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Death Note (2017) - Criminally Westernized
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Shirleon joins Melvin in summarizing one of the single most hated western adaptions of an anime to date: Death Note from Adam Wingard! From sporadic over-the-top violence to an extremely emotional protagonist, Death Note was a Hollywood picture a long-time coming, and while it's soured as a classic example of Netflix' early foibles, we're ready to find out what it is that really separates Death Note from it's anime counterpart.
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 33-minutes of Melvin asking Shirleon what 15-different fictional and non-fictional characters would do if they received the death note, from Dr. Who to John Snow, and how they would be stopped from killing more people. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- A Hollywood adaption of the Death Note story has been shopped around for nearly a decade by the time Netflix got its hands on the project.
- It doesn't take long before Shirleon and Melvin start to notice a series of issues with Death Note (2017).
- Discussing the characteristic disparity between Light Turner and Light Yagami.
- As The Ring is to Ringu, so to is Death Note (2017) to Death Note (2006). Everything is overly Americanized, including the tone.
- The very second L is introduced is when the movie begins to go completely downhill. It gets embarrassing.
- Discussing how the third act makes literally no sense if you spend even a second thinking about it.
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