Joshua Tyler | publishing
Large budget, interstellar special effects Monopoly is no longer guaranteed.
But the box office landscape was different in 2017 rock When people still think Star Wars is on the rise, they can do something wrong, and miracles are attracting a large number of viewers. Final game Crescendo.
In this environment, the world’s largest star released a huge budget, look, super, high concept sci-fi action based on beloved original materials. With a reported production budget of $118 million, plus $60 million in marketing, Paramount is targeting global franchisees, hoping to go with matrixSince 1999, the world has reached S$460 million.
The world responded to the film with anger and condemnation, but that wasn’t the only problem.
This is the reason The ghost in the shell Failed.
Stephen Spielberg is a giant fan of the 1995 classic anime movie The ghost in the shell. At the time, he called anime “one of the most visionary science fiction movies of all time”, and his passion kept DreamWorks away from rivals like Sony.
So in 2008, his company Dreamworks gained the right to turn it into a live-action movie.
Translating it into a usable script proved difficult. Bringed many writers and tried different approaches. None of them worked.
The biggest problem is that DreamWorks wants something that can access the audience, and that’s impossible, and that’s impossible.
Rated-R, the 1995 anime made only $2 million worldwide, but followers. Paramount needs a blow to justify the film’s budget, breaking at least $400 million globally.
Finally, they hired director Rupert Sanders Snow White and the Hunter.
His solution is to be true to the visual fidelity of the anime while focusing the story more on the action to cater to the average audience.
Sanders fired in New Zealand and Hong Kong, using 3,000 CGI shots and practical suits to recreate the anime’s City landscape, and Weta Workshop designed the Grand Slam bodysuit. The script prioritizes actions, such as the battle of Yiish robots, and the heavy philosophy of dialogue on anime.
Scarlett Johansson joined the project in 2015 to play the leading role in the film.
Thanks to the fight against black widow, Scarlett Johansson became an action idol in 2015, investing fame in an avant-garde sci-fi project that will essentially be as close to naked nudes as possible in PG-13 movies for most runtime.
The professional bodysuit is designed to mimic the nude aesthetics of anime, but uses opaque materials to ensure the PG-13 rating, thus avoiding R-class nudity from the original original.
Scarlett Johansson took a lot of these risks during this part of her career.
In 2013, she won praise for her role in an independent science fiction movie Under the skinshe played a cannibal alien before investing in the victim. The film made $7 million for $13 million, but earned huge acclaim, with Johnson’s nude scene sparking debates about art and exploitation.
If nothing else, Johnson should earn more career credits for his willingness to take significant risks. She rejected a safer role Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Jurassic World Pursue The ghost in the shellbetting redefined as the potential for science fiction leading.
So, she was very suitable The ghost in the shellIf she is Japanese, she is the leader.
Breaking News: Scarlett Johnson is not Japanese. Meanwhile, the characters in the anime version and the original comic version of the story are definitely.
More in a minute.
First, let’s look at the movie they ended up shooting because purely as an entertaining test, isolated from the controversy, it’s actually good, very good.
The ghost in the shell It takes place in the future of dystopia where cybernetic enhancement is commonplace and humans merge with machines. The setting borrows from Hong Kong’s skyline and uses 1.5 million LED lights to create the city’s holographic billboards.
The city is a neon city spreading, a hub of technological advancement and corporate strength. Production designer Jan Roelfs has built 12 practical sets, including a 40-foot-tall Hanka Robot Lab to take root in the heavy world of CGI.
The narrative focuses on the philosophical concept of “ghost,” what they call the consciousness or soul of the human being and the “shell”, their body or cybernetic body.
This concept is simplified from the anime, which explores transhumanism through debates about AI’s perceptions to focus on the major’s personal identity crisis.
Scarlett Johansson plays the Major, her first: a person’s brain is placed in a fully synthesized body, a tragic accident that is said to have killed her. The opening ceremony of the film shows her creation, using only 1,200 CGI frameworks, costing only $5 million.
Yes, kind of like Robocop.
But it goes in a completely different direction. Where Robocop Illusion of the company’s greed, The ghost in the shell Explore memory and autonomy, although it reduces the political subtext of anime about government surveillance.
The major’s mission is to stop cyber terrorists, fight against a mysterious hacker, assassinate Hanka scientists by manipulating implants.
