(04-14-2016, 05:03 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: A friend who doesn't play FFXIV or RP put it best. "It feels really white-washed. Why would an Asian woman pick a white-girl's body?"Well as far as 'choosing', the original Ghost in the Shell story showed that Matoko's body is a mass-produced version, so it being 'Asian' would depend on the country it's being portrayed in. It also depends on if Scarlet is going to even be playing Matoko/Major. I expect them to change plot elements to make it appeal more to your traditional American audience, for instance, it won't be set in Japan, etc.
I mostly agreed. While Scarlet Johannson is quite pretty, I just don't think she fits the role of what I would be looking for in a GitS movie. Nothing about says "mass-produced generic female" either, which is what GitS Stand Alone Complex would leads us to believe.
So....I've got low expectations. It can't possibly be as bad as say, the Dragon Ball movies, but I'm also not expecting it to raise the bar of anime -> live action movies made in the US.
I feel like Ghost in the Shell is one of those types of anime that you can change the setting as far as culture and country goes (unlike anime such as Airbender). Something like that would be going on all over the world with cyborgs fighting crime and whatnot.
But for now all we really know is that Scarlet is going to be in it, and like other anime to live action adaptations it'll probably still suck.
