Re: Negima Live - Worst Casting Ever?

In article <pp85939bvt9m4vbqq25572v2gperrj9nub@xxxxxxx>, Martin D. Pay
<martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

a moderately distinguished military family - Bromhead's father
fought at Waterloo and his grandfather (the 1st Baronet) at
Saratoga in 1777 (on the losing side!) And the regiment in which

which Bromhead (Caine) actually said so in the movie, right before the
charge, he wishes he is just a normal guy instead.

he was serving, and which had the contingent at Rorke's Drift,
was the 24th Regiment of Foot (to use the correct nomenclature of
the time) the South Wales Borderers - that is, a Welsh regiment,
not Scots! (Although actually and notwithstanding the film 'Zulu'
only about 10 per cent of the troops were Welsh; the rest were
English.)

Martin D. Pay
I see no way of getting this back on topic... :(

actually, it speaks of the difficulty of being faithful to the original
set up on paper, you are supposed to find a 10 years old white Welsh
boy who can speak fluent Japanese (Negi), a 11 years old Russian girl
(Anya) who speaks Russian, English, and Japanese, a 13 years old
European girl (Eva) who can act like she is 500 (because she is!), Mana
is suppose to be a 15 years old South American black with a 21 years
old body, Ayaka is supposed to be half Europeans, by comparsion Takane
as a 17 years old American girl and Takamichi as a 35 years old white
European is comparable easy. Ku Fei and Chao would be a snap. and
btw, they also need to know how to act,

which is why, most of the time unless you have a budget of Da Vinci
Code, you take live adaptation either as a total separate entity or you
look at it as a parody, it would at least be good for a laugh. doing
anime instead of live is supposed to take care of that, but in the case
of Negima, or Love Hina, it is just not meant to be.

the trend in the last 5 years in Chinese movies are multi national
casting, you get big stars from Japan, Korea, and China/Hong Kong
together, (the Promise, the Myth, etc.) this way you ensure certain
box office draw in each country, they solved the language problem by
asking the Japanese/Koreans remember their lines by sound, so they will
repeat their line like a muscial notes they remember, even if they have
absolutely no idea what it means, this is the same method when singers
giving a concert at a foreign country and sing some local language
songs to create familiarity with the fans in different language.
.

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