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hikaru004
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He was ticked off enough not to show at the ceremony but not enough to [url=http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/Marlon%20Brando's%20unfinished%20Oscar%20Speech.htm]refuse the award[/url] or the money he made off the US.
Hmmm... Selective, aren't we? Not good to let something like this slip before PONYO's US debut. 
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Mohawk52
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It was 2003. Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe what he meant was he felt it would be too dangerous to go to something as in-your-face to the world as the Oscars, a perfect target for a terrorist attack? Sure it didn't happen, and thankfully so, but it could have, and he just didn't want to take the risk. If memory serves me well enough, his excuse back then was being too busy with work, and actually didn't expect to win anyway. Didn't Lasseter pick up the award for him then? I think him saying this now is just opportunism on his part, which could backfire on him in the future, which at his age, with the amount of fags he smokes a day, he's not too worried about, but it could hurt Studio Ghibli.
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Inutaihanyou123
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Well i can only hope he's changed his mind about the whole country at this point, i can't stand being hated
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hikaru004
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Except that the LA Times has the direct quote.
There's no mention of fear of safety. In fact, the next quote makes it sound like he didin't want to come this time either.
If he still has a problem with the US, he needs to refuse the award if he gets one for PONYO. Hopefully, the Academy will help him out with his problem visiting the US by not nominating his films until he gets over it. |
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luisedgarf
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Not to mention that Miyazaki is Japanese and it will seen as an nationalist from a country which the U.S. nuked, occuped and treat as their kohai for the Japanese. That could ruined his career both in Japan and the rest od the world. |
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Gasero
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I don't blame him. I wouldn't want to be that close to Bush and Cheney either...
oh, how my country has fallen. |
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Yorozuya
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After reading all those comments I had to go back to the original post so I could actually remind myself what the post was really about: an anime producer who decided not to go to America because its government had started a war. That's the general gist of it right? He never mentioned any overall hate for the American people, did he?
Honestly, I don't really agree with the fact that he didn't bother to go and be acknowledged by his fellow film makers; I think that was a little uncalled for. But overall I don't see why he should have been allowed to refuse to visit a country, whose overall views, he did not agree with. That is of course just my opinion though; I just think its just a bit extreme and self-centred to think that Miyazaki was personally 'smiting' you because of something that was out of your control. I think its something that he just did on principle, like a vegetarian man who refuses to go into a butchers; not because he looks down on people who eat meat but because he disagrees with the eating of meat itself (sorry, I know its a pretty poor analogy). |
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The Ramblin' Wreck
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Thanks for letting us know now, basically after the war is won. That's a principled stance there, I'll tell you what.
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bleuster
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I wonder if this will come up during the interview at the panel.
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Dargonxtc
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Actually I agree. While I still love most of his films, I think, or rather wish he would just stick to making those. Still he has every right to act like a fool, and if we have any indication from our own Hollywood prima donna's, it is certainly accepted and promoted among their own little cliques. Still it is sad though. I see it a lot with people I know, so much raw talent in certain areas, yet ignorance, hatred, and conformity with flawed analyzation seeping into other aspects of their life. On the other hand, would I have thought less of him if he did this, or if he actually went and gave some idiotic speech. I would have to say the latter, so maybe this is a good thing. |
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Pedestrian A
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Wake me up when September ends...
On the serious note, some people in this thread are overreacting to this news. |
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ZZalapski
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Hmm. Well, going from what I've read about the man, can't say I'm surprised.
Would I have done the same thing? *shrugs* Maybe if I've been lauded by my peers as much as he has, I would be pretty blase about the Oscars, which may be "just" another awards ceremony to him. Is this going to change my opinion and enjoyment of his movies? No. Is this going to stop me from pimping Spirited Away as much as possible to my friends not yet into anime? No. Is this going to prevent me from buying a ticket to Ponyo? No. Would this affect how I would greet him if I should ever get the chance? No. I'm still just as likely to turn into a puddle of fanboy goo as before. So would this make one lick of difference in my life one way or another? Gee, let me think about that. ... Man, I'm hungry. What's for lunch? |
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samuraiwalt
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I must have missed that. http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63533 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15220816/ How does reducing troop levels from 141,000 to 131,000 translate to "most of our troops have been pulled out of Iraq now" |
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hikaru004
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I think that if he has a problem being here then he should give back all the money he is making by being at SDCC and go home. I hope that someone at the panel does bring it up so that he can thoroughly explain himself. |
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KabaKabaFruit
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So wait a minute! All the initial reports on Miyazaki not attending the Oscars due to paranoia over terrorist attacks and a possible hijacking of his plane was just a ruse over his real political issues?
I thought something smelled fishy. |
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