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I want your [Dragon] Balls in my mouth
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On April 8, 2009 a movie will be released. For the few of you degenerates who don't know the story:
Wikipedia wrote:Goku goes on a journey to find Master Roshi and gather the seven mystical Dragon Balls before the evil Lord Piccolo can. Along his way, he meets Bulma who then joins him to help him in his mission. When arriving at Roshi's place, he is not welcomed with an embrace but has to fight Roshi. Roshi soon learns that Goku is the grandson of Gohan and thus trains him to prepare him for the ultimate battle with Lord Piccolo to prevent him from collecting the powerful Dragon Balls
The Trailer
It's directed by James Wong, who was responsible for such sweetness trains like Final Destination, The One, and Final Destination 3. Stephen Chow is producing it. You may have seen his work in Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer.
Truly with such a great team already assembled, this movie can't possibly get any better right?
WRONG!
The Wong has assembled the equivalent of a robotic Tyrannosaurus wearing a jetpack with his acting ensemble.
Goku
First we have Justin Chatwin as Goku. You may know him as Tom Cruise's son from War of the Worlds, the main character in that shitty David Goyer movie, or from that episode of LOST where he almost got shot by Locke. He will not wear a wig in this film because The Wong "felt his hair resembled Goku's spiky hairstyle close enough without actually being silly". Tom Welling was also considered for the part, but that would've been stupid.
Chatwin did have this to say about his career-making part.
Justin Chatwin wrote:I think it is an honor to play Goku. He is a universal character, as if a reincarnation of Luke Skywalker, and a really great character to play. Goku always takes action himself, is positive thinking, helps the weak. He had a great influence on myself.
Here's what 20th Century Fox had to say about him
Fox wrote:Justin Chatwin landed the role of Goku after an exhaustive worldwide search. Goku is a high school student whose innocence and guilelessness are left behind when he begins his hero’s journey. “The character has a great arc – from high school nerd to the planet’s savior,†says Wong. “One minute, Goku is a high school student who doesn’t fit in with his peers; the next, he’s on an incredible quest.†Chatwin sparked to the idea of the hero’s journey, having long been an admirer of the work of mythologists like Joseph Campbell, whose writings often dealt with the role of the hero figure. “Goku begins his journey as an everyday teen who discovers he’s meant for something more,†says Chatwin. “He becomes a symbol of moral good.â€
Goku’s transformative journey is all well and good, as are his martial arts skills, but a subject of equal scrutiny was the character’s….hair. The legions of Dragonball fans identify Goku through his uniquely styled, spiked coif. “That was my first question to Jimmy Wong,†says Chatwin with a laugh. “‘What are you going to do with the hair?’ It’s so important, that even the hair has an arc!†(Goku’s hairstyle evolves through the film into its signature, spiky “do.â€)
Bulma
Next we have Emily Rossum as Bulma. You may recognize her as being Jake Gyllenhall's girlfriend in the all-ages epic, The Day After Tomorrow, and being Kurt Russell's daughter in that shitty remake of Poseidon. She won't be wearing a blue wig in this film unfortunately, we'll just have to settle for a blue streak in her perfect hair. What a fox.
20th Century Fox thought that she was a total slut
Fox wrote:Another beautiful young woman joining Goku in his quest is Bulma, a scientist described in the manga as the “smartest girl in the world.†The film retains the manga character’s confidence, intensity and intelligence – and the fact that she knows exactly what she wants. And what Bulma wants is the Dragonball stolen from her father’s company. Wielding a laser-guided, high-tech magnum pistol and a Dragonball-tracker, Bulma will do anything to retrieve the five-starred Dragonball, which she thinks will supply an unlimited source of energy – and immense financial rewards.
Emmy Rossum appreciated the challenges of playing such a multi-faceted character whose hard-nosed, take-no-prisoners attitude begins to change after she joins Goku and Roshi on their search for the Dragonballs. “Bulma comes to realize that life is about much more than her personal quest,†says Rossum. “The character in the manga and now our film is so alive, funny and spunky. She’s anything but ordinary.†A bonus for the actress was learning to ride Bulma’s speedster, which the production created from a Harley motorcycle.
