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Hey guys, genki?
This is Vivian from vivian uru channel.
Welcome!
Have you watched the Netflix's adaptation of Death Note?
Since you guys have requested, today I'm going to talk about the Netflix's Death Note live action, okay? ^^
If you haven't watching this movie yet and don't like spoilers,,
I recommend you to watch this video later.
However, if you are here to check out my opinion,, get yourself comfortable
and come with me cause things are about to get tense lol! xD Intro!
For the people who doesn't know it,, Death Note is literally the note of death!
Knowing the face and the full name of the person,
all you need to do is write this person's name in the note and he/she will die.
The Death Note ended up in the hands of a brilliant high school student called Light.
Tired of impunity,, he decides to make justice with his own hands,
starting to kill lots of criminals with his Death Note.
He managed to reduce the criminality and people started to call the "secret punisher" as Kira.
Meanwhile, one of the best detective known by the name of L
who got interested in the case and decides that he is going to capture Kira.
I've watched the anime, the Japanese and Netflix's live action movies
and there's no doubt that there are many changes in both movies.
Although, the movie that gave me the feeling that I'm watching an adaptation of Death Note,
was definitely the Japanese live action.
The first time I saw the Netflix's live action,
I confess that I ended up sleeping lol xP
Even though I was aware of it was an adaptation to an American teen movie,,
I still had a little hope in my heart that it was going to be a good movie.
My hope disappeared in the beginning of the movie though :/
So now I'm going to tell you the things that I didn't like on this Netflix's Death Note live action movie, okay?
Shinigami's eyes!
Obtaining the eyes of the Shinigami, you get to see everyone's lifetime and full name.
In exchange of that, you have to give the half of your lifetime.
They simply excluded this feature that has so many importance to the plot of the story..
which made me really sad :(
Silly Light!
I guess the director wanted to give Light a more "someone like us" personality,,
since I didn't see the genius, cold, scheming, perfectionist, manipulator Light like in the anime..
How come a genius choose to kill at first, people who actually are connected to him?! Tell me! xP
Another thing that bothered me a lot is that he was walking around with the Death Note without hiding it..
And why the heck he told about the Death Note to someone he barely knew?!
I truly can't understand him xP
He was lucky that the girl was even more psycho than him lol
if it was someone with a common sense,, she'd run away in an instant haha!
But anyways,, the original Kira would do anything to hide the Death Note,,
the people involved were all chosen by him meticulously!
Except Misa Misa, of course xD
You can curse me but I do love the original Misa xD
I hate how Light treated her,,
it doesn't matter that she has got her revenge of her family's deaths through Kira,,
she shouldn't have accepted the way Light treated her.
The Misa who turned into Mia is practically the opposite of Misa.
Strong and manipulative, I don't understand why she wanted to stay with Light..
even after he confessed that he has killed someone,,
and then proving the power of the Death Note in front of her?! o.O
But yeah, even after all those irrelevant scenes of this two making love..
they didn't convince me as a couple :s
Not to mention that Mia seemed to have much more features of Kira than Light..
I can see her writing the name of her boyfriend on Death Note for a "greater purpose",,
but I can't see him writing her name,,
not this Light :x
Light's tricks!
I truly missed the tricks that Light used to do to not get caught!
Like the desk with fake bottom,,
The angle of the door handle
and the graphite in the door to see if someone entered in his room..
or the watch with a little piece of a Death Note's page..
or the potate chips with a mini tv and so on!
Those were such genial ideas
and showed how genius and cautious Light was!
It was such a pity that I didn't see nothing similar in this movie :/
Emotional L!
It was really bizarre to see Netflix's L appearing on TV to provoke Kira.
It was even more bizarre to see him out of his mind chasing Kira with a gun!
Even though he said before that he doesn't hold a gun, much less would kill someone..
The only things that match with the original work,
is the fact that he loves sweets
and that he is kinda eccentric hehe!
Where are the intellectual battles?
The most phenomenal part of the original work which was the intellectual battle between Kira and L,
simply was not developed in this movie. ¬¬
They prefered to add a bunch of grotesque deaths
instead of investing in the battle of the 2 genius..
Not investing in this battle,, was the biggest sin in my opinion.. :/
Meeting the Shinigami!
It was the most dreadful thing that I saw! x3
If it was settled to be funny,, it didn't work with me..
and I tend to find things funny easily xD
It was supposed to be such an important scene,,
and that scream,, are you kidding me?!
It took off all the tension of the scene,, turning it into something ridiculous.. :/
Ryuk!
In the anime and Japanese live action, Ryuk always says that he is neutral
and doesn't influence in the acts of the Death Note's holders.
However, the Netflix's Ryuk, even though he says that he is neutral,,
it was him who made Light use the Death Note,
not to mention that he was giving Light orders to kill people :P
Neutral,, my ***! :P
But WIllem Dafoe did an incredible job as Ryuk!
Grotesque deaths!
The way people die was NEVER the focus of the original storyline,,
I found it so unnecessary and exaggerated what they did on this movie..
It seemed like the people who have made this movie were more busy talking about
how the deaths were going to be,,
than worry if they were making a decent movie with at least a few essence of the original work..
Watari!
Watari being the right hand of L,,
why the heck he didn't use a fake name in this live action?
How Kira managed to control Watari,,
since he didn't write his full name on the Death Note?
Does anyone know how he did that? I didn't get it at all lol!
If you can explain to me that part, do please leave a comment! =]
Sound track!
It has been a while that I haven't listened to such an odd sound track like this one lol!
It didn't match with the scenes at all,, and it kinda bothered me x3
I hate to criticize other people's work,,
so I tried to find things that I liked in this movie.
Besides the voice of Willem Dafoe as Ryuk,
if there was something that I liked, was the refined cinematography for sure!
There was some really cool and interesting takes
and I found it greater than the Japanese live action.
But that's all hehe!
It's such a pity that they didn't manage to adapt Death Note which is such an incredible work!
The original work makes you want to reflect and discuss about so many things..
but the same thing doesn't happen with the Netflix movie for our sadness..
Maybe the movie would not be so criticized and hated if it was a new story with new characters?
I think that for those who never watched the anime or read the manga was easier to sympathize with the work.
But that's it, when you know how splendid the story is.. it's hard to be satisfied with the version of Netflix, right?
How about you? What's your thoughts about this movie?
In case you have liked the movie, let me know what make you dig the movie..
And to the people who didn't like the movie,,
let me know the parts that made you dislike this adaptation, okay?
Let's chat, my people! xD
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