nizo's Journal: Tales of Earthsea animated movie by Studio Ghibli

From the folks who brought us the animated movies Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, released last fall was Gedo Senki (Tales from Earthsea). Read Ursula Le Guin's comments on the movie here. Sadly because of the movie rights given for the travesty that was the sci-fi miniseries, this movie won't be appearing in America anytime soon.

Hard choice

[peacefinder]

I like everything I've seen from Ghibli, but I love Earthsea. (And pretty much everything else of LeGuin's I've read.) If she doesn't like the way they treated her story and characters, I don't think I could bear to watch it.

It's a damn shame.

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[nizo]

I love the Earthsea books to (especially the first one); she at least gave a lukewarm thumbs up to Gedo Senki (at least, that was what I came away with from her comments). She didn't love it, but she knew that any movie adaptation would be a different story. She absolutely hated the abomination that the scifi channel spewed forth (I haven't seen it, and never will).

This is why I am glad Orson Scott Card is keeping close control of the movie adaptation of Ender's Game (the only downside being that the movie

I love this quote

[frankie]

"In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions."

IMO, upon hearing UKL's criticisms, Goro should have renamed the characters to be his own invention, then label the movie as "insipired by" the books.

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[nizo]

Yeah, that is why I don't understand the scifi miniseries; if you are going to just pull a completely different story outta your butt, why even bother licensing the book in the first place??? As much as people complain about the LOTR trilogy, I liked it; yes it was different from the Tolkien books, but that could never be avoided, and I enjoyed them as they were, and they were a reasonable "based on the books of Tolkien" adaptation. And I certainly have heaps of respect for Le Guin; she is an awesome writer

I want to see this!

[metlin]

Damn, I want to see this.

I hope they were at least honest to the books. The movie by SciFi channel was nothing like the books. :-\

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[nizo]

I have seen what appear to be copies of this floating around on the torrent sites, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it is in japanese without subtitles or anything :-| Assuming it isn't a fake anyway. But I am guessing it will come to the US after the movie/tv rights of the idiotic scifi folks expires in a few years. It does look pretty cool :-)