight up shit
would be hard af to not top it
obviously, and by american, we mean wholesome and white.
Light Turner ≠ Light Yagami
I have no idea how you can critique Light Turner in this American movie adaptation without seeing how well his character fits within the context of the setting and story.
I mean L is African American.
Brightness messed with eye color it seems.
His reading of his lines were very stiff and unnatural. Im not critiquing the character but the acting.
L wasnt the subject.
Light turner and Light yagami was.
His reading of his lines were very stiff and unnatural. Im not critiquing the character but the acting.
Because a killer being called "killer" is stupid in an English language movie.I dunno. Considering KIRA is just "Killer" written in Katakana, it doesnt make much sense to still call him that unless Light is obsessed with Japanese stuff in this movie.
Is that the kid from naked brothers band?
Fixed2BeBroken
Y'know damn well they were never going to cast an Asian American in the lead. Truth be told, the thought probably never crossed their mind.
doesnt change the fact they should have. if they got some big name/good actor who actually looked like Light.... maybe I'd give it a pass. but they got this no name scrub who who didnt seem like light at all. gtfo
Not a fan of this halfway localization. Either go full American or full Japanese. A pasty dude called Kira? Death God? That doesn't work if you don't have a culture of Kami, would be better off calling him a demon. A couple of other things make it look kinda eh too, though I do like some of the photography and of course Dafoe hamming it up.
He looks nothing like Light.I disagree, he seems pretty well cast. He looks like Light to me
Looks alright. Not a direct adaptation, but adapting some of it's core themes and ideas.
Changing Light is most likely to make him more ambigious. Original light was completely unlikable ass.
But that's what made him lovable as a character
LOL Y'know the industry is made for them.
Our casting directors did an extensive search to get Asian actors, but we couldnt find the right person, the actors we did go to didnt speak the perfect English and the characters had been rewritten, he said. They could have gone [with an] Asian [actor], I cant deny that. The studios were adamant about trying to cast Asian actors. I mean, this was a difficult one. It was something we were definitely conscious about.
Because a killer being called "killer" is stupid in an English language movie.
Same reason why the dub of the anime still called him "Kira".
Looks good, and Kira isn't just a Japanese name btw. I've known two white girls named Kira.
Straight from Masi Oka...
first of all, there are a ton of young asian american actors who speak perfect english cause u know, they were born in America, also
the studio is full of shit because they literally told asian actors to their face that they werent looking to cast an asian. (which happened to Edward Zo). hell, Ki hong Lee would have killed as Light and hes been in bigger movies than this random nobody.
Yeah, I know the story, and I'm pretty certain it was the producers who made the final decisions for their movie. Ironically 3/4 of the producers are Asian American. The truth is they were probably only ever looking for White actors to play the part of Light.