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In the original Japanese the conversation was something like,(note that in Japanese the L is pronounced R so Gally would be pronounced Gary), I guess I'll call you Gary. His friend: Isn't that your cats name, isn't it a boy. Doc I do: Well she can change it later on, when she decides what she wants...
The change to the daughter backstory helped speed along the bonding of Ido and Alita. They don't have time to chat while he gradually gathers parts to build and upgrade her body while carrying her torso on his back in a 2-hour movie. It's a very sensible adjustment.
@@AKSBSU Oh yeah, changing part of what makes her into who she was. Him carrying her on his back while he collects parts is imitating mothers who work on the field carrying their child on their backpack. Gally looks to him as her mother. That's why she wanted to fight for him. The movie should have cut out the waking up and eating nonsense, the ridiculous nice town, the nonsensical Hugo that they ruined, the bike ride, the race and put the parasite robot as the main villain as it is in the comic. He was such a sad and tragic character that represents all of the injustice in the world that they lives. No, it's not sensible, it's a mess.
right there! i dont understand all the praise of the other comments about how the movie sticks so close to the source material. they made huge changes! ido is about twice as old, had a daughter with Novas Girlfriend out of all the people. never had a cat aparently wich alita receiving the cats name was a huge symbol of alitas character in the manga, of her being an agile fighter and like a stray cat that got lost from home etc..
The fact that the live action adaptation adapted the anime so well, makes me wonder how good other live action adaptations could've been, if given the right treatment.
As a teenager in the 90s I loved Battle Angel's anime and mangas. When I heard it was going to be a live action movie adaptation i literally felt sick imagining how the original story would be butchered. What a pleasant surprise to see how well the movie translated Alita's character and story.
@@erenjaeger1738 the original manga is GUNNM Battle Angel Alita and during the 90s it was adapted to anime as Battle Angel, the storyline is quite similar to the live action movie
I just lost the expectations with book/manga's adaptation movies, because I remember when I was younger that Tim Burton was going to adapt the book "Sir's Peregrine's home for peculiar children" to the cinema, and well, we are talking about one of the BEST directors of the world (The movie was a shit that modified even the coprotagonist, and turned into a teen aventure and romance, what is pretty bad compared to what genrer it is.)
This is how you can tell a director takes the source material seriously. Many scenes are the same, or at least emulate the original. Future directors need to take note. Original fans want live remarks to be harken back to the source material. The source material has fans because it’s good. Remaking it with updated visuals while retaining the original story and feel will please the longtime fans (more than drive them away) and create new ones.
I love how clueless and so easy going most of you are about this adaptation and honestly i wish i was to but i can't ignore its glaring fundamental issues. This movie claims it adapts from the source material... being the OVA yes. Yes motorball is in here but it was such a gimmick to attract teens to the movie that it ain't even worth acknowledging. There's so much wrong with this movie from aesthetic to dialogue to backstories..
Pffff n'importe quoi, tu en racontes de la merde......... il n ' y a aucune histoire du manga dans ce film, réveilles toi macfly. Ce film détruit l'oeuvre original tous ça pour que des enfants puissent aller user de l'argent au ciné..... C'est n'importe quoi
@@joni6663 Perhaps you ought to read the original manga books again. While the film takes some shortcuts and does adapt the story, saying that there is no stories from the manga is also very untrue. Unless you're a troll...then I waist my time. I personally found the film being an excellent adaptation.
@@Catyngla c'est de la merde, du tous publique a la con, pas une goûte de sang, pas une seul trace de crasse dans un monde post apocalyptique, c'est de la daube tous publique c'est tous. Ce film aurais du être interdit au moins de 18 ans ........ et non qu'un gamin de 8 puisse le voir. Monde de merde, cinéma de merde américain a la con, arrêter de détruire les oeuvre japonaise de la sorte .......
Lalboi Manlun you good at math? Budget is 170, average marketing company cost 50+, so to cover costs, this movie had to get more than 450 mil just to buy out. How many they got? 130 from China is 40, other world is rest 266/2=133, so it’s 173 mil. Basically, they lost around 50 mil on this movie, maybe even more, depends on how big marketing was.
