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Scream King - LaKeith Stanfield
finally watched the 2017 death note earlier this summer and you know what? i love her. she's camp.
If I had a nickel for every time a late 2010’s death note movie had a character meant to look like that story’s equivalent to Light but was actually the narrative parallel to Misa, I’d have two nickels
my one issue that the 2017 Netflix adaptation and 2015 jdrama share is they keep trying to justify the existence of light yagami as Kira. his mom is dead! he’s a troubled kid! he encounters bullies and the helplessness he experiences radicalizes him!
to my understanding, death note doesn’t really care about high flying ideals like justice and criminal punishment and the law. it’s actually about watching a weird freak murderer do his weird freak murders. I know this sounds like a very “I don’t do media analysis take” but I’m so serious when I say death note is very clear when it says light yagami is delusional and wrong, the interesting thing is watching him justify his delusions and get away with it.
arguably it’s more of a statement on how much most people want something to believe in, or a treatise on the just-world fallacy, or how power corrupts. you can’t really chart light’s journey from stopping bullies to becoming the biggest bully when the original point is that he was always, always, the biggest bully.
like that’s why he has to be a troubled kid in 2015 and 2017. the adaptations try to portray light as punching up, when originally this guy is the top honor student in Japan, solidly middle class, well liked and popular, tennis champion, model son and older brother, societally advantaged and seemingly perfect in every way. he’s not a hero of the disadvantaged, and the reason I like the musical so much is because it makes that as absurdly clear as it was in the original—especially when Ryuk laughs at him in “Kira:”
like obviously there are many more divergences 2015 and 2017 make from death note canon but this was the one that really stuck in my jaw.
what's your favourite horror movie by a director featured in v/h/s (2012)?
x (2022) / pearl (2022) / maxxxine (2024)
scream (2022) / scream vi (2023)
ready or not (2019)
the ritual (2017)
abigail (2024)
death note (2017)
you're next (2011)
the night house (2020)
hellraiser (2022)
blair witch (2016)
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I just watched death note (2017) and putting the entire “story” aside im going to talk about Seattle
First of all why the fuck is it set in seattle. If it HAD to be a usamerican city WHY seattle??? Nothing is ever set here…. nyc would’ve made more sense…. I digress
I was pleasantly surprised that most of the time it Did actually look like Seattle. Disregarding the shots that were literal seattle skyline of course. NSHS is not real but that’s fine & to be expected.
Biggest thing: I WISH the pier with the wheel on it was as cool in real life as it is in the movie. lol. You go there for the wheel and that’s it. And there isn’t a shore to wash up on like light did….
(Also wtf is the “northwest wheel.” I do not understand why it couldn’t have been called by its actual name (seattle great wheel. Seattle wheel or great wheel would’ve been completely fine colloquially. Bro even just The Wheel.))
Not ONE shot of the ferry despite the terminal being right next to the wheel. Criminal. Can we even call this seattle. Lets all remember grays anatomy
And small thing but there is pretty much NEVER sudden heavy downpour here like there was in the beginning when ryuk dropped the death note.
It WAS really funny to hear L say, “Kira is in seattle.”
Anyway rant over hometown represent
