So the Death Note live-action netflix
movie trailer has just dropped! Anyway I
just took a look at it so here's some
initial impressions of it. Honestly
watching it it felt a little cringy and
I'm not saying that it looks absolutely
terrible. There's some people saying that
it's god-awful online. But after seeing
it I did think about it for a little bit.
I was telling myself ok let's take a
step back and try to look at this in a
different way. I'm sure everyone watching
has already seen the original Death Note
anime. It's been over 10 years since then,
I remember for starting the series by
reading the manga back when I was in
freaking high school and then shortly
after that we did get the beloved
anime. So since then we had the anime
there's been a couple movies also a TV
drama and even a couple plays although
those only in Japan. So after thinking
about this and then taking a look at the
trailer again I'm actually cautiously
optimistic about it. I mean do we really
want to see the story played out again?
Exact same story only Westernized. I mean
in a way it seems like we're getting
that here but i also think netflix is
going to try to make this different
enough from that actual series. I mean
they're just going to have to. Even if
we've looked back at the already made
live-action movies that were played in Japan
there were some significant changes that
had to be made for those. As for some of
the changes in this Death Note live
action movie before we get to the actors
i should bring up the director. This
netflix original movie is being directed
by Adam Wingard. He's done movies like
The Blair Witch from last year and also
the ABCs of death. In other words this
guy is a horror director. It's pretty
perfect for a project like Death Note. I do
question where they're going to take
this movie though but i'll come back to
this. My only concern here is that this
guy hasn't made anything too successful.
And for the actors most notably the one
that people are going absolutely crazy
for. First off we have Yagami light or
should i say a Light Turner. This time
the actor playing this american version
of light is Nat Wolff. Honestly never
heard of the guy I did quickly check out
some of the movies this guy has been in and
again I have not seen those movies. But
anyway it doesn't matter is the main
thing people are focusing on. It's that
whoa they made light
freaking white! So yeah already that's a
big focus on this but like I said
earlier if they're going to be trying to
make their own original thing and this
is basically an American version of the
story it only makes sense to have a
non-japanese actor playing this American
Western Light. Although let me now flip
it to L because people are
complaining about that too. So the actor
playing L this time is a bigger contrast
than light. It's an actor named Lakeith
Stanfield. So this guy once again I
checked out the movies he's been in and
have not seen any but of course people
don't care about that. The big standout
thing is that the actor playing L is
african-american. So we have a white dude
light going up against the black dude L
all over a battle of justice. Let me now
bring up Western Misa or should I say
Mia Sutton. The one playing her is
Margaret Qualley. From what we've seen this
to the trailer Misa is not an idol this
time but a cheerleader. Anyway I do
actually have a complaint about this one.
If you're going to have an American Misa
couldn't you have at least gotten a
blonde actress to play her. At least dye your
hair! I mean even for the guy playing a
light Turner they at least try to do
something with the hair thing to make
him resemble former light a little bit.
Oh and of course we also do have the
shinigami Ryukz. This one I'm actually
pretty excited for. Ryukz is being
voiced by Willem Dafoe. yeah that's going
to be freaking awesome. Willem Dafoe is
perfectly cast here. Anyway like I
mentioned it seems like everyone is
screaming out in some type of anger
except me at least right now and maybe a
few of you out there. I'm going to try to
be not super pessimistic about this just
yet, I mean so far these from the
synopsis it does seem like they're
getting the main points from the Death
Note story. Based on the director;s
history, this being on netflix, and of
course it's being Death Note i think i do
expect this to be very bloody. They'll
definitely want to take advantage of the
netflix system to go all out on the
deaths. I just hope they don't go too much
into the saw movie territory. A second
key thing and wondering is just what
other key things in the Death Note story
are they going to be changing? You guys
already seen the black actor that's
going to be
L. From the trailer we could see the guy
wearing some type of hoodie. It seems
like this Western version of L is going
to be a lot more proactive. In one of
the shots in the trailer seems like he's
even at the death scene. At least that
seems pretty interesting. But besides all
the actors that were changed what other
huge changes are they going to be making
to the death note rules? You can bet
there's going to be some major changes
right there. I got a feeling they're
going to be removed the whole eye deal
trade. So anyway overall initially this
look pretty bad but then when I thought
about it a little bit more it actually
seems like they could turn this into
something at least good or watchable and
the standard bar is going to be lower
for this anyway. It's not coming out in
theaters. It's going to be coming out on
Netflix but honestly I do have one major
critique about this. Why even do a death
note movie on Netflix? It's fricking
Netflix. Instead of a movie go ahead and
make an amazing TV series. It could be at
least something like 10 episodes. We've
already seen what they're capable with
stranger things. Something like that
seems to share a lot of the same beats
as that. So anyway let me know your
impression about this teaser trailer
down below. How do you think this death
Note movie trailer looks? Is it bad is the
good and do you care at all that we have
a white light and a black L this time?
Maybe you also agree that they should
about these kept Misa freaking blonde!
So whatever you think post your thoughts
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