One Man's Greed and His Attempt to Destroy A Beloved Work
This movie could have easily been one of the top ranking and most profitable movies but the director's greed destroyed it and made it into one of the Unspeakables right up there with ATLA Live Action, Dragonball-Z LA & AOT LA that we have all done our best to erase (if you don't know what I am talking about, GOOD! Let's do our best to forget this too).
They made a movie from a very popular and beloved novel with a huge fan base that was very much ready to support this and completely screwed them over. They completely destroyed beloved characters and twisted the original work into something nearly unrecognizable.
To be frank this isn't an adaptation, it is more accurate to say this is someone's badly written self-indulgent misogynistic fanfiction or a badly plagiarized attempt of the original work.
Let me try to paint a picture of what they did with some analogies:
**Please note that the following are made up scenarios are not a reflection or opinion of how I feel about the following works or characters. It is not a critic on other works, I am just trying to explain what this movie has done and changed from the original work**
1) Why are fans mad about the guns?
-For anime fans: This would be like if they made a Bleach Live Action and gave everyone a gun. Ichigo now has a handgun and his bankai changes it to a machine gun. Sounding ridiculous?
-For Chinese wuxia/xianxia fans: Instead of flying swords, they all now have flying guns.
-For Harry Potter fans: You guessed it! Wizards get guns! But not the purebloods because guns are muggle and too high tech, no they get swords and no wands for anyone! Good luck deflecting a bullet with your sword Voldy.
(It should also be noted that the other issue with giving a master SWORDSman guns is that guns are the WEAKEST weapon in ORV)
2) On the subject of Kim Dokja (the main character):
-For Marvel fans: This would be like taking away Captain America's iconic shield and giving him a gun NOT to shoot nazis but so he can go and kill all the people who didn't believe in him pre-serum.
-For anime fans: If Naruto didn't bother with talk-no-jutsu and friendship & just destroyed the entire Hidden Leaf so no one would ever think he was weak.
3) Misogyny? Where? (In the case of Yoo Sang Ah (played by Chae Soo Bin):
-For anime fans: This is like if in FMA Hawkeye was made Mustang's secretary instead of his Lieutenant OR if she quit all together because she couldn't handle the horrors of war. You get the picture. The destruction of a strong and amazing female character into someone who just fades into the background because only male characters can be in the spotlight.
Again these analogies are just for a comparison of what this movie has done and how it has changed the source material.
If these all sound insane or ridiculous to you then you now know exactly how ORV fans felt every time they learned something new about this dumpster fire they call a movie.
Do not waste your time OR money on this. Don't even waste your thoughts.
If you have any interest at all then go read the original novel or even the webtoon.
They made a movie from a very popular and beloved novel with a huge fan base that was very much ready to support this and completely screwed them over. They completely destroyed beloved characters and twisted the original work into something nearly unrecognizable.
To be frank this isn't an adaptation, it is more accurate to say this is someone's badly written self-indulgent misogynistic fanfiction or a badly plagiarized attempt of the original work.
Let me try to paint a picture of what they did with some analogies:
**Please note that the following are made up scenarios are not a reflection or opinion of how I feel about the following works or characters. It is not a critic on other works, I am just trying to explain what this movie has done and changed from the original work**
1) Why are fans mad about the guns?
-For anime fans: This would be like if they made a Bleach Live Action and gave everyone a gun. Ichigo now has a handgun and his bankai changes it to a machine gun. Sounding ridiculous?
-For Chinese wuxia/xianxia fans: Instead of flying swords, they all now have flying guns.
-For Harry Potter fans: You guessed it! Wizards get guns! But not the purebloods because guns are muggle and too high tech, no they get swords and no wands for anyone! Good luck deflecting a bullet with your sword Voldy.
(It should also be noted that the other issue with giving a master SWORDSman guns is that guns are the WEAKEST weapon in ORV)
2) On the subject of Kim Dokja (the main character):
-For Marvel fans: This would be like taking away Captain America's iconic shield and giving him a gun NOT to shoot nazis but so he can go and kill all the people who didn't believe in him pre-serum.
-For anime fans: If Naruto didn't bother with talk-no-jutsu and friendship & just destroyed the entire Hidden Leaf so no one would ever think he was weak.
3) Misogyny? Where? (In the case of Yoo Sang Ah (played by Chae Soo Bin):
-For anime fans: This is like if in FMA Hawkeye was made Mustang's secretary instead of his Lieutenant OR if she quit all together because she couldn't handle the horrors of war. You get the picture. The destruction of a strong and amazing female character into someone who just fades into the background because only male characters can be in the spotlight.
Again these analogies are just for a comparison of what this movie has done and how it has changed the source material.
If these all sound insane or ridiculous to you then you now know exactly how ORV fans felt every time they learned something new about this dumpster fire they call a movie.
Do not waste your time OR money on this. Don't even waste your thoughts.
If you have any interest at all then go read the original novel or even the webtoon.
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