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Can they at least change the character names???

posted 8 years ago by ryanonbass93
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Like come on!
White people do not have names like Yagami and Amane! (This is coming from a white person)

i don't fully mind them trying to make this movie appeal more to the western market. (The Departed, The Magnificent 7, The Ring, Godzilla)

But having white people play characters named Light Yagami and Misa Amane just makes me wanna laugh.
And please don't bring up Marvel changing Nick Fury from white to black.
Nick Fury sounds like an American name, and is not defined by his race.

[–] Thenewnexus 8 years ago

Changing the names is still whitewashing.There are English dubs that did that to the characters like Speed Racer and the film used the names from the dub,that was still a whitewashed film

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