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come_love_sleep ([info]come_love_sleep) wrote in [info]unfunny_fandom,
@ 2011-03-27 19:12:00
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Aw, Gaiman, why you gotta play like that?
Neil Gaiman is scripting the James Cameron-assisted movie version of Journey to the West.

I feel really kinda queasy about this. There are no few Asian writers for whom this story came with their milk teeth, like Cinderella does to an English-speaker, and Gaiman has been...bad...about stuff relating to other cultures before. I really doubt that having been for a visit to China is enough to justify his treatment of the script.

(And let's not talk about James Cameron. Ick.)

Mercredigirl over at Dreamwidth has more to say.

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[info]zellieh
2011-04-01 01:03 am UTC (link)
Why do we even need Hollywood? If the Chinese backers want to make a film that can have crossover appeal in the West, they can do that without Cameron and Gaiman -- they could use the lead actors from, say, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and maybe add Jackie Chan, who (much as Hollywood has made him almost a caricature of himself lately) can act when he has to, and has been practicing his whole life to play Monkey.

And that's only the actors I, an ignorant white woman, know about.

Also, mythology?!? Even I know that Journey to the West is still a very important story in Buddhism -- which is nowhere near being a dead religion! -- and a living part of many Asian cultures, FFS!

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