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Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by Isao Takahata
Written by Hayao Miyazaki
Starring Keiko Yokozawa
Mayumi Tanaka
Minori Terada
Music by Joe Hisaishi
Distributed by Tokuma Shoten (Japan)
Toei Company (Japan)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (USA)
Optimum Releasing (UK)
Madman Entertainment (Australia/New Zealand)
Release date(s) Flag of Japan August 2, 1986
Flag of the United States April 1, 1989
Running time 124 minutes
Language Japanese, English
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Laputa: Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta?) (re-titled Castle in the Sky for release in the United States) (in English, literally translated as The Sky's Castle: Laputa) is a film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1986. is a is one of the most famous directors of Anime, or Japanese Animated Films. (birth name) born September 2, 1952 in Niigata, Japan, is a Japanese Seiyū. ( January 15, 1955 -) is a Seiyū from Tokyo currently affiliated with Aoni Production. Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤 守 Fujisawa Mamoru) known professionally as Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲 Hisaishi Jō, born December 6, 1950 is a publisher in Japan, established in 1954 The company was one of the largest entertainment publishers until the 1990s () is a Japanese film and Television production and distribution Corporation. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (previously known as Walt Disney Home Entertainment and Walt Disney Home Video) is the flagship label (' cf Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that specialises in the distribution of Japanese Anime and Manga in Australia and New Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. is a Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) It is the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli, although is considered the second by some since Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was created by the founding members two years before. is a Japanese Animation Film studio, and previously was a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten. is a 1984 film by Japanese Writer, Illustrator, and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, based on his Manga of the same Laputa: Castle in the Sky won the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 1986. is a Japanese Anime and entertainment magazine which Tokuma Shoten began publishing in July 1978.

Contents

Plot

According to legend, humans were fascinated with the sky; therefore they created increasingly sophisticated ways of lifting aircraft from the ground. This eventually led to flying cities and fortresses. Over time, the cities came crashing back to the ground, forcing the survivors to live on the ground as before. One city, Laputa, is said to remain in the sky, concealed within the swirling clouds of a violent thunderstorm. While most people consider it to be fictional, some believe the legend is true and have sought to find the ancient city. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Airships still remain in common use.

Aboard an airship, a young girl, Sheeta, is escorted to an unknown destination by sinister-looking agents under Colonel Muska. The ship is attacked by a group of sky pirates; in the resulting disorder, Sheeta takes a small pendant from Muska and escapes. The sky pirates, led by an old but vivacious woman Dola, attempt to seize her and the pendant, but in an attempt to escape, Sheeta falls from the ship. As she falls, the pendant radiates a blue light and she gently floats to the ground. Blue is a Colour, the Perception of which is evoked by Light, or visible light, is Electromagnetic radiation of a Wavelength that is visible to the Human eye (about 400–700 A young boy, Pazu, witnesses this in amazement and catches Sheeta. He takes her back to his home, where she finds a photograph of Laputa. Pazu explains that his deceased father took the photo, but was disbelieved by his contemporaries. Pazu believes the city exists, however, and wants to find it someday himself.

Dola’s band of sky pirates (mainly built up of her sons and husband) arrive at Pazu's house, forcing the children to escape on a railway. Their path is blocked by an armored train; the government agents inside attempt to capture Sheeta. With both pursuing parties fighting each other over the girl, the children fall from the rail trestle, but are saved when Sheeta's pendant activates once again, allowing them to float safely into an abandoned mine below the town.

Sheeta and Pazu
Sheeta and Pazu

There they meet an old miner, Uncle Pom, who tells them of "volucite" ("aetherium" in Disney's English language dub), the crystal that provided Laputa with its power. In Materials science, a crystal is a Solid in which the constituent Atoms Molecules or Ions are packed in a regularly ordered repeating He reveals that Sheeta’s pendant is one of the largest and purest such crystals in existence, and counsels Sheeta to remember that the crystal's power rightly belongs to the earth, and that she should never use it to commit acts of violence. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001 Violence is the exertion of force so as to injure or abuse The word is used broadly to describe the destructive action of natural phenomena like Storms and Earthquakes A similar crystal is seen in Howl's Moving Castle as one of Howl's accessories. is a 2004 Japanese animated Steampunk Fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and based on Diana

Upon returning to the surface of the land, Sheeta tells Pazu that she has inherited an ancient "secret name": Lusheeta Toel Ul Laputa (Laputan for "Sheeta, True Ruler of Laputa"). Government agents suddenly appear and take them both into custody. They are taken to a fortress and separated.

