news culture Netflix: One of the worst live-action adaptations of a cult anime disappears from the catalog
You certainly know it, but the catalogs of SVOD services are not eternal. Netflix is trying to get a facelift by offering mostly in-house productions. However, on April 9, 2022, the live-action adaptation of The Last Airbender bids us farewell.
Summary
- The last Airbender in brief
- More than mixed feedback
- The origins of Avatar, the last airbender
The last Airbender in brief
Released in 2010 in our dark rooms, The Last Airmaster is a live-action adaptation of the anime of the same name. At the helm of this project is M. Night Shyamalan, best known for 1999’s Sixth Sense and 2006’s The young girl from the water. This live-action feature film adaptation lets us relive the adventures of Aang, a young prodigy born of the element of air, and by the way, the only thing that can save the world. Indeed, the great nations of water, air, and earth are under attack from the mighty Fire Nation, which seeks to dominate by force.
More than mixed feedback
Experienced the film Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender a pretty salty critical return (20% on Metacritic) since its release in 2010. The film has been dubbed a fiasco by the trade press. The fault lies in the way the actors direct it, which does not correspond at all to the original characters, but mainly sequences in synthetic images that suffer when compared to other productions of the time. According to the press, this film failed to understand the universe of The Last Airbender and adapted it to create a parallel lore that serves its original purpose.
The origins of Avatar, the last airbender
Avatar, the last airbender is originally an animated series that aired on Nickelodeon in 2005. The series now includes more than 60 episodes with a length of around 20 minutes. The creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, wanted to build a universe that mixes Chinese mythology and other popular folklore born in the four corners of the world. The series is divided into chapters that follow the life of Aang, the last airbender, and depict the rite of passage of young people that develops at the heart of major political conflicts.
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