I started reading the manga about a week ago and I really enjoyed it and I thought to give the Live Action adaptation a whirl.For those who don't know, Death Note is about a college bound student named Light who finds a notebook belonging to a Shinigama, a Death God. The notebook gives Light the ability to kill people which brings super detective "L" to Japan to hunt him down in the ultimate game of cat and mouse.
One thing that really annoyed me about the film is that its not a direct adaptation. It reworks the first three tankobans into its own interpretation that allows for massive gaps in logic and flow.
Yes, things cannot run as they did in the manga, some events in it make little to no sense, the addition of a steady girlfriend for light A lot of little details were skipped in the film that annoyed me, though they added in some that were greatly needed, the introduction to Misa for one was well done.
It sounds like I am trashing the movie but it was a good movie; well paced, superbly directed, well acted (though horribly dubbed) and a terrific thrill ride throughout the whole 2 hours.
I was wondering how much they were gonna try and fit into the movie, thinking that it was only one movie (a sequel has been made and a part 3 is in the works) and seeing how they only did the first 3 volumes, I eagerly await the second movie; Death Note: The Last Name.
Definitely give it a view and if you like it, pick up the manga volumes, only 12 in all.
2 comments:
I'm glad you liked the movie and I was wondering about the dubbing myself - would you rather have subtitles?
I'm used to reading subs. I spent about 2 yrs importing Asian movies that only had subs.
I watched Death Note LA with the dub, cause my gf didn't want to read subs, and it was decent. Not the best but certainly not the worst dubbing job.
Viz did a good job at it.
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