Let's talk about the whitewashed trainwreck that is "Ghost in the Shell"...

Let's talk about the whitewashed trainwreck that is "Ghost in the Shell"... if you still want to watch the movie: beware of spoilers.

The movie argues that Scarlett Johannson is actually Japanese. The whitewashing is a plot point. It still leaves me speechless.

The plot twist is that Scarlett Johansson is the brain of the Japanese girl Motoko Kusanagi in the body of a white person.

The peak of the absurdity is that they even cast a Japanese actress as Motoko for a flashback, but you never see her face.

The movie ends with Johannson standing in front of Motoko Kusanagis grave, being hugged by her Japanese mother. What the fuck.


So if this is really supposed to be the start of a franchise, it starts with literally killing the Japanese origins of the story.

They cut the scene where Johansson kisses a woman, shown in the trailer. It's noteable because there's an (implied) male love interest

They also almost completely cut out Togusa, played by Chin Han. He's barely an extra but it feels like his role was bigger at some point.


And then there's also a transphobic joke... in a science fiction movie where robot people are fully accepted.

There needs to be a lot of discussion following this film but I worry that it'll be hindered by the fear of openly talking about "spoilers"

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Is it already out?

not anime, gb2 Sup Forums

So L being black may actually be a plot point

good movie :^)

>And then there's also a transphobic joke...

You mean where they make fun of trannies or they cry about someone being "intolerant"?

L only cares about Kira killing criminals because all criminals are black

The original 1995 film wasn't any good anyway.

>And then there's also a transphobic joke
dammit guess I'm giving it my money, need to support free speech

Were there really any expectations for this, at all?

But Kira really is racist. Half the people he kills are black people when they only make up thirteen percent of the population.

>White washing lol

>Creator of ghost in the shell: What issue could there possibly be with casting her?

indiewire.com/2017/03/ghost-in-the-shell-mamoru-oshii-scarlett-johansson-whitewashing-1201796378/

Japs think she fits the role, cause it's anime so she shouldn't be asian.
youtube.com/watch?v=2DhoBuU1Dtc

I'm pretty sure a majority of people he killed to begin with were japanese until L caught on to him and he started killing people from Murica

>ask some retards on the street
>get shitty opinion
I mean I don't give a fuck she's white. I'd actually prefer if she was black but looked like an actual battle cyborg, not a chubby midget.

You do you think we care about whitewashing? Go back to tumblr or whatever the hell you came from.

Why didn't they cast a female Asian actor that was okay with kissing females for a whole scene? I'm sure there was quite a few.

I'm pretty sure Netflix's Death Note is set in America, and therefore he would be killing a disproportionate amount of black people.

Might have to give it a watch now

> We

(You)

you sound like a massive faggot

What the hell is going on here?

That's true but they'd stir up a whole ton of shit if they did do that so the scene of him going on a killing spree will likely involve every race for the sole reason to avoid triggering people.

Regardless it'll probably flop or fuck up the story like this movie did, Hollywood attempting to film anime movies was a mistake.

>whitewashed
Stopped reading, kill yourself kike.

Honestly, I'm more curious about the second criminal, you know the motorcycle gang rape?

That's a black thing mostly,but I wonder if Netflix will actually make it a minority?

They should have just done their own thing, set in america, completely new story, give scarlett an american name, call it GitS because you want to make money whatever

Y'know, I could care less about L being black.

All that matters is that he's British.

>cause it's anime so she shouldn't be asian
Yeah, but the point is she *is* actually asian in the movie, only they didn't want to cast an asian for the role and made up a reason for her to look white while being asian.

That's what DBE did and no one wants to repeat that.

>whitewashed
its time to get off Sup Forums, normalfag

Mods cant touch me phoneposters are the best hahahahaha

>People still thinking that whitewashing is the problem

The problem is that someone decided that Ghost in the Shell needed a live action remake in the first place. This film has zero chance of being better than the original manga or the anime.

For a while it sort of looks like they do, only you eventually realize they didn't.

They should make them Muslims. Light would be trying to solve the refugee crisis such as the one plaguing Europe.

