Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
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#2Not the first mistake the studio made with this film.
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#3I wrote this to try to prod some bloggers/writers to look into this, as this puzzle is being pondered on the internet but not 'breaking through' to the larger media. My title (Biggest Hollywood mystery of the year) is not hyperbolic, it's literally true. The abrupt silence from people and companies involved in this is very strange, and in the context of the fan campaign to get it released, would make fertile ground for an enterprising journalist.
Re: Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
#4Not the first mistake the studio made with this film.
I have some sympathy for Paramount in this. First the social-justice types went after them for not casting an Asian lead, then the critic reviews were unkind, then it really under-performed at the box office, and now people are upset about the music not being released… Some marketing exec over there is probably like “I don’t want to hear about GITS anymore, ever!”
Re: Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
#5I wrote this to try to prod some bloggers/writers to look into this, as this puzzle is being pondered on the internet but not 'breaking through' to the larger media. My title (Biggest Hollywood mystery of the year) is not hyperbolic, it's literally true. The abrupt silence from people and companies involved in this is very strange, and in the context of the fan campaign to get it released, would make fertile ground f…
I'm really struggling to believe there are people out there dying to get the soundtrack. I'm afraid this entry in the franchise will go the way of the matrix sequels. And if your question is "what matrix sequels?", well, that's my point.
Re: Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
#6Not the first mistake the studio made with this film.
I have some sympathy for Paramount in this. First the social-justice types went after them for not casting an Asian lead, then the critic reviews were unkind, then it really under-performed at the box office, and now people are upset about the music not being released… Some marketing exec over there is probably like “I don’t want to hear about GITS anymore, ever!”
No sympathy whatsoever. They kinda inverted the main plot.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
What they made: A (slightly technophobic) very human and involentary cyborg fighting for humanity and letting the equally human anti-hero die to keep on fighting for the human race against digitalization and greedy other humans. Also: strange human trafficking sob-story.
What it was: The first cyborg without any human tissue remaining fighting for justice and falling in love with the genderless anti-hero who is first machine gaining conciousness. They fall in love, unite in death, are reborn as a child and are the first thing far beyond humanity: a human soul and AI hybrid, the first life-form beeing native to the physical and the digital world. Also a loveletter to technology.
Re: Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
#7I wrote this to try to prod some bloggers/writers to look into this, as this puzzle is being pondered on the internet but not 'breaking through' to the larger media. My title (Biggest Hollywood mystery of the year) is not hyperbolic, it's literally true. The abrupt silence from people and companies involved in this is very strange, and in the context of the fan campaign to get it released, would make fertile ground f…
I'm really struggling to believe there are people out there dying to get the soundtrack. I'm afraid this entry in the franchise will go the way of the matrix sequels. And if your question is "what matrix sequels?", well, that's my point.
Well, I don't know about "dying", but there's a lot of frustration and playfully desperate rhetoric. Check the comments on the petition, and the fact that they hail from all over the world: https://www.change.org/p/paramount-release-the-ghost-in-the-...
Also check the comments on this 90 second snippet of the score, and on the Youtube 'related videos' that have bits of the score extracted from promos, trailers, clips etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSN8ndwJPVo
It's just beautiful ambient cyberpunk music, and Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe are very prominent composers.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have some sympathy for Paramount in this. First the social-justice types went after them for not casting an Asian lead, then the critic reviews were unkind, then it really under-performed at the box office, and now people are upset about the music not being released… Some marketing exec over there is probably like “I don’t want to hear about GITS anymore, ever!”
No sympathy whatsoever. They kinda inverted the main plot. SPOILERS AHEAD: What they made: A (slightly technophobic) very human and involentary cyborg fighting for humanity and letting the equally human anti-hero die to keep on fighting for the human race against digitalization and greedy other humans. Also: strange human trafficking sob-story. What it was: The first cyborg without any human tissue remaining fighting…
Other than the "love", you've hit exactly on why I dislike the movie.
I don't care who they cast or recast if they would just get the point of the story, but western media has no concept of how to do a proper narrative about identity and can't accept any story involving technology that isn't bemoaning it and "exposing" how dangerous it is to us and society as a whole.
In other words, western media becomes a drooling idiot when discussing either of these topics.
Re: Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
#9Not the first mistake the studio made with this film.
I'm curios to hear if you have any specific critics.
I actually quite liked the movie, once you get over the fact that you are comparing it to the original anime, and the new elements it brought in, despite it being a bit too much dumbed down for hollywood audience.
I also never understood the SJW critics of white washing it, and it was in fact mostly white hollywood people that got offended. The Japanese themselves absolutely loved Scarlett Johansson in the role, and funnily they were more annoyed with Takeshi Kitano and why he spoke Japanese as the only one (he apparently even has a rep of being hard to hear what he says, so they joked that they missed subtitles on the Japanese part).
There are some valid criticisms, such as Kusanagi (as just Major, as they call her) being a too obvious emotionally considering she's not in a human body anymore, and it differed quite a bit from the original content. Some other things too.
Re: Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack mystery
#10Not the first mistake the studio made with this film.
I have some sympathy for Paramount in this. First the social-justice types went after them for not casting an Asian lead, then the critic reviews were unkind, then it really under-performed at the box office, and now people are upset about the music not being released… Some marketing exec over there is probably like “I don’t want to hear about GITS anymore, ever!”
Let me first say that I'm one of the last people anyone would call a SJW. I subscribe to Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos on YouTube. But replacing the Major and Batou with white people bothered me. It's not that I think it's wrong. But it was distracting for me, and got the whole thing off on the wrong foot with fanboys who would have been the primary audience. What if they casted Gandalf as some Indian guy? Or replaced Tarkin with a completely cgi character? Oh wait, they did do that...