CATDOLL: In the live-action version of Attack on Titan, Allen becomes a coward and the appearance of the Captain is cancelled

The live-action version of Attack on Titan has cancelled the appearance of Captain Levi because one of his pseudonyms does not exist in native Asian languages. The character setting of Eren was adapted at the request of the original manga author Isayama Hajime. Therefore, Eren will not be as passionate as in the manga, but will become a coward; so what exactly is going on? Let's take a look.

In the latest issue of the Japanese film magazine "Film Secret Treasure", Tomohiro Machiyama, who served as the screenwriter of the live-action version of "Attack on Titan", specifically explained the reasons for the changes in the settings of the original work for the live-action version. He mentioned: The reason why it is difficult to adapt Attack on Titan to a live-action version is that the stage of the original story seems to be in Germany and the characters also look like Germans. The fans of the original work originally called for Japanese to play Germans. In order to achieve the filming on Gunkanjima, Japan, the film director Shinji Higuchi and the screenwriter Tomohiro Machiyama decided that the stage of the live-action version of the story will be different from the original, and the stage of the live-action version of the story will be Japan. In addition, the incoordination of the names of the characters in the original work also made the live-action production team have to adapt the names of the characters in the live-action version. The live-action production team once proposed that all the characters should use Japanese names, but the final result was that the main characters retained the names of the original works. However, the main character of Levi (リヴァイ) Corporal was cancelled because the word "ヴ" does not exist in the native Asian language . "

Another problem is that the character setting of Allen was greatly modified in the movie version. The editor said: "In the original comic, Allen is a fearless and passionate young man who wants to destroy the giants. The original author Isayama Hajime asked the live-action production team to change Allen's character into an ordinary person who is so scared of the giants that he can't move . In addition, in the original work, Allen killed someone to save Mikasa when he was a child. This history is a secret black history of Allen and Mikasa. However, in the live-action version, Isayama Hajime asked Allen and Mikasa to live an ordinary life under the shadow of the giant invasion. In the live-action version, Allen not only lost his hometown, friends and family, but also his self-esteem. Allen sank into the battle with the giants in a way of punishing himself. As a result, the real person of Attack on Titan became a story about an ordinary young man who experienced all kinds of hell on earth in order to atone for his sins."

The screenwriter also made it clear that " after the live-action adaptation work began, many people thought that this live-action version would be a failure, but this movie is like the story of Attack on Titan itself, it is a story that has no chance of success no matter how you look at it. The production team also understands that the probability of failure will be very high and the probability of success is very small, but if nothing is done, the probability of failure will be 100%, so Director Higuchi and the production team are also like the Survey Corps, taking the initiative to cross the wall to challenge themselves ."

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