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INTEREST: Hayao Miyazaki's Pippi Longstocking Finally Lives in Book Release


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grooven



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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 7:03 pm Reply with quote
I think this would be a hit if it were animated, such a shame.
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In 1971, yeah. I'd probably like this, but I know today's kids wouldn't be too interested. Well, today's American kids in any case.
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Miyazaki and Takahata doing Pippi Longstocking? Man, that could have been amazing... Sad
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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 7:40 pm Reply with quote
Too bad it will be decades before the public domain welcomes it.
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As much as I would want to see an anime adaptation of Pippi Longstocking, the chance of it occurring is nil.
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"Tomator"

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While it sucks we never got an adaptation from Hayao/Isao but because of the cancellation the duo ended up doing Lupin the 3rd part 1 series and eventually Hayao doing The Castle of Cagliostro Lupin movie. Not a bad trade off.
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PostPosted: Sat May 09, 2015 10:30 pm Reply with quote
Such a shame that Miyazaki wasn't able to create an anime of Pippi Longstocking. I absolutely loved the 80s US movie when I was little and remember that my mom had then rented me some tapes of the '69 black and white Swedish series that was dubbed in English. It was kind of weird to me watching something in black and white and obviously dubbed as a kid, but I loved those tapes, too.

I found out later that my mom had been a big fan of the books when she was a kid and found a couple of her books not too long ago.
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I wonder why she turned them down?
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EricJ2



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Great Rumbler wrote:
I wonder why she turned them down?


There were a lot of bad Japanese adaptations of western books in the late 60's/early 70's, and Astrid may have either been trying to avoid them, or holding out for the bad 70's live-action versions we eventually got.

Still, I agree, there did look something vaguely Panda Go Panda-ish about Hayao's Pippi, during that early phase of his career--
That crazy-little-girl aspect wouldn't surface till Panda, and then Ponyo, but Pippi wouldn't have been so bad. (And arguably better than the live-action.)
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mr-young



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Great Rumbler wrote:
I wonder why she turned them down?


Money
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nemesiz



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PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2015 2:47 am Reply with quote
Didn't Miyazaki also enquire about The Brothers Lionheart as well?

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I wonder why she turned them down?


If it's like many other authors decision to turn down the offer to make their novel into a film or animation, the reason is usually associated with the screenwriters radically changing or adapting the storyline. A good example is Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising.
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enurtsol



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Great Rumbler wrote:

I wonder why she turned them down?


Miyazaki and Takahata were relatively unknown at the time. She wouldn't be comfortable letting her baby go to what's essentially a black hole situation.
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It's too bad it got rejected. I remember watching a very old live-action version of Pippi Longstocking. She's actually a very recognized character in my country.
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TheHTRO



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leafy sea dragon wrote:
In 1971, yeah. I'd probably like this, but I know today's kids wouldn't be too interested. Well, today's American kids in any case.


With all due respect, how do you know? Did you ask any of them? One way or the other, I would be interested.

In any case...

"Pippi Longstocking is comin' into your town"...or at the very least, your bookshelf, thanks to this new artbook.

Incidentally (and somewhat related), it's believed that Nelvana only got to make their animated version of Pippi because they wouldn't stop bothering Astrid Lindgren about it. This is an important point, because she was dead set against her creation being animated.

Mr. Oshawott wrote:
As much as I would want to see an anime adaptation of Pippi Longstocking, the chance of it occurring is nil.


Well, we don't really know that now, do we?...

ZODDGUTS wrote:
While it sucks we never got an adaptation from Hayao/Isao but because of the cancellation the duo ended up doing Lupin the 3rd part 1 series and eventually Hayao doing The Castle of Cagliostro Lupin movie. Not a bad trade off.


No disrespect, but that has nothing to do with anything. Pippi "Långstrump" (as it's called in the original Swedish) is a classic family-oriented book from the 1940s (I think). "Lupin San-sei" (as Japan would call it) is a seinen manga from the 1960s.

@ eternalblue81: The TV series (adapted into two movies*) that you (and thekingsdinner) refer to was in color originally.

@ mr-young: Money really had nothing to do with it. She just didn't want to see her creation animated.

*There were two more movies made afterwards, for a total of four.
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