Like I said, I personally find it far more interesting to see how a normal teenager, one whose sense of justice is underdeveloped due to his age, would react to being given ultimate power. The concept of the Death Note is a fascinating one and it could work outside of Light’s story arc. We would be able to forgo the annoying white-washing aspect of this as well. Hell, you changed them so their bordering on unrecognizable anyway. Don’t toy with the characters from the original anime. What they should have done was create this in the world of Death Note following the fall of Kira. That being said, they should have scrapped the idea of making this an adaptation of the original Death Note. They work off of each other rather than Mia just being a pawn in Light’s game. Considering how annoying I always found Misa, I thought this was a welcome change. She’s the one that constantly manipulates Light and tries to make him go further and further. Rather than being a total air-headed bimbo like she has been in other incarnations, Misa is the instigator. I have to say that when the focus was on the power struggle between Light and his girlfriend Mia (Misa in the manga/anime), it was actually pretty interesting. It isn’t until the final leg of the movie that he truly turns into the evil genius puppet master that we all know and love. Rather than see him go from being a bored genius to Wrathful Death God in 2.4 seconds, we actually saw some character progression. With the Light for Netflix’s Death Note, we were able to see how the Death Note could affect a normal, down-to-earth person. I know I’ll aggravate a lot of people by saying this but…he was essentially an Evil Gary-Stu. He was a super genius that was bored with his life because he was so much better than everyone at everything. I don’t dislike Light as a character there just…isn’t much to him outside of being Kira. As someone who really enjoyed Death Note when it first came out and spent hours in bookstores reading the manga, what held my interest wasn’t Light’s character, it was the game of cat-and-mouse between him and L. I mean when they focused more on the psychology of the person wielding the Death Note. I’m not talking about Light being your stereotypical bullied kid or the weird stylistic feel this film has, or whatever the hell happened to L. That being the farther they got from the original source material, the better the movie became. Going back to adapting Death Note, I noticed something rather peculiar about this film. Anime is like a fever dream and, generally, it tries to appeal more to a person’s emotions rather than their intellect. Very often times certain plot points, physics, and general progression do not make sense. They want what they are seeing to make sense.Īnime has it’s own rules in that it has no rules. Most movie watchers go into film with a certain level of expectation. Okay, so that seems like it defeats the purpose of making an adaptation doesn’t it? Well, here’s the thing.Īny attempt at making an anime into a live-action film is going to be dead on arrival as the expectations for anime and live-action film are completely different.Īnime works based on its own convoluted logic and the translation of that to screen is…not a smooth one. Get as far away as the original source material as possible. I actually think this film could have been salvageable if they had done but one thing: Things were unnecessarily added, the crux of the story was taken away, and characters were butchered for the sake of “plot” *coughLcough* It was a colossal disaster as a film as well as an adaptation. Okay! Okay! Calm down! I never said it was good. I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as people think it is. It was weird, it was convoluted, and it completely fell apart at the seams. I know everyone is in shock about this but Netflix created a live-action film adaptation of beloved anime series and manga Death Note….and it was not well received.
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