WAIT, WHAT? Is this an ad for a video game or a fannish short film or is someone really doing a live-action movie?! OMIGOD, the music! The intercuts at the end with the animated characters looked a little fannish and perhaps not like what professional moviemakers might do, so I didn't know what to think. Also, the shaky little voice singing the Star Blazers theme had a fannish feel. But still, what a gorgeous little thing that was! I'd watch the hell out of that movie if they made it!
To this day, I still have my beautiful "Animation Cell Collection" books on Be Forever Yamato and Space Cruiser Yamato, and a couple of "Roman Albums". The artwork was gorgeous. Leiji Matsumoto sure did love him some tall, mysterious blonde ladies.
The main cast of characters has been changed from that of the original anime TV series. Yuki will now have a more active fighting role, and two of the original anime main male characters - Aihara and Dr. Sado - will be female in the live-action version.Thank heavens they're introducing more female characters, and allowing Yuki to be more interesting! Original!Yuki was like some sort of Smurfette, being the only drop of estrogen in a huge sea of testosterone. Lucas pulled the same crap with his lone Leia Organa amidst a sea of white male rebel soldiers (which you have to admit, dates the look of Star Wars even more than Luke and Han's hairstyles.) Frankly, I think it would read as super-creepy for there to be a lone female character on a ship like this in a modern-day movie, especially one as passive and "motherly" as Original!Yuki -- she was there to look after all the men like some sort of Wendy-in-Peter Pan figure. It would read as a comment or a "thing" rather than just being the way things are if it was done
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To this day, I still have my beautiful "Animation Cell Collection" books on Be Forever Yamato and Space Cruiser Yamato, and a couple of "Roman Albums". The artwork was gorgeous. Leiji Matsumoto sure did love him some tall, mysterious blonde ladies.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_(2010_film)
I suspect the animated bits at the end were put there for a comparison... so fans could see that they were trying to be faithful to the original.
I really like Matsumoto's stuff. Lets see... Emeraldas, Maetel, Millenia... yep, he did.
I've got DVDs of The Harlock Saga, Maetel Legend, and videos of Galaxy Express 999, Adieu Galaxy Express 999, and My Youth in Arcadia.
He had a very interesting and unique style...
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The main cast of characters has been changed from that of the original anime TV series. Yuki will now have a more active fighting role, and two of the original anime main male characters - Aihara and Dr. Sado - will be female in the live-action version.Thank heavens they're introducing more female characters, and allowing Yuki to be more interesting! Original!Yuki was like some sort of Smurfette, being the only drop of estrogen in a huge sea of testosterone. Lucas pulled the same crap with his lone Leia Organa amidst a sea of white male rebel soldiers (which you have to admit, dates the look of Star Wars even more than Luke and Han's hairstyles.) Frankly, I think it would read as super-creepy for there to be a lone female character on a ship like this in a modern-day movie, especially one as passive and "motherly" as Original!Yuki -- she was there to look after all the men like some sort of Wendy-in-Peter Pan figure. It would read as a comment or a "thing" rather than just being the way things are if it was done ( ... )
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