He was a good L. Script problems doesn't negate his performance.

He was trash
Even if he was white he still would have been trash itself

>>87208464

It was really weird because the guy who played L could clearly out act everyone else in this movie except for William Dafoe.

Agreed.

Good performance doesn't make him a good L

>>87208464
>>87209124
BLACKED

>>87209083
I thought all of the cast was good except the guy who played Light. He was the only terrible one.

>>87209125
What good performance?

L is supposed to give that weirdo genius vibe off. Black guy can't do either of these things

>>87209630
Misa was wooden as fuck, Dad Turner looked like he was channeling constipated Sean Penn, and no one else really had enough screentime to show any acting chops
Dafoe was great for all of the five lines he had but any time Ryuk was not in the shadows he was impossible to take seriously because he looked fucking retarded

Anytime I see anyone defend practically anything about this movie I feel like I'm speaking to an alien. There wasn't a single good thing about it. The cafe scene was okay at best thanks to the visuals and composition but fuck if the dialogue and poor casting didn't fuck it up. The guy who played L could've done a good job but the script was godawful so while it's clear he's a good actor, he's not good in this. No one's good in this.

>>87210351
That was because of the writing, not the performance

>>87210711
that's because of the race. black guy cant look like genius

>>87210438
>Dad Turner looked like he was channeling constipated Sean Penn

Sir, I'll have you know Shea Whigham is based.

And I understand how you feel about speaking to an alien (I feel that way when someone praises that godawful Castlevania series), but I have to disagree, Death Note was fun and stylish and weird.

>>87210807
This is pretty basic racism. Maybe put some more effort into it next time.

>>87210807
he just needed glasses to look smarter

>>87211034
show me a black guy that would look like he could be a weirdo genius

You're only the thousandth person to say that.
These threads are all completely the same.

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>>87211169
I spent several seconds thinking of an answer.

Not that it matters since you'll just move the goalposts.

>>87208464
ooga booga

More like N.

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>>87211790
No, Near shows up later

>>87211929
Yeah, N shows up later on a boat from Africa.

>>87208464
he fucked up L's stoic personality and made him an emotional psycho.

>>87208464
>Script problems doesn't negate his performance

Yes it does

>>87208464
>He squatted in a chair like in the cartoon
>that's what makes it good acting

Here, here!

Iwould be ok with Light being black, but L just need to be pale

>>87211348
he looks like a retard, not weirdo genius

>>87208464
Good actor, but I didn't like his L

>>87208464
Blackwashing

>>87211034
And racism is reality.

>>87208464
haven't and don't plan to watch death note, but he was my favorite actor in atlanta

>>87208464
He's the best actor in the movie. He's a great actor in general.

>>87208464
Why did he just stop wearing his mask halfway through? I thought it was because he knew kira needed his real name to kill him so as long as kira didn't have that he didn't have anything to fear, but just because Kira doesn't have your real name doesn't mean there aren't other people who want to know who you are. That's why he uses a pseudonym, and presumably why he wore the mask in the first place.

>>87209083
Who is William Dafoe?

>>87210261
His performance of the poorly written L

>>87211942
No N will be a Muslim refugee from Sweden

>>87213245
came to this thread to find mental retardation and i caught it right here lol you know being weird and being super intelligent are too exclusively different, meaning being ultra smart has nothing to do with appearance you fuck nut, which means you are going by an inherent superficial bias of what looks eccentric. you must be gay, my condolences

>>87208464
Honestly after watching Atlanta and seeing interviews this guy actually has what it takes to play a guy with Asperger's. Shame that decide to make him more wrathful instead just mega autistic

>>87211929
Near was a mistake. He was just L without everything that made L a good character but with triple the autism.

>>87211953
L was stoic even in the face of his own death. Been rewatching the show after watching the movie and I'm getting close to his death, starting to feel the feels already. That dialog between Light and L in the rain is so calm and thoughtful then suddenly the klaxons start going off and everything hits the fan. This show is so damn good

>>87211953
No, the writer did.

>>87216305
N was kinda like a savant I think. In the manga didn't he use the death note to control mikami to catch Light? I haven't read it

>>87216305
>the last thing L does before dying is dry off Lights feet

Is it even possible to be more beta than that?

He was a terrible L

Did you even watch the anime? Apart from sitting like him(squatting on a chair) he was nothing like him

>>87208464
I guess he mimic'd L.'s mannerisms pretty well. The movie was so different from the anime though that it was distracting. Watari, L., the visualization of Ryuk and that "Lord Kira" guy with a plank were all super anime and felt out of place

>>87210438
The ending was much better. Stop fooling yourself. The anime sucked ass. When you have to pull deus ex machina's like shinigami eyes out of your ass, you're fucked. Mia was much better than fucking Misa.

he couldve been

>>87211034
BROKE: Republicans are racist!
JOKE: Democrats are the real racists!
WOKE: Republicans and Democrats are no different.
BESPOKE: It's me. I am the real racist.

