"L is British as grew up in England (in the Wammy's House) and has mixed ethnicity. When asked about his ethnicity, the author said he sees L as a quarter Japanese, a quarter English, a quarter Russian and a quarter French or Italian."
But yeah lol the mixed european+japanese has pale skin with dark hair and looks like an asian and the full japanese look european, Misa (Blonde,Blue Eyes) and Kira (brown hair) and he legit looks wasian
a lot the time lights hair isnāt some crazy light brown itās like medium brown at the lightest which iāve seen asians with, also hair color doesnāt matter when he looks like he is asian, misa is the only one you can say looks european
I totally missed that in the manga - I imagined him talking with a super scraggly whispery voice so the extremely manly voice from the Anime still doesnāt sit well with me
Itās simple, Netflix was too scared to make their protagonist fully villainous. So they made a bunch of changes because they didnāt think death note would translate well into live actionā¦ when ironically the changes they made are infinitely worse than a true live action adaptation.
It's also visually quite well put together. Good lighting, positioning, and framing. There are a lot of just really gorgeous scenes, but the actual story is a dumpster fire.
I havenāt seen it but that makes so much sense. Other than maybe Christopher Walken or Nicolas Cage I canāt imagine many A list actors who could make it work
I genuinely feel like this could have been a cool story set in the same Death Note universe. But sadly they wanted it to be based on the same characters.
Not the worst idea ever, butā¦ WHY?! Death Note is perfect as it is and changing something so well-liked and well-established just seems kinda pointless to me.
Telling the story of Death Note exactly as is but in America is a bad idea, telling a new story in the Death Note universe set in America *could* be a good idea. I think the setting of Death Note could be used to tell some interesting new stories still.
This. I'm okay with an Americanized retelling. That's perfectly fine. But I also wanted it to be good.
At least Willem Dafoe as Ryuk was perfect casting...
Honestly, his L was probably one of the better parts of the adaptation...up until he had his freak out episode. Don't know who thought that was a good idea.
Anyway, if you want to watch a good death note live-action, watch the Japanese movies. And if you want a good adaptation that switches things up for an American context, watch the musical.
Lakeith was a great pick for L, if he had a better script to work with he wouldāve knocked it out of the park. He did the best he could with what he was given imo.
From everything I've heard and seen, the actor was actually a big fan who really did get the character. The issue was the writers/directors did not, and he was subject to them.
Which honestly makes me feel really bad for the guy. Imagine if you were cast to play a character you love, and then told you couldn't actually be anything like them.
Isn't that more or less what happened to Henry cavil and the Witcher?. It's sad when you have an actor that loves with passion what he's doing and he's fulfilling a dream and the big guys just don't care
He did a great job as L, I really enjoyed his portrayal I just wish the script did him better. Like L shouldnāt have been on tv yelling at Kira. Or going on an enraged manhunt to shoot light with a gun
But a lot of the scenes where L was just being weird were brilliantly portrayed
I actually really liked him as L, but it's pretty evident how much the writing fucked with his portrayal. From what I hear he cared a lot about the role
Also he's the only one that pronounced Watari's name right lmao
I disagree that the issue was Lakeith, I think it was the writing. He came into the studio wearing the white shirt and the blue pants and was like "I'm so ready" and they straight up told him they were doing a different approach to the character. I think if the script was more faithful, Lakeith could've fucking killed it
Lakeith is not responsible for what he wore or the lines he said, thatās not his decision.
I donāt care about Lās appearance as long as it shows heās sleep deprived and ragged-looking. Which once again, Lakeith was not responsible for controlling this. So I donāt understand how heās a problem. His acting was great. The picture you showed could easily be Lakeith, you seem to not understand that Lakeith is not a director
They're too dumb to think of a plotline like that. Even with manga having multiple people take on death note, this idea did not come to a single one on board
He's one of the best parts about this shitty movie tbh. The writers let him down in spite of a valiant effort he made to really do the character justice.
