And it begins
Hello!
I hope everyone had a merry merry Christmas and is enjoying the new year! I do so apologize for my delay. We hardworking employees were given a surprise early holiday. Whoohoo!
While away, one of my good American friends sent me an email about a movie she had sworn she had heard about before. It's true. One Missed Call, or Chakushin Ari as it was called in Japan, is going American. As the world sighs a collective "Why?" to yet another butchering of a foreign classic, Hollywood readies itself for what looks like an almost-certain box-office flop.
For those who have yet to see the Japanese version, One Missed Call is a movie with a similar feel to Ringu (or the Americanized The Ring). The victim would receive a call on their phone with a freaky-deaky haunting ringtone. Seeing a missed call, they would check their voicemail. The voicemail would quote a date and time in the future and play a message featuring themselves in the brief moments before their death. If disregarded, life would continue quite normally up until the moment of their death. Freaky, no? This movie's quiet eeriness put me off cell phone use for a month.
With Hollywood's explosions and thrills movie tactics, a movie that relies more on subtlety will most definitely be significantly cheapened, in my opinion. And what a shame. Recently, I've been watching perfectly good Asian movies be redone with little or no credit to their original. What ever happened to subtitles and dubbing? In fact, that is how most Americans prefer their anime so why don't we set the standard on movies as well?
See the trailer for the American One Missed Call below:
See the trailer for the original Japanese One Missed Call below:
One good outcome of the American version is that a subtitled version of the Japanese movie should most definitely be circulated at your local Blockbusters. Until now, only downloaders have been able to access subtitles for this movie. I recommend watching both if you have the opportunity!
posted by Fudocom - Rei @ 7:45 AM
2 Comments:
the japanese version scared me sh!tless.
Me too! Have you seen the American version? It would be nice to have the comparison. I haven't yet made the leap to see it.
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