As Major investigates, failures in her system (unfamiliar memories) involve a hidden past.
Her pursuit of Kuze reveals conspiracies related to Hanka’s awareness experiment, forcing Major to question her identity and autonomy.
Combining cyberpunk action with existential issues, the film is as stunning visually as the 1995 anime adaptation, but its philosophical implications are less terrifying.
As an action movie, it was a wild journey and a unique experience and deserves praise. The movie’s Tank Battle Finale, recreating the anime’s iconic climax, costs $10 million and requires 400 additional extras.
This is a huge work.
If there is no anime adaptation, I think we’ll probably talk about it The ghost in the shell As a cult classic action movie. Instead, it is destined to be fair or unfair, eternally marked as stupid, probably racist.
From Scarlett Johansson announced as The ghost in the shellLeaders, the world is frightened, loyal fans and people who have never watched anime but want to cash in on politics, screaming and whitewashing.
It is rumored that Paramount and Dreamworks reacted to the anger, considering using CGI “competition” technology to make Johansson look more Asian, reacting to the atrocities.
Thankfully, this never happened. Instead, Paramount sent Japanese actors like Takeshi Kitano and Kaori Momoi to support the role for added authenticity, but that didn’t calm the controversy.
Filmed in June 2016, Paramount bets $250,000 on Super Bowl ads to shift the focus to the film’s visuals.
They might think that when it comes to controversy, this will allow the film to fail or succeed, purely based on whether it is good or not. The studio expects to cost $40 million on the opening weekend of the country, relying on Johnson’s Star and 3D screenings of the film, accounting for 30% of ticket sales.
But, it is undeniable that the script is indeed stupid. The final script is credited to three writers, cutting the anime’s 20-minute philosophical debate by 5 minutes, replacing them with a simple revenge plot.
Narrative in comics, fusion elements, 1995 anime, and Independent complexfeeling incoherent to some people, unable to satisfy purists or attract new audiences. The 2016 test screening score was 65/100, below Paramount’s 80/100 target, prompting a last-minute reshooting of $8 million.
Negative buzzing is everywhere, driving the audience away. A 2017 YouGov poll found that 60% of potential viewers were aware of the whitewash controversy, with 25% saying it made them less likely to watch movies.
The film was released on March 31, 2017 and has long passed the peak of Cyberpunk’s interest matrix In the early 2000s. The movie on the opening weekend is Boss baby Opening $50.2 million, and beauty and the Beast Revenues of $90.4 million in the third week.
The film opened for just $19 million and it alienated its core fan base, which could help make its legs long enough to become a cult.
The trailer for this movie emphasizes the theme of the story and the action that makes it unique. It seems, without a doubt, just another action movie trying to tear apart matrix.
Cast a strong opposition, critical lukewarm, fierce competition, oversized budgets, and a toxic mixture of failure to resonate with fans or casual viewers doom the film. The film’s 3.9/10 IMDB rating and C+ Cinemascore reflect the audience’s reaction, with 40% of the ticket sellers citing Johansson’s cast as a negative factor.
We may never achieve live action again The ghost in the shell adapt. This is a shame because fans should have a faithful view of the story. Paramount’s loss killed the sequel’s plan, and no studios have since pursued IP, with Pokémon or Sonic Hedgehogwhich was a successful adaptation.
But maybe The ghost in the shell Worth getting more credit. After the box office failure, we were even worse for the anime adaptation.
The ghost in the shell Working hard, Hollywood dumped a lot of money to achieve this.
In contrast, with the terrible Netflix, a budget-free live adaptation Denim Bebopor the most forgotten 2018 death Note It’s hard not to doubt whether the world is too difficult The ghost in the shell.
Scarlett Johansson is working hard every minute The ghost in the shellso does every frame of the movie. She performed 90% of the stunts, six weeks of training John WickDavid Leitch.
It is beautiful and bold, and the action is first-class.
Scarlett Johansson wasn’t the first choice to play the profession. This role was first awarded to Margot Robbie. But Robbie refused, rather Suicide Squadher choice is unlikely to regret.
Maybe that’s the right call, but eliminates the controversy and The ghost in the shell It’s a much better movie than Suicide Squad.
Do we all prefer to adapt more faithfully? certainly. But looking in isolation The ghost in the shell It is a well-crafted science fiction movie. And, like the modern box office hits Captain America: A boring new worldat least there are risks.
