Two things I have to say about the new Ponyo trailer Disney just released.
1: What stunningly beautiful imagery !!!
Nice choice of shots, the trailer doesn't give everything away but demonstrates just how wicked the animation is in this thing.
And in HD too, so I can watch it in near-infinite sharpness as often as I like till the BluRay is released. Bliss...
2: What the hell is Liam Neeson saying?
"The whole world is out of balance. Ponyo, you have to trust me! You're the only one who can save the planet !! Do it now !!!"
And BOOM! Away she goes, off to save the world... or so it seems in the trailer.
Huh?? That makes absolutely zero sense. And I have seen the film, even! Ponyo as a trained superheroine, on a mission?
Has Disney done a complete re-imagining of the plot, using vastly altered text? Or was the marketing department as ehm... creative as when they made that computer-enhanced poster for the film with the "Finding Nemo" font (which shows up in this trailer as well)?
Anyway, the one thing the trailer DOES correctly convey is that this movie is gorgeous.
Find it at the Ponyo website over at Apple...
Agreed, I cannot imagine Disney to be allowed to do too much damage here. There are actually a few perilous moments near the end where Ponyo's father *might* say something like that, although the translation I saw the movie with last October came nowhere near THIS snippet.
I just had a conversation with GhibliWorld.com's Peter van der Lugt (who has seen the movie four times in various cinemas already) and he was... puzzled, to say it extremely polite.
:cheese:
Oh well, it's cool, is just that you never know what crap the american studios can do.
A major problem with this trend, as I gather it, is the emphasis on opening weekend box office. It's what turns a studio's head, and reflects well on marketing dept.
The marketers know well that they are misrepresenting the film's narrative (that, or they're so mired in their own genre paradigms that they can't see past the glass of their fishbowl), but they've long ago decided to gamble on snagging enough people being in the opening week before audiences get wise to the bait and switch. Once they've bought the ticket, or the DVD, it doesn't really matter a damn what people think of the movie because the money's been taken.
Disappointing, but surely you can't be that surprised.
Maybe he says "save the plant." Remember that one part...where she had to...save the plant?
Yeah me neither.
unfortunately your all missing the point imo. let me preface i have lurked here for years. my kids all learned to read by watching foreign films and reading subtitles....all 3 of em..... my youngest daughter is named after asana and the tree of juria from tenchi. she is 3 she has watched ponyo 100 times w/ subtitles only....as far as she is concerned ponyo is a super hero... she brings comfort and guidance through a tragic event. she cant read but that is what the movie makes her feel.in addition to a new found love of ham and sisters- that can be found in a bucket. to my daughter ponyo is super man and the little mermaid and cinderella. so remember they are marketing to an audience...children that should grow up thinking of miyazaki like they think of disney..(here in america)...or maybe i am wrong. but in my house totoro lives in the brush in the back yard,,,,, kiki's broom and cat arent that far.. porko's airplane is cool, and sometimes grandmas make hair ties........ beyond that most of miyazaki's supervised translations are impeccable
We all can't wait, because PONYO will be the first time that my kids will catch a Miyazaki in the theares. They were too young for HOWL'S Canadian Release in 2005.
Bluth had nothing to do with LAST UNICORN. That was made by Rankin-Bass in association with Japan's Topcraft studio. Ironically, Topcraft staff from UNICORN later worked on NAUSICAA and subsequently went on to help form Studio Ghibli.
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