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[jack]

Sprited Away really is very good. Like the other Miyazaki films I've been shown it's stylish and sweet, but it also presents a coherent whole, with a wonderfully conceived world, and even creepy and exciting in places. And the characters are very vivid and memorable, and the non-humans seemed very natural but distinctive. I was definitely watching all the way through eager to know what would happen next.

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[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

When I saw it years ago, my grand aunt had brought us a pirated copy from . . . some Asian country, and the subtitles were so bad it made a lot of the movie completely nonsensical. ;-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

brought us a pirated copy from . . . some Asian country,

LOL.

Well, it wasn't *very* comprehensible when I saw it. But mostly so.

I did think "No face" was a very strange choice to describe the faceless spirit. Wouldn't "Faceless" or "Faceless spirit" be so much more natural and mean just the same thing? But I might be missing something.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

I really don't know . . . The copy I saw often had complete *mis*translations (saying no when they had to have meant yes, for example) that were obvious, so I'm not sure how much more I lost with what *wasn't* obviously mistranslated. ;-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha. This seemed (insofar as I can tell) to be translated into a coherent narrative, presumably accurately from the original.

Hold on, I need to post about this.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Tales of Earthsea is not up to their usual standards...

Have you seen Kiki's Delivery Service?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Tales of Earthsea is not up to their usual standards...

Have you seen UKLG's response? Her response to the western adaption was unreserved disappointment[1]. To the Ghibli adaption, a mixed disappointment -- apparently (iirc) Miyazaki was going to do it himself, but handed it on to his offspring/protoge (?) and she felt it was quite good, but diverged from the original. I got the impression if she'd have known what it would have been like she'd not have agreed, whereas she'd been very hopeful that M and her had had a very shared vision.

I'd probably be disappointed even if it was quite good, if it was much different to the original, because I liked that a lot, and had a wonderful picture in my head of how it could be adapted. However, I wouldn't have known if it would be worse (or better) than other Ghibli films from the point of view of a standalone work.

[1] Maybe "bitterness" or "well-deserved and comprehensive flaming" would be a justified description.

Have you seen Kiki's Delivery Service?

Yes. I saw that on TV, completely randomly. I thought it was ok, a nice idea, but I didn't get into it particularly.

(I got the feeling that might have appealed to children a lot more, whereas Porco Rosso might have been fun as long as the pig and the pirates were wrestling with the tiny schoolgirls, but they'd probably have got lost about the point of the rise of fascism and the pig going to heaven :))

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Who/what is UKLG?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ursula K. Le Guin, author of Earthsea Trilogy.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Ah, then no.

I don't know anything about it except what I saw when we watched it recently.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! Then it's interesting to hear how it does come across, then. I still want to watch it at some point, but am not trying to do so urgently.