4 thoughts on “The live-action AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Netflix trailer.”

  1. Might they be…. learning(?) from the success of One-piece? To really do these Animes justice, you have to lean into teh **Whimsy**, which this seem to accomplish. More than Shamalama’s version anyway.

  2. It might not suck.
    But I’m still dreading it.

    Animation has a built in “This isn’t real” aspect, so being internally consistent is the path to verisimilitude.
    But the more realistic you make something, the more you actively invite the audience to project their experiences onto it, and if those conflict, willing suspension of disbelief breaks down.
    It’s one thing to see a cartoon character narrowly missed by a gout of flame. It’s another thing to see it happen where CGI is trying to make everything as realistic as possible, because we know darned well that the flame is the source of heat, not the heat itself, and the character would be badly burned by the area of effect. Or that the boulders being casually kicked around weigh a ton or two, and are hard and unforgiving as, well, stone.

    1. Actually, thinking about it, this would be best illustrated with an anime that could be remade as live action with absolutely no special effects.
      “Your Lie in April”. (Highly recommend, btw.)
      As an anime, it’s a tearjerker. It’s sweet, and sad, and even triumphant.
      But as live action?
      There’s no way I could have watched it, much less enjoyed it. I’m pretty sure that such a remake could have a statistically significant impact on the suicide rate.

      Or imagine Doki Doki Literature Club with ultra realistic graphics and top flight voice acting, maybe even voice recognition for the player to directly interact. Something to *really* let you lose yourself in the simulation.
      Would you like that?

      1. This is a good point.

        “Your Lie in April” would never work in live action, because so much of the important scenes take place in the kid’s head, especially when he’s playing the piano. In live action, it would just be weird to watch.

        Also, I second the recommendation. It’s brilliant. And I’m usually not interested in an anime that doesn’t have giant robots or magic in it.

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