So, without further ado, let me dissect my claim. This time, the issue can be found in the script, the story surrounding Motoko and the relationship Hollywood has with its audience. It is a vague adaptation, for sure, but I can confidently say that the act of adaptation was not the element that failed (as we get pretty much the basis of what the original Ghost in the Shell is about).
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By any means, Ghost in the Shell (2017) is a good movie but is definitely not the worst. Reading interviews and reviews, the same narrative was shared by otaku basing their criticism in what the western critics said. I know we get too close-minded when it comes to Hollywood however, there is always someone who spins the narrative around to have a new way to see the content not as good, but to see the film with a new perspective (kind of what a Shounen author would do with a villain.) Days, months and years passed, no such thing appeared online.
I also expected the anime community to have valid constructive criticism to the film. Nevertheless, I expected Western reviewers to give their take on why the film didn’t work however, I didn’t expect for them to add their own narratives to complain about elements that didn’t have any bearing to construct their criticism. Ghost in the Shell (2017) opened up wounds from triggered reviewers to triggered anime fans to triggered weeabos… the film was an undeniable flop. If Dragon Ball Evolution was any indication of how ashamed Hollywood was to make a fool out of themselves, integrating the nonsensical elements from Ghost in the Shell would be taken out, watered down, forcing the explanations to align Japanese Sci-fi and Hollywood’s Sci-fi and, at the end of the day, misrepresenting the original material. Since the rumors of Hollywood’s take on Ghost in the Shell, I wondered how it would play out because the culture shock, cinematographic language and narratives are quite different in the West. Sure, it has a more mature, cold and serious tone but ultimately, it took a different approach to the material. The 1995 film is a thread sticking out of a canvas compared to what the manga is. The Anime is so obscure and Motoko couldn’t be more different from the manga. This makes the manga even a more complicated take on the battle about her humanity because those lines are even fuzzier than the film. Some of these factors are: the language barrier, because sometimes, translations can be confusing Masamune’s tendency to introduce walls of texts with a lot military, diplomatic and world-building lingo the formal talk, ample vocabulary and grammar can become quite fancy and, I don’t think people can get over the shocking revelation of how different the tone of the manga is and finding out that Motoko is not a stoic, solitary character… at all. You see, the manga has even more intricate elements that make the story convoluted, complex and tricky to understand. It is even more difficult as a franchise because there is no adaptation of the original manga that’s completely accurate and if you are looking for a source to understand the material, I don’t think the manga will clear everything up, unless you really take some time to do so. Aside from “ahead of its time”, role model for other movies that deal with the same issues and an exciting cyber-punk adventure, I don’t know if I my brain can deconstruct more than that, even if I tried. If I could tell you what makes Ghost in the Shell special, I would need to take more time trying to figure out what made the film transcendent as there are so many things the film did to be called revolutionary. I still like the film, although is not one of those films I would watch for entertainment purposes, but to study. Although I can pick up some ideas better than before, I still don’t understand the intricacies of the world entirely.
I still have difficulties finding out what the plot is behind some vague dialogues at the heart of the movie. Armed with more consciousness due my age and knowledge, I thought I would understand more of it. To refresh my memory, I decided to watch the original film once again. The last time I watched the movie was in 2004 and since then, the movie has been accumulating dirt on my shelf.
I didn’t understand a whole lot, so I re-watched it another five times in the spawn of three years.
I was 11 years old when I watched Ghost in the Shell (1995) for the first time back in 2000.
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