as a writer, I have a strong opinion on this subject. if someone finds what I am going to write to be rude or mean-spirited, I am sorry but I will NOT budge on my principles or my beliefs on this matter. adaptions and remakes are the cheapest, most uncreative things a creative person can truly do and in toku, I think a show should stand or fall on it's own two feet rather then be made into something that then barely resembles the original work.
the first creation, may it be a movie, a book, a graphic noval, or even a tokusatsu, is someones creation, someones idea that they gave to the people to be entertained by. in this cruel and hard world, people go towards entertainment to take away the hardship and the sorrow of the everyday world and though that might not be the greatest of triumphs in this world, I find it to be vary important nonetheless. that person came up with a concept, he then wrote the concept down and started to conceive his/her story for you. this is his child, it's his story or hero or characters. sure, others helped him but they helped because they saw the beauty or fun or intelligence in that creation and went to help that person to make it into what he truly wanted.
a remake is nothing of the such. it is a cheap creation that wishes to overshadow the original with new technology or new young actors in a way to rake in money. really, how can you tell me that gus van sans remake of psycho is better then alfred hitchcocks version of psycho. sure, some things were made for purely monetary value, so the question of artistic value when the original was nothing but to get a few peoples dollers is up in the air somewhat, but one way or the other that person put his time into creating it, his mind into bringing it to life and how disrespectful is it to go and say "well, the new vision of your creation is so much better then the one you did."
as is, toku remakes for american audiances are horrendous. they pale truly in comaparison to the original work and that is not a lie. how do I know that is not a lie? well, if it was a lie, would this forum exist if so? america has an ego problem, and its xenophobic ways are truly getting tiring. when it come to entertainment, we are the biggest xenophobes ever. every other country I believes shows american shows on their T.V. channels and has american movies playing in their movie theatres and hell, they even listen to american music!! but, we will never show a foreign show on television unless it goes through a filter, everything that made it seem not american gets thrown away and our flag waving patriotic ways are placed into it. look at some of televisions biggest shows like the office and sandford and son and all in the family. they are american right? yes but they are all remakes of brittish shows.
Toku shows get the worse remakes though. it's funny, now that I think about it, that in the sixties, at a time when many peoples brothers, fathers and husbands were lost in the pacific war, it was perfectly fine to show ultraman as it was, with the same cast and little editing, but now, in the twenty-first century, when you would think people would be more open minded, we can't show these shows as they are, with japanese people doing japanese things. another reason is that parents seem to be more focused on pampering their children in their fantasy world then in the real world. it seems more and more parents are getting lazier and want the television to be their childs teacher and parent. also, it seems america has a belief that children are extremely stupid. "my god!!! if billy sees someone with a gun on the television why, he'll get himself a gun and start shooting people in the street!!" please.
destroying someone elses work is wrong, no matter which way you look at it. someone put their heart into this, maybe with something not all of it, but a good deal of it. some people might find this comparison ludicrous, but if I went to you with your child and said "you're childs not good enough!! let me have him, modify him and give him back to you better." what would your initial reaction be!? in movies, books, television, it's all the same. I don't mind something such as a book to movie adaptation because the written word is much much different then the visual experiace, but when you adapt one show and make another, what? the vision wasn't good enough for you when it first came?:eyebrow:
in tokusatsus, the adaptations are horrid, yes even power rangers was horrid. I know I owe alot to sabans power rangers but I despise them for what they did. I envy my thai friend pat because he got to watch zyurangers as a kid while I got to watch power rangers. after watching power rangers, I didn't grow, I was the same afterwards as I was before, but I think if I had watched zyurangers, I would have learned a little more, that evil isn't always in a scary form, it can be your own brother and that evil is not always truly wicked but misunderstood and that even at the end of it, it can redeem itself and become good, even at the cost of your own life. if you are going to make a remake, as lazy and obnoxious at that is, make it at least ten times better then the original work, if you only make it nine times, then you failed, if it's worse, then you shouldn't have done it in the first place and shows just how truly talentless you are.
I have yet to watch kamen rider dragon knights and I think I never really will watch it. I don't care about it and I know it will be nothing like ryuki. if they loved ryuki and wanted people to have seen it, then show them the original show, not just recreate it and then give it off that your multi-ethnic, politically correct show where nothing ever dies except the bad guys and everything is okey dokey at the end of the day is better then the original. I'm not biting and I never will. I know it's a kids show, I know it's got bad special effects but I stand on my principles straight and true. adness didn't make this, they do not deserve the rights to say it is theres and that is how I see it to be. king kong is not peter jacksons, it was Merian C. Coopers. halloween isn't rob zombies, it's john carpenters nor is the thing john carpenters but John W. Campbell Jr creation. you may not agree with it, and you may think I am an idiot for it, but it is my belief and I will not budge by it.