Moar like Train in the Wreck amirite?

>whitewashed
>transphobic
Back to tumblr.

Her mind is possibly maybe japanese, even that is totally ambiguous, her model however is a perfect replica of the puppet masters.

Asians don't have big blue eyes user.

The man who created the movie himself said she's perfect for the role, just how he'd envision a real life major.

So you're wrong shit head.

It actually matters more, L is so white he's almost albino from never being outside in the sunlight.

>Bitch about a transgender joke
>Hate on a character who's transracial

I'm sensing some dissonance here.

that is a jew, not a white girl

call it jewashed instead

>motorcycle gang rape
>That's a black thing mostly

Where the fuck are there black motorcycle gangs?

I have to admit that any sort of trans stuff in GitS-verse is really (and needs to be portrayed in a movie as really) different from anything in present day precisely because people adopt all sorts of bodies. It's not even a pure human thing, you see a number of times in the series where folks have adopted flat out 100% non-human bodies (can't remember the name of that box one, was it the "Jameson" or something like that? supposed to be some super old type). All the current angst about it should be gone in a world with cyberbrains being pretty mature technology and common even for little children.

It'd be just like Hollywood though to try to make it about current affairs which would entirely miss the fucking point.

No, I just came back from seeing the movie (which is out in europe), and they outright say it. She's a japanese girl but when they built her cyber body they made her caucasian, just because.

I don't know but that sounds hilarious

Is it worth watching for a laugh?

>whitewashing
>transphobic
Who let tumblr out?

>There needs to be a lot of discussion following this film
It's SO important, amirite?

>Using images from the old flipped westernized pages.


Fucking disgusting.

>whitwewashing
Do you seriously care about that instead of hiring the hack that is ScarJo?
Or that goat fuckers are still a thing in the future?
Or that the Major looks no way neat japanese in the original material?

Plz fuck off back to tumblr or plebbit or whatever it is that you idiots congregate.

And that's exactly why someone would be transphobic.

Doesn't that make any sense?

Why does it matter that hes British or European for the matter? They are literally rewriting the story for tumblrites, fuck source material

Actually in this movie cyberbrains aren't a mature technology at all and the major is the first person to have a fully working cyborg body.

>expected them to go full MGSV
>instead they went full retard

Cool beans Daniel. Now fuck off of Sup Forums.

Dude there was stuff about black motorcycle gangs in national news just a few days ago. Niggers be niggers everywhere.

It was all we had back in the day, you shitty little brat.

>Or that goat fuckers are still a thing in the future?

Is that really so unbelievable? At this rate, Europe will be a caliphate.

I meant gang rape,not motorcycles. Motorcycle gangs in Japan are regarded as trash right alongside yakuza.

Oshii didn't create GitS you flaming faggoty newfag.

>Or that the Major looks no way neat japanese in the original material?
No, see, that shouldn't matter, except they do make her japanese in the movie, only she's a jap with Scarlet Johansson's face

>ellipses
>whitewashing
>It still leaves me speechless.
>And then there's also a transphobic joke...
>reddit spacing
This post has to be bait, right? What tumblr fucking sperg wrote this shit?

underrated

When you see the movie it's pretty obvious it's an adaptation of Oshii's work and not Shirow though. They even have the dog and a fucking Avalon reference.

85% sure it's going to be wank.

Adverts for it bloody everywhere, which means they want enough people to go on opening day before word of mouth gets around.

>reddit spacing

and you think HE'S the one being autistic?

>ITT

Nah, saw it too and it's all pretty accurate

Not an anime or manga

Naturally, nobody even knows about Shirow here in the west. I'm a big fan of Oshii's version but I fucking hate him for becoming such a faggot after Jin-Roh. Fucker deserves to die after praising this Hollywood version.

Kill yourself.