Anime gets points for character expressions and style, like an anime would usually have. Movie gets points for working with realism and keeping things dynamic enough to not only flow in an enjoyable manner, but also be faithful to the original story. Still the best anime adaptation to date.
@@derrickzadok2440 To be fair, Rurouni Kenshin is also probably one of the easier ones to film. First of all there are already several versions of the story (the anime completely strays from the manga after the Kyoto arc, and the OVA has a totally different artstyle and realism) so fans would be OK with alterations. Also it's a samurai type of movie, which Japanese directors are well versed in. Sadly western studios are too greedy to learn from that. Instead of taking the material which could be adapted well(or- god forbid - be creative and create something new), they take the most popular to milk a big fanbase.
@@gabrielp9646it’s not actually that good just bc it’s adapted properly doesn’t mean it’s good for one it’ll be impossible for them to adapt the bigger fights especially since all the fights have been in small spaces in the live action
@@GraveEnd Actually, how they adapted the fights is one of my favorite parts about the One Piece live action... They basically took the fights from the anime, and did a more realistic (smaller) but extremely accurate version, introducing a bunch of great real life martial arts and stunts into it... Making it much more fun to watch in live action. Im so glad they did this (a smaller version with real stuntmen doing moves, and cool choreography) instead of a huge CGI fest like Man of Steel, a Marvel movie, or something like that. Probably the second would be more "accurate..." but it would´ve NEVER been as good to me (even with the best CG effects in cinema history :S).
I saw a deleted scene or picture where the Hunter Merc with the mech dogs revive the dog and made him his own here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NX5MsYwtRtw.html
Is it just me or the anime film was pretty advanced even in 1993 Edit : I didn't notice my comment was getting likes and replies .And yes , I haven't watched a lot of anime movies like Akira and so on so I thought the concept of the Alita movie was pretty advance and ahead of it's time .
I'm not sure if you watch many anime movies but the animation in those productions can be INCREDIBLE! I don't have a name at hand, but probably the old Gundam movies, those are very good looking.
@Shin Shaman Yeah, you're exactly right, I'm not a weeb and didn't know about Alita until the movie came out. And I love Alita because she was written in a very cute way, like the way she enjoyed something as simple as chocolate, it was cute. If you're calling me a weeb, how do you know about the manga?
Now just imagine if James Cameron had made dragon Ball evolution, avatar the last Airbender and ghost in the Shell, imagine how accurate and successful the live action adaptation world would be
Robert Rodriguez knows how to adapt graphic novels and anime. He respects the medium, it fuels his imagination and builds upon the original material. That is how you adapt a medium. You embrace the original while putting your own touch on top of it. Bravo!
I really liked the adaptation. It did it's best to keep it's identity while not trying to be a lifeless clone of the original. I.e. some other remakes this year.
the casting for this movie is so perfect and they clearly care a lot about the source material, they can't not make a sequel! i want them to make at least a trilogy of alita movies, and i really hope they are able to. i think a lot of people would love alita but the timing of the release was off, and it was swept to the side because captain marvel was released around the same time. i would personally donate money to the funding of the next movie if i could
Even when a movie is nearly a shot for shot, people will still complain about it not being like the original. Great editing work btw. I know for sure it took lots of work. 👏🏾👏🏾
@@OceanTree Yea because that era is when Japan is experiencing their greatest economic broom, thus they had a lot of more money to invest in experimenting and making OVA anime with all kinds of different original ideas. Nowadays anime exist mainly to serve as the purpose of marketing for the source material like manga and light novels, which can pack full of cliche and tropes.
@@ganondorfchampin I couldn't find it using that search. But, it is available when you search: ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL: Easter Egg - Dog Lives [HD]. or just go to: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NX5MsYwtRtw.html for the 12 second blip
James Cameron, and Robert Rodriguez. The two guys who gave us the best films, did their research and used elements that made this movie a very well made American adaptation to an Anime/Manga series.
Anime can be great if you find the right one. There’s various genres for various tastes and ages (although it mostly caters to a high school and young adult audience) I myself prefer shonen and slice of life anime.
Highly recommended naoki urasawa's monster if you ever wants to watch an "anime". It's doesn't even feels likes an anime but a psychology and philosophy of human in animated form.