In the manga, Bulma sports a blue bob, which became her signature look. Rossum recalls that the filmmakers tried different ways to capture that coloring and style, including dyes, hair extensions and wigs, but ultimately went in a more realistic direction. Nevertheless, there are traces of blue and purple laced throughout the character’s wardrobe.
Master Roshi
Chow Yun-Fat plays the Roshi. He was great in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hard-Boiled, but seems to be content with making horrible decisions as of late.
Chow Yun-Fat wrote:On my career as an actor, it is my first time to play a manga character. Dragonball is read all over the world, have many hard core fans. I hope they won’t be disappointed by my acting (laugh). But to be honest with you, I’m totally satisfied with my performance as Master Roshi.
20th Century Fox loved Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Fox wrote:One of the first steps in Goku’s journey is to seek out Roshi, an elderly Master who completes Goku’s training, helps him unlock the secret of his past – and joins him in a quest to save the world. Roshi is unlike any Eastern Master you’ve seen before; he has an eye for the ladies and favors Hawaiian shirts. According to Wong, the role required nothing less than an iconic actor who could convey the character’s many dimensions and incredible abilities. “We had to really reach high to find our Roshi,†says Wong, “and we decided to just go for it and approach Chow Yun-Fat,†the legendary international superstar who has toplined some of the cinema’s most acclaimed action films, including the Oscar®-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.â€
Chow wasn’t an obvious physical match to the Roshi fans know from the manga and anime. Wong explains: “In the manga, Roshi is a quirky, elderly figure, who’s unpredictable. He’s definitely not your traditional Master who dispenses sage advice.†While no amount of makeup and prosthetics could transform the strapping Chow – whom People magazine called one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world, and the Los Angeles Times termed “the coolest actor in the world†– into the diminutive, aged figure of the manga, Chow worked hard to capture the character’s spirit. “I’ve never had the kind of challenge I’ve had with the role of Roshi,†says the actor. “There is so much to him – humor, action, romance, emotion. He has extraordinary powers, but he’s still funny, recognizable and human.â€
One of the many ideas the actor proposed for the character was donning gray-tinted contact lenses, hinting at the onset of cataracts. “I thought the lenses would add to the realism and relatability of Roshi,†says Chow, who also regularly practiced Tai Chi and mediation before and during the shoot.
Thrilled to be working with a cinema icon, the cast and crew were equally impressed with Chow’s work ethic off camera. He never retreated to his trailer to relax between scenes, and would often help out the camera crew – including moving heavy equipment (becoming the most high-profile grip in the business). “Chow never left the set,†marvels director of photography Robert McLachlan, ASC/CSC. “He was like part of the crew.†But to Chow, his behind-the-scenes work was not a big deal. “It’s how we’ve been doing things in Hong Kong since the beginning of my career in television,†he points out. “The crews were tiny, and we always helped each other out.â€
Piccolo
James Marsters plays the green man. He was in Buffy, I never watched it. He has big cheekbones.
James Marsters wrote:The character is "thousands of years old and a very long time ago he used to be a force of good, but [he] got into a bad argument and was put into prison for 2000 years. It got him very angry, and he finds a way to escape and then tries to destroy the world. The cool thing is, anybody who has seen Dragonball knows that Lord Piccolo transforms into a character named Piccolo, and that is a whole other ball of wax. Heroic wouldn't be the wrong term by the end, but it's a long journey." He also confirmed Piccolo will retain his physical appearance from the anime. Marsters is a fan of the television series, which he described as being "the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years [because] it’s got a Shakespearean sense of good and evil." He admitted, "When I got the role I had doubts. The more I live with it I realize that I am going to rock this harder than I have anything in my life."
20th Century Fox loves Buffy and still watches the DVDs
Fox wrote:In their search for the Dragonballs, Goku, Roshi and Bulma face their adversary, Lord Piccolo. As depicted in the manga, Piccolo is a complex and intriguing figure whose journey sees him embodying both good and evil. For in the Dragonball mythos, any character can turn from good to evil, and vice versa. James Marsters, beloved to millions of fans around the world for his lengthy stint as the vampire Spike in the hit television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer†and “Angel,†portrays Piccolo in the film. His Piccolo is the story’s antagonist – “In the film, Piccolo is a figure of decrepitude, and his goals are centered on revenge,†says Marsters – but there are hints that his journey is very much an evolving process.
