Those damn live action remakes.
The amazing thing of these live action remakes is they take years of work and effort, teams of hundreds of animators, artist, scientists, actors, voice actors, movement capture experts, computer nerds, thousand or millions of dollars, fields full of super modern and expensive computers and theyrāe still not even close to recreate the magic that one person could create just with a pencil and paper decades ago.
I donāt get the appeal for them, I always hear people sayĀ ā I wnat to see how it looksā, but I really donāt.Ā
You see, I really do believe that animation itās the superior storytelling device, just for example, animators were seamlessly telling stories half a century ago, that letās say ālive action filmmakersā are just now being able to tell, so for me every time Disney announces a new Live action anything it really feels like a down grade, by mere concept alone, leaving aside the fact that they all suck. Yes, they all have sucked, some more than other, Iāll even admit that 2016ā²s Jungle Book has some merit, but at the moment that the characters started singing Bare necessities the movie started to ask me to compare it with itās far superior 1967 full animated counterpart, and it losses in comparisson, Iām sorry, jut a gif of dancing hand-drawn Baloo has more charisma that his digital Doppelganger on his entire film.
The Lion King itās the worst of them, I havenāt even watched it and yet, I already did, beacuse Iāve watched the original Lion King and Iāve watched lions documentaries in National Geographic. The producers have said that they will try to stay as close to the original as possibleā¦ Then whatās the point?, just to, See how it would look?, do as I said, play the audio of the original movie, tune Animal planet on the TV and use your imagination.Ā
Lion King itās my favorite movie. Notice how I didnāt said favorite animated movie, of favorite disney movie, I said favorite PERIOD!, so when they announced the remake I felt like something inside of me broke,Ā figuratively of course, I now itās just a movie and it wonāt kill me of course, but that movie itās so important to me that I felt betrayed. As soon as I heard it I imagined the worst, and when the first trailer dropped, big was my surprise when I found out that I was 100% right about everything. the beautiful and vibrant colours of the original classic were replaced with an ugly mix of grays and browns, the landscapes although technically beautiful, donāt even compare to the original ones, those beautiful paintngs that I could frame and hang on the wall of my office (If I had an office). And the characters. the big problem of this movies is that in the mind of the creatives they in a sense replace the āwhatsā whit the āhowsā, they canāt really think what the characters are, but how do they have to look in order to look real.Ā
As soon as you se this design you have a pretty good idea of what this character is, he is a baboon, but he has some of the features that you would find on old humans, but theyre not explicit enoguh to look human and make the design creepy, the point is that you know this guy is suposed to look old.he has a beard, itās perfectlyĀ easy to recognize that it is not only part of his natural fur, itās a beard and if I ask anyone to draw a wise man, thereās a 99% chance that the drawing will include a berad, so, now you know that heās not only old but wise. He has a staff wich not only supports thatĀ āoldā theory but it makes him look important, thetres fruit on his staff and that makes you think of when have you seen a staff like that, and you wouldnt be crazy to think of chamans, priests, witch doctors,etc, so you now know from the moment you first see him that this character is suposed to be some kind of āold wise chaman baboonā, and then the most important part of the design, the face factions and expressions that tell you the personality, the long mouth and the shape, the eyes etc, now you know that this characters is goofy, he smiles a lot, he is a funny character, and you only had to look at him for a couple of seconds. Now thisā¦
Is a baboon. And itās impressive, I mean, in reality heās nothing more than a bunch os ones and zeros, but it looks so real, but tahts all, he is just a baboon, and thereās nothing bad with that, I like baboons as much as anyone, but this picture doesnāt tell me much about him,I mean, he looks old I guess, iāve seen old dogs and he kind of remind me of them, but thatās it, I canāt really read his expresion, he looks angry? his eyes are kind of scary and unexpressive,thereās not much of a personality here. Heck, Iāve seen the trailer and I didnāt even see a staff, so, I really donāt know anything about this guy except that he is a real life baboon and probably old, Iām not even sure about the part of old because Iām not a baboon expert. If I showed this picture to someone who doesnāt know about the remake, they wonāt thinkĀ āOh my god! Itās Rafiki!ā they will thinkĀ ālook, a baboon!ā.Ā
When I see the original Rafiki I want to sit down whit him and talk about life, and philosophy, and the universe and ask him for advice, I want him to iluminate me. When I see the new Rafiki I want to run away becouse he reminds me of thos videos of monkeys being violent and throwing feces and I want none of that.
