Analysis: The significance of John Cho starring in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of ‘Cowboy Bebop’
John Cho attends the Film Independent Spirit Awards in March. By Sonia Rao Sonia Rao Pop culture reporter Email Bio Follow April 4 at 8:28 PM The use of capital letters and exclamation points surged in certain corners of the Internet on Thursday after Netflix announced the cast of its upcoming series “Cowboy Bebop.
Instead of using the new setting to explore American racial dynamics, director Adam Wingard’s “Death Note” opted for a colorblind approach. The Hollywood Reporter’s Rebecca Sun found fault with this, arguing that “great speculative fiction bends physical circumstances and rules while reflecting real-world truths about the human condition and how we interact with one another.”
Mamoru Oshii, who directed 1995′s animated “Ghost in the Shell," also justified Johansson’s casting by pointing out that, even if her original body were that of an Asian person, Major takes the form of a cyborg. But critics such as Aisha Harris, then writing for Slate, pointed out that Sanders’s film places an emphasis on Major maintaining Motoko Kusanagi’s brain.
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