>>87213245
That's the point though.

Why do these Netflix Original Movies always feel cheap? Given they have budgets as big the ones in theaters

>>87216419
its an allusion to jesus and judas you pleb because L is sacrificing himself so that his successors can take down Light.

>>87213245
Kek

too bad a good performance cant compensate poor decisions

>>87216187
THIS

The movie was terrible.

How did he find Light in this adaptation? L found Light through fake broadcasts as bait in the anime.

The liberal media won't stop until all little white babies are dead.

Remember our cause, remember that anti-racist stands for anti-white (not because we are racists, but because hating racists is hating us in some sense)

>>87219581
Light's first kill was broadcasted through a stream only live in Seattle.

>>87215396

>>87219959
How did he know it was the work of Kira though? Also wasn't Light's first kill that high school jock picking on the girl?

>>87218576
I understand that, but still looks gay as fuck

>>87208464
kys

>>87220109
>How did he know it was the work of Kira though?
The guy acted in an unusual way before dying (because Light was testing out the notebook with Mi(s)a and wanted to prove to her it was real). The police thought it was drugs at first but then drug tests came clean.

>Also wasn't Light's first kill that high school jock picking on the girl?
Yes, but they ignored it.

>>87217472
>yeah I can just control literally every single thing with the death note, even down to there being a barrel on fire for the page to fall onto
>light can actually control the wind with the death note
No. The ending wasn't better at all.

>>87220247
So what if he wasn't on drugs? Criminals can be psychotic. I have no idea how you can narrow down Kira's location just by a criminal acting weird.

>>87220109
>How did he know it was the work of Kira though?

It was just a theory (a geuss) The real confirmation was when he started tracking the seattle police database and discovered that kira was using that to find his victims. And then he used kira's dad to determine it was kira's son because he already suspected it was a student based on the times of the killings. The big problem with this was the pacing - all this shit happens in like 5 minutes.

>>87220299
Me neither, but that's how they defended it.

>>87220260
Also, in the manga and anime, if someone touches the death note they can see the shinigami attached to it right? Why was that left out of the movie?

>>87220299
> I have no idea how you can narrow down Kira's location just by a criminal acting weird.

It was just a lead until he used the seattle police database to find out kira was using it to find his victims.

>>87220412
>Why was that left out of the movie?

My guess is that it gave a reason for Mia to want to become the keeper of the notebook, since only the keeper can see it. Cause she needs a reason to do that stuff for the plot to advance. But that's still stupid because what does it matter if you're the keeper or not? It's already established that anyone can use the book to kill, so you might as well just steal it from light when he's not looking.

Adapting shit like this never works and shouldn't be allowed. It either turns out as something original that lends from the source material but keeps a unique style, or tries to copy FUCKING ANIME.
L's character was perfectly tolerable in the anime but trying to recreate it in real life doesn't work. It's edgy and retarded.

>>87220594
agreed

>>87221325

Anime could work because the characters are a bit like caricature and they add to the story like that but you can't represent them in real life in most cases.

>>87221417
agreed. that's why the other death note movies are weird as fuck

>>87208464
His acting was good that's not the problem, the problem is the way they portrayed L. No longer is he the calm and rational one, he gets literally triggered and chimps the fuck out and goes on a shooting spree chasing Light down.

>>87221732
yeah I was laughing the whole time that happened. Like, oh watari died? Wow maybe he shouldn't have used his real fucking name

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>>87211169

>>87221883
>>87221883
good call

>>87208464
why didnt he drop out of production. L wasnt black in the anime or comic.....oh because its all a bunch of bullshit

>good and alpha guy is black
>girl is smart
>evil and beta idiot is white
what did netflix mean by this?

>>87208464
This guy is hilarious in Atlanta.

He was fucking trash. It was like a black weeb cosplaying and acting autistic.

>>87223868
The fuck are you talking about?

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>>87223950
It's a coincidence Goyim. Don't overthink it.

>>87220114

this. The scene most likely wasn't meant to be as homosexual as it was but by god was it gay. It completely killed the mood.

>>87220114
>I understand that

>I understand this thing that isn't true and that guy literally just made up

>>87225070
fuck you

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>>87209630
And he was being considered for the role of Spider-Man against Holland. Thank fuck, we dodged a bullet there.

>>87208464

Still not sure if his performance was garbage or the movie was just so bad he couldn't be good.

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The only problem was him being a dirty nigger,

>>87226758
Yeah, fortunately that movie sucks dick regardless

>>87227138
Yeah, they should've made it more like the anime.

>>87210438
Perfect :D

>>87227856
No, they should've made it good.

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>>87208464
I think he started good, but when he lost his composure it was very un-L like.

>>87211001
>, Death Note was fun and stylish and weird.

This movie was NOT fun.

>>87217472
You don't know what deus ex machina is. Shinigami eyes were a huge part of the series from the start.

