Why did the first Avatar movie fail ?

Execs have a point. Avatar wasn't popular in Asia because it was an allegory to WWII and not an Ancient Chinese ballad like Journey to the West

Casting was the least of that movies problems.

With exception of fire Bending was a joke, it was equivalent to a kid throwing a rock or someone throwing a bucket of water. Half of the actors weren't into it and there was no time to understand or connect to their purpose or like them.

They had to take full seasons worth of a TV show and condense it into a movie. It was just all over the place and hard to fallow or care about to fallow. It was a mess.

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>changing the Fire Nation from Japanese to Indian was done because the executives were worried that Chinese audiences would think it was supposed to be China.

Except that's wrong.
The Fire Nation became Indian, because someone realized there were no Asians in the movie, that every character was white and that SJW's would throw a shit fit.
They couldn't recast Katara or Sokka, because of a deal one of the execs/studio heads had made. It had taken them too long to find a kid to play Aang, so all that really left them with was recasting Zuko. Originally Jesse McCarthy was set to play him, but they managed to replace him with Dev Patel, who was just coming off of Slumdog Millionaire. Because the Prince of the Fire Nation was now played by an Indian, they had to cast the rest of his countrymen with similar looking people.

no one asked for it

sokka and katara are not asian

Is this true? Wasn't this from the time before they care about the China market?

Ironically the canon Chinese characters for 'Aang' are read as 'Ah Ahn'.

why don't they just write it as aang ?

Nigga did you forget we're on the internet and it takes literally 6 seconds to google how much The Last Airbender made? Nice selfie, dumbass.

OP did say the first Avatar movie and not The Last Airbender. Also OP is a dumbass for using non-related pic.

>Avatar wasn't popular in Asia because it was an allegory to WWII
Old internet rumor. Avatar wasn't popular mostly because it was limited to a premium channel that not a lot of people had. In countries were Nick was more widely available, Avatar was a consistently high-ranking program.

Now your just being autistic. Learn context man.

Now your just being autistic

Chinese Mandarin doesn't have the 'Aang' pronunciation, only some Chinese dialects have.

then is his name aang ?

you know why

regardless of how retarded (you) are, OP is a coomer and a faggot

Effects and scripts were atrocious. Acting went from bad to mediocre and weird casting.

Indian fire benders while a cool concept isnt accurate. Water benders had light skin which is another can of worms.

Overall it was a project that everyone knew was made for proft and no actual effort was put in by anyone

Whoops, should be 'Ahn Ahng'.

Going with just the show pronunciation.

Salamillama-man

what a lie, the fire nation was made into Indians because M. Night is indian and they are his favorite characters. he was self inserting harder than the average zukofag on reddit.

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Pebblebending and changing the rules to Firebending

Yes, like all DCEU movies

Because it didn't have gratuitous shots of Willow Smith's feet.

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Will smith should have just learned that his kids don't have his talent and left it at that.

This comic was way too good for the movie.
Hell, it's one of the best Avatar comics in general.

Because Avatar is an overvalued product, the only positive thing about it was the faux-Anime style of the animation and that was not in the movie.

Because it's not Ong, IT'S AANG!

yeah, it makes me wonder if this is what M. Night had in mind for the fire nation story, why did he not seem to understand how to write any of the other characters.
assuming he had some input on this comic.

>Why did the first Avatar movie fail ?
maybe cus the source material isn't that good to start with. especially season 1.

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>dialects

*languages

I want Yas Forums pedophiles to fucking leave.

What, did Yas Forums bully you too much and you decided to carry your pedophilic balloon body over here? Fuck off. You're not welcome.

Yas Forums deletes all avatar threads, so the answer to your question is yes

Shooting air blasts from your hands is pretty cool too

The real shame is that there was never a half-decent multiplayer game

*his kids are fucked up from being raised in hollywood and left it at that

No. The legit fucking hate it because of ww2 allegory and bad story.

Who’s the girl on the right?

Because it wasnt straight out porn

It doesn't help that the only interesting characters were the antagonists.

not an eskimo.

>In countries were Nick was more widely available, Avatar was a consistently high-ranking program
No not in all countries.

the world was not ready

This looks really cool, wow. I know everyone likes Psycho Yes-Man Azula, but her pity here is really interesting.

>The legit fucking hate it because of ww2 allegory and bad story.
Which ones? It did pretty good in Korea, decent in Taiwan and Hong Kong (I think, memory is spotty since I read it years ago) and was virtually unknown in Japan because of limited broadcasting.
I have never read of anyone from East Asia hating it because of WW2 symbolism. If you want an extra kick, go to NicoNico and find the Nostalgia Critic's Last Airbender review. There's a moment where he says the Fire Nation are meant to be Japanese, and nearly every comment is "lolol the Fire Nation doesn't resemble Japan what is he talking about lolol"

He didn't say they were

Are people retarded? They don't see the obvious parallels between early war Japan and the fire nation? The long largely stalemated war with China/earth kingdom? Evoking the rape of Nanking via endangering ba sing se with genocide? Could go on but Jesus.

Oh, Japan does not educate its citizens about their own war crimes.

now you're just being autistic

The Fire Nation does not resemble Japan culturally, which is what people usually argue for. Some of its war efforts are taken from WW2 Imperial Japan, but it's done subtly enough that it could be passed off as an evil fantasy empire too. That and .
>Evoking the rape of Nanking via endangering ba sing se with genocide?
That was the whole Earth Kingdom, not Ba Sing Se specifically, and I fail to see how the clearly cartoonish "Use a firepower boost from a celestial body to incinerate a continent" is anything close to the Rape of Nanking outside of intent, which is a more broad subject than that specific comparison.

The bitch playing Katara was only in due to nepotism. Daughter of a producer or something.

Same way she got in the fourth Transformers movie. Good thing that killed her career.