For or Against Adaptations?

[Chronotia Archzenom]

Dragon Knight does have some awesome fight scenes:buttrock:

Wait till we get deeper into the series. Since I watched on purpose an episode of the Brazilian KRDK Spoiler to see what's going to happen. Grr... With all of those fight scenes heading to the screens, I don't think anything bad's gonna happen but badasseries.

 

[Quark]

against. Adapting a series makes no sense. Its just something americans do because they dont like anything that isnt done in their way.

"Hi, i'm Haim Saban. I'm a shifty business man who wants to cheaply produce my own live action super hero show. I'll buy the footage from an existing show unknown in the States and use the special effects."

Does that sound like someone with some kind of ethnocentric agenda? The man isn't even from the United States, for crissakes.

Dare I say It, If RPM used some Go-onger Fight scenes, I would of loved It.

Despite popular belief, they ARE using Sentai footage. Even under Eddie. Also, JF used alot of Sentai footage, and often times would re-shoot Sentai fights for reasons I don't understand.

EDIT: And let's not forget the ultimate problem here - it's a kid show, funded by toy companies. Kids get bored, and toy companies want to make money. We can't forget that this is the driving force behind all of it - Sentai and PR. That's the nature of business.

True, true.

 

[JettoJaguar]

You know this when it comes to this adaptation thing I believe that in a way we should all be for it. This is because we always adapt somethng from somewhere, the movies you and I watch and sometimes enjoy were most likely adapted from some other source. Also I'm sure this isn't something just us Americans do I bet they do it all over the world. My point is that if your not for adaption then you shouldn't be watching anything that was based on a previous source.

I understand your point, movies and stuff are adaptations from novels, comics, etc. even the concepts for some of the first tokusatsu series were adapted from manga. But its completly different to take action footage from a series that is good in its own right, film some other scenes, put it all together and make your "own" series. I i know it works, and I know japanese companies are ok with this (cause everybody loves money) but I just wish producers had the guts to make their own series right from scratch.

 

[minmaxticus]

I understand your point, movies and stuff are adaptations from novels, comics, etc. even the concepts for some of the first tokusatsu series were adapted from manga. But its completly different to take action footage from a series that is good in its own right, film some other scenes, put it all together and make your "own" series. I i know it works, and I know japanese companies are ok with this (cause everybody loves money) but I just wish producers had the guts to make their own series right from scratch.

In defense of "shady businessmen" and "lazy producers", lets not forget that Japan has, what... 50, 60 years on us (the West) in the Toku industry? There's an incredible infrastructure and experience there that we can't simply replicate with a wave of the hand... sure, if you had hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars you could buy the talent and the resources, but the best examples of shows being independently funded western SFX with "big budgets" like that are series like the Galactica or Farscape (or Knight Rider or Dr. Who or Terminator...). Those are the closest analogs we have, and those are few and far between - and many of those are at the mercy of fickle "big bad corporations" who will "cut and run" at the first sign of trouble.

And lets not forget, some of the appeal is that innate "Japanese-ness" that filters through to varying degrees. I'm not saying someone else couldn't come up with that feel and succeed, just that we're not exactly in the position to readily do so - Japan's Toku industry is not really a product of Western culture, after all.

 

[Quark]

I just wish producers had the guts to make their own series right from scratch.

Or, if you don't have the money for such an endeavor, buy the rights to a show no one in your market is aware of and use their special effects.

 

[minmaxticus]

Or, if you don't have the money for such an endeavor, buy the rights to a show no one in your market is aware of and use their special effects.

This would be great if there was no internet to foil such a brilliant plan... although this one time, I knew a guy named Saban back in '93...