{"id":8685,"date":"2017-04-25T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T00:45:27","slug":"ghost-in-the-shell-2017-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8685","title":{"rendered":"Ghost in the Shell (2017) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GITS\"(04.25.2017) By\u00a0Liv Minshall<\/strong> —\u00a0The original 1995 Ghost in the Shell film continues to be a massive cultural phenomenon, regarded as one of the best anime movies to date. However, the 2017 live-action adaptation seems to have been doomed from the start.<\/p>\n

Audiences\u2019 utter outrage began the second producers began casting for the 2017 film. Like others of late, this film follows the \u201cwhite-washing\u201d trend in recent American films, specifically with Asian actors in traditionally Asian roles.<\/p>\n

As far as Ghost in the Shell was concerned, casting an Asian actress was a no brainer, until they cast Scarlett Johansson as main character, Major Makoto Kusanagi.<\/p>\n

The worst part is the twist that comes mid-movie, explaining that Johansson\u2019s character, renamed Mira Killian, actually possesses the brain of Kusanagi herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting them to explain the white-washing,\u201d said actress Keiko Agena in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Agena is a Japanese actress best known for her role as Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finding out that this white character actually had the brain of a Japanese woman was something Agena was very shocked to find out. \u201cThat was hard, y’all. Hard and awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agena\u2019s thoughts were the general sentiment from viewers everywhere, and backlash was immense on social media sites. As the movie opened at the box-office, it tanked, hard<\/em>. The movie got a 46% on Rotten Tomatoes, and as reviews grew worse and worse people almost seemed to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Morningside students were not an exception with the backlash. \u201cI do feel Americans white-wash things just so it becomes appealing to the public,\u201d said senior Diane Nguyen, when ask about how she felt about Asian representation in American media. \u201cI think casting a white person in an Asian movie is always going to make Asian people mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs always, white people take away another person\u2019s culture,\u201d she laughed. However, Nguyen does not necessarily agree this is always the problem, rather, people tend to over-stereotype the Asian race. \u201cAs long as it\u2019s a movie that is well done, I don\u2019t see the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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