I’m so glad they changed the part where she beats the large cyborg guy. It was so much more impactful in the 2019 version to see her still fight even when she lost both legs and an arm. That was when I cried.
@Shin Shaman u cant even spell gunnm right. im not a fake fan, and why do you care ? leave me alone ffs im minding my business. i literally have that $275 alita action figure, why would i do that if i was a bandwagon fan ? get a hobby jesus
"Alita battle angel" Live action: takes out the bad parts to put in the good parts. "Death note" Live action: takes out the good parts to put in the bad parts.
Same! I watched the original such a long time ago on RU-vid and I had completely forgotten about it. Then after watching the remake in theaters I got a strong sense of dejavu and then realized that it was the same story I had watched all those years ago when I was little.
@@zinjgreen3398 that very unlikely... especially that rape scene tho... It makes the rape scenes in game of Thrones looks like a Disney if compared to that in Berserk...
It's one of the best adaptation of a story line in comparison to the 1993 manga, with some realistic changes in the 2019 movie. Love it. Thanks for sharing this vision.
I started reading the manga after watching the movie. I thought a lot of what they did in the movie flowed better, and the arcs are weaved into a story better than the books did.
The 93 OAV*, the manga was reliesed in 1990 and it is quiet differant from the OVA in a good way, the OVA is good but the manga is mythical keep that in mind ! Btw the film is an adaptation of the OVA but there is a little melting pot between the manga and the OVA at some point in the film (Like the Grewishka's character or even the scene that wasn't adapted in the OVA like the motorball thing and some characters like Jashugan or Desty Nova. Some of the characters are actually exclusif from the OVA and film (was created by the OVA) like Chiren)
That's what I've always loved about anime for adults, it holds nothing back from gruesome graphic violence to full frontal nudity. When it comes to adult anime they always make the story and artwork more reality based and the live action Alita was able to capture that essence perfectly. That's why it was the only successful anime adaptation made in the last decade. Loved the anime and adored the live action Alita, thank you Japan.
Honestly, this is one of the most faithful adaptions of an anime and I want to thank James Cameron for producing this movie. I know it wasn't critically acclaimed for some reason, but it was amazing.
I've never seen the anime but I knew it was based on one when I watched the movie for the first time a few years ago. Every second scene I initially tought "I can see this work in an anime" but wasn't convincing in a live action movie
It wasn't critically acclaimed because it's not a great movie: the plot feels rushed because they tried to pack 3 volumes worth of manga into a 2 hour movie, layering multiple stories on top of each other. As a result nothing in the film is allowed to breathe, character development is thin and the final act comes flying out of nowhere. The antagonists are really under-developed, particularly compared to their manga counterparts. There's also issues with the casting (Yugo's meant to be a scrappy teenage street urchin not a fucking six-packed super model) and Rodriguez's questionable taste in action scenes. It's so ridiculous to see people talking about an absence of "feminazi propaganda" in a movie like Alita, as if it wasn't partially marketed on the Girl Power angle. Cameron loves female empowerment narratives. The only reason you lot push Alita this much is because it was paired against the far-worse Captain Marvel.
I'm 62 years old, love to seek out underrated/overlooked/forgotten movies. Alita is way outside my preferred genres, so I came here to decide which one to watch. I'm going to watch both.
YES! I would have sat through a 4 or even 6 hour Alita movie and loved it! Unlike Endgame. That movie bored the hell out of me, even the final battle I found meh.
Julius Archibald IV For a movie I was juiced to the highest degree on for a whole year I agree. It felt underwhelming in comparison to the masterpiece of Infinity War which was a shorter film. So much potential, wasted.
Yeah the manga and anime are more brutal. That big dude in the manga is depressed because his mom gave birth to him in the toilet, so he grew up in the sewers, is addicted to endorphins and fucking eat brains to get a kick from the chemicals.
welcome in japan during between the 70s and 90s where we could watch a dog getting sliced in 5 or Akira having his internal organs poping out of his body
@@stinkmeaner3610 I mean: I could notice every character's intentions and interactions, and they felt too convoluted to be in a single movie, but got me interested enough to wonder what would happen to them after their last on-screen moment...
