Pondering about how a live action movie might be made out of 'Red' and the 'Generation I' Pokemon
The idea of a competent live action take of the 'Generation I' Pokemon story-line would be problematic to produce on various levels;
I would like to switch gears for a moment and think about that. How since the decade began their has been a 'shift' in terms of where media talent pools are gathering, movies having to answer to increased politicization*, the fact that special effects and production designs for web productions and serial shows are matching what is invested into movies at times which has caused a ripple effect (arguably) in which their is a level of 'acceptable hokey-ness' in movies, prob. not really seen since the 50's and early 60's**..
The fact that there is no ceasing of complaints about special effects not being invested, the actors who seem miscast and underperforming picked out by movie industry persons on average +30 or +35 yrs old and not in a demographic who you would imagine as having grown up endeared with certain animated productions from only ~20 yr ago..maybe we deserve it. The shabbily made movies--don't get me wrong it is a 'tremondous >_<' waste to think that millions of dollars are put into elaborate entertainment products and wound up being reflected badly when there is no shortage of serious reviews, parodies and memes which will comment on what went on..but when you think about a major part of the substance of those old cartoons and anime are power fantasies*, what would help to not forget is how they were designed for children and with children in mind..a catering to the supposedly naive and inexperienced via narratives which are understood as being given leeway to not meet the simplicity resisting expectations of reality and the choices designed by (mentally healthy or not, apathetic or not, caring or not) adults who are suppose to take care of children and not >:I merely see them as a functionally exhaustivable 'means to an end' demographic which will always yield to commodification and unwitting 'profit priorities'.
If that happens sooner however the reactions might be in terms of 'crowd-funded' media productions by supposed fans might bare fruit..if the conversations in comment sections can stop resisting change by seeming to be consistent inflammation and vitriol..then maybe just maybe, even more ppl on a broader scale when not 'enacting their personal labour theories (.i.e. working)' can start gradually paying attention to the reason their even alive, due to..**mental health.
Calm, compassionate, peace-endorsing and friendship empowering narratives and media can become a norm beyond 'Toddler fare' like 'The Care Bears' and alleviate the silliness of a certain 'broken myth' of hundreds of centuries of human adulthood that survival is inescapably out of reach in the reality made by our species.
**doesn't mean your not allowed to enjoy it: I'm looking forward to the 'Detective Pikachu' movie and don't expect it to be nominated and win several Oscar's but I would like it to be better than an old Disney channel movie special as well.
*That's realization seems to be an inevitable part of the 'development' of analyzing and accepting as well as assessing narratives on a mass-collective scale as output by commercial-industrial (supposedly art centred) complexes like movie industries.
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Digimon Tri Abridged Episode 2 Pure Sincerity by 'TeamMouthwash' 26:39 - 27:19
Quote:
Quote:
"Joe, Digimon aren't you childhood.
Yes you discovered them when you
were a kid, Joe. Yes they might not
have a place in your adult life, but
if you think that to become an adult
you have to give them up your wrong.
"What do you mean?"
"Joe, I don't think that being
mature means giving up the things
you love. It doesn't mean separating
from all the things you discovered as
a kid. Joe, growing up I think..I think
it just means understanding why you love
what you love and deciding where it belongs
in your life.
Digimon isn't your childhood.Gomamon isn't
holding you back. Gomamon is your friend
and I think the reason you've been staying
awake [or away(?)] is because you want to be his friend
too. "
"Kari I don't know but thank you."
--"switching gears again"
Goodness knows how aside from current issues adapting anime properties even with questionable improvements like with the 'Alita' live action movie, the plots of the Pokemon games (for which I'm guessing a reliance on the manga(s) would be necessary) can't really be compressed to easily. Even years ago with the internet series 'Pokemon the origins' it took a few episode and skipping over a lot of gym battles to essentially wind up having a confrontation with Mewtwo as a reason to 'advertise' for the then new 'mega evolution' forms.
I can't see a live action adaptation of 'Gen I' Pokemon being pulled off as a live action series even with a hypothetically indeterminate-but-providing-as-needed budget, let alone as a *single* movie.
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