My favorite thing about castle in the sky is the villain, because unlike the rest of the ghibli movies, he actually is one. I mean, everyone is pretty morally ambiguous in nausicaa, most of the conflicts in kiki's delivery service are internal or meteorological, the bad guys in porco rosso are confused, lovelorn americans, the only bad guy in totoro is that goat who eat's mei's corn, princess mononoke is basically villainless (maybe the conniving monk?), and the villain in howl's moving castle turns out to be an eccentric and sweet old lady.
But that dude from laputa, he's just fuckin' evil. He just wants to be a god on earth for the sheer immoral thrill of it.
I was a little dissapointed by the dub...they added alot of dialogue offscreen where there wasn't any in the original. I really like the quiet spaces miyazaki sets up in his films, and I think its telling that americans are so terrified of them to dredge them like swamps.
I've been really curious about house of flying daggers for some time now. I like zhang yimou's work, but hero was so politically reactionary (but cinematically gorgeous) its made me a litle skeptical about any future martial art's movies under his direction.
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Date: 2005-10-03 05:12 pm (UTC)But that dude from laputa, he's just fuckin' evil. He just wants to be a god on earth for the sheer immoral thrill of it.
I was a little dissapointed by the dub...they added alot of dialogue offscreen where there wasn't any in the original. I really like the quiet spaces miyazaki sets up in his films, and I think its telling that americans are so terrified of them to dredge them like swamps.
I've been really curious about house of flying daggers for some time now. I like zhang yimou's work, but hero was so politically reactionary (but cinematically gorgeous) its made me a litle skeptical about any future martial art's movies under his direction.