I think that maybe true to an extent, but if you’re dealing with a future America, you can project at least some of that into your new setting. It’s not like we don’t have a tangle of government here between CIA, NSA, and the military. A small specialized organization dedicated to cyborgs, AI, and hacking seems…
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I think it just depends on what part of the GITS story you want to adapt. If you’re just looking at the original movie, it’s mostly about the nature of self, the nature of AI, and how the cyborg technologies are really blurring the lines between human and machine.
Really? You can’t imagine the same technology and the issues related to it being set in America, or a portion of America?
Ah yes, that was why I skilled the second season of Stand Alone Complex. Its weird that I don’t mind that sort of thing when it’s an American Production, but it always makes me feel a bit weird coming out of Japan.
It at least puts the question into the realm of cultural appropriation rather than whitewashing, at least. Sci-fi and fantasy are a little more forgiving in that way at least. It’s not like we’re remaking something that is heavily steeped in Japanese history and culture, though that has been done with Kurasawa films…
I wish they had just taken the general setting of Ghost In The Shell and just transferred it to America and named her Major Mary Kimble, or something like that. Scarlett Johansson is a good choice to play that style character, given that she’s good at being vaguely unsettling, but there’s nothing really about that…
Even if his books aren’t as widely read, I think they’d still be kept on just because they were adapted into classic horror movies. The Shining alone will stand the test of time as part of Kubriks larger body of work.
Exactly... and it would also have had to avoid leaving fossils for it’s entire natural history. When you have huge deposits of megafauna animals in tar pits and bone beds, and scientists in Asia that can ID a giant ape from a fragment of a tooth... it just doesn’t seem likely.
Man, what nonsense. I’ve read from the skeptics, and a lot of times they are actual scientists who have subjected the evidence the Bigfoot people bring them to actual scientific analysis. It’s not some fault in their ability to believe, its the Bigfoot people being unwilling to accept that they’re just chasing bears.
There’s just a higher level of corruption and creepiness in the Russian oligarch class. My Russian cowokers tell me stories about them owning their own private armies complete with main battle tanks. It’s probably better than it was, but they’re deeply, deeply sketchy people.
I love how any skepticism to a pie in the sky dream of a billionaire gets treated like I’ve just shut the doors to NASA and told everyone to go home because space exploration is dumb :)
Apollo worked because it had backing and dedication too... consider that SpaceX is a whole company and it’s still a ways away from accomplishing anything like what this oligarch wants. I’d be much more excited if he was trying to do something for space science like Bill and Melinda Gates are doing for bioscience.
And that cost huge amounts of money and three lives, for a destination that was the cosmic equivalent of going to your own back yard. And was the product of an entire government division. Not some random Russian oligarch.
I’m all for their success, but there is a certain point where your ambition is outstripping your actual abilities. And this is about a mile down the road from that.
The big difference is that, even if Avengers had done less than a billion, it still left its audience pretty pumped and excited. BvS has its defenders, but my one friend who actually has seen it was about as excited by it as he was seeing his favorite NCAA team play well and then lose. He wasn’t quoting anything, or…