Starting on the 13th of July (not only Friday the thirteenth, but also my B-day...:shock: ) was the New Zealand film festival. The whole thing lasted about 22 days. Needless to say, I was pissed I didn't get a chance to see any movies in the festival, of course there was with the exception of ...
Death Note Movie
And then followed immediately by
Death Note Movie (part two)
Yup, it was a double feature on the last day of the film festival, 4 hours total.
Showing up fifteen minutes before the movie started proved to be quite entertaining. I usually don't see many anime fans around my area, so it was interesting to see a large mass of otaku outside the entrance. Who knew that cosplaying at movie theaters was so common? There were at least five L cosplayers among the audience, and during the movie, one guyeven went so far as to sit 'L style' during the whole thing :lol:
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I'm not gonna outline the whole plot because most people should be aquainted with the DN storyline, but I will describe some of the differences between the movie and the anime.
At the beginning of the film we don't have time to get aquainted with Light fully, (keep in mind that nearly all of the DN story is contained within four hours) so it just skips straight to him with the DN, writing down some names. This film doesn't emphasis that Light is a genius, and he isn't the highest marked student in Japan like in the anime.
Light has a girlfriend at the start now, but he later sacrifices her in order to kill that girl (the one engaged to the guy that was following Light). He shows little remorse.
Alright I'm gonna skip to the biggest spoiler of all, this one came as a huge surprise to me because It's totally different to what happened in the anime. Ok, so in the Anime, Light finally blackmails Rem into killing L. Here's the twist in the movie,beforhand, L writes down his own name in the DN and specifies for himself to die 23 days later, this way, he can't die when Rem writes his name in the book because he's already gonna die! HA! I could tell who all the DN fans were in the audience because they were all like WTF??!!
Anyways Light is unaware of this and assumes L is dead. There is a cliche standown between Light and Misa Misa and Light's father. Light is about to kill his father when the police corner and he appeals to Ryuk for help
'Kill them for me, don't you want to have more fun! DO IT! WRITE A NAME DOWN!!'
Ryuk- 'Heh heh, ok Lighto...:twisted:'
Light- :)
Ryuk- *shows Light DN and name written in it*
Light- 'AHHH SH-....GASP!.....' *dies*
Well, it went something like that, I totally didn't see that coming!
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By the end of the movie everyone was pretty psyched, but also had numb a$$ess from sitting down for 4 hours :? The friends that I went with to see thefilm had never evenheard of DN before, but they seemed really impressed with it's totally unpredictable plot. Apparently when released in Japan, this film was at the top of the charts for 5 weeks, and I can see why.
Anyways, anyone that's a fan of Death Note, or even people that are getting bored with the plot in most movies nowadays should definitely see it at some point.
(Oh yeah and Misa Misa was HAWT :oops:, especially in that bondage scene!)
Currently listening to - The opening track of Ichigo 100%
Watching -Ichigo 100%
Playing - I've recently revisited DMC3 in anticipation of it's sequel. I'm also gonna buy the Japanese equivalent of Elite Beat Agents :P
Looks like there's no news on Ninja Gaiden 2 yet, :x
Peace
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