Death Note movie (2006)
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oyceterSoon, I will spam all of you with posts on books read during vacation, so be warned! Also, hopefully there will be a more detailed food post (or two, or three) to come.
Anyway, I watched the first Death Note movie on my last day there, as I fortuitously had a day to myself after flight mishaps.
First: was Light a college student in the manga? I so don't remember that. Also, I was a little iffy about the change for his motivation; I completely don't buy Light from the manga being righteously angry about the sorry state of the judicial system. But then, maybe he was in the manga?
I fear my writeup is going to have a lot of these questions, as I don't particularly remember the first few volumes of the manga very clearly.
I similarly didn't buy Light's affection for Shiori, who Wikipedia helpfully tells me was a movie addition.
The part I missed most was watching Light figure out all the rules of the Death Note, since that insane logic was what attracted me to the series in the first place. On the other hand, watching someone sit and think really isn't great movie fodder.
Other changes: Naomi and Raye are Japanese, not white. Probably other stuff I don't remember.
I feel that if one hadn't read the manga, the addition of Misa and Misa's assault would be confusing, as it doesn't really go anywhere in this movie.
All in all, I wasn't too satisfied with the movie, though I will note that CG Ryuk is awesome. And the final twist in the end was rather nifty and justified some things. But in general, the movie removed my favorite parts about the manga, which are the largely unfilmable thinky bits.
Anyway, I watched the first Death Note movie on my last day there, as I fortuitously had a day to myself after flight mishaps.
First: was Light a college student in the manga? I so don't remember that. Also, I was a little iffy about the change for his motivation; I completely don't buy Light from the manga being righteously angry about the sorry state of the judicial system. But then, maybe he was in the manga?
I fear my writeup is going to have a lot of these questions, as I don't particularly remember the first few volumes of the manga very clearly.
I similarly didn't buy Light's affection for Shiori, who Wikipedia helpfully tells me was a movie addition.
The part I missed most was watching Light figure out all the rules of the Death Note, since that insane logic was what attracted me to the series in the first place. On the other hand, watching someone sit and think really isn't great movie fodder.
Other changes: Naomi and Raye are Japanese, not white. Probably other stuff I don't remember.
I feel that if one hadn't read the manga, the addition of Misa and Misa's assault would be confusing, as it doesn't really go anywhere in this movie.
All in all, I wasn't too satisfied with the movie, though I will note that CG Ryuk is awesome. And the final twist in the end was rather nifty and justified some things. But in general, the movie removed my favorite parts about the manga, which are the largely unfilmable thinky bits.
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Wed, Feb. 28th, 2007 12:27 am (UTC)OTOH, I saw the opening animation for the second season of the anime on YouTube today and Mello and Near were in it! I shall have to start actually watching the anime...
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Wed, Feb. 28th, 2007 06:54 pm (UTC)I saw DVDs for the anime in Taiwan! But I ended up passing on them, due to the fear that the Chinese subtitles would make the plot twists too confusing...