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I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialSo you're fine with Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe, but not Big Applesauce? It's not like the Japanese setting was important to the story.
edited 20th Oct '11 9:12:44 AM by RavenWilder
Indeed. Kurosawa did Shakespeare in Feudal Japan while Sergio Leone John Sturges placed Yojimbo and Seven Samurai in a Western setting. The actual setting of the story is kinda trivial, outside of some of the Shinto aspects and American involvement towards the end of the manga. Now, I don't necessarily have my hopes up for the movie but I don't see the big deal with transporting the setting.
edited 20th Oct '11 11:14:41 AM by Kentok
You can get what you want and still not be very happy.Yes, but Seven Samurai is a case where you can quite easily make a transition to a western counterpart like John Sturges did in Magnificent Seven. Though they are cosmetically different, in the end they are the same location; rural farmland. Changing something like Tokyo to Manhattan is a whole other animal. Both cities have different histories and atmospheres which affect the way you see and interact with it. Tokyo is just as important a character as the others, you can't just change it.
Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.You mean aside the fact that its grounded in recent japanese history like Hiroshima, Economic Resurgence and Over-Populaisation, nothing. Why?
Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.Okay, I get the Hiroshima comparison, but what do economic resurgence or overpopulation have to do with Akira?
Are you serious? You don't see comparisons to 1980's Japan and their economy since Hiroshima in Akira. In the book, Japan manages to bring itself back up after World War III, so much so that they have plans to host the frickin' Olympic Games. As for the over-population, have you seen Neo-Tokyo?! The city is huge! The population is so big, the government barely has control.
Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.So it's optimistic about humanity's chances following a large scale nuclear war; big deal.
Seemed like a run-of-the-mill overcrowded metropolis to me, not too different from many that exist all over the world in Real Life.
And both just happen to tie directly to Japan. Im just saying that if you were to change it from Tokyo to Manhattan, you would be losing alot of the story and the subtext.
Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.

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