Gassed?

let's not a say we didn't.. it's great here in Sup Forums

Fucking retarded.

no u

No it was because you were too lazy use a use a copy of the Japanese version and do a scanlation of it. I'm still baffled that scans Online a just the American publication from the 90s. So don't

>The movie argues that Scarlett Johannson is actually Japanese. The whitewashing is a plot point. It still leaves me speechless.
I FUCKING CALLED IT YOU COCKSUCKER
I TOLD YOU THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN
I FUCKING TOLD YOU
I KNEW IT WAS A FUCKIGN STEALTH MARKETING CAMPAIGN
I FUCKING TOLD YOU, YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT
WHO'S THE CONSPIRACY THEORIST NOW?

I KNOW YOU'RE HERE, user.
COME ON OUT.

*Don't give me that horseshit

>I'm gonna be outraged over a movie I dont care about

fuck off anti-shill, im still going to watch it with five of my bros.

Hollywood making live action anime adaptions does nothing but draw in newfags who could care less. Not only that but it butchers integral parts of the story. How many female actors of Asian or Japanese descent could have taken Scarlet's place?

Yeah (((people))) actually bring him as an argument as if he's been relevant the past decade+ after he abandoned anime.

Literally who cares about whitewashing GitS? The problem is making a kike live action hollywood adaptation of anime.

this thread is awful

This entire post is copy paste of something on Sup Forums
I looked because this seems like something that no normal Sup Forumsnon would complain about. And even that post is a copy paste of some tumblerinas bullshit.

There is some valid point though. This ending is completely moronic, and the story line they built around this stupidity is absolutely ridiculous.

It actually doesn't.

You don't need to be white to not go outside.

>Oishii created Ghost In The shell.
Fuck you

>Watching movies
>socializing
Damn it user, why can't you be a hiki neet like all the cool kids?

Wait, where are the Tachikomas?

This is a plot point in GITS too

Even the author came out and said the SHELL changes and doesn't fucking matter.

I hate weebs so much

I don't care about "white-washing", but I think they should have chosen someone younger (18-21 years old) to play the role.

>They also almost completely cut out Togusa,
How? His unmodified perspective is a core element of the whole story and lore.

I mean the movie is shit but not for the tumbrl tier reasons you list. Fuck off.
>L was raised on the mean streets of compton where he learned to read people
If L doesn't speak in ebonics the movie has 0% chance of being even decent. William defoe is a perfect fit if there ever was one for Ryuk though. That however will not save the movie.

Because I grew out of the hiki phase.You either die a hikki or see yourself become a normalfag. Plus how else would you afford your gunpla and pvc? Those are hundreds of dollars a pop.
I started taking meds. Prozac is one hell of a drug.

Why? She isn't that young

Are you dumb

Tired of this teenage young meme

>weeb clickbait video
Why do you people keep posting these? I know watching anime related shit will make them pop up as recommended, but I didn't expect that Sup Forumsnons would be watching "10 cherrypicked responses showing how these Japanese girls totally want to fuck you and basically you're fucking stupid".

The events depicted are indecipherable due to bad writing no matter which way the image is flipped.

An 18-21 year old to be the major? Fuck no.

I'm not bothered about whit washing, but only insofar as it be a literal adaption, transplanting the setting of Ghost in the Shell to New York or something, and just have everyone be white, well not white, you know what I mean, representative of the racial make-up of the US. People would piss and moan about that because it wouldn't be in Japan, but I would prefer that to this weird, half-and-half, best of both worlds approach they've been shooting for. All or nothing, not this.

Whitewashing is only a concern if your a hardcore fan of the series and really wanted a nip to be Kusanagi.

He created all the good shit about GiTS.

He is the reason GiTS is popular and where its at today

As it's an adaptation of the Oshii movie you don't get tachikomas. Batou has dogs to care for instead, and you do get the spider tank.

Well, he only get about two lines here, one of which being about how he's fully biological (not even a cyberbrain, he's got an earphone to listen to the others' cyberchatter). That's still one or two more lines than most other section 9 members outside of Batou and Aramaki

That chick from Pacific Rim. Race isn't whats pissing me off its that the major doesn't make that phase. Its like the phase of a lost sheep who is continually surprised and or cautius. The major is a realist and I don't see a realist making that sort of face, at least not on the job.

>obvious bait thread
>people respond seriously and start whining about Sup Forums and Sup Forums being compromised by the tumblr SJW boogeyman
Faggots abound.