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Hayao Miyazaki Mononoke-Hime (Principessa Mononoke)
Hayao Miyazaki Mononoke-Hime (Principessa Mononoke)
11 may 07
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I saw Howl in Japan when it came out and in Italy the year after, and I have to say that both in the original and in Italian, the story is lacking and the poetry is purely visual. Often the line between being cloying and poetic is crossed almost always. Of course, these are points of view. It always strikes me how much the anime audience has grown; 16 years ago we were just a handful hunting for pirated copies of Nausicaa that aired on Rai or the few releases from Yamato Video. From a certain perspective, those were good times, especially because there weren't so many maniacs as there are now. Damn, I remember having to order Ghost in the Shell from Manga Video in England in '95! But was Jin-Roh translated into Italian? I have the Chinese version. Also, Memories by Otomo isn’t half bad; the last one (Steamboy) should be avoided like the plague, a colossal piece of trash. And it was a critical flop even in Japan.
Battles Mirrored
Battles Mirrored
11 may 07
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perhaps one of the most interesting discs around, I still need to digest it properly but I've had it for a month and I don't mind it. I'll read you later, dear easy
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
10 may 07
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Damn it, I just trashed the final tearjerker ballad; the slow Pink Floyd-like one from the beginning is better. The single, in my opinion, is pretty pointless. Of theirs, perhaps the song I revisit most often remains Tribulations from the previous album; that's one of the few with a barrel-aging process, so it holds up better.
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
10 may 07
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the cd is awesome, and the song you mention is one of my favorites. Kawai Kenji's soundtrack for Ghost in the Shell isn't bad either, though.
Hayao Miyazaki Mononoke-Hime (Principessa Mononoke)
Hayao Miyazaki Mononoke-Hime (Principessa Mononoke)
10 may 07
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I mentioned it myself, like a fool with the original title majo no takkyubin, which is anyway inferior to Totoro, Laputa, and Grave of the Fireflies... maybe the one I liked the least after the one ridiculous movie, Howl.
Jet Rare Tracks
Jet Rare Tracks
10 may 07
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What a sequence of surreal statements. Well, everyone can see it as they wish, but it's certain that the Stooges weren't backward in '69, unless backward=raw, meaning not skilled with their instruments. It's undeniable that they weren't innovative experimentalists like Beefheart, but in hindsight, they were continuators of the garage sound and they (whether intentionally or not) influenced the entire punk movement, starting with the Ramones (who, let’s remember, existed diachronically before almost all the others) and who indeed met, as Dee Dee said, because "they were the only four who loved the Stooges in their neighborhood." Clearer than that...
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
10 may 07
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I wasn't criticizing your writing at all, on the contrary, I liked it; I was just making a simple clarification. I can be a bit of a pain in the ass when it comes to anime since I spent two years on my thesis.
Hayao Miyazaki Mononoke-Hime (Principessa Mononoke)
Hayao Miyazaki Mononoke-Hime (Principessa Mononoke)
10 may 07
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Beautiful beautiful, the Maestro can't manage to make an indecent film (except maybe for Howl's Moving Castle, which in itself isn't much and is poorly dubbed). Everyone has advised me against his son’s work, especially a friend of mine who is an obsessed anime artist. He called it something to be ashamed of. I like almost all of Miyazaki's films, from Tonari no Totoro, to Majo no Takkyubin, to one that I still consider among the best action anime around, The Castle of Cagliostro by Lupin. And let's not forget perhaps the most adult series from the '70s, Future Boy Conan. Miyazaki is also famous for being one of the few Japanese who was once a member of the communist party, to the point that Studio Ghibli was referred to, I believe, as the Comintern. Ps: even here the dubbing is terrible, the wolf spirit doesn’t have a female voice, like the other spirits, they are sexless with an atonal voice. In Italian, it sounds like a trans!
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
10 may 07
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"that had no such impact in Japan," I meant to say. + The transcendent relationship between Good and Evil (a question that in Asia is never posed in these terms, given the fundamental non-existence of the dichotomy for taoist/buddhist philosophical reasons) is more centered on the body and the machine, on technology and tradition, on nature and culture. All urges and dilemmas intrinsic to Japanese society since the beginning of its industrialization. In this sense, it is a cyberpunk film in terms of imagery, somewhat less so for the themes expressed, which concern little or nothing (if not only superficially) the fundamental dilemma of the thinning boundary between body and machine, the pivot of much cyberpunk production.
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo Akira
10 may 07
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I talked about it during the thesis discussion.... we could discuss apocalyptic impulses and the catastrophic imagination for centuries, which connects a lot of Japanese cinema and the Bomb, the generational relationship within Japan just before the maximum economic explosion (a recurring theme in almost all sci-fi anime from the '70s up to Evangelion), the fact that it was a very Western success and did not have the same impact as in Japan, etc.... but it’s enough to have seen it at least once to understand that with "cartoons" something adult and innovative can be done. Take that, Disney and Hanna-Barbera.
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