Comparing the two Lights (Death Note)

Okay, a lot of people are Going crazy over the new Death Note movie and how Light is nothing like the manga..

Well let's look at Light Yagami and Light Turner and how they differ 

Getting the Death Note  

Now when we first meet Light Yagami, he's already bored outta his mind and for good reason. He's one of the smartest kids in school, of course nothing's gonna be a challenge for him. When he picks up the Death Note, he dismisses it as a joke and but slowly gives into temptation. Now this is the typical anime approach to seeing a supernatural object.

Light Turner seems to act like its all a big joke too and doesn't even seem to write a name down until he meets Ryuk. Of course he's not gonna do it, he sees it as another hoax; hoaxes are common in real life, he's probably thinking "pfft, yeah right."

Yagami  commits his first kill out of curiosity, Turner does it because he thinks it's all a dream.

Motivations

Yagami  was already bored with life and had a hate for criminals that came second. When he did start off killing criminals, he did it with a good cause but let's face it, this facade is just to justify boredom. Even when L died, he kills innocents because most of the criminals are dead anyways. 

Turner had experience with crime before as seen in the trailers so his start seems more heroic than Yagami.

Sanity

There is no denying right from the get go of Yagami's ego. As soon as L insulted him, he killed the imposter. Plus the whole "God of the New World" suddenly in the very first episode shows that he has a huge god complex. As soon as he saw his chance, he took it.

Turner seems to be sane but the fact he wrote in 'decapitated'. Implies he always imagines gruesome deaths and is just living out this 'fantasy'. He even questions whether he's doing the right thing, something Yagami never did. Again, this is the realistic approach someone would have.  Whilst Ryuk edged Turner on at first, we can tell Turner eventually gets a slippage of sanity with each kill.

Intellect

Yagami is easily really intelligent, able to predict  others actions, even his own (I still call bull on that). He even manipulated a Shimigami into killing herself. He has no regard for anyone at all. He's a sociopath and his intellect is justified given he's a smart kid.

Turner is not; he's just a normal kid who lives in a rotten world. When he sees a notebook that can end all crime, of course he's gonna use it. He's just a normal kid with too much power. 

Caring for others.

Yagami doesn't care. Expect when his father died but that's it.

Turner looks like he does care. Just look at the trailer when he defends Mia.

So and all..Light Turner is not the Light Yagami from the anime/manga. You don't like it? Okay. But I'm looking forward to it.

I'm looking forward to seeing this. A different interpretation of Light. The live action Japanese movies, the musical. They all had the over the top intelligent Light who justified killing for his boredom from the manga/anime. So seeing a more..modern day Light, a socially awkward one, one gets more crazy instead of instantly, I'm looking forward. We had different Jokers, different Lexs, different Ultrons, Lokis etc.

Why can't we have a different Light?

There's no reason why we can't and I wanna see how this goes