I’ve built up a bit of a back-log, but I’ll be working through it during my free time whenever I can. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, anon. This really gets more clear when you look at Jin’s other lady friend, Kara: a blond, thin white woman. It’s troubling that in a movie that does a VERY admirable job NOT white-washing the male leads - Kazuya, Heihachi, and Jin are all asian actors, Eddie is afro-brazillian, etc - that it’s downright puzzling that the ONLY woman of color in the script is suddenly not, and the only reason I can think of for this is that the powers that be behind the movie didn’t think the audience would consider a woman of color attractive enough for the role of protagonist’s girlfriend. (In fact, Christie’s actress, while an athlete, isn’t even a martial artist AFAIK.) And it’s also a bit puzzling to use a white/native american actress to play an afro-brazillian character, when the actress would be better matched with another Tekken beauty, Julia. I find it hard to believe there isn’t one black or latina martial artist or actress they could have used for her. I don’t care that her outfit is different or that her story is different, but I do find it pretty objectionable that a character of color is suddenly portrayed as a white girl. I wish they would have taken the Kazuya approach on his other family members. I think they actually made a much BETTER sartorial choice with Kazuya: Sure, Ian Anthony Dale doesn’t particularly look like Kazuya, but he does dress the way the character would: business suits, long coats, keeping that scar on his cheek - and as a result, I had no problems placing him. My hats off to the actors and the no-doubt large amount of hairspray responsible for maintaining the hair/wigs, but damn son, I just can’t take it seriously. A lot of the problem is in the hair - it works in a video game, it works in an anime, but it just looks god damn silly on a real person. There are the characters whose designs are TOO close to the videogame and suffer for it…Specifically, I think Jin and Heihachi do.
#Tekken 2 movie actress series#
If you’re a fan of the series (and who the hell else was going to see this movie?), it works to keep the movie going and acts as a short hand for setting up characters who are only going to be in the movie for 5 minutes for a fight scene. I will give the people behind the scenes credit when it comes to costumes and design: they clearly wanted to get it right, and some of the outfits are REALLY outstanding: Anna’s, Marshall Law’s….They’re really close copies of the outfits in the game and they’re great fan-service. The movie is simultaneously too loyal to keeping things the same as the videogame series yet some of the changes they made are really weird. It’s clearly NOT the same canon as the games and I think it would have been better if they’d decided to do one Tekken game’s plot instead of mashing together 1, 3, and 6.
I’ll get back to you again when I’ve finished it, but of the half I’ve seen, it’s…ok. I’ve been watching it, and I keep meaning to finish it, but free time isn’t something I’ve had in abundance lately. Well….Bear in mind, I haven’t seen it all yet. Anonymous said: Whats your opinion on the Tekken movie from 2010?