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jet_
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I haven't been this excited for a Ghibli movie in ages.
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ZanraiKid
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So first off, what about My Neighbor Totoro? That had two female leads. With that said...
The more I read the article, the more I thought, "Hey, this is like Frozen". Then I saw the heroines, and I thought, "Well, they kind of resemble Anna and Elsa." Then I read the last sentence and went, "Oh." This is going to be a really interesting film to follow, considering Hayao Miyazaki is not involved at all. Not that I think this will be awful, but one only has to look to Studio Gainax and what became of them when Hideaki Anno and Hiroyuki Imaishi left to found Khara and Trigger respectively. All the best for Ghibli in the future. |
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GATSU
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Zanra:
No, it definitely will be awful, because of Goro. I mean, Ghibli used to be the company Disney looked to for "inspiration". Now because of him, it's borrowing off of Disney's lazy formulas. How the mighty have fallen.
Gainax was always a terrible company. They just had enough fanboys willing to overhype them for decades until recently. |
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Pangea
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Yes!! Ghibli with female lead is the best!! Also stop whining about Goro, move on!
Last edited by Pangea on Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:38 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Keyl
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Geez, you must be a hoot to be with. Can't wait to see what the result this will lead. |
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jet_
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When Marnie Was There was published in 2002.
This terrible company produced such classics as Nadia, NGE, FLCL, Mahoromatic, Abenobashi, Gunbuster and TTGL. |
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MarthKoopa
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So is this going to be Yuri?
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GATSU
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jet:
Yes, but it's obvious which movie they're referencing for the adaptation. |
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jet_
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Then Marnie Was There's plot is nothing like Frozen's plot. The only similarity is that there are two female leads, and that's not uncommon in movies. |
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albanian
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While I can fully appreciate the desire to relocate the story to a Japanese site, I would have been fascinated to see how Ghibli would have coped with portraying the book's original setting. I imagine a Norfolk-style landscape is quite rare in Japan, but I suspect it's vast, wide-open, and hauntingly melancholic vistas might well have drawn some interesting work from the Ghibli animators. Not for nothing did Noel Coward once remark: 'Very flat, Norfolk.'
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Akeema
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Exactly what I thought too. |
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Banken
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I love Blue Water, but I admit Nadia was kind of a bitch for most of the series.
Then again, that makes her a more realistic character... Also, changing the setting of the novel (just like with Arietty...how the hell did they get to Japan?) seems completely superfluous. Hopefully it won't be another Gedo Senki. |
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koinosuke
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Goro has nothing to do with this movie, nor is he in charge of the Studio in any way like your post seems to be indicating. And how does his one lesser film from 2006 change anything? |
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CrownKlown
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I was thinking Totoro as well, but I guess their argument is that Totoro while a Miyazaki film is pre Ghibli; I also think Nausicaa and Princess are also borderline examples as both have primarily a female lead, a female antagonist, and the male seems like a side character in both.
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ZanraiKid
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My Neighbor Totoro My Neighbor Totoro's encyclopedia entry states Ghibli as the production company. Yeah, I'm going to call out Oricon on this. If Mei isn't a main lead, than what could you classify her? Is it because Totoro is technically a lead? Just curious on the matter. |
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