Thatās about the animated parts of these movies, now with regard to the actors, Iāll just say that animated humans are always better, they squish and squash and act better, and no human alive, no matter how hard he tries could give a better acting than a drawing, as no human can do what a cartoon doesā¦ Except for Jim Carreyā¦
The thing with those characters is that Ā they were never supposed to look ārealā if that were the case the Aladdin producers would have made it a live action from the beggining, just make Robbin Williams do some push ups and paint him blue, or the Lion King producers would have went to africa and record real lions and just animate their mouths back home, or animate them on a moreĀ ārealisticā style, then you would have an argument to remake The Lion King, but no, the people who made those movies work thir whole life to pertect the art of animation, The Lion King or Aladdin or Dumbo or whatever movie you want to mention, looks exactly as it had to look.
And itās not only Disney, Iām agianst of the concept of live action remakes, no matter who, when they anounce the avataris going to have one, I wonder why, itās apparently going to be a series, so itās not like theyāre adapting the story to another format, that would have some merit, but I donāt get why is this being made, the original show was pretty much perfect, and I donāt see how adding āreal humansā is going to improve it. I actually see the other scenario happening. I know the creators are behind it, but I really donāt get why
And every time one of these remakes is announced, it feels to me like an insult, like if a bunch of snobs āreal adult filmmakersā saw this kid shows and tought to themselfs, oh this is really good, but itās a shame that it is a childrens cartoons, I know, Iāll take this great story good characters and exellent world building, And Iāll make aĀ ārealā movie or series, or whatever, so I can now take it seriously.Ā
So this trend itās not exclusive to Disney, but It is Disney, they are the ones who are releasing not two, but three live action remakes on one year, pretty much telling the world, yes, this is what we do now.
Most people donāt really like these remakes, most people just like remembering the originals through these remakes. The most complains Iāve heard of the last couple of these movie is when they change things, and those should be the most important parts, those are the parts that saves those movies of being a complete exercise on irrelevance, for people itās not about improving these movies, itās about having a new experience with the same movie, and we donāt need these remakes to do that, you get the same effect watching these movies in the jappanese dub, and itās fun as hell, or setting your tv on black and white.Ā
And If disney really want to sell us the same movies again, they should own it and re-release them on 3D like with the lion king some years ago, or even better be more creative, take a page out of George Lucasā book and make special editions, but good ones, add more material, sell them as the directors cut or soomething, release the original version of Lilo and Stich without the changes made to the third act on the plane scenes, make a Hunchback of Notre Dame with the original ending of the novel, that would be a bummer but it would be interesting to see, heck, Iāve always dreamed to see a 3 hours, traditionally animated version of The Lion King that includes all the songs from the broadway show. And that could apply to all the other movies that have a broadway counterpart. Just unlike George Lucas, donāt make these versions the only ones aliable.
Or try again with the sequels, just try to make them good this time. Or as a lot of people has said a a joke, make animated remakes of classic live action films, they say it as a joke, but just imagine the posibilities those could bring, when people said, āI wonder how it will lookā now they would have a reason, make a Don BluthāsĀ style animated āGangs of New Yorkā, with mouses and cats, that would be a crazy assĀ āAn american tailā spin off, or do something more serious if you want. When the Harry Potter movies were going to be made, Steven Spielberg was one of the directors that they chose to make it, but, at the end they didnāt go whit him, because he wanted to do them animated, and if a genie asked me what three movies that never were I wanted him to make appear in front of my eyes, those would be my dreamed āThe Lion King. The broadway editionā, a completed version of Richard Williamsā āThe cobbler and the thiefā and āThe animated Harry Potter seriesā Just to see how it looks.
The argument of bringing these stories to new generations is BS, it would only apply in a world whitout DVDs, Blu Rays, Netflix, that streaming service that Disney wants to make, bootlegs, cable tv and fricking VHSs, thanks to those as a kid I watched Pinocchio, and Bambi, and I never for a second suspected that those movie were made half a century before I was born. So those classics were doing pretty well with new generations whitout the help of your remakes. Thank you very much.
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