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Alright, let's say you get to choose who the actors would be for an upcoming DBZ film. Who would you choose to be Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, etc.? It could be for any saga in DB/DBZ or even the Toei movies or OVA, whichever. It's up to you! Splurge!
Oh, and some medium-sized pics would be nice so we won't have to Google them. lol
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This is a general discussion thread. I don't get why it's here in the in-universe area.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
I can see Christian Bale as Vegeta, I think he world do a good job. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as Nappa, the guy is practically Nappa. I'm clueless as to who would make a good Goku, I can't think of anyone. As for Freeza, Benedict Cumberbatch would be awesome.
But yeah, those are the only characters that I can think of with actors that can play them.
I think Jet Li would be a popular choice for Vegeta but he does not have the same popularity that he once did in the early-mid 2000's outside of Asia. Jet Li played a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 and The Mummy III, so he could pull off it.
Jet Li played a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 and The Mummy III, so he could pull off it.
Again he looked the part and obviously had the martial arts skills to go with it but the guy can barely speak English so would be no good for a character who talks a lot. Jackie Chan would have been a great Goku back in the day too but he has the same problem though to a lesser extent.