Roadshow October Part 2
As it turns out the October issue of Roadshow has interviews with not only Justin Chatwin and 87Eleven, but with Chow Yun-Fat (Master Roshi) and Emmy Rossum (Bulma) as well. Here’s the continuation in English, provided by our very generous source in Japan.
Chow Yun-Fat interview
He saw the Japanese magazine which the press brought from Japan, the cover girl is Japanese actress Akina Minamai, and said, “Oh! Master Roshi loves her! Kawaii nee! (Cute, in Japanese)” he laughed and sat back in the chair and said in a deep voice “Welcome to Durango! Nice to meet you!”He then talked about the Character of Master Roshi, “He is funny, very funny. (laugh) This is the first time to play a manga character in my career. Comic and movie is different, so I hope you will like my acting.”
And about his preparation for the role, “The script was very well written, I didn’t worry about it. Character is very fascinating and dramatic. The important thing for an actor is not money or work, but whether the character is fascinating or not.” He explained the similarities between him and Master Roshi, “He and I love ladies. But my wife is always around me, so I can’t be looking at ladies so much.”
He gave his opinion on Justin Chatwin, “I think he is handsomer than the manga character. I’m sure that the fans of the original manga will love him. And you guys, what did you think when you heard I would play Master Roshi?” the press said they were very surprised.
Chow replied with, “Who do you think suits the role of Master Roshi?” NO! Chow Yun-Fat is best! “Cheers! I will treat you to dinner later. Anyway, the movie is an adventure following the original manga and animation. Thank you for your support.”
Emmy Rossum interview
I am a big fan of Bulma. Because she is very energetic, sexy, and has a strong will. I think it is an honor to play the girl who is drawn as one of the smartest girls in the world. I will make the best use of her intellect, high motivation and reckless character which are drawn in the original in my acting. But because this is the live action movie, I have to do a little more three-dimensional acting.
I hope I can rightly play Bluma who the fans saw and loved, and I want to make them happy. I know how much responsibility I have, and I have a great love for her. I think I resemble her. Both of us will do what we decide to do, and we are fascinated with the boys. And we have a passion for the goal of our life and carry a torch for it.
She gave her opinion on Justin Chatwin, “I think he is wonderful. He acts the change of Goku growing up gradually very well. He, as well as us, was researching quite a lot to be able to play Goku properly.”
“Shooting is very fun. In a chasing scene, I had to hang down from height of 10 meters. That was a very exciting experience. It was a lot of fun to study. How cool am I since I can shoot a gun or ride a motorcycle for action scenes? (laugh).”
About the three-wheele motorcycle, “Well, it’s like a snowmobile with tires. It’s very powerful and can run at a maximum speed of 240 kilometers per hour. After the end of shooting I will bring it back home.(laugh)”
The magazine also featured a plot synopsis, which contains minor spoilers.
Story
After Grandpa Gohan’s dying request, Goku starts on a journey to find Master Roshi and gather the seven Dragon Balls to prevent the desire of Lord Piccolo to take over the world. In the course of his journey, Goku meets Bulma and using her Dragon Radar, they find Dragon Balls on the way. Goku arrives to Master Roshi, and he fights with Roshi. Looking at Goku’s fighting technique, Roshi finds that Goku is a grandson of Gohan. Master Roshi was Gohan’s master. Goku receives rigorous training from Master Roshi, and after a long journey, Goku approaches Lord Piccolo for the last time.
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@Rammstein:
“Hahaha. Make up can make that other actor look green, but it can’t make Justin have dark hair and dark eyes.”
-That’s right, it can’t. But contact lenses and hair dye could.
I’m not even discussing the race thing anymore with anyone, that topic is done. If you want to see an Asian Goku, go watch Dragonball: The Magic Begins. You should LOVE that movie.
@dragonsoul2: “That’s right, it can’t. But contact lenses and hair dye could.”
Then why didn’t they do it?
“I’m not even discussing the race thing anymore with anyone, that topic is done.”
I am not talking about race, just mentioning that a Nordic Goku is not in Dragon Ball. Maybe dark hair and eyes would improve the situation.