The general in command of the fortress discusses with Muska the government-sponsored search for Laputa, and agree that Sheeta and her crystal are the keys to its discovery. Muska reveals to Sheeta his knowledge of her true name, shows her a huge android robot believed to have been created in Laputa, and intimates that unless she co-operates with him in unlocking the crystal's secrets, which he believes can be used to physically locate Laputa, Pazu is likely to come to harm. An android is a Robot designed to resemble a human usually both in appearance and behavior A robot is a mechanical or Virtual Artificial agent In practice it is usually an electro-mechanical system which by its appearance or movements Seeking to protect her friend, Sheeta tells Pazu that she has agreed to co-operate with Muska and asks him to forget her and Laputa. Stung by this apparent rejection, Pazu returns to his village, only to find Dola's pirate family occupying his home. Pazu tells Dola of his experiences; when the pirates learn that Sheeta, Muska, and the general will depart the fortress in search of Laputa aboard the gigantic military airship Goliath, Pazu begs Dola to take him with her.

In her tower, Sheeta recites a spell given by her grandmother, causing the crystal to emanate a light that points to Laputa. The spell also re-animates the robot, which wreaks havoc on the army base with its superior weaponry; Muska is amazed at the robots destuctive power. The robot rescues Sheeta, demonstrating its loyalty, before it is destroyed by the Goliath. Pazu and Dola rescue Sheeta; she drops the pendant, which is then recovered by Muska.

The children and Dola's pirates pursue the Goliath aboard the pirate ship Tiger Moth, intent on finding Laputa before the Goliath does. That night, as Sheeta and Pazu stand watch on the crows nest, they talk at length about their respective lives, touching upon Sheeta's study of magic words and mentioning one such spell, the Spell of Destruction, a power Sheeta has never used. Dola, who is awake in bed, overhears their discussions through the intercom.

Amid their conversation, Pazu sees the Goliath rise from the clouds. The airship attacks, but the Tiger Moth escapes unharmed. The Tiger Moth enters a storm, and Dola tells the children to keep watch above the clouds by turning the crows nest into a glider. Soon a massive cloud becomes visible. Pazu recognizes it from his father's descriptions as Laputa's hiding place. As they try to find a way in, the Goliath attacks again and the glider Sheeta and Pazu are riding is blasted away from the pirate ship. The children land on Laputa, only to find the city devoid of human life, having only a single robot among the ruins taking care of the grounds. This robot is implied to be "friends" with small, fox/cat-like animals, very similar to the fox-squirrels found in Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. In the grounds is a gargantuan tree, whose roots have pervaded all of Laputa's base. ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN.

The Goliath arrives at Laputa, whereupon the soldiers plunder the city's vast treasures. The Tiger Moth is found wrecked on the surface with Dola and the pirates being held captive against it. Pazu runs off to rescue Dola while Sheeta witnesses Muska locating a hidden entrance to a large sphere that surrounds the city's core; Sheeta is captured and taken inside. Pazu frees the pirates and, after many difficulties, finds another way into the sphere.

Muska takes Sheeta into Laputa's core, a chamber holding a gigantic Volucite/Aetherium crystal that serves as the city's power source, and reveals that he is also an heir to the throne of Laputa. He takes control of Laputa and all its technology and demonstrates the power of the city to the army by beaming a immensely powerful blast toward the surface. Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt He then activates hundreds of robots to wipe out the army and the Goliath while Dola and the pirates hide from the robots inside the remains of the Tiger Moth. Sheeta frees herself and steals back the crystal. She runs through the core with Muska in close pursuit. Eventually, she finds Pazu and passes the crystal to him.

Muska corners Sheeta in the city's throne room. Pazu arrives and asks for a moment to talk to her, which Muska grants. Together, the two children decide to use the Spell of Destruction; with a single word, the pendant releases an enormous power surge that triggers the collapse of the city's core. Muska is blinded and later falls to his death. Sheeta and Pazu fall only to wake up among the roots of the giant tree. Afterwords they find their way back to the glider and leave Laputa.

