The movie never reveals the significance of the symbols, so we have to assume that it was just a style choice. Death note, desu noto is a 2006 japanese supernatural thriller film based on the manga series of the same title by tsugumi ohba and takeshi obata. Parents need to know that death note is an americanmade horror film based on a popular japanese comic book series manga. The films primarily center on a tokyo college student who attempts to change the world into a utopian society without crime, by committing a world. Death note is an adaptation of the popular anime and manga franchise of the same name.
The first one was great, it makes it seem like death note is more realistic. Netflixs death note is over before it gets any good the new film is a disappointment for fans of both director adam wingard and the anime its based on. Death note was never going to work as a onetoone adaptation for a lot of reason, most obvious being that its incredibly. The story is super interesting and grips you early. My friend showed death note to me and i was skeptic at first, but now im hooked. Desu noto is a japanese manga series written by tsugumi ohba and illustrated by takeshi obata. Death note, desu noto is a series of liveaction japanese films, including a short film and a miniseries. Furthermore, movie l is uninteresting and bland while anime l is fascinating and creates tension even before we get to see his face and before he. Netflixs death note movie is amazing but still hilariously terrible. The film, like its source material, dictates that anyone with. It is based on the death note manga series by tsugumi ohba and takeshi obata. If youre doing the postdeath dc summary a regular summary is appropriate as well. Death note 2017 tvma 1h 40m teen screams light turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class. In his investigation, l becomes suspicious of light yagami and makes it his goal to prove that light is kira.
Wrt cause of death and the like, that all goes on the death certificate, not in the death note and, if youre not the primary team you canshould punt that job. L, eru is a worldrenowned detective who takes on the challenge of catching the mass murderer known as kira. Netflixs death note is an awful film, not just an awful adaptation. If you could rewrite death note, what would you change. One key similarity that both adaptations share is the death note itself.
Part ii is the second part of the death note anime and manga series. Imagine death note done as a kind of soap, where all the characters are stupid. L is a very slim, tall young man with messy black hair and dark eyes. Netflixs death note is missing this famous scene polygon. Adapting death note into a featurelength american movie was. He noted the lack of good death note adaptations as a motivation for branching out. Why its really hard to make a good anime protagonist duration. Intrigued by its appearance, light reads the first few sentences, only to find out that it states that anyone whose name is written inside. Caption authors spanish latin america animacionesluki. If you didnt like the death note anime or live action series, then theres a good chance you may like this. Has that same psychological thriller action and is gripping through out every episode. Death note is not meant to be turned into a movie, as the japanese movies prove. Death note is the story of a person who looked at the world, saw its many flaws, and decided to fix them using this convenient thing that he found the actual death note. The story follows light yagami, a teen genius who stumbles across a mysterious otherworldly notebook.
However, if the headlines weve been seeing about the first movie are any indication, this may be the end of wingards liveaction adaption. You can do a lot with it, and i think this movie proves that. Netflixs death note is over before it gets any good gq. None of the detectives are capable of behaving professionally, l is so indiscreet with his secret. It revolves around a threeway feud between near, mello, and kira after ls death. As it turns out, taking things in a new direction didnt stop him from making a bad movie. But here we are talking about a sad and bad movie, thats it. Wingards film misunderstands what makes this series great on a. Adapting death note into a featurelength american movie was always a colossally bad idea tsugumi ohbas manga ran 108 chapters, and theres a good reason why the only decent riff on. Caption author russian caption authors spanish animacionesluki. Its a really good anime, and you definitely wont regret it. Whether the artistic choices were the courtesy of director adam wingard and yes, youre next. Death note, in all of its forms, ultimately boils down to a twisted game of catandmouse between l and light.
What i found to be admirable about the plot was lights character. This, according to the sequels screenwriter, greg russo. Death note dub yagami light is a 17yearold genius from japan who is tired of his life, school, and the state of the world as he knows it. Ls successors, these are in chronological order as. Death note movie interpretation it s actually pretty good i have never read the death note manga, but, like many of you, i love the anime and had high hopes for the netflixs adaptation. I figured it wouldnt be any good but this bad especially with adam wingard directing i thought he might at least attempt to do the source justice but that is not the case. The older, liveaction japanese death note movies also had cgi ryuks. Death note 2 is currently in the works, with mortal kombat 2020 screenwriter greg russo attached to write the screenplay. I rerewatched the series to refresh my memory in the days just before the release and.
They took all the good thing from the original and butchered it and made another bad american. Its been 8 months since i watched it, and im still addicted to death note stuff. A high school student named light turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a. A code note that ends in death should be a usual code note w the outcome noted. Netflixs death note can be summed up by the films first murder, which.
One of his most noticeable features is the shadow below each of his eyes, a result of him being an. If you liked the death note anime or live action series, you will not like this. The first two films adapt the manga series with some notable changes, and after that the series continues with original story lines. Death note american horror director adam wingard takes a page from donnie darko in his stylish, u. Death note is what happens when you take a filmmaker with such a great personality as the good wingard, you give him fifty million dollars and, more importantly, total creative freedom. The film stars nat wolff, lakeith stanfield, margaret qualley, shea whigham, paul nakauchi, jason liles and willem dafoe, and follows. Other than that, the film just wasnt that good at all, ill give credit to the cinematography looking. Death note is a bad movie regardless of its source fidelity which would be irrelevant if it worked. If you like death note enough, i suggest the movies. That scarlett johanssonled film was both a critical and commercial dud, but did help to shine a spotlight on the.
But in the netflix adaptation, david ehrlich argues in indiwire, l is too good. Death note is a 2017 american neonoir supernatural thriller film loosely adapted from the japanese manga of the same name created by tsugumi ohba and takeshi obata. Death note is a terrible film, for reasons that are. Back in 2017, the streaming service released a liveaction adaptation of the beloved manga. However, while they are featurelength, these are more of an abridged version of the anime, much like the first 2 puella magi madoka magica movies though the difference is that. The new netflix film death note is a disappointment for fans of both director adam wingard and the anime its based on.
One day, on the way home from class, light stumbles upon a dark notebook with death note written on the front. This book is titled death note and is completely blank except for a few rules. Still, since i havent found anyother manga series that makes up for death note, i would like to see the movie. With nat wolff, lakeith stanfield, margaret qualley, shea whigham. He gains the death note, a supernatural book of great power and mere moments later, shows off the book to a young girl he. Death note marks the first american adaptation of the material, as well as the first big liveaction movie. It tells the supernatural tale of a misfit high school student, struggling over his moms violent death, who finds that he has the stealth power to wreak vengeance on criminals or miscreants whove gone unpunished.
In a world where critics everywhere are denouncing this film, its up to one man, f, to save the day. I also saw l changes the world, which was a bonus story but i really enjoyed it. During interviews, tsugumi ohba and takeshi obata refer to this part as the near and mello arc. If i had to summarize this show it is an intense crime drama with super natural strings. The basic plot is a 17 year old named light finds a book on the ground. It also seems that the previous owners didnt do a good job of taking care of the death note as the cover has some wear and tear. Wingards death note follows on the heels of director rupert sanders ghost in the shell liveaction movie from earlier this year. Death note movie interpretation its actually pretty good. In what order should i watch the death note movies.
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