Hah funny story my brother hates anime and so i was watching this last night with him amd after the movie ended he was like "Wow I really like this movie" and here I said "You know...it's based of an anime right?" HIS FACE WAS PRICELESS XDD
I have same story with my wife.. i make her watch 3 episodes of Death Note... thats all it needed and she literally watch the entire anime more than 5 times lol
That's actually quite surprising, how much of it follows. 👍 It's like they used the 93 version as a sort-of storyboard for filming the new one. Pretty cool.
And what they didn't take from the anime, most likely came from the manga instead. Like Alita getting ripped apart and put into the Berserker body as one example, that came straight from the manga.
@@brendanmilburn9067 But this happen because in 1993 Japan they didn't continue the anime , it only get two episodes or Ovas because it didn't hype too much in that time , if not the anime would be done like the manga
Fun Fact: Didn't know that the movie was based on an anime. Edit: Thanks for people telling me that it is based of an OVA, and not an anime. It is also based on a manga. I haven't knew that little detail.
The anime is only two short OVAs tho, if you wanna get into Alita read the manga, it's a literal masterpiece and the movie and anime is only the beginning of the manga.
Alita is rather famous among sci-fi and dystopian anime fans. If you actually think Alita is underrated I don't know what to say to you besides it is a hallmark classic along the lines of Bladerunner. If you really NEVER heard of it prior to the movie...I really have no idea what to tell you.
J.Cameron is a strong example of quality, clearly shows what time and effort can achieve. Recent live action Death Note adaptation is a great example of quantity over quality.
Ka mi The better example is Rurouni Kenshin. That's how you make a live action adaptation. RRK managed to condense multiple arcs, have it make sense and it was true to the manga, OVA and anime at a smaller budget than Alita. Not to mention that it improved on areas the story needed it. The cast was perfect. They didn't need to rely on CGI or wirefu. All the actors did their own stunts and the fight choreography is one of the best.
@@rumblefish9 to be fair, Rurouni Kenshin was done in japan wasn't it? I would say that it would be easier to make a life action of a Samurai movie like kenshin in the country where the story takes place vs a western country adapting foreign media because most of the time it feels like hollywood doesn't know how to translate, hence death note > _ >
This is why people liked it. They tried to take something that people already liked and simply fit it to a new medium (anime to live action). "Don't mess with success." I hope whoever keeps trying to change things learns from Death Note and Alita.
@@adriyaevans no. Even that wouldnt have helped. Everything about the movie was a terrible choice in production, story building wise. It was utterly a shame that they wasted talent on the live adaption project.
@RARAYAYA RAA Watch Ninja Scroll, Fist of the North Star, Neon Genesis, Ghost in the Shell and many others and then say they look like shit. Either way, no one was attacking you. No need to be all defensive and shit, makes you look an an emo problem child.
It was directed by Robert Rodriguez though, so I think overseeing art direction would have fallen to him. Cameron was a co-producer and writer for this movie, though he could have worked closely with RR for all we know.
I've always known Waltz to be a bad guy type of actor, but then his Doc Ido role.... God, I keep smiling whenever he and Alita's having a father daughter time together, it's just amazing!!!
@@Skycube100 Ignoring the actors real age, the prop could have been lowered in weight, thus allowing Chris to weld it more fluidly like the anime movie character. He's supposed to be a seasoned hunter, but comes across more like a klutz with the weapon.
I have so much history with this movie in a few ways. This was the first anime I ever saw. I owned a copy on VHS and watched it all the time. I also had the honor of taking part in the live action with over 120 hours on set with Robert Rodriguez. I was chatting on set with Rosa Salazar not even knowing who she was. When I saw Jennifer Conley on set nobody knew what role she was playing but since I knew the anime I could tell. IMDB did not have Jennifer listed at all so I let them know she was there and who she was in the movie so they added her. Working with/around Robert Rodriguez is so awesome! I was also an extra in Machete Kills and a driver for the upcoming Spykids. So glad I live only a few minutes away from Troublemaker Studios.
I love that they switch these scenes up from anime to movie adaption 1st Scene- 4:25 Anime: Atilla just straight messes him up cutting him in half showing her strength Movie: Atilla gets cut in half and has doctor finish the job 2nd Scene- 6:46 Anime: The doctor confronts Movie: Atilla confronts to show how much stronger and how angry she is and again splits the enemy in half (nice touch that they didnt get rid of)
Grifdoggo In the manga she gets cut to pieces which led to her one arm jump and stabbing him in the eye with her arm. I'm glad they kept that in the film.
