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===Whitewashing in the Netflix Film===

===Whitewashing in the Netflix Film===

In 2015, Warner Bros announced production of a U.S. adaptation of Death Note. Netflix bought the rights in 2016. The teaser trailer was released in 2017, and was immediately met with criticism. In the Netflix version of Death Note, Light and Misa are both played by white actors, despite being Japanese teenagers in the source material. There were allegations that the casting team for the Netflix Death Note adaptation was not even considering Asian actors for the role of Light.<ref>[http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a9214527/netflix-death-note-whitewashing-racism-light-turner/ Cosmopolitan]</ref>

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Besides the whitewashing of the cast, there was also criticism surrounding the decision to set the film in America and remove the story from a Japanese context. As many critics and Death Note fans discussed in the wake of this film's release, Death Note is a story heavily rooted in Japanese culture and mythology. Critics argued that removing Death Note from a Japanese setting hurt the Netflix film by ignoring important context from the source material.<ref>[http://www.indiewire.com/2017/08/death-note-whitewashing-conversation-1201871811/ Indiewire]</ref>

 

One of the film's producers, Roy Lee, addressed the negative criticism. Among his statements, he claimed that the majority white cast was chosen to make the film "more appealing [...] to the English-language market".<ref>[http://ew.com/movies/2017/04/27/death-note-remake-whitewashing-backlash-roy-lee/ EW]</ref>

 

Many fans have compared the whitewashing in the Netflix Death Note film to whitewashing in other adaptations of popular Japanese and anime-inspired media. For example, [[The Last Airbender]] is a live-action movie adaptation of a popular animated show, which was heavily inspired by Japanese anime. The film features white actors portraying characters of color. Other examples of whitewashed anime-inspired films include "Speed Racer" (2008), "Dragonball Evolution" (2009), and "Ghost in the Shell" (2017).<ref>[https://joshualunacreations.tumblr.com/post/159005387669/whitewashing-an-american-tradition Comic by Joshua Luna Creations]</ref>

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