Tweets worth considering about the acting critiques of the Extraordinary Attorney Woo remake
I don’t agree with all those tweets. I’m just saying we should look at it from a different perspective. (I especially disagree with the subtle suggestion that the Japanese actor’s performance is somehow the more correct one.)
The point is that autism is literally a spectrum, so there’s no single correct way to portray it.
Elon Musk doesn’t look like that either, but he’s autistic, and Japan is also a country that, at least when it comes to people with disabilities, has a better system than we do.
And the point is also that we should ease up on getting high on national pride and saying a remake is worse than the original when they legitimately paid for the rights, or lecturing them because changes made to suit their country’s filming conditions and sensibilities don’t appeal to our tastes.
J-dramas have fewer episodes, shorter runtimes, and much smaller budgets than K-dramas, so of course they can’t be made at the same quality. The strength and weakness of J-dramas has always been that they churn out lots of cheap-looking productions, so the quality is lower but the staff and actors have less reason to worry about finding work. It’s also why there have been so many co-productions lately.
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I think this became a whole thing because the acting critique didn’t stop at the acting and started bringing disability into it, which then sparked another round of rebuttals. They should’ve just stopped at saying the Japanese actor’s performance and the direction were boring. Personally, I didn’t feel like all those posts were written by Japan stans trying to defend it...
I didn’t think this was about the autism spectrum. I thought the comparisons were happening because everything from the hairstyle to most of the direction was clearly trying to imitate Extraordinary Attorney Woo.
They’re just f*cking bad at acting...