''but the other thing holding it back is the Disney brand. With 20th Century Fox now under the Disney umbrella, they'd be the ones to approve whether or not the Alita franchise lives on'' some screenrant article should be easy to find just search alita battle angel 2, so this trash company called disney will decide the fate?
It's the only manga/ anime adaptation I actually liked, and I liked it quite a bit. It raised the bar for me from none are even good to one of my favorite movies of the year.
Julio Diego Benitez Inclan I agree. It’s a tough one from me because I love the 90s anime movie, but this new one has really grown on me. Not only because of how it looks but also in how the story is told, it just seems to flow pretty well and The focus is always on Alita. Issue with having put the focus on the doctor’s revenge in there I think there wouldn’t have been enough time to flesh all of that out in a movie where the main focus was Alita. They would’ve had to shift focus, and that’s usually where adaptation screw up. In a tv show or manga there’s enough room to flesh out multiple characters. Many movie adaptations will throw in the whole melting pot of character and they’re constantly shifting focus to each character and the whole movie is throw out of whack. The 90s movie hit the doctors “journey” but in my opinion it didn’t feel like it was enough. I think they wanted to keep him a tormented father figure for this movie just because the movie would’ve had to be 3 hours or more to really put a good focus on the doctor. All in all I think they got the essence of the character quite well though. No complaints from me.
They did an absolutely amazing adaptation with this movie, fusing together just enough of the best elements from the ova with elements from the original material to be able to continue into a new arc that has never before been adapted. You could really tell that a lot of love was put into this movie. I hope there is a new movie and that it will be just as good.
While I really like this movie and can't wait to pick up the bluray that is not correct. The best manga or scratch that the best adaptation of anything are the Kenshin films (all 3 and 2 more on the way). I hope for an Alita sequel but as it is now Kenshin's story has been given the time it needs whereas Alita had to crunch a lot into one movie.
Aymen Fayçal Yea ok...not what I was talking about. The faithfulness to the source material was given time more time with Kenshin. Alita is a long story cramming so much into the movie wasn't as faithful for the original creation as Kenshin. There will be 5 Kenshin movies in total they made 2, 3 and 4, 5 at the same time because they know they have a lot of story to adapt. Where as Alita takes a lot of liberties where it places certain stuff such as Motorball, the flashbacks, and Nova...all of that doesn't happen til way later in the books.
Haru Yanto I'm not sure what you mean by that. One way or another most of the story in Alita is rushed to fit as much as they could into one movie hoping for a sequel. The Rurouni Kenshin films from the get go were planned to be more than one movie so they are just paced better. Big budget aside I love both of the manga and the films. Hope Alita does get a sequel and I can't wait for the next two parts of Kenshin.
It thought it was a brilliant movie! And pretty damn accurate, especially when compared to some movies people made about video games (e.g. assassins creed). I'd definitely recommend giving it a watch to anyone who hasn't already seen it. I just hope there's a definite second one, because the ending killed me a little inside... I hate cliffhangers!
you could always read the manga the original finished, just know there a second manga that ignores the first ending and goes on a completely different route with sequel mangas
They originally pitched the assassin's creed movie to fans as a retelling of the franchise, but they've reference events from the movie in one of the recent assassin's creed game.
I watched it 2 or 3 times at IMAX and again in a local 2D theater. The Steelbook from Best Buy is awesome for home if you can find it. I've watched it in 4K/ Vision, 4K/ HDR10+, and 3D via PSVR.
The unique thing about this movie is it follows the manga's plot line much more closely than the 90s ova did. but also mixes in characters and other elements from the the ova! as well as adding some of its own spins! All while staying as close to the manga plot line as possible.
yes, we even felt connected to Alita character & felt her excitement and even pain, this movie is def works of wonder by hollywood compared to many failures from them lol
You all didn't get the emotions when he die cause there are build up emotion like 3 volume for him in manga version, Salem is everything for him but he is also everything for Alita. fist time I read it, I need break for a week until I am bit calm down, well I am still 14 years old that time.
