{"id":1862,"date":"2017-08-19T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/08\/19\/death-note-adam-wingard-defends-anime-adaptation-against-whitewashing-claims-it-is-a-whole-new-thing\/"},"modified":"2017-08-19T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T19:52:03","slug":"death-note-adam-wingard-defends-anime-adaptation-against-whitewashing-claims-it-is-a-whole-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/08\/19\/death-note-adam-wingard-defends-anime-adaptation-against-whitewashing-claims-it-is-a-whole-new-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death Note\u2019: Adam Wingard Defends Anime Adaptation Against Whitewashing Claims: \u2018It Is a Whole New Thing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a lot of movies made in the last year, \u201cDeath Note<\/a>\u201d has faced criticism for whitewashing<\/a> its source material. The upcoming Netflix<\/a> drama is based on a Japanese manga and, not unlike “Ghost in the Shell,” has changed Japanese characters into American ones: Nat Wolff plays Light Turner (the updated version of Light Yagami), while Margaret Qualley is Mia Sutton (Misa Amane).<\/span><\/p>\n

Director Adam Wingard<\/a> addressed those claims to Vulture<\/a>, saying that his take on \u201cDeath Note\u201d isn\u2019t \u201cjust taking a character and trying to say a white kid is a Japanese kid. It is a whole new thing. The characters are all very different and it is a different kind of experience all together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRead More:<\/strong>\u2018Death Note\u2019: Controversial Netflix Adaptation Gets Mixed Reaction at Comic-Con<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n

Wingard, who also directed “You’re Next” and “Blair Witch,” got defensive about the same subject a couple months back: “Just clearing up misconceptions.No one has seen the film outside of 2 test screenings,\u201d he tweeted<\/a>. \u201cCriticisms at this point are based on assumptions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two of the film’s producers spoke up in defense of “Death Note” as well. \u201cI think we got the right actors for the parts that were written,\u201d said Roy Lee, whose prior credits include \u201cThe Departed\u201d and \u201cThe Ring.\u201d \u201cWe didn\u2019t look at race as a factor. We just did the version that was set in the U.S. There are remakes of U.S. movies like \u2018Sideways\u2019 in Japan, but there was never a thought for them to bring in American actors to play the [characters] in the Japanese remake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRead More:<\/strong>\u2018Death Note\u2019 Producer Responds to Whitewashing Claims, Says It\u2019s \u2018Somewhat Offensive\u2019 to New Netflix Movie<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n

\u201cThe whole idea of whitewashing is putting white people in roles that were meant to be a different race. But this wasn\u2019t specifically a racially bound story, because it was set in America,\u201d added Masi Oka, late of “Heroes.” \u201cAnyone could have played that title role, whether it was white, African-American, Latino-American, or Asian-American. Anyone could have played that role.\u201d Read their full comments here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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