woo hoo! iget done at 12:30 today! yeah! going home and drinking beer! joking. actually just gonna go running and study. check out my pics later! you know… i read this review today… of the Jap anime movie… Appleseed.it came out in the USA…. and… it was reviewed as having great animation… but… a complaint came up… the westernized characters. Japanese have a tendency to use their “impression” of western characters in their stories, movies, and animes. I think we all do that to some degree… pick an exotic topic and embelish it with our own fantasies. well… this critique… seems to be a recurring theme in american reviews of the japanese movie business.
the americans… in my opinion… are getting tired of seeing “japan’s impression of them”. I think most americans… want to see… what… they believe is a fantasy of japan… the samurai… the honor… the bushido… the geisha… the peaceful unity and beauty of traditional japanese culture. unfortunately… these things are all but dead. as much as foreigners want to label japanese as this way… japanese are struggling to break these molds and show they too are wild, rambunctious, indipendent thinkers. In my opinion… when the western worl realizes japan’s youth is going this way like crazy… two things will happen… 1) they will embrace it and try to use capitalism to turn profit… and 2) the youth and hippies of the world will be disgusted by it. No one likes to hear of another abandoning who they are and “selling out”. I dont thinkt he japanese are actually selling out… its more complicated than that… but… to simplify matters for now… i will leave it at that.