Grandpa Gohan
Randall Duk Kim plays Grandpa Gohan. He acted the shit out of the Keymaker in the second Matrix film and was also Oogway in Kung-Fu Panda. He doesn't really have anything to say about the movie which can only be a great sign.
Chi Chi
Jamie Chung plays the bitch. You may have seen her in the hit show, The Real World: San Diego, or in her role as a Hooters girl in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, or even in Command and Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising.
20th Century Fox has a lot of faith in her acting abilities
Chung has the lead role in the popular ABC Family series “Samurai Girl,†whose title character possesses fighting skills that came in handy for “DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTIONâ€. One of today’s brightest and most appealing young stars, Chung brought much more to Chi Chi than martial abilities. She has the sparkling energy necessary to fully capture the two sides of the character. “Chi Chi is the ‘It Girl’ – the most popular girl in high school,†says Chung. “She comes from a wealthy family, and everyone expects certain things from her. But she has a second life – a secret life – marked by her passion to fight. She comes off like the girl next door, but when she turns it on, she kicks butt!â€
The burgeoning relationship between Chi Chi and Goku comes from, in part, them being kindred spirits. “Chi Chi is drawn to Goku’s secret ability to fight,†says Chung. “She feels there’s something really special about Goku, and she’s able to bring that out in him.â€
Mai
Eriko Tamura plays Piccolo's henchwoman who's pretty much created for the movie. Eriko is a Japanese actress and singer with almost no acting experience in the US except for a few episodes of Heroes. At least she's excited for the role!
20th Century Fox thinks she's exotic.
Fox wrote:Working with Piccolo is Mai, an exotic beauty tainted by malevolence. Her weapons of choice are throwing knives known as shiruken. Japanese-born actress Eriko, who came to “DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION†after wrapping a recurring role on “Heroes,†says she enjoyed playing a “strong, tough woman on a mission.†James Wong adds that Eriko gives the role a “special quality and toughness.â€
Yamcha
Yamcha's a fucking bitch and the guy who plays him, Joon Park, is a bitch as well.
20th Century Fox thought he was a bitch too
Fox wrote:Rounding out the starring cast is Joon Park as Yamcha. Looking to get rich, quickly, Yamcha traps Goku, Roshi and Bulma in the desert. But eventually, he joins them in their journey. Park, a rock star in his native Korea, has performed in front of 100,000 screaming fans – an experience that helped him capture the essence of the character. “Joon has all the qualities necessary for Yamcha, including charisma and a sense of mischief,†says Wong. “Yamcha is tough on the outside, but inside there’s a soft heart,†adds Park. “Something in his past has scarred him, and he likes to skim across the details of life, looking for money.â€
So what else is amazing about this movie? Well how about mothafucking fist-cams!
Some guy wrote:VFX supervisor Velasco Shaw employed what Wong calls “fist-cams†– from the noted company Iconix – that are so small they could be attached to an actor’s fist, allowing a character’s punch to come right into the audience. “It’s a kind of ‘fist POV’,†Wong elaborates. McLachlan contributed the suggestion of using new high-speed digital Phantom cameras to create super-slow motion for key action sequences. “We did a lot of research and development with the Phantom cameras,†says McLachlan, who had discovered the-then experimental photography on YouTube. In the YouTube video, a balloon filled with water was popped, with the “action†caught at 1000 frames per second. McLachlan and Wong were impressed with the results. “The most spectacular thing about it was that the water retained the shape of the balloon before it fell,†Wong remembers.