The Dola pirates also survive Laputa's destruction aboard their moth fighters, and are overjoyed to be reunited with Sheeta and Pazu in midair. The pirates and the children bid each other a fond farewell and part ways. Meanwhile, the remains of Laputa, held together by the tree, continue to rise, until they apparently establish an orbit high above the earth. In Physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of one object around a point or another body for example the gravitational orbit of a planet around a star

Cast

Character Japanese original Original English dub Disney's English dub
Pazu Mayumi Tanaka Bertha Greene James Van Der Beek
Sheeta (Lucita Toel Ul Laputa) Keiko Yokozawa Louise Chambell Anna Paquin
Dola Kotoe Hatsui Rachel Vanowen Cloris Leachman
Muska (Romska Palo Ul Laputa) Minori Terada Jack Witte Mark Hamill
Uncle Pom Fujio Tokita Fujio Tokita Richard Dysart
Shogun Mouro / General Ichiro Nagai Mark Richards Jim Cummings
Oyakata Hiroshi Ito
Boss Charles Wilson John Hostetter
Shalulu / Charles Takumi Kamiyama Bob Stuart Michael McShane
Lui / Louis Yoshito Yasuhara Daniel Morris Mandy Patinkin
Anli / Henri Sukekiyo Kameyama Ernest Fessler Andy Dick
Okami Machiko Washio
Old Engineer Ryuji Saikachi
Madge Tarako

Setting

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History

The history of this alternate world is hinted at in various parts of the movie: Laputa, in ancient times, once dominated the world in a hegemony, presumably of other aerial cities (suggested by a woodcut-like piece in the opening credits or scenes), and may have had a rotor on its bottom and other rotors on its side. ROTOR was a huge and elaborate air defence Radar system built by the British Government in the early 1950s to counter possible attack by Soviet Bombers Land may have also been attached to Laputa in antiquity; possibly in a different time period than the one in which rotors were attached. Laputa was abandoned 700 years before the setting of the movie, having controlled the manufacture and mining of the "sky-crystal"; such an art having been abandoned by the film's beginning. Events By Place North America The Mount Edziza volcanic complex erupts in northern British Columbia, Canada. A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the Orbit of the Earth around the Sun The royal family and their subjects abandoned the city, leaving behind an electronic, high-technology core topped by a chamber or greenhouse. There grew a central tree, which proceeded to sink its roots deep into the city and spread its branches outside of the city's top roof, along with several layers or terraces of walls or buildings done in various architectural styles. It is shown to have had at least three terraces of walls topped with one of buildings; it may have had as many as five, as indicated in a tomb marker's seal. A terrace can be defined as an outdoor occupiable extension of a building above ground level This abandonment of Laputa, according to Sheeta and/or Uncle Pom, may have been due to an alienation of the Laputans from the earth; a forgetting that they are intimately connected to the earth and an over-reliance on technology to solve problems.

The opening part of the woodcut-like opening credits shows a windmill with a kiln behind it, set in a hillside, with a man tending it. Kilns are thermally insulated chambers or Ovens in which controlled temperature regimes are produced Afterwards, the windmills grow into enormous, apparently partially wind-powered factories or machines, with machinery digging deep into the earth. Dirigibles appear, along with airplanes and helicopters or autogyros flying against a clouded cityscape. Configuration An autogyro is characterised by a free-spinning rotor that turns due to passage of air upwards through the rotor A giant helicopter-ship is shown rising into the air (with the hull of an ocean liner and numerous rotors), and then a Laputa-like city appears, with the aforementioned rotors. Subsequently a scene of floating islands and cities appears; again with Laputa possibly among them. Enormous, boxy, metallic helicopter-ships are shown, having rotors propelling them from the bottom. The M acro E xpansion T emplate A ttribute L anguage complements TAL, providing macros which allow the reuse of code across History Since 400 AD Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys. Disaster strikes: lightning is shown and redness fills the screen. Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of Electricity, which typically occurs during Thunderstorms and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or A sky-city can be seen, faintly, crumbling in the background, and then people are shown leaving the wreckage of a giant helicopter-ship. The end of the opening credits shows a farmgirl behind a windmill, next to two beasts of burden: a scene later in the movie (showing Sheeta on a farm with similar beasts of burden) implies this is Sheeta. This opening-credit roll can be compared with the "history of the world" scenery shown at the end of Wings of Honneamise and the Bayeux Tapestry-like scroll at the beginning of Nausicaä. is the first feature-length Anime movie produced by Gainax in 1987 The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft long embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of is a 1984 film by Japanese Writer, Illustrator, and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, based on his Manga of the same

European influence

Laputa is credited by Colonel Muska with having been behind Biblical events and sacred Hindu legends — thus tying the world of Laputa to our Earth (and to western European civilization) — as do the medieval castle architecture of parts of the fort on the ground; the Gothic and half-timbered buildings in the village near the fort; the British mining-town architecture, clothing, and even ground vehicles of Pazu's homeland; and the Victorian ambiance of the pirate ship. A Civilization is a society in which large numbers of people share a variety of common elements However, most of the movie's ancient civilisation designs seems to stem from early to mid-16th century European culture.

