Chapter 542: American Crime Story: The Simpson Indictment
In fact, in Charlotte's adaptation of the American drama version of "Death Note", he somewhat raised the age of some of the two male leads.
After all, in addition to the fact that the Japanese are more obsessed with the stalk of "high school students save the world", the main audience of other countries will still lack some sense of substitution for the protagonist of this age.
Even though the target audience of "Death Note" is indeed mainly teenagers, considering the characteristics of the audience in the American market, Charlotte still raised the age of the main characters to the college stage.
- That is, similar to the Japanese version of the movie "Death Note".
At this age, the sense of substitution for young audiences is stronger.
And audiences of other ages will not have a sense of disobedience when watching it.
After all, although Charlotte's initial purpose in producing the American drama version of "Death Note" was to refine the real "Death Note", expanding the business to the direction of TV series was originally one of the future development strategies of Ghost Party Studios.
- Charlotte doesn't want to lose money, and she doesn't want to break the impression that "the Spectre must be a high-quality product".
Therefore, when adapting the script, he still put a lot of effort into making a lot of adjustments to the habits of American TV audiences.
At the very least, when Moon Wright used the Death Note to execute criminals, many of them died in a rather performance art style, in order to satisfy the heavy taste of American audiences.
In particular, "Death Note" is still broadcast on pay TV stations like HBO.
Viewers who watch HBO, a TV station known for its large scale, have a tendency to have heavy tastes.
- It's like a **** offender accidentally cut the bottom when he blasphemed himself, and he died of blood;
-- Financial criminals who defrauded the pensions of the elderly were burned alive by the flames of the defrauded money;
- The use of a large number of illegal cement, resulting in the collapse of high-rise buildings of the builder was directly crushed to death by the cement blocks falling from the sky;
......
And so on and so forth. Anyway, when filming the way the criminal died, Charlotte fully borrowed from "1000 Ways to Die", and the shooting was very dark humorous, allowing the audience to see a large amount of plasma at the same time, both adrenaline rushing, and couldn't help but want to laugh.
However, although Charlotte added an element of "performance art" to her character, Moon Wright's most common method of executing criminals was heart palsy.
- After all, it is too much trouble to weave a "death story" for every criminal.
Moon Wright only improvises when he encounters a criminal who inspires his "art."
Most of the common criminals, Moon still only wrote their names in the Death Note, causing them to die of heart palsy.
In this way, a large number of criminals who died of heart palsy naturally attracted the attention of the FBI, which is responsible for monitoring domestic security in the United States.
- Different from the original book, after the story of "Death Note" was adapted into an American drama by Charlotte, it was natural that the story background was transplanted to the United States.
And in the United States, it is natural to pull the FBI to appear when it comes to cases.
What's more, isolationist thinking is prevalent in the United States, and Americans are famous for their geographical blindness that is not clear to even several continents in the world, except for their own country.
Although not all such people are considered, when considering the audience's comprehension ability, it is often necessary to judge the lower limit of the target audience.
So Charlotte can only let the FBI as the opponent of Moon Wright, which is known to American audiences.
To some extent, this is much more reasonable than in the original book, which is obviously a story set in Japan, but forcibly pulls the FBI into the scene.
- Even in reality, Japan is, to some extent, indeed the daughter country of the United States, and is "loved" and "controlled" by her father in various ways......
In short, after the plot of the first episode enters the second half, the FBI side that confronts "killer" Moon Wright is officially on the scene.
However, Moon was unaware at this time.
After all, the FBI has not officially launched an operation.
Here, Charlotte has added an original plot -
He caused a vicious case to occur in the community where Moon Wright's family lived.
- A middle-aged woman was brutally killed.
Just when the police were at a loss, Moon deduced that the murderer was the other party's ex-husband through some simple clues, and through questioning, the other party's crime was determined.
However, because of the police's mistakes, the cunning murderer annihilated the evidence in advance, so that everyone knew that he was the murderer, but they were helpless.
"This is an allusion to Simpson's wife-killing case, right?"
As a member of the FBI in real life, Kate Todd couldn't help but think about it while watching the plot.
As the most typical case of never being guilty, the Simpson wife murder case is famous in the judicial circles of the United States and even the former world-
In 1994, former American football player Simpson killed his ex-wife and restaurant waiter Lang Goldman with a knife, however, several major police mistakes led to the failure of several strong evidence, so that Simpson was finally acquitted under the operation of a lawyer.
- This case has just passed a few years, and Kate, as an FBI agent, naturally cannot be unaware of this case.
In her opinion, the case in the second half of the first episode of "Death Note" is obviously an allusion to the Simpson case.
As a federal agent, Kate naturally subconsciously thought about the contradiction between procedural justice and human justice, but as a result, Moon on the TV screen did not hesitate at all-
He wrote the other person's name directly on the death note, causing the other party to die of heart palsy.
"So simply!?"
Not only Kate, but the rest of the audience in front of the TV were also shocked by the decisiveness of "Killer" Moon Wright.
However, after the shock, many people had a refreshing feeling of "it should be like this" in their hearts.
-- As a matter of fact, although the Notre Dame Party is rampant in the US public opinion circles, it has committed some strange acts in the name of "human rights" and "love" at every turn, and has even sent all kinds of warmth to the felons in prison.
But ordinary Americans still instinctively like to be stable. Especially in some areas where the ideology is more conservative, people actually have some complaints about things like "abolishing the death penalty".
In the future, it is this group idea suppressed by traditional public opinion that allows a certain real estate tycoon to successfully enter the White House.
Now, it is also this idea that has made many people feel good about Moon's execution of criminals in "Death Note".
And even leftists who don't support this kind of behavior mostly have a sense of pleasure or refreshment because of Moon's decisiveness.
- This is, after all, a human instinct.
Even Kate felt something similar.
- She was just bored during the break and wanted to watch TV to pass the time. Switching to HBO and seeing Death Note was complete luck.
But after the plot just now, she was also completely immersed in this fast-paced and shocking plot.
And Charlotte's purpose was achieved......