@Rammstein: I don’t know why they didn’t do it. It’s easy for you to say it would look better, but for all we know, that could have been one of the first things they tried and maybe it didn’t look right. Fox is a multi-million dollar movie making corporation, I’m pretty sure whatever changes they made, it was for good reason. Reasons that you and I can’t see or understand because we don’t work there. Personally I think brown hair is more natural and more common than jet black hair. This movie is taking place in the real world. People seem to keep forgetting that.
not a bad storyline, not bad at all
I thought that they were gonna ruin the movie with the other storyline but
no, they used a better one.
shit, they prolly worked hard on the trailer just as much as they did to the movie
@dragonsoul2: “Personally I think brown hair is more natural and more common than jet black hair.” And where would that be common? In Norway? I guarantee that in Japan 100% people’s natural hair is jet black, and those who don’t have it it is because they dyed it.
Ridiculous. Fox wanted a nordic Goku. I can accept that an American would do it, it’s an American movie after all, but the deliberate changing of the story is just lame. I mean, I am not one those that scream racism at anything, but man, this is ridiculous! The guys didn’t even bother making the his hair and eyes dark. Why? Would he look Italian or Hispanic then?
And even worse, in the highschool!! Being dumb is part of that character. If he is not dumb, then he is not Goku.
“And where would that be common? In Norway? I guarantee that in Japan 100% people’s natural hair is jet black, and those who don’t have it it is because they dyed it.”
-I think you just answered your own question. This isn’t Japan. This is the U.S.
“The guys didn’t even bother making the his hair and eyes dark.”
-You’re not going to let that go are you?
“And even worse, in the highschool!! Being dumb is part of that character. If he is not dumb, then he is not Goku.”
-You’re saying that aren’t any dumb people in high school? Cause I knew a lot. And I don’t think Goku was dumb, he just didn’t know any better. He grew up in the woods. Can you really see that in live action? An 18 year old man who acts like he’s nine? You do agree that this movie is supposed to be realistic right? Apart from the legend. So if you can see that it’s supposed to realistic, then you should understand why he’s in school. It’s against the law to not have a minor enrolled in school. We’re all thinking that this high school stuff won’t even play a major role in the movie anyway. Why are we still talking about this?
@Rammstein:
Dude get some new arguments for crying out loud your just re-hashing the same whinny bs that all the hatters say… stop trying to start drama dude its really effin old…
U guys really need to calm down with the comments, seriously.
Let the haters hate, they’r still gonna watch the movie 1st day. Ive said it before.
BTW< that plot sounds perfect, im guessing James Wong put in the high school scene, so Chi- Chi cud meet Goku and fall in love. Everyone who at least watched the anime knows she was a nerd who cud kick ass when ready. So it makes sense to me now, after ALL THIS TIME!
I have two different thoughts about the goku-in-high-school part.
The first one is that the entire thing was scrapped early or even faked. Chatwin’s hair in the first leaked high school photos isn’t the same we all know today. Also, I remember info of those days about Rossum using a blue wig during filming. There’s no official info from Fox regarding Goku in high school, and no actual evidence of that Weaver and Carey Fuller (WTF) characters. Maybe Fox is just fooling with us. The synopsis doesn’t mention anything about Goku being in high school, and if you think about it carefully, is kind of hard to leave that part out. The scrapped plot idea came to me from a Marsters statement about he and Chatwin making an effort to portray more accurate depictions of their characters. Maybe Chatwin started filming as he looked in the first photos, but shortly after Marsters convinced him to use better makeup (Marsters said he talked alot with Chatwin about their characters’ accuracy).
My second thought (and obviously the less favorite) is that they are using Gohan’s early adventures during the Majin Boo saga but with Goku instead (I hardly doubt they’ll reach Gohan’s adulthood within a trilogy). Among the obvious similarities you’ve already know, in Chi Chi’s promotional photo you can see her outfit is nearly identical to Videl’s. She is neither wearing a helmet with a bathing suit nor an asian-like costume. A rather cheap way to keep somehow in touch with Toriyama’s work, I guess.
Finally, I want to say a couple of things about Goku’s movie appearance. Goku is neither japanese nor american/nordic: he’s an alien. He was named Goku by Son Gohan, who happens to be an old chinese-of-sorts man. He doesn’t need to look asian because he came from outer space. On the other side, I’m pretty sure you all guys know sometimes Goku has no black eyes
And true Dragonball scholars probably know Goku’s hair (when he dons “black” hair) isn’t completely black.
One more thing: Chatwin’s eyes aren’t blue but green, just like Goku’s aforementioned Super Saiyan form.
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heir is a chase scene where people are shooting guns? i dont think piccolo would do that. Sounds more like the red ribbon army to me
Lots of good news Wooo! Good bye bad news =P