movie night

[ellen_datlow]

Boiler Room--yeah! liked it, with Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, and Vin Diesel --all very good and the post Wall Street movie in which the principals, who are eager sharks, can recite Gordon Gekko's lines as he says them. Odd seeing the twin towers on the NYC skyline. I'd heard it was a good movie, and it is.

And Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind--also terrific. But what's with the round-eyed Japanese humans who populate all these films? Where has this weird tradition come from? And am I the only one who thought Nausicaa was bare-assed through the first third of the movie until I finally figured she MUST be wearing some kind of weird tights????Or do I just have a dirty mind?

I have the first disc of the last bunch of Sopranos but figured I'll wait till I get the rest so I can have a Sopranos orgy when I get back from WFC.

Comments

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

....as far as I know she's going commando. It's just the Japanese thing. If you have the same cut of the movie as here, then a lot of her butt flashing has actually been removed.


Not all anime characters have round eyes. You can tell the bad guys by that fact alone.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

It's from netflix and there's a lot of butt flashing in the first 15 minutes or so, then it seems to subside.

I haven't seen all that much anime--so who often has the round eyes usually? The goodies or the baddies?

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

Round eyes are definitely for the good guys.

You've mostly been watching Studio Ghibli works, right? They're practically all round eyes, that I can think of. Even the villains... Characters with murky motivations tend to have thin, sharp slanted eyes.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just started. Now that's totally weird --do at least some Japanese people think there's something wrong with that?

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

It's the aesthetic; they find large round eyes attractive, since as a people they don't tend to feature them. Just as western cartoons feature square jaws and ridiculous waists, they're all feeding into what people (supposedly) want to look at.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Oh I understand. I just think it's a pity-I've heard that Japanese women sometimes have eye surgery to get rid of the epithantic fold.

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've a feeling a lot of the fashion conscious women in Tokyo had that operation performed; there were more folded and large eyes around than there should have been.

[charlesatan.livejournal.com]

As far as I know everyone has round eyes! Most of the time. =)