The producers were all Asian and Gordon Chan ruined all
Exactly.
The Kof series has the highest asian fanbase. It's big in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore etc.
It's pretty popular in South East asia as well (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand etc). Pretty much ALL of asia as I said before.
Having asian producers/directors etc you'd think these people would be able to cater to the market and actually get the story done properly AND cast an asian person to play the proper lead.
Instead they chose to act like typical "white" hollywood and cast a non asian person to play and asian role.
Before anyone tries to defend and say BS like: "Even in the games, Kyo has brown hair and Benimaru is blonde etc"
There's a reason for that.
Japanese have a fixation for western people. they like their Japanese chars to look "white" rather than asian.
Just look at Super Saiyan Goku/Vegeta etc. They have dark hair in their base form (appearing asian), but in their superior saiyan forms they have blonde hair and blue eyes.
btw I know that Benimaru according to Kof Storyline is a Japanese American thus explaining why he has blonde hair and blue eyes. I'm just mentioning him because even if he was complete Japanese, it's not uncommon for Japanese designers to make their JP characters look "western" even though they are supposed to be completely Japanese.
Maggie Q doesn't look right for Mai
Whoever casted her are a bunch of lazy morons. In Die Hard 4, she played a character called Mai.
In almost certain that was what made them consider her for the role. They didn't look very far.
Maggie Q as Mai is actually worse than Devon Aoki playing Kasumi in DoA.
Both of them have the wrong personality for the characters they're playing, but at least Aoki looks abit like Kasumi.
Maggie Q's only resemblance to Mai is that they have long straight hair and being "asian looking".
To be fair, Maggie Q was ok in this movie but nothing at all like Mai in the games.
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overninethousand
12 years ago
>Aoki looks abit like Kasumi
Elaborate please.
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Brandestoc
12 years ago
Elaborate please.
Don't try to nitpick and set me up for an argument/debate over one little comment you nerdy f--khead.
I never said Aoki was great as kasumi or fit the role well, but in comparison to maggie Q as Mai I personally found her to be better.
But to answer your question:
At least in the DOA movies they "tried" to make her look like kasumi by giving her red hair and similar looking outfits as in the games.
In the kof movie. Mai looks and acts absolutely nothing like in the games.
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