"There was a time when humans and dragons were one."
Joe Strike
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/earthsea/?int_cmp=dcom_hp_earthsea_meta1_site__Intl#/home
Chris Sobieniak
We can only hope it might be a hit here (though most who have seen the
film otherwise know the truth).
Chris Sobieniak
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:07:33 -0700 (PDT), Chris Sobieniak
> <sobien...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in alt.fan.furry:
> approved that mishmash -- they combined the first two books into one
> story; Ged fights the gebbeth (sp?) in the same battle that frees the
> girl... I'll ignore the incorrect skin colors (it's not to blatant in
> the books, but the villainous raiders from the NE islands are known for
> being pale skinned).
This is why I wasn't interested in seeing it in the first place! As
someone else had pointed out in another place, it seems like Ghibli
has fallen a little flat since the past decade when they began doing
films like this. I often say the peak was Princess Mononoke while
Spirited Away was the beginning of the decline, and we gotten several
features produced based on these UK books that seem to radically adapt
the stories they way they are (wonder how would "The Borrowers" may
fair this time around).
It also didn't help that this film had to be supervised by Hayao's son
who doesn't have the chops as is dad has to make it work. People have
already had their say over the direction and plotting of this film
than I have in actually watching it (and still haven't).
Oliver
Most directors would trade one of their eyeballs in return for a movie
that won an Oscar, 1st prize at a major film festival *and*
outperformed 'Titanic' at the box office!
Chris Sobieniak
It was Daryl Surat of the Anime World Order Podcast who quoted that on
his show sometime ago. He didn't mean it in a way to say Spirited
Away started it, but that after that movie was when things just slid
for Miyazaki.