OutrageousEmu said:
to make the characters more relateable by not making them in their mid-teens, to make the events more understandable by grounding them in a more universal tragedy instead of an event that was only a tragedy for the Japanese
Teo things.
having a character in their mid-teens doesn't say anything about how relatable it is. It depends on how well written the character is more than anything.
And are you kidding me? Universal tragedy? Talk about being egocentrical. As neither Japanese nor American (Mexican and Spanish nationalities), Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem like bigger and more universal tragedies. More lifes were lost, and simply that reason is enough to make them more heart felt. Also, they were a bigger game changer for the world, as terrorism is a big thing, but the threat of global destruction by the hand of the human race makes a bigger impact (and the Cold War lasted half a centry, almost, so not even in time is the war on terror in the same scale). Also, long term consquences and deformities are in a larger radious and to more people, even unborn children, still make the atomic bombs a bigger trafedy. The only thing that the Towers have is that they are more recent, but in almost every other astpect, to a citizen of the world, the atomic bombs are more of a tragedy. Sorry to break the news, but a tragedy to the USA isn't a tragedy to the world. It even has non-human consequences like the fact that carbon dating isn't possible for artifacts after the event.
And I don't really care about Keanu's casting. I wasn't going to see the film and I'm not going to change my opinion. I hate that Hollywood feels the need to adapt every single famous foreign movie to Ameircan audiences. They usually suck.
