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Sunday, April 24, 2005

booting rantbot XP
OMG THERE IS NO GOD!! okay.... so maybe that didn't make much sense, but just aboutl 80% of my worst nightmares and 30% of my total fears just came true.

Front page. live action NGE movie.

...................

so I never did expect the whole thing to come alive. I thought it was just some rumors flying about the net.

But no. they actually had to go open the pandora's box. ugh, ya know, the thing is the CG pics look AWSOME! I'd really like to see some 3-d rendered and actual 50 foot tall evas running around....... but no. they have to 1) make it american and 2) have real people try and act out this anime.

So that brings up point number one. american. see, they have a pretty nasty history about the whole anime adaptaion thing, i don't have to go much farther in that field......

but what REALLY honked my horn was the characters. they don't look 16!!! they look.. iono, 30!!! the eva pilots are suppose to be teenagers, in the years where they are unsure of everything, and in an environment where even the adults are unsure of everything. but the concept sketches i can deal with since it's just pictures. BUT they HAD to a) change names and b) change the hair color. RAY?? KATE ROSE??? where the bleep did those names come from!?!? obviously, Rei became ray because they thought american audiences.. would assume that anyway, which is 100% true. I'm pretty thankful for the fact that they didn't turn her into a BOY. kate rose? way to sissy for asuka. and their hair! obviously, blue hair wouldn't work as well, i can LIVE with rei being a brunette, but we still love her original hair T_T.

but point number 2, live action is what gets me because eva, being the amazingly poignant anime it is, is perfect for an anime because you can make the characters do whateve ryou want, with the right amount of intensity. with live actors, it's harder because their human, and they might be dumb humans and they might be able to grasp how to act that way when the young boy you were suppose to take care of becomes more and more distant from you, and eventually sucked into an alternate dimension becaus of his own folly.

I wonder how hideaki anno (the original director) feels about the namem changes...

I liked the eva sketches at least.
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