The medieval castle in the movie seems to be inspired by the European mid-16th century painting of The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, with its giant circular base and the presence of highly rounded and arched doorways all the way around its perimeter. The Tower of Babel (מגדל בבל Migdal Bavel برج بابل Burj Babil) is a structure featured in chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, an enormous Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525 &ndash September 9, 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance Even the colour of the castle is similar to the colour of the tower in the painting, while the flying machines depicted in the opening scenes of the movie with its whirring blades are also similar to Leonardo da Vinci's early drawings of a wooden helicopter. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( April 15 1452 – May 2 1519 was an Italian Polymath, having been a scientist Mathematician, Engineer [1] The link with the Tower of Babel painting is also symbolic. According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built to reach the heavens by a united humanity. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin Babel (בָּבֶל Bavel) (بابل Babel) is the name used in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an for the city of Babylon

Wales

Some of the architecture seen in the film was inspired by a Welsh mining town. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Miyazaki first visited Wales in 1984 and witnessed the miners' strike firsthand. He returned to the country in 1986 to prepare for Laputa, which he said reflected his Welsh experience: "I was in Wales just after the miners’ strike. I really admired the way the miners’ unions fought to the very end for their jobs and communities, and I wanted to reflect the strength of those communities in my film. "[2] Miyazaki told The Guardian: "I admired those men, I admired the way they battled to save their way of life, just as the coal miners in Japan did. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Many people of my generation see the miners as a symbol; a dying breed of fighting men. Now they are gone. "[3]

Distribution and reception

In the late 1980s, an English version of the movie was briefly shown in the U. S. by Streamline Pictures. Streamline Pictures was an American distribution company that was best known for its distribution of English dubbed Japanese animation This dub, produced for showing on international flights to Japan, was not produced by Streamline. According to Fred Patten of Streamline, "Streamline Pictures theatrically distributed an English-dubbed print of Laputa from March 24, 1989 for the next year, but Streamline never dubbed it. Streamline licensed Laputa from Tokuma Shoten in late 1988 or early 1989, and was sent a print from Japan that had already been dubbed into English for use as an in-flight movie by Japan Air Lines on its trans-Pacific flights. We have no idea who actually dubbed it. " [4] Reportedly, Carl Macek was disappointed with this early dub,[5], which is available only on the Japanese R2 DVD release. Carl Macek (born 1951 in Pittsburgh) is an American writer and controversial Anime pioneer and producer of the 1980s and 1990s

The Disney-produced English dub was recorded in 1998 and planned for release on video in 1999, but Disney eventually decided to release it to theaters instead (presumably because the first release under their deal with Studio Ghibli, Kiki's Delivery Service, performed better than expected on VHS). English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States is the fifth Studio Ghibli anime film, produced written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1989.

After Princess Mononoke flopped financially in the U. is a 1997 Japanese Anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. S. , Laputa's release date was pushed back yet again; on occasion the completed dub was screened at select children's festivals. The movie was finally released on DVD and video in the U. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is S. on April 15, 2003, alongside Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away. Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. is a 2001 film by the Japanese Anime studio Studio Ghibli, written and directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki. As with Mononoke and Kiki, critics and fans were mixed about the new dub, but Cloris Leachman and Mark Hamill's performances as Dola and Muska drew nearly universal praise. Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award -winning American Actress of stage, Film and Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American Actor, Comedian and Voice actor. Castle in the Sky was the second-best selling DVD from Studio Ghibli distributed by Disney in the year of its release (after Spirited Away and ahead of Kiki's Delivery Service).

The movie currently holds a 100% "Fresh" rating at RottenTomatoes. com

Title

English language dubs of Laputa has been released under three different titles by three separate distributors.

Although meaningless in Japanese, "Laputa" (La puta) translates to "The Whore" or "The Bitch" in Spanish, which was probably intentional on the part of Swift, who created the concept in Gulliver's Travels. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. For this reason, in 2003, the film's title was shortened from "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" to "Castle in the Sky" in several countries, including the United States (where Spanish is commonly spoken as a first language by around 10% of the population or as a second language by students), Mexico, and Spain. This change was also carried over