DAMN THING KEEPS PREMATURELY POSTING. Here's my complete thought, sorry for that.
I'm exploring the entire ghost in the shell world via manga books and the movies and shows in correct order, very interesting work. I've changed my opinion about Scarlett taking the role of Major Kusanagi. I was sucked into what I believe is simply people's attachment to the particular character portrayed in the manga and shows, which is quite a shallow perspective when the following is brought to light for proper context.
1) In the first movie, she becomes one with the puppetmaster, leaving her body to enter and exist primarily in the net as this new unified Ghost, so she doesn't even have a specific body anymore. Batou does give her a young girls body at the very end, but she only really inhabits it for the sake of an in person goodbye with Batou, doesn't actually stay in it.
2) In the 2nd movie, she downloads from the net into several forms to help Batou that are not the typical look of "the Major" and she exits them back into the net once the job is done
3) In various places, she explains that he has had many different bodies, and she is not just referring to the female form, as she had a male form during a certain civil war incident.
Point is, Kusanagi takes different aspects to accomplish different things, so it is not unrealistic for her to download into someone sexy like Scarlett. It is clear how people's thinking is shallow when it comes to Scarlett playing the role because their reasoning ignores the actual storyline evidence as I've just pointed out. They just have an ideal of Kusanagi being Asian even though it already isn't even the case in the story. I get the point about whitewashing, especially being the first actual live-action film of the story, but, overall considering what I've said, I'm now actually quite excited to see Scarlett's portrayal of Kusanagi.
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