One of the best elements of the manga was the cat-and-mouse between Kira/Light and L, but that’s greatly diffused here by the addition of Mia and the changes made to Light’s family, including his police chief father ( Shea Whigham).Īnd here’s where we get back to the fatal flaw of “Death Note”: it doesn’t feel like any of these alterations to the source material, and there are many of them, had true artistic or thematic purpose. (One could argue that this character is a version of the manga's Misa Amane, an eventual companion for Light in the books but the character's history and purpose are radically different.) And the pair soon get a nemesis in the mysterious “L” ( Keith Stanfield), who tracks the God of Death known in the press as Kira. The biggest change in the film version of “Death Note” is the inclusion of a romantic arc with another high school girl named Mia ( Margaret Qualley), who is quickly let in on the Angel of Death Game because Light has a crush on her. In the film version, Light does move back to “justified murder,” but even those are Horror Extreme, taking out the man who got away with killing Light’s mother and a criminal holding hostages-both in brutal ways.
Light decides to see if a school bully will truly be decapitated if he writes that on a blank page, and Wingard gleefully stages the ensuing carnage like he’s planning to reboot the “ Final Destination” franchise next.
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Perhaps recognizing this wouldn’t be thrilling enough for a horror film, the “Death Note” movie becomes a gorefest almost immediately. In the manga, Light begins testing his own morality by killing criminals, allowing them to die peacefully of heart attacks as he tests the boundaries of playing God. What would you do with that kind of power? In the movie, Light writes a name and a manner of death and it unfolds in front of his eyes. In the manga, the rules are extensive and repeated often, but Wingard and writers Charley Parlapanides & Vlas Parlapanides and Jeremy Slater understandably simplify things a bit.
Write someone’s name in the book and they will die.
The book says Death Note on the cover and has names written in it over centuries. A boy named Light Turner ( Nat Wolff) finds a book dropped to Earth by a Shinigami, a Japanese death demon somewhat akin to the Grim Reaper, named Ryuk, voiced in the film by Willem Dafoe. The concept of “Death Note,” the manga and at least start of the film, is simple.
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