Ursula le Guin really wasn’t happy with the adaptation, as she indicates in this open letter.
Finished it.
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Wow, this was totally too intense for most little kids. The “Cob” character repeating, “I want to…live!” while he began to fall apart and burn up was super intense.
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Loved the music. I immediately am on a search for the soundtrack.
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Good movie, but I need to sit down and watch it in one viewing with no distractions. I got confused
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One, did the girl turn into a dragon? And turn back? Or what? I was totally lost at this point.
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Why did Cob began super aging?
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What does the main boy’s sword do that is magical?
Yes, this makes it looked like I barely paid attention, but I was a bit confused throughout.
- For his first movie, Goro Miyazaki did a good job in my opinion. If this were not Studio Ghibli and he was not Miyazaki’s son, it would be considered a very strong first outing.
Anyone seen his second movie? Benzaie, a French reviewer, did not like it much at all.
if I recall, he was super old; his youthful appearance was the effect of magic; when his magic was broken his true age was revealed. And he died of that extreme age.
That’s because it was confusing, not due to any fault of yours. It’s confusing because… imagine you pulled 100 pages at random from throughout the Harry Potter series and tried to make them into a comprehensible movie. That’s more or less what happened here, plotwise.
In the books, most of the inhabitants of Earthsea are dark skinned with the exception of the northerners. Is that the case in this animated movie?
No. Despite being a Japanese movie, most of the characters in the movie looked more or less white. Ged’s skin was dark, though.
I know that changing the skin color of the charatershas been a point that has really ticked off LeGuine with the television miniseries. In the books, most of the people are described as copper skinned. I always pictured them as looking like Indonesians because LeGuin’s father was a prominent anthropologist who spent a lot of time in Indonesia and the picture of Ged’s boat in the original books looks a lot like an Acehnese fishing boat. Also, there are some Indonesian words sprinkled in the book.