A thought about the Ghost in The Shell remake.

After watching Akira on Tuesday, I went back and rewatched the original Ghost in The Shell. I had only seen it once before, prior to watching the 2017 live-action remake so my memory of it wasn't great. While thinking back to the remake and seeing exactly what parts were taken from the anime and used in the film and I noticed how little the movies resembled one another outside of visual aesthetic. The plot of the remake focuses more on the backstory of the Major than what was happening in the present while the anime use more experimental scenes to make the character's past and motivations more ambiguous. This made me think back to The Last Airbender. Regardless of whether not Avatar is 'true' anime or not, its story also received a similar butchering when it made its way to cinemas. Is this strictly because its nigh impossible to streamline a plot of a show into a 2-hour runtime? Or is it because the filmmakers didn't understand the source material?

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