I don't even know what to say

W-What?

If there is one entity I trust NOT TO GET IT RIGHT, it is YOU, Hollywood.

(. . . oh god, is this going to be another Dragon Ball live action? A-At least Goku is actually a space alien so I could give it that, at least. I'm envisioning horrible things with the Karakura kids all white - er, yes, with names like Ichigo and Orihime and Uryuu - and Soul Society - because obviously it will adapt the first arc - all Asian. Yes, Avatar live action, I AM LOOKING AT YOU. This is a look of massive disapproval.)

Day 22: Quick, the stupid has infected me!

I am full of stupid ideas tonight.

You know, since the Bleach live action movie is going to be terrible (should it actually get made), and my inbox keeps getting this notice about Script Frenzy, why don't we just say to hell with it and have a friendly competition to see who can come up with an adaptation the least full of Fail?

(I once tried to write a script for the live action Sailor Moon movie for kicks when that idea was floating around. Geena Davis wanted to play Beryl, remember? Ahhhh, my yoooouth. But Sailor Moon is about 1000x easier to adapt to an American film than Bleach because the core premise does not revolve around, oh, I don't know, the Japanese version of the afterlife. >__> Speaking of which, YuYu Hakusho would ALSO be a terrible series to make into a Hollywood film.)

Hell, we can open it up and just compete to see who comes up with any anime live-action film adaptation with the least amount of Fail. This is assuming that the stars align and all casting decisions are appropriate, etc. But it's Hollywood, so you have to make it "Hollywood" to the degree that it does not read like some indie art house film. We're going for summer blockbusters here, people. (Because I like to make things difficult.) But for goodness' sake, if anyone takes me up on this, write it in the way you would like to see it if it played out on screen . . . with as much integrity and awesome as you can squeeze in there. And yeah, if there are issues you have with the source material, since this is ~Hollywood~ go ahead and "fix" those issues as best you can.

And if I were a person with time on my hands, I would make this a real challenge. But I dunno if I could even finish a script in a month, so . . . ^^; But yeah, that's my stupid idea of the day.

(Really, I just want to find out if there is any possible way that any of us would ever be like ". . . yeah, okay, I'd watch that." I WANT TO BE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED! I realize this is a far-fetched dream, but still . . . .)

BLOOD PRESSURE

OMG. WHAT. WHAT.

poppet:
"Alright, just calm down. Look, this does not need Asian actors. There's nothing particularly Asian about the show except for the names, and those can be changed. A good cast and well-executed plot does not depend on racial preference. If it's going to suck, it'll suck just as much with Asian actors who can pronounce "the original" names as opposed to anybody else."

"I'm not saying that the characters aren't Japanese, but there's nothing important to the plot that is so distinctly Japanese that it can't be easily changed. Sure, if you want to get down to it, many of the elements are based in random bits of Japanese spiritualism, but the end product is not distinctly foreign in its undertaking. That would be like saying that a Japanese based on Batman would have to use Caucasian actors."

I forget who in my circle linked to this, but #105 will forevermore be my go-to response to EVERYTHING IN THESE COMMENTS, OMFG.

Also, WTFing at the comments over on animenewsnetwork. Replace the shinigami with cowboys, really (sure, fine, if this was a fanfic AU, which it is NOT)? Bleach is apparently "racist" for only dealing with Japanese characters and religious ideas. (Yes, because American comics are so all-inclusive. *rolls eyes*) Let's just take the premise and replace everything else! (Then do you really need "Bleach"?)

*sigh*