I just wish...they didn't need to cast (although she's amazing) Scarlett Jo in the lead...because...Asian...

But still psyched. Thanks for posting.

This is on that exact subject.
https://videosift.com/video/Opinions-in-Japan-of-the-White-Washing-of-Ghost-in-the-Shell

Thanks!
Very interesting.

Honestly, it's an adaptation for Western audiences. Of course the lead is going to be white. I'm more concerned the subject material is inevitably going to be dumbed down.

Fortunately, a western adaptation will also tone down any kindergarten up-skirt tee hee, if present. Hard core Japanese anime isn't necessarily all good.

No of course not, but really those kind of shows are pretty much never adapted anyway and GitS doesn't have any of that.

Looks better than I was expecting. They seem to be going into the Major's past much more than the original. I just finished watching the 4 short prequel episodes and they were pretty good, not sure if any of that will carry over though.

Not sure I like Batou's casting, they need to make him funnier than they showed so far.

"kindergarten up-skirt tee hee" is perhaps the best phrase to date to explain why anime very frequently irritates me. Thank you.

My memory of the original movie is that it was that there was about 5 minutes of the characters philosophizing on the difficulty of self-identity in a cyber world amid an hour and a half of sexy sci-fi robot murder sprees. I think they can match that.

I'm more relating it to the Stand Alone Complex series, particularly the second season which is what the adaptation seems to be based on from the trailers.

It is clearly impossible for them to cram the content of that 26 episode series into a movie and I'm frankly not sure why they decided to adapt it rather than the original movie.

That had plenty of discussion about simulations, emergent phenomena and group think. Definitely bordered on pretentiousness (there was an episode which adapted Taxi Driver) but still very enjoyable.

Personally, I'm less concerned with this level of "whitewashing" than I am with Cloud Atlas throwing "slanty eyes" on Tom Hanks.