Collage by Electrical_Noise_690
Please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck...
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
95 points (92.0% liked)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
1330 readers
8 users here now
A community for all things related to Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, cartoon or live action TV, movies, comics, novels, etc.
Rules:
- Be kind, regardless of nation or tribe
- Credit artist(s) when possible
- Post relevant content
- No spoilers in title, mark spoilers
- No spamming or trolling
- Only relevant posts
- Let people like what they like
- Follow all Lemmy.world rules
Please report any rule violations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Hoping for the best. Prepared for the worst. If nothing else, we have the animated sequel movie from the original creators to look forward to.
As bad as the m night movie was, I can't image they would attempt this unless they were going to do it right. But it also seems impossible to do right.
I still struggle to imagine how they got it so wrong in that movie. It's as if they deliberately made the most wrong choice at every opportunity.
- What's his name? I'm just gonna go with eeng.
- "Bending"? So just like, waving your hands around like a spell or something. Got it.
- Why would we make it funny? Kids these days really want stoic, expressionless characters in their flicks.
- The main characters weren't white? Ah, whatever. Nobody will notice.
- You know what, we should still represent the cultural roots of the show. Be respectful and stuff. Let's make the bad guys all Indian.
Etc, etc, etc. It's almost impressive how disparate it is from the source material.
It was more like “Ahng”. Not sure where people are getting “Eeng” in this thread. Supposedly it was to make it sound more “ethnically correct” or something along those lines. Clearly the movie was just a complete disrespect to the source material — still hard to believe such garbage was produced.
Good IP and sizeable amount of greed? Of course.
There was no m night movie.
There is no live action in ba sing se
I feel like the one piece live action is more difficult to pull off and they did pretty good.
It will suck. Notice how trailer didn't give a single shot of their voice or acting, just epic looking sets and whatnot.
Got the ears right.
So far it looks good.
Costumes look too clean in my opinion, but these are promo shots, we'll see how it actually looks in the show. But if that's my second biggest complaint, then we're off to a good start visually.
(The biggest complaint is the new lady with the Walmart looking kimono - way too detailed for random island village)
We dont know yet who that lady will be, do we? But on first impression I agree that it looks odd
I believe the rumor is they added Suki's mom. (Or it was actually announced in the cast list, I dont recall, and instead of looking it up real quickly, I'll just type this pointless sentence.)
If not Suki's mom, my next theory would be they just cast a woman for the town mayor. Maybe both? Dont really care as long as they don't try to shove modern politics into the fact a town is run by a woman.
He doesn't have that light-hearted, sweet little kid look that the animated version has. Probably because anime can give you larger eyes and narrower chins, which are associated more with children and women, which makes us think cute and sweet.
Just an observation.
Edit: also bad lighting in the live action photo
It seems like they really are going for a 1:1 adaptation. So, unlike other IPs that have had unfaithful (and shitty) live-action adaptations, this one will live or die by how well it manages to create the magic and heart of the original. It might come off as soulless, because things like "heart" are so intangible (unlike plot points and character lines) that it's incredibly difficult to replicate.
I don't know anything about Avatar but curious why it seems to be based on East Asian cultures (I'm guessing mostly Chinese) but the name "Avatar" is Indian? Like I get why James Cameron's Avatar is called that but any reason why here?
Edit: lol looked it up, Aang literally reincarnates. Makes sense. Also - https://in.mashable.com/entertainment/39388/desi-twitter-is-upset-about-avatar-the-last-airbender-live-action-casting-heres-why-it-makes-sense
Just found out that Inuits are kinda Asian, thought about this show
There are definitely themes in ATLA based on Indian cultures, such as the name of the show itself, but most of the characters are more based on East and Southeast Asian cultures. Dunno why things ended up that way. Lots of the characters are lighter skinned like the actors but Katara and Sokka are definitely exceptions. Both actors are indigenous North American but their animated versions were much darker. As a fan of the show, I think the actors seem like good choices so far but I can see it being seen as lightwashing for sure. Having more South Asian looking characters would feel very normal in-universe so they could do that in later seasons.
"My name is Eeng"
I tried to edit a blue arrow onto caillou before but the episodes are all so insufferable I couldn't get even a quarter of the way done.
I love the detail in his tattoos.
Could they give the kid some radical surgery to make his eyes extra big?