- Disclaimer for you picky, whiny folks out there: The following are just my ideas and opinions. I'm no expert on making movies, and I'm not claiming to be one.
SSJmole wrote:Only thing I would change is Bulma's hair. I would make it black but with purple higlights/streaks.
When future Trunks shows up, have him wear a dark purple bandana.
The blue/purple highlights thing for Bulma is a good idea. Hopefully, though, a series of movies wouldn't go past Freeza, and thus not involve Trunks.
Well, maybe an Androids/Cell would be okay, but I think going to Buu would definitely just be overkill.
But still, that's what I'm talking about. It's all about good
adaptation. DragonBall is too crazy and far out there in a bunch of ways to have the movie be 100% reflective of the original material. What with things like talking animals, hair that's either weird colors or massive proportions or only capable of existing in 2D, noseless midgets, etc... But things like this get adapted and altered for movie versions. It's been done before, and it works.
In the Spider-Man movies, for example, they managed to keep Spidey himself's costume very true to the original, but adapted it (
by such things as making the raised web pattern) to make it look good and believable in live action. But in the case of the Green Goblin, however, there had to be some changes. There's no way he could have been put in green and purple tights and still been scary or menacing. In the comics, sure. Live action? it's laughable. So they gave him this body armor setup, which they made green and gave him a tribal mask for the goblin face.
That parallels what could/should be done with DragonBall. Nothing wrong with Goku wearing his gi uniform all the time. Very little would need to be changed with that (
perhaps just toning the colors down a bit; Who needs TaiyoKen when you're wearing bright orange, eh?), and as for his hair, well, obviously it can't exist as it does in the original, but it doesn't have to. Give it a little bounce or something in either makeup or with CGI, and that's enough. Perhaps just enough to distinguish it from normal human hair. Same thing with Vegeta. Widow's peak, spiked up, but otherwise normal lengths and dimensions. Gohan's half-human, so he can get away with normal human hair. Super Saiyan hair would simply be spiked a bit more, and made to glow gold with CGI.
The humans are, for the most part, easy, though. Yamcha, for example, is just a normal human. Roshi, Chi-Chi, Bulma, and Lunch too. Other, more eccentric human characters, however, would have to have their designs changed a bit. Kuririn would have to have a nose, as normal humans do, and should just be noticeably shorter than the other heroes. I like the idea of Tenshinhan's third eye appearing as a special ability when he powers up, and Chaozu could just... be Tenshinhan's li'l apprentice boy, or... something... Popo can be easily normal-human-ized, too.
But some of the minor, pseudo-human characters don't even have to exist, or at least not in the same form as originally. Puar and Turtle, for example, could just be a normal cat and tortoise, and have quick cameos as Yamcha and Roshi's pets. I can't think of any way Oolong would be needed. In general, the anthropomorphic animals are a no-no if a live-action movie is to be taken seriously. In that case, the King would just be a particularly scruffy-looking, wise old dude. Pilaf... Pilaf
would be a midget. If a DragonBall movie is done as the first part of the series, then Pilaf would have to be involved in one form or another, involved with Piccolo.
On the other side of the spectrum, various aliens would be no problem. Turn on an episode of Star Trek or BattleStar Galactica or something, and ogle at what they can do with good makeup these days, even with relatively low-budget TV shows. Though their appearance in terms of physiology and clothing also would have to be adapted slightly to look believable and scary (
like Gobby), it would be easy to make Piccolo, Kami, Zarbon, Dodoria, Freeza, and the like, with combos of CGI and good makeup.
Like I said, it's about making sure the movie, both in story and design, is adapted well. Things like this
need to be adapted for formats like live-action movies. The reason movies like Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter are so bad and cheesy is because they DID stay too close the the original material, and weren't adapted well (
though trying to do a live-action Mario movie was just plain stupid; even Freeza translates to live-action better than Bowser and the like...).
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Why would you do that to Mr.Toriyama?! I'm sure he payed for his hat and enjoys wearing it! Shame on you, Magikarp girl! Shame!
I don't really but every site I go on everyone knows someone who knows Toriyama. Image how big his messenger list must be
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