8th April 2004, 8:55 PM
I'll have to look for those.
But I was saying that while Kill Bill is gory and has alot of sex jokes the anime (by its nature) might put it over the top. What I mean by that is, Kill Bill had just the right mix of how much to show and how to show it. One big reason for that is because the ratings board only allows so many minutes of gore to be displayed on screen, that's why the scene in the club was in black and white. The anime can circumvent those ratings because it's animated. All animated features are rated either G, or PG-13. In order for an animated movie to be rated R, it has to have nudity in it, if it has more than X amount of minutes oo nudity and/or sex, it will be rated NC-17 and will never be released in theaters. So, since popular anime is constantly pushing the envelope for how much gore and sex to show and is released direct to video/DVD 99.9% of the time, I am almost certain they will take the premise of the movie's attempt at gore and sex and blow it out of proportion even further. If that is the case, then it will degrade the movie it is based on, by making fun of itself, when Kill Bill by itself was an attempt at bringing an anime to live action. The result is bad publicity and alienated fans which will then be broken up into two groups = Fans of the movie who dislike the anime (because they pushed it too far) and fans of the anime who dislike the movie (because it wasn't pushed enough).
It's all about marketing and applying your product to an already existing fan base; Change too much in the product and you remove your existing fan base and have to start over with a new fan base, if one will even exist. Kill Bill is awesome because it is a live action anime, make it an anime and it's all down hill from there in my opinion.
But I was saying that while Kill Bill is gory and has alot of sex jokes the anime (by its nature) might put it over the top. What I mean by that is, Kill Bill had just the right mix of how much to show and how to show it. One big reason for that is because the ratings board only allows so many minutes of gore to be displayed on screen, that's why the scene in the club was in black and white. The anime can circumvent those ratings because it's animated. All animated features are rated either G, or PG-13. In order for an animated movie to be rated R, it has to have nudity in it, if it has more than X amount of minutes oo nudity and/or sex, it will be rated NC-17 and will never be released in theaters. So, since popular anime is constantly pushing the envelope for how much gore and sex to show and is released direct to video/DVD 99.9% of the time, I am almost certain they will take the premise of the movie's attempt at gore and sex and blow it out of proportion even further. If that is the case, then it will degrade the movie it is based on, by making fun of itself, when Kill Bill by itself was an attempt at bringing an anime to live action. The result is bad publicity and alienated fans which will then be broken up into two groups = Fans of the movie who dislike the anime (because they pushed it too far) and fans of the anime who dislike the movie (because it wasn't pushed enough).
It's all about marketing and applying your product to an already existing fan base; Change too much in the product and you remove your existing fan base and have to start over with a new fan base, if one will even exist. Kill Bill is awesome because it is a live action anime, make it an anime and it's all down hill from there in my opinion.