Final Fantasy Spirits WITHOUT

The focus of my research intends to be based upon the conflicted notion between the films Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children and Final Fantasy Spirits Within.
These are prime examples between the conflict of fan film and cross media branding. And how a film can appeal either to it's core fanbase or a larger populace.

Much of what i have obserbed within this and through personal experience has taught me that this very arguement is one of neither side being right or wrong, there is in some ways merits in both. The film Spirits within released in 2001 baring the same title is at best little more in resemblance than that.

It is a more hollywood esk feature film, aimed to appeal to a American audience. As such is a very different market already from the origional. The look does not follow Ashfords rules of convergence as neither characters, the world or [*] are transfered.
There is no gunblades, summons, magic. No Cloud Strife, Squall, TIdus or other. It is completely extract. WHile true final fantasy between games does not usually make habbit of carrying the world or characters over, key things like it's chocobos, gunblades, summons are it's legacy it passes between it's products.

Witht the above said Spirits Within choses to ignore this tradition and those elements more using the name. Another stylistic element lost was the characters look, being that all the characters in the games up to that point had made a point of having a other world esk feel with a viewer unable to place them. Yet in this all the protagonists were clearly American.

Having been stripped of it's look, it's character's, it's legacy and name, Spirits Within is just a American sci fi film with a name. About men fighting aliens. THis infact itself is a insult as the very genre of Final Fantasy is more a fantasy genre, of far away worlds, and mythical creatures.
The plots of the games we're deep and meaningful and ever changing. No Final Fantasy game could ever be placed in the same one liner plot as this mockery.

It is in all of this I say the only resemblance is the name and character Cid who even still bares no likeness or character traits to the Cid from the other FF games.
FInal Fantasy Spirits Within, is more like Final Fantasy; Spirits WITHOUT the FInal Fantasy