Why Hollywood's adaptation of Japan's native ACG into a live-action movie has no good results?

Why Hollywood's adaptation of Japan's native ACG into a live-action movie has no good results? I think the reason lies in the Japanese ACG, especially the values ​​conveyed by some ACG works that explore the theme of deep (dark) engraving (black), compared to the "love", "family first" and "justice must win" in mainstream Hollywood popcorn blockbusters ", "liberty and equality" these mainstream values ​​cannot be integrated with each other at all, coupled with the rhetoric in the construction of the world view and the rough copying of the plot details on the surface, a strong sense of disobedience will inevitably arise, even if it is hard to set up more. Robot in kimono, no amount of oriental kanji and decorative elements. Just imagine, if "The Last of US", one of the masterpieces of European and American video games, is adapted into a movie (a bit redundant) or even an animation, will this sense of inconsistency be less obvious?

At the beginning of the film, it is biased to indicate "adapted from the original manga Ghost in the Shell by Shirou Masamune". Personally, I think it is more accurate to indicate that it was adapted from "Oshii Mamoru's 1995 animation". After all, the main points of the film are: the beginning The jumping from the building, the water fighting on the streets of Hong Kong, and the final mechanical tank battle all reproduce the essence of the '95 version of Ghost in the Shell' from the plot and details.

The final treatment of the film is really disappointing, especially for fans of the '95 version of Ghost in the Shell animation, the last element in the original animation is completely thrown away from the body, in the true sense of the form of the soul (Ghost) Since then, he has wandered in the vast online world, but now the live-action film has arranged a very specific body regeneration. The opportunity to point questions on the original ultimate theme has been given up.

The music in the whole film is also a major flaw. Compared with the current film soundtrack, Kenji Kawai's soundtrack in the original animation won't know how many times better. Whether it is for the plot foil, the atmosphere rendering or the biochemical performance of the film's parent, it can be called a rare classic in the animation soundtrack. , the current way of dealing with music in live-action movies, if it is not in the self-righteousness of "based on the original, higher than the original", it is estimated that it can only be interpreted as a copyright issue.

The choice of the protagonist is really a big flaw. In the original animation, Suzi is a character who has extreme control over his emotions and emotions. The role of the major in the live-action film, under the forceful interpretation of the widow sister, can indeed be said to be "flesh and blood, love and affection. "Righteousness" has been improved a lot, but it just lost the cold "Ghost temperament" of the original characters.

All in all, the film work itself once again confirmed the failure of the Hollywood blockbuster of Japan's native ACG. Hopefully no one will try to make the 2004 version of "Innocence" again, and hopefully the next adaptation won't be a classic ACG like "Akira".

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