>>87208464
He was shit. The movie was shit. Whitewashed anime movies should be grounds for execution

>>87228376
It wasn't un-L like, that's the problem. This movie L was a gigantic baby the entire time.

My name is L and that's a fact
If you don't like me, it's because I'm black

I don't like sleeping and I do like sweets
When I catch Kira, he's so dead meat

Everyone says I'm the smartest guy
Sit kinda funny, and my glasses are fly
Don't carry a gun cuz it's just a distraction
But if you fuck with my friends you're gonna see some action

I got LEDs on my pimped out gun
I'll chase your ass down with my retard run
Hold you at gunpoint while I stop to think
Get my head cracked by a sneaky chink

I got a Chinese butler, his name’s Watari
He sings me songs and also gets shot (sorry)
When he dies I go a little ape shit
Steal a cop car (try not to get hit)

Know a guy named Light, he's the reason I'm here
He sees demons and screams like a queer
He’s got a magic notebook for killin’ criminals
When his bitch girlfriend isn't bustin’ his balls
I searched his room and found a paper scrap
But I didn't write his name I just wrote this rap

>>87208464
English dub L is best L

>>87228376
What if one person wrote 'Ry', then another person added 'uk'?

>>87228545
Oh shiiiiiiiit

FREESTYLE BATTLE...GO

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
I'm so great I go to heaven
I'm so great all the girls want me
They want me absolutely

>>87228545
Will this be included on the official soundtrack?

>>87228957
No.

Who cares its an anime. Alt right crybabies need to get back to their containment board, and im a moderate >>>/a/

>>87229524
It's not an anime.

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>>87223950
Like real life.

>>87208464
This show is so shit

>>87208464
>overacting is good acting
wew lad

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>>87211929
I'm glad he's not tarnished

>>87229651
> Death Note 2
> Netflix casts Near as a guy who's really far away

>>87229741
oh my gawd lol thats bperfect

>>87215396
Here is a better question for you. Ryu says that nobody ever managed to get more than two letters his name in the book.

Where does light find his name?

>>87229741
>mello is really uptight

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Can someone give me a rundown of the anime's plot?
Most specifically the ending.

>>87229957
Ryuk was saying nobody was able to write his full name in the death note to kill him before he killed them. You can write Ryuk down in general, he doesn't have a problem with that.

>>87229957
What if they where trying to kill someone named Ryukyu?!

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>>87210351
He did though. He had the perfect amount of autism. He was also the only one to research the source material IIRC. Dafoe said him and the rest of the cast/crew didn't watch a single ounce of the anime.

>>87230153
black guys love anime

>>87230153
>Dafoe said him and the rest of the cast/crew didn't watch a single ounce of the anime.

Neither did the writers.

>>87228376
>Don't trust Ryuk he is not your pet he is not your friend

Wow this really is nothing like the show is it? Although that's good advice, I feel like Light forgot that in season 2.

>>87229651
There's virtually nothing to tarnish except for that scene where he scares the pants off of Light by calling him "L Number Two". First time in a while you see Light really lose his composure and it's so satisfying.

>>87230263
Yeah like DBZ/Naruto/Bleach. But you're not going to find many black guys who like Death Note, Code Geass, etc. .

>>87230344
I'm black and I like death note.

>AYO LIGHT, YOU TELLIN ME YOU HAVE A DEMON 'N SHIT?!?!?!

>>87230344
I'm black and I like Death Note and hate Bleach

>>87230519
Hey, good to see another brother in this thread.

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>havent watched the anime
>watch the 2 japanese movies that came out in 2004/6
>theyre actually pretty good

>>87208464

He was a bad L because they wrote a bad L.

>>87230153
>>87230263
>>87230344
Nigga literally went in fully prepped with the source material but was cucked by the writers and director because muh original Netflix movie
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180306/death-note-netflix-lakeith-stanfield-whitewashing-controversy

>>87230344
Bullshit, niggas are the biggest weaboos

>>87230445
>>87230519
Yeah but we're hardly representative of blacks in general, are we? Just by being on 4chan we're in a really small minority that's way more likely to be into anime. It's like if I said "you're not going to find many black conservatives" on /pol/, of course I'd get bombarded with replies from blacks on here to the contrary.

>>87230344
>Death Note, Code Geass

Bullshit. Tons of black guys used to wear L shirts and shit back in the day.

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Fucking Larry

>>87230589
The funny thing is that those movies are also pretty bad, but if you watch them after watching the American piece of trash they seem pretty good.

>>87230767
I love how anime consistently picks "American" names that either aren't American or no American would ever use. From Death Note:
>Adolf Tucker
>Ellickson Garner
>Il Rat

>>87230767
rally connors?

>>87231036
Pronounced Larry

>>87230767
Watashi wa 'R'

>>87208464
AYO HOL UP SO YOU BE SAYING WE WUZ DETECTIVES AND SHIT?