…it completely worked for me. I could imagine where it could have been trimmed a tad, but I was actually fine with that one as it was. The level of tension it built up and the way it ended was just QT on top of his game. Throughout the film, there could have been other little cuts here and there to tighten it up, but the bar scene was solid as it was for my tastes. I have the most issues with that make-up/theme song lift scene. That still bugs the hell out of me. I should have gone for more nachos then.
Back to Ponyo (because I now find it funny to discuss that parallel to QT) I’ve never seen any Miyazaki in Japanese with subtitles. He knocked one out of the park with Totoro, and everything that I’ve seen in its wake has been translated ever since.
so saw it the second time and it was just as good. infact i enjoyed it more for some reason, maybe because i knew when things were going to happen. took my production partner to see it, and she loved it. she called the big theater scene ejaculatory. as for ponyo the only miyazaki film i really liked was princess monanoke.
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OT to Ponyo again, it’d be nice if it and all of Miyazaki’s work would be available at least with original language/subtitles as a DVD option, instead of just the English versions. Miyazaki’s films are usually better English-dubbed than most other anime films, but I can’t help feeling some of the original feeling is lost.[/QUOTE]
Hey Jimbo.
Most of Miyazaki’s movies are available on DVD with subtitles and the original Japanese track. It is the only way I would really want to watch them. However, I must admit that the English dubs for his anime features are very top notch. Not just because they use big named and highly talented A list actors but because there is actual care in the process. The artistic integrity is maintained because the tone and feeling is on par with the original script. I do believe Miyazaki himself supervises the dubbing process.
Inglorious Basterds…I don’t know if I could watch it a second time. Usually, one time is enough for his movies.
still havent seen it yet. maybe tonight. i hate QT movies though. too much useless babble in them. KB vol 1 was the only one i liked though. I thought it had a good mix of everything. that grind house movie he did was total garbage other then the last chase scene.
All the official releases of Miyazaki’s stuff over here has English/Japanese as audio/subtitle, full choice. Since Sentochihiro being Ghibli’s first big break overseas, and that that had good English, he really pushed the boat out with Mononokehime and got real pro production values and translators in with whom he worked really closely. I think that Mononoke is his English benchmark. The dub version was written by Neil Gaiman.
But then I think they altered the cultural references a little too much in Mononoke’s English version.
I really hate the Totoro English version: they add of lines when the kids in the Japanese version aren’t saying anything because the American audience wouldn’t get the silences I suppose, which really ****es me off. Dunno what you Americans actually think about that, mind.
The older ones are pretty varied… Laputa is pretty badly translated in parts (as in HK movie badly), Nausicaa is OK IIRC but I didn’t bother with the English the last couple of times I watched it, Kiki’s is all right… haven’t bothered with Ponyo in English yet.
The only things of Tarantino’s I liked were Res Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Thought the rest has been total bollocks. Flashes of excellence (like some of the direction in KB1), but overall, ****e. As for casting proper foreigners, still can’t reconcile his casting of Lucy friggin Liu with her utterly irredeemable attempt at Japanese gang vernacular with his seeming desire for more authentic people in IB. Might bother with IB on DVD, might not. There was an interview in TIME a couple of weeks ago, with QT, that really showed him up to be a fruitcake who’s lost it.
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;956403]Ponyo is odd. They must have cut down about 30 minutes from the run time, because it makes absolutely no sense[/QUOTE]I thought it was perfectly understandable… perhaps I’ve lived in Japan for too long!
As for run times… odd: according to Wiki the Japanese vers is 100 mins and the US is 103!
Freaking Brilliant!!! Only if more American films and film makers relied on dialogue, unique story lines, and character depth as this one!!! I’ve become a huge fan of foreign movies ie French, Korean, and Chinese films over the last few years…complexity, complexity…American Movies have become so effects driven…if they can only pair that with braver story telling.
I loved IB. I loved the fact that the French people were French, the Germans were German (or Austrian) and the whole european feel of it (that openning scene could have been straight from a French film). I loved the long tense conversations with the increasing sense of menace (The first scene and the bar scene especially). One thing I really loved was that Tarantino played on the fact that middle class germans often seem slightly camp to make his SS officers more menacing.
this probably should go in the green hornet section. but our boy christoph waltz aka hans landa has just been casted as the villian in the new green hornet movie staring seth rogen and jay chou(even to type it makes me feel icky). i might see this movie just for waltz.
so its come to my mind that this character was totally based off triston ludlow from legends of the fall also played by brad pitt. the similarities are there, from the german scalping to the bootlegging(aldo mentions being a bootlegger) when it comes to QT and movies there are no coincidences.
i called Doug the night after i saw this. usually i hate QT movies cause i a bunch of useless talking. but i loved this one. i as like wtf this **** is awesome! still i think they could have developed the IB better. often i felt like it was the tail of the lady and her theater with the IB in the background.
[QUOTE=Shaolinlueb;960423]i called Doug the night after i saw this. usually i hate QT movies cause i a bunch of useless talking. but i loved this one. i as like wtf this **** is awesome! still i think they could have developed the IB better. often i felt like it was the tail of the lady and her theater with the IB in the background.[/QUOTE]
in a way thats exactly what it was, i accidently read the enitre script at borders the other day(i was flipping through the book started reading a few pages and got pulled in) and in the original script there was way more info on the basterds, but if that stuff was in the movie it would have bored the hell out of me. and it was kinda useless. i like that the basterds were like the the thread in the tapestry of the film, and landa and shoshanna had such a more prominent role.
btw…lueb your girl maggie chueng was actually in the film, but she hit the cutting room floor.so hopefully she makes the dvd.
[QUOTE=Mr Punch;959269]I thought it was perfectly understandable… perhaps I’ve lived in Japan for too long!
As for run times… odd: according to Wiki the Japanese vers is 100 mins and the US is 103![/QUOTE]
I suppose there should have been a separate Ponyo thread, but since I started the odd combo in this thread, I saw Ponyo today and loved it. I found it understandable, and a beautiful fantasy film.
Doug:
I do remember hearing that Maggie Cheung was supposed to be in IB. Yeah, hopefully she will make it into the special features on the DVD. Though I doubt she would have added anything to the final release of the film, as great as it came out.
In the movie “Inglourious Basterds” there is a scene where the female protagonist prepares for her confrontation. The choice of music is “Putting out Fire” that feature the voice of David Bowie was a fantastice choice. It really fit with the movie. While the lyrics were Bowie’s, the incredible music pruduction came from Giorgio Moroder. It came from his score of “Cat People” (1982). Goirgio Moroder was the driving force behind Donna Summer"s early its. I believe that her career suffered when she did not take Moroder with her when she left Casablanca Records. He has scored “Scarface,” “Flashdance,” and many other movies.
EDIT: YES, YOU ARE RIGHT. The song is “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” It is an excellent score that is very dark and sensual. Putting out fire with gasoline was a sexual reference, real base chakra stuff. Tarantino used it to express a very intense rage that can be drawn from that same chakra: that she was about to fock some people up MAJOR. I loved the adaptation.
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