Your Friendly Neighborhood... Indian Guy?

LordHart · Mon 21/06/2004 15:12:14

http://www.gothamcomics.com/spiderman_india/

I just found this article about a new Indian (as in the country, not american indians) Spiderman. It is an effort to make the character appeal to them more (no doubt because the movie is coming out soon) and the character will be blended with Indian mythology and customs.

It makes you wonder if they would try something similar in the future. Like Iraq Spiderman or something... what does everybody think about this? Think it's a good idea, or just a new way of getting the world to hate America even more (dont know how though).

Timosity · Mon 21/06/2004 15:28:46

I think it's just the fact that they have to find a way to tap into a HUGE potential market, what they don't realise is they just have to associate it with cricket somehow and they'd hit a gold mine.

Kinoko · Mon 21/06/2004 15:30:10

Personally, I hate this sort of thing on principle. Not being of a culture mix or anything, but because I feel like an original work shouldn't be tampered with. No dubbing, no changing storyline, no adding extra chapters to a book... bleah. I hate it. People should accept things the way they were originally created by the original creator. Subtitles and stuff are fine because they're an addition to help you understand something, but dubbing? Only when it's used to make something funny

(whether intentional or not, ie Iron Chef).

*ahem* Got a bit off track there. I agree, anything they wanna make popular over there, just add a dash of cricket.

Damien · Mon 21/06/2004 19:01:31

I'm sure you've all seen this before...

MrColossal · Mon 21/06/2004 21:21:55

But, Kinoko, subtitles are also notorious for changing stories around. So you're best bet is to just learn the language I guess...

Also, since Spiderman was created by people working at Marvel Comics then Marvel Comics created Spiderman. So they can do what they want. How can you like anything if you go by this idea that people have to accept things the way they are?

Did you like the Lord of the Rings movies?

But back to comics, Spiderman has been around for years and the original artists probably haven't worked on it for the last 98% of that. Any superhero who's been around since "The Golden Age" is completely different from when they were first created, otherwise they'd die a horrible death in sales [Captain America isn't attacking Nazi's anymore which is basically what he was created to do].

As for the question on what I think of it: http://bobanddavid.com/video/mbar3/bob_bri_sarah_2_pop2.html He sums it up well

evenwolf · Mon 21/06/2004 21:31:06

I really like I-Spiderman's pants.Ã,Â Too bad Pavitr could not come up with his own character.

Las Naranjas · Tue 22/06/2004 00:04:09

* Las Naranjas imagines if they'd stuck to the Ghost In The Shell Manga

Sometimes there's a need, not just a licence, to change the original.

Kinoko · Tue 22/06/2004 02:52:34

The GitS manga is WONDERFUL! ^_^ Are you nuts? All those sexy female cyborgs! Then they made the movie all "thinky". Pfff. Not sexy at all. It had it's own perks, sure, but I'm just waiting for a tv series that does the manga justice. I doubt it will ever come.

Quote from: MrColossal on Mon 21/06/2004 21:21:55
But, Kinoko, subtitles are also notorious for changing stories around. So you're best bet is to just learn the language I guess...

Yep, it's the only real way to experience it properly, but when subtitles are done right by good translators, they're fine. I entend to be a fantastic translator, I've lived my life looking at the sorts of things in subtitling and translating that are awful and annoying for the viewer, so I'm gonna rock the I/T world ^_- I think dubs (except for the purpose of comedy) should be illegal, and subbers should have to take courses in how not to fuck things up and leave in cultural references in a good way.

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Did you like the Lord of the Rings movies?

Yes, but I still HATED all of the stupid things that were changed. I completely understand what kinds of things need to change to fit an enormous book (or series of books) into a movie, and they did a lot of things -really- well, and they were enjoyable movies (the third one was, anyway) but there were these stupid, niggley little things they changed that made little sense, and were just... very, very annoying. (Why did Aragorn have to fall off that cliff and have a stupid dream?! Why did Gimli have to make such stupid jokes about dwarves and look like such a loser?!)

Sutebi · Tue 22/06/2004 03:40:50

For my birthday, years ago, my brother got me a Japanese Manga version of Spiderman. It was translated into English, but it was Spider Man, he was just Peter Parukeru or something like that, I don't know. They just made the hero Japanese. If I can find it, maybe I'll scan a couple of the pages in.

Anyway, I think it's cool when they do stuff like this. Like, I thought Superman Red Son would be a really neat idea, looking at that even if Superman landed in Russia during communist regime, he would still stand for all the ethics he believes in, but that one failed greatly. Still, it's a neat idea.

MrColossal · Tue 22/06/2004 03:50:12

and Kinoko there is a TV series of Ghost in the Shell

unless you don't think it does the series justice and that's why you didn't mention it

I like it [barring the few retardo episodes]

Las Naranjas · Tue 22/06/2004 03:51:32

I can compare Akira in it's film and origianl versions and enjoy both, but recognise the far greater depth an intricacy of the manga.

I can see that Nausicaa should never had been made into a film, especially so early.

But the notable thing about the gits manga is it is so utterly and painfully crap

I really appreciated little touches in the film and SAC like not making people look like apes, avoiding the stupid temper tantrums [it's a relief seeing a woman who acts like an adult in the genre] and my favourite alteration, although it may be a little controversial, is unlike the Manga, they decided to not make it crap