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

[cinriter.livejournal.com]

I just always assumed in NAUSICAA that underwear was too hard to get in the future! In other words...yep, I still think she's bare-assed.

The round eyes thing in anime is one thing, but so is Miyazaki's interest in both eastern and western culture. Look at something like KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE or PORCO ROSSO, and the settings and characters are all completely European. In those cases, the large eyes work.

It is slightly odd, though, in a film like MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO - in which both characters and settings are clearly Japanese - to see the round eyes on the characters.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I do too :-)

I've KIKI and PORCO ROSSO on loan from Eugene and will watch them in between The Sopranos to cheer me up!

[slithytove.livejournal.com]

Note that despite the big eyes, the epicanthal fold is usually preserved. Look closely: usually in anime character design, the inner 'canthus' of the eye is not well defined, as it is in Europeans. There are occasional exceptions to this -- for example, the character of Gally/Alita (http://tbp.berkeley.edu/~jdonald/ocf/gally.jpg) in Battle Angel. This is unusual, though. Here's a more typical character design, Ikari Shinji, (http://www.cristalab.com/images/anime/evangelion/shinji-1.jpg) the protagonist of Evangelion.