What about the action you say? What kind of fighting will be in this film? The great kind
Same guy wrote:The young cast members underwent individually-designed training regimens – no two characters have identical fighting styles – as well as special diets to maintain their strength and stamina during production. In Dragonball lore, Goku is the greatest warrior on the planet. And Justin Chatwin took the responsibility of capturing the character’s skills, very seriously. Before the start of principal photography, he underwent six weeks of nutritional guidance and stunt and martial arts training with 87Eleven, continuing the demanding regimen during the shoot. “It all got my adrenalin going,†says the actor, who also notes he gave up sugar, wheat and pasta during his stint on the film. Chatwin spent a minimum of five hours training each day, studying karate, kung fu and a Brazilian form known as capoeira, which ritualizes movement from martial arts, games and dance. For the more extreme acrobatic maneuvers, Jackson Spidell stood in for the actor. Spidell’s signature move: flipping up in the air, then spinning halfway, and, on his way down, striking an opponent.
Chow Yun-Fat, as Roshi, was given “softer†martial styles, like Tai Chi, befitting the character’s age and experience. Jamie Chung, as young and ever-enthusiastic martial artist Chi Chi, was given “hard†fighting styles, including kickboxing, karate, and Thai boxing. Chung especially delighted in a pivotal fight scene that has Chi Chi fighting…Chi Chi. (Mai, a shape shifter, morphs into Chi Chi to steal a Dragonball.) “I had to play both sides of the fight and learn choreography for both Chi Chi and Mai,†the latter a kung fu practitioner, Chung recalls. Visual effects, including motion control and split composites, enhanced the complex battle.
And what kind of training is required for the actor playing one of the most powerful figures in the universe – Lord Piccolo? According to James Marsters, it was drills involving punching/kicking/blocking combinations. “I thought my body would break,†says the actor with a laugh. “But [the stunt team and trainers] knew exactly what my body could take.â€
What does Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama think about the movie? He's damn optimistic!
Akira Toriyama wrote:As the original creator, I had a feeling of “Huh?†upon seeing the screenplay and the character designs, but the director, all the actors, the staff, and the rest are nothing but “ultra†high-caliber people. Maybe the right way for me and all the fans to appreciate it is as a New Dragonball of a different dimension. Perhaps, this might become a great masterpiece of power! Hey, I look forward to it!!
Here's the visual effects superivsor with some words
Artie Shaw answering wrote:Some fans were confused that the “Kame Hame Ha†[in the trailer] was executed with one hand. Was this the actual “Kame Hame Ha†or just a “Ki†blast put in the trailer to not spoil it?
A: The one handed ki blast was just a shadow crane strike. Goku has a limited arsenal of energy blasts that culminates in a Kame Hame Ha. Roshi’s arsenal is more powerful than Goku’s, and Piccolo has many types of energy blasts that culminates in a Spirit Bomb. I gotta say, the energy fights are pretty cool.
Q: Do any of the characters have auras in the film?
A: Yes.
You also may be asking, hey does Goku turn into a giant monkey in this film? Hell yeah he does! Here's a screengrab from the videogame and one from the actual film.
What the fuck
Theme Song for the movie by Ayumi Hamasaki
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I would like to suggest that we talk about how good looking Ayumi Hamasaki is.
People got to know
I don't like him.
Also, this picture reminds me of an older fightinfilipino!
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One can only hope
Thanks! It took so much longer than I expected, but this movie deserves it
This is the best present ever, 20th Century Fox.
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um javen
it says right in the title that's a fan-made trailer
it's dubbed over with sound from the original show
i think that should be fairly obvious
I know it's dubbed with sounds from the show.
I'm saying it would be AWESOME if the whole movie were to be done that way.
oh, oh I see
god that would be awesome
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I want a trilogy
I'll likely be the only one in the theater
DRAGON DRAGON BALL
DRAGON BALL Z
DRAGON DRAGON BALL
Z
surely those people will see this movie and guarantee a franchise
Gangsta
not enough people know of its existence.
BT3 on the wii is too much guilty fun
all doin' kamehamehas
all doin' final flashes
Please tell me you can do the Wolf Fang Fist.
is this cool y/n
He is tappin' that
I'll say it, I ain't ascairt, I watched that show with that godless intro akin to a motherfucker when I was a kid.
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It is going to be a hellish endeavor.
aw, who am I kidding?