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Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L.
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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Adam Wingard addressed the whitewashing controversy over the film by explaining that the film is an American take on the Death Note story, stating, "It's one of those things where the harder I tried to stay 100% true to the source material, the more it just kind of fell apart. You're in a different country, you're in a different kind of environment, and you're trying to also summarize a sprawling series into a two-hour-long film. For me, it became about; what do these themes mean to modern day America, and how does that affect how we tell the story."
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Goofs
(at around 1h 19 mins) Near the end of the film as Light Turner is running towards the Seattle Great Wheel (or Ferris Wheel as they call it) there are city lights and skyscrapers across the water. The Seattle Great Wheel sits on a pier. From the angle of the shot the camera would be facing out into Puget Sound - and away from the Seattle skyline.
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Quotes
Ryuk:
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sees James Turner challenge Kira]
Now I'm rooting for the guy!
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Crazy Credits
The closing credits features brief clips of outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.
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Soundtracks
The Power of Love
Written by
Mary Susan Applegate,
Wolfgang Detmann,
Gunther Mende,
Jennifer Rush
Performed by
Air Supply
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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An unfortunate missed opportunity.
I didn't give this movie a 5 because it was different from the original, i thought it wasn't different enough. I have read the Death Note manga several times and i think that, for a Shonen Jump Manga, it is a Masterpiece.
Still, being a Manga made for a very specific demographic it is tied to several silly Japanese teen archetypes. For example: Light Yagami being a High School Student and Misa Amane being a Teen idol, both of them being Japanese, that kind of thing.
The Story of a NoteBook of Death that is used to "create a better world" however, has a potential that far exceeds the original manga.
I believe that, had this been done correctly, it could have been on par with Breaking Bad. It could have been a master piece. They didn't even have to use the names of the original characters, they could have forgotten about the silly high school plot line and the Japanese clichés.
It should have been a TV Series and the characters should have been Detectives. Its sad to see such missed potential.
I honestly believe that, had this been done by good writers and on the right format, it could have far surpassed the original.