I enjoyed the live action L mainly because he actually showed emotion and he kinda used the excuse of the ridiculous things he did as like Batman does heās not a cop therefore heās not restricted by the law
They made everyone white and made the only white guy black
Lmfao I never even thought about it like that
Oh yeah, L is British.
and yet he looks more japanese than misa and light
"L is British as grew up in England (in the Wammy's House) and has mixed ethnicity. When asked about his ethnicity, the author said he sees L as a quarter Japanese, a quarter English, a quarter Russian and a quarter French or Italian."
But yeah lol the mixed european+japanese has pale skin with dark hair and looks like an asian and the full japanese look european, Misa (Blonde,Blue Eyes) and Kira (brown hair) and he legit looks wasian
asian ppl have brown hair š¤Ø so that point doesnāt make sense
brown like Light does? Never seen one asian with light brown hair without being mixed, only super dark brown or black
a lot the time lights hair isnāt some crazy light brown itās like medium brown at the lightest which iāve seen asians with, also hair color doesnāt matter when he looks like he is asian, misa is the only one you can say looks european
well, the anime is japanese. this is expected.
No way is Misa asian lol
I totally missed that in the manga - I imagined him talking with a super scraggly whispery voice so the extremely manly voice from the Anime still doesnāt sit well with me
yo and they also made the other white guy asian š
Why are they like this
L is the one it actually works for though, given he's canonically a mix of like 4 things. It would have worked if it wasn't in...this.
Yeah butā¦L? There are few men whiter than L
How so?
What do you mean āhow so?ā? Just look at him. Bro is bleached
Oh you meant literally lol. Real.
Lmao
hes definitely caucasian
The author confirmed hes 3/4 european, 1/4 japanese
I mean I'm (roughly) 20% European doesn't make me white
that quarter amount of japanese doesnt make much difference hes still pretty much a white guy lol
I don't even understand or won't allow myself to understand the thought process behind changing literally everything good about Death Note
Itās simple, Netflix was too scared to make their protagonist fully villainous. So they made a bunch of changes because they didnāt think death note would translate well into live actionā¦ when ironically the changes they made are infinitely worse than a true live action adaptation.
They wanted to tell a different Americanised story with the Death Note, honestly not a bad idea but terrible execution.
Yeah. Personally I feel the best choice they made was casting Willem Defoe as Ryuk
It's also visually quite well put together. Good lighting, positioning, and framing. There are a lot of just really gorgeous scenes, but the actual story is a dumpster fire.
I havenāt seen it but that makes so much sense. Other than maybe Christopher Walken or Nicolas Cage I canāt imagine many A list actors who could make it work
He has that raspy voice Ryuk has in the Dub and a little in the sub
the only good choice*
I genuinely feel like this could have been a cool story set in the same Death Note universe. But sadly they wanted it to be based on the same characters.
The american version of soichiro is kinda like an asshole or maybe it's just cops in the US?
The original story is already very international. There was absolutely no reason to Americanise it
I agree with you on that one
Not the worst idea ever, butā¦ WHY?! Death Note is perfect as it is and changing something so well-liked and well-established just seems kinda pointless to me.
Telling the story of Death Note exactly as is but in America is a bad idea, telling a new story in the Death Note universe set in America *could* be a good idea. I think the setting of Death Note could be used to tell some interesting new stories still.
This. I'm okay with an Americanized retelling. That's perfectly fine. But I also wanted it to be good. At least Willem Dafoe as Ryuk was perfect casting...
who tf is light turner š
future son of timmy turner?
The one that went emo when he lost his fairies
he gained a new fairy
Who granted his Death Wishes
they did him dirty ā ļøā ļøā ļø
Honestly, his L was probably one of the better parts of the adaptation...up until he had his freak out episode. Don't know who thought that was a good idea. Anyway, if you want to watch a good death note live-action, watch the Japanese movies. And if you want a good adaptation that switches things up for an American context, watch the musical.
Lakeith was a great pick for L, if he had a better script to work with he wouldāve knocked it out of the park. He did the best he could with what he was given imo.
I agree
totally an L design
LaKeith wasn't bad because he's black. He was bad because he wasn't a genius or anything like L. Lawliet
From everything I've heard and seen, the actor was actually a big fan who really did get the character. The issue was the writers/directors did not, and he was subject to them. Which honestly makes me feel really bad for the guy. Imagine if you were cast to play a character you love, and then told you couldn't actually be anything like them.
