Spirited Away!

Postby **Heart of Sword** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:05 am

^^ Yay!

Who else is a fan of one of Miyazaki's best works? I like Haku, especially when he's the white dragon.

Postby **Taslin_Jewel** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:06 am

ME!!!!!
I love Spirited Away!

Postby **bigsleepj** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 8:23 am

I love "Spirited Away" too. It's the 1st Miyazaki film I saw (not counting "Warriors of the Wind" the truncated version of "Nausicaa) followed swiftly by "Castle of Cagliostro", "Castle in the Sky" and "Princess Mononoke". I can't wait for his new movie, Howl's Moving Castle which promises to be quite good!

The only "thing" I have against "Spirited Away" is that rampage Noh-Face does towards the end in the bath-house. Its the only time Miyazaki goes too far (or that's my oppinion). Off course, it's still one of the best movies I've seen. You never know what's going to happen next.

Postby **SManBeyond** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:23 am

It's one of my favorite movies too, and what I like about it is that it creates an interesting, almost "Alice in Wonderland" type world. The art is also impressive. When I first saw some of the art for the movie, I didn't think I would like it, but as I watched the film it drew me in, and now I like it a lot.

Website · Postby **ssj2gohan61** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:50 pm

spirited away is a excellent movie

Postby **RoyalWing** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 5:58 pm

Spirited away is one of my favourite films. My favourite character is Noh-face. You know, I really was stupified by the art in the movie, especially the backgrounds. They looked like photographs almost!

Postby **Aka-chan** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 6:01 pm

I absolutely love Spirited Away, but only the subbed version; I really don't care for the dub. I'm a Haku fan too, as well as a Kaonashi fan (aka No Face). ^__^

Postby **Heart of Sword** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 6:07 pm

that rampage Noh-Face does towards the end in the bath-house. Its the only time Miyazaki goes too far (or that's my oppinion).

Hmm? What do you mean? Oh, where he's throwing up? Yeah that was nasty... :eh:

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:13 pm

Shouldn't this be in "Anime"?

Postby **Spirit_Wolf8356** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:55 pm

I love Spirited Away! I've seen that movie so many times. ^_^ Haku is my favorite character.

One thing that always bothered me about it though:

How does four-wheel drive enable you to go a mad crazy speed through a forest!? Why does he think he can do that!?

Postby **Lehn** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:34 am

'Spirit_Wolf8356' wrote:How does four-wheel drive enable you to go a mad crazy speed through a forest!? Why does he think he can do that!?

Because he's a guy :grin:

Postby **bigsleepj** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:08 pm

Heart of Sword wrote:Hmm? What do you mean? Oh, where he's throwing up? Yeah that was nasty...

Although it does serve a purpose; Yubaba's bathhouse has bred a lot of greed and evil. No-Face's fleeting payment of gold (which turns out to be dirt) shows them that money is comes and goes. Yubaba and her greedy servants also get their just deserts (and even some satisfaction) when No-Face throws up on her.

Still is nasty, though...

Postby **Aka-chan** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:11 pm

I heard the throwing up stuff had some symbolic significance or something, I think... Anyone know about that?

Postby **Banana-chan** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:50 pm

Haku!!! *huggle*
lol
hes so cooooooool!
-Meeh

Postby **RoyalWing** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:00 pm

to aka-chan:

[quote="bigsleepj"]Although it does serve a purpose]

... what he said.

Postby **CobaltAngel** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:58 pm

Banana-chan wrote:Haku!!!

...looks like a girl.

Postby **c-girl** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:53 pm

I love it! >^.^<

Postby **SilverFang** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:48 am

I love the it as well.

Postby **bigsleepj** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:57 am

I suddenly thought of something concerning Noh-Face the other day. Isn't he kind of like an emotion absorbing spirit?

Whenever he's around Sen / Chihiro, who is kind, he seems kinder and helps her, but when he's around the greedy creatures of the bathhouse, he gets nasty and greedy himself. Just a thought.

Postby **greyscale42** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:37 am

Miyakazaki rules. I love his movies. The art, stories, and over all feel to Spirited Away will brighten the darkest and most depressing days. No word can describe my love for Spirited Away.

Postby **Jaltus-bot** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:53 am

I saw this a while back with friends late one night. It was great. My friend "Rabbit" from school said that the radish character was his favorite. I liked the river guy best

Postby **AngelSakura** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:58 am

I thought it was a mushroom spirit, not a radish. My grandpa is a Miyazaki fan, which is kind of amazing to me, because he doesn't like anime, or so he says.

My only question is how can Haku be a boy, a dragon, and a river, all at the same time?

Postby **bigsleepj** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:16 am

AngelSakura wrote:My only question is how can Haku be a boy, a dragon, and a river, all at the same time?

My best guess is this; the physical form of Haku resembles a boy; that's his visual manifestation. He is older than a boy, but that's how he look.

He can become a dragon either because (a) he's a river spirit and, thus, powerful, or (b) he got the power from Yubaba which explains why he turns back into the form of a boy when he finds out his rea name.

And he was a river, but the river has been filled to build buildings on (I don't know what is really said in the Japanese version; this refers to the English dub). Because the river is there no more, he has no more home (as Kamaji?) points out. For all I know the English dub is very different from the Japanese version, but that's my theory.

Postby **AngelSakura** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:54 am

Hrrm, I've only seen the Japanese, I'm a purist. In the Japanese, haku told Chihiro that when he came to the bathhouse, Yubaba stole his name, making him forget who he was. While riding on his back near the end, Chihiro told him her mother told her when she was small, she fell into a river named Something-Haku, which is why she kept thinking she was underwater. He turned back into a boy and said something about remembering her falling into him, which just got me all confused. I don't remember anything about the river being leveled, though.

Postby **bigsleepj** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:07 pm

AngelSakura wrote:Hrrm, I've only seen the Japanese, I'm a purist. In the Japanese, haku told Chihiro that when he came to the bathhouse, Yubaba stole his name, making him forget who he was. While riding on his back near the end, Chihiro told him her mother told her when she was small, she fell into a river named Something-Haku, which is why she kept thinking she was underwater. He turned back into a boy and said something about remembering her falling into him, which just got me all confused. I don't remember anything about the river being leveled, though.

Hmmm. Either you missed something or the person who wrote the dubbing script attempted to "fill in the holes". I don't know. I was not present at either so I can only guess.

I would like to learn Japanese. Subtitles can be very bothersome.

Postby **Heart of Sword** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:39 pm

I've always wondered how in the world Haku could fly when he was a boy. I always thought that the whole spirit-world was symbolism, so it made sense to me that he was a river. His dragon form was always soooo cool! I loved that it had a wolf face.

You know, his voice sounds strangely like Inuyasha's. It's not the same voice actor, I don't think, but it's still very similar.

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