Hollywood has done two manga/anime adaptation right till now edge of tomorrow and Alita battle angel. this both movies has done were much accurate to the source material.
You see this is what happens when actual fans of a manga adapt it to live action instead of faceless studio execs. James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's love of Gunnm permeates every shot of this film.
Alita was my first anime. I was so unhappy when they announced the live action. However, it totally worked. There would be things I;'d tweak, but overall was very impressed. And i'm a hard man to please
I think I like the way VECTOR dies in the original ova when IDO accidentally kills him just by defending himself against VECTOR'S cyborg assassin a little bit better than in the movie. In the movie it's kind of a little anticlimatic when ALITA kills him. But they offset VECTOR'S ANTICLIMATIC DEATH with a cliffhanger by revealing NOVA
@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 they dont go into Hugos specific reasons for wanting to go to Zalom very well, for example his brother. Nor the ending with the balloon
@@christopherp1318 That's true but the movie gives ALITA a backstory whereas the ova doesn't I also LOVE how Ido and Chiren have a backstory that involves the tragic murder of a child.
Saw it three times in theaters, will probably buy it once it comes out on dvd/blu-ray if it isn't out already. I'd have to say I rather enjoyed the 2019 version except for the ending. Having read the manga, I really struggle with how the sequal(s) can play out. I do get they had to cut stuff for time and pacing but just a simple line or 2 min flashback would have been nice for Hugo's backstory.
fatbottomederin me toooo! Especially when psycho Alita took her heart out and told Hugo to take it. I said that is the most anime shit ever without even knowing there was an anime before the movie.
finally the best live action movie made by american all so the best CYBERPUNK anime made by Hiroshi Fukutomi and Manga : GUNNM made by Yukito Kishiro. it's the movie that most respectful the manga and the anime made by american. i'm japanese and i need to say THANK YOU SOO MUCH! james cameron robert rodriguez and all american made this movie finally you did the right thing !
@@kibayaiba3893 no mention of the Armitage the 3rd movies? I would call those better than gunnm... And Akira is '80s. Ghost in the Shell takes the cake though. First movie and SAC were both amazing! 2nd movie was great too... but a bit ponderous so I understand why it flopped.
This movie honestly champions live action anime remakes. I kept thinking it wouldn't do what I wanted it to do... but at every turn... it did it. And it was glorious.
@lo l The Rurouni Kenshin live-action films are ALSO good and ALSO pay faithful tribute to the source material. Both are champions of the live-action anime remake arena. :P
The is by far one of the few live action movies that ACTUALLY go scene by scene with the cartoon version and for that I totally RESPECT!! Good movie but can’t wait for pt2
@@AliVe1234 Anime is just the Japanese term for cartoon. They call western animation "Anime" in Japan as well. Anime and cartoons are the same thing: animated shows and movies. It's not a bad thing to acknowledge that, and both are still good at what they do.
@@TheWeaselDaddy By definition this is correct, but we use the term "anime" to differentiate western and japanese animation. It's like in France, when they say "cartoon" they are actually referencing a particular style of animation (very simplified but also very expressive characters).
Except for some inane reason only Alita still had giant anime eyes, while in almost every anime, all young women have giant anime eyes, which made it difficult for the live action audience (especially men, the main paying audience) to emotionally relate to her character.
@@genepozniakTu veux une adaptation avec des ressemblances dingue sur les perso du manga, c'est twenty century boys. La ido n'a même pas ca marque de zalem. Et bien sur il faut toujours rajouter une pouf a l'histoire..... Qu'il aille au diable.
It was about as faitful as this, which is to say not much. It was not only based on the animated Oshi film, but also episodes of the Stand Alone Complex animation series. And soberly speaking, that is actually truer to the source material by Shirow than carboning Oshis vision would have been.
@@Stoppskylten not sure what glue your sniffing but in several interviews they state using the manga not the ova for the source material. Cameron bought the rights back in 1999 and owns alita.
Ghost in the Shell is far more accurate to the source material then 1991s The Guyver and 1994s Guyver: Dark Hero (even though this one is my favorite and far superior to the first one). And that is coming from a Guyver/GitS/Alita fan.
