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Live Action Neon Genesis Evangelion Concept Art
Xzan writes "CGNetworks has released some concept art pictures of the upcoming feature film of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. I think the characters look really ugly, especially "Ray"(Rei in the anime).
The concept art is made by Weta Workshop, who also did the special effects for Lord of the rings."
Nice eva. Can we just see the eva and screw the whiny pilots?
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Why does every American remake of a Japanese movie/series have to replace the Japanese names with anglo ones? Its like some insecurity complex. America is not the centre of the world. Get over it.
Email 'em my thoughts, You bet: ------- I recently saw a post about Evangelion http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/18/144220 4&mode=thread&tid=188&tid=97
in slashdot, I've been a fan of anime for a lot of years and since I've
seen what you could do on LOTR I thought you would do some really good
with the Evangelion project, sadly that's a total no, the mechas mostly
match the anime serie BUT the characters image not only doesn't match,
their names are changed, and Rei(no ray dimwits) or Asuka look like
they're in their 30s or had a very bad life, Misato's name change to
kate, kate? Check this points please:
1)The name changing: you wouldn't believe how many people care about this, it's *not* a lil' detail, many wouldn't care to ever see this, Rei is Rei never ray, Misato can't be a lousy kate rose. you can call Shinji looser-perv thought.
2)The Graphics of the characters are abysmally UGLY, they don't match nor look remotely similar to the original, and they don't look like somebody read/view the story before hand, did you knew that Rei,Baka-Shinji and Asuka are 14 years old not 30, Misato looks particulary disgusting and here I thought Asukas was hard to stomach but your version of it makes it impossible(looks like very tired slutty-aged whore) and she's German but lived in USa for a while.
3)If you can't respect the image or names or ages(aparently) then what
about the story?, the trend shows you wouldn't follow it. For yorur info(FYI) the story makes Evangelion the cult serie, being the characters and their development the other ingredients of it, yours doesn't seem to have any of this.
I want to see Rei or Misato I'll pay for that, I'll buy it, but I don't
give a damn about this kate not ray, I want Evangelion not a crappy
americanized and bastardized protomovie that only shares the evangelion
word in the title, fix it or lose it, if You can't figure out *what* make Evangelion so popular, if You can't see the importance of the points 1-3(among others I didn't mentioned) then don't come whinning later that it's a failure, as it is now I wouldn't bother with it.
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