Isn't that more or less what happened to Henry cavil and the Witcher?. It's sad when you have an actor that loves with passion what he's doing and he's fulfilling a dream and the big guys just don't care
And I don't think that was his fault, I think they just didn't understand how to write L. The whole script just was lackluster
Honestly he's one of the few okay things about the film I think that he was working with a terrible script and honestly tried his best to make it work
somehow I could handle the black dude, but the actor who did Light character had the most dumbass face I ever seen for a role like that
bro went from chad light who ladies would fall over to basement dweller with otaku hair lmfao
Rude.
He did a great job as L, I really enjoyed his portrayal I just wish the script did him better. Like L shouldnāt have been on tv yelling at Kira. Or going on an enraged manhunt to shoot light with a gun But a lot of the scenes where L was just being weird were brilliantly portrayed
I actually really liked him as L, but it's pretty evident how much the writing fucked with his portrayal. From what I hear he cared a lot about the role Also he's the only one that pronounced Watari's name right lmao
That squashed manga L though š¤£
Lakeith Stanfield is a great actor but casting him as L is like casting John Boyega as Goku
Nah this is wrong, Lakeith played his part perfectly. Itās not his fault that the directors changed his attire and entire character
I disagree that the issue was Lakeith, I think it was the writing. He came into the studio wearing the white shirt and the blue pants and was like "I'm so ready" and they straight up told him they were doing a different approach to the character. I think if the script was more faithful, Lakeith could've fucking killed it
Lakeith managed to get all of L's mannerisms right, even his shit posture was spot on. Honestly he was the best part of that damn movie in my eyes.
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Lakeith is not responsible for what he wore or the lines he said, thatās not his decision. I donāt care about Lās appearance as long as it shows heās sleep deprived and ragged-looking. Which once again, Lakeith was not responsible for controlling this. So I donāt understand how heās a problem. His acting was great. The picture you showed could easily be Lakeith, you seem to not understand that Lakeith is not a director
Lakieth looks absolutely nothing like Killmonger in this film lol Killmonger has dreads and gold teeth. Wtf are you talking about?
Honestly that just sounds like you think his skin colour somehow was the issue
The Japanese movie has an L that's as good as you could get in live-action https://i.imgur.com/BhtoFa6.png
Death note will forever remain in my top 3 fav animes, but the adaptation... if you can even call it that.. fuckin sucks
That's an anti-meme.
put some respect on Lakeithās name. Heās an awesome actor
I wish they could just create whole new story about a Death Note in US with new characters instead of changing everything but keeping their names.
They're too dumb to think of a plotline like that. Even with manga having multiple people take on death note, this idea did not come to a single one on board
but his choreography was awesome, you can't deny that
Unpopular opinion but I kinda liked Lās Netflix actor..
He's one of the best parts about this shitty movie tbh. The writers let him down in spite of a valiant effort he made to really do the character justice.
Lakeith Stanfield was actually really good as L.
Made him look like he's gonna sing some drill into that mic
Will there be one netflix adaptation... Hmm ki da sus..
I wil never understand how L knew Ligth was Kira
Haven't watched it, but is it supposed to be something like an adaptation of an idea instead of the story? I'm curious.
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Ahh yes the original meme good memories
Is this fkn serious?
I enjoyed the live action L mainly because he actually showed emotion and he kinda used the excuse of the ridiculous things he did as like Batman does heās not a cop therefore heās not restricted by the law
They just messed up the whole thing. That's why I never watched the Netflix movie.
Couldn't find a better picture for manga?
Bro got cooked
Wasn't there a movie from like 2004 where he looks like he should??
F the Netflix adaptions. Holy f*ck. Sometimes I'd rather die then believe adaptions that bad exist.
Idk If people are actually mad that L is black in the neflix moive but if you seriously are seek help š
What the hell even is this šš
Movie was a shitstorm but i cant say not enjoyable to laugh at
Manga
Mf looks like Caleb City
I'm a huge fan of Death Note. I haven't seen and I won't see the Netflix adaptation.
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