The manga had numerous issues and plenty of pages to tell a long-form story. While some things have been edged along a little quicker and some of the character relationships cleaned up, the movie is almost too faithful at times for its own good. This leads me to another damned if you do, damned if you don't conundrum with the film - reverence to the source material. It's not simply an attempt to bring an Anime character to life. That's how it is in the books, she looks distinctly different from everyone else because she's not entirely human. If you think the eyes are the way they are because it's simply a manga or anime character, you'd be wrong. However, in the case of Rosa Salazar's Alita, she's a virtual visual marvel lifted perfectly from the page and delivered to the screen. If there is a complaint it's that the tech is so good at seamlessly integrating with real actors - like Ed Skrein's Zapan - that it makes completely digital characters stand out and feel a little out of place. You can see how far the motion capture tech that was so groundbreaking in 2009 with Avatar has developed to deliver photo-realistic performances and integrations with real-world actors and sets. Seeing this film in IMAX 3D was an absolute action-packed joy. Alita: Battle Angel is an impressive feature film adaptation! With Robert Rodriguez in the director's chair, the movie found the necessary thrust and energy to be visually realized effectively on screen. This is a visually lush world that Rodriguez and Cameron have captured on screen. Even after impressive visual stylings of Avatar, I still wasn't convinced it could be done well. After that, I couldn't see how they could pull off the amazing character design and world-building in a realistic way. For starters, he'd already tried adapting a comic book with Spider-Man and didn't end up making it himself. Once I learned how to read it - I was off and running and quickly devoured each issue.Īround the same time as Avatar, James Cameron announced he'd be bringing Alita: Battle Angel to the big screen, I was immediately excited, and more than a little skeptical. I will give my youthful age (I was 7 or 8 years old) the excuse that I didn't know I was supposed to read it the Japanese right-to-left instead of the American left-to-right way I read everything else. I was captivated by the action-fueled sketch artwork, but had a devil of a time understanding the story. It was the first time I'd ever picked up a Manga. I first discovered Yukito Kishiro's Alitadecades ago at a comic store in Ann Arbor that, sadly, no longer exists. When she learns that she has a deadly past, Alita becomes a target for a ruthless overlord known as Nova and his earth-bound representative Vector (Mahershala Ali), their lethal assassins Zapan (Ed Skrein) and Grewishka (Jackie Earle Haley), and an army of cybernetic warriors in Iron City's number one game - Motorball. At first, Alita is an innocent newcomer to a world she's never seen before. When she can't remember her name, he gives her one - Alita (Rosa Salazar). Unique in her design, Ido refurbishes her. On one of his scrounging trips, he discovers a beautiful but damaged, deactivated cyborg. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) is a scrapper - scrounging the junk piles for cast-off cybernetic parts so he can help his patients lead somewhat normal lives. Below is Iron City, the last place people can survive working for the elites living in Zalem. Above floats the last great city of Earth - Zalem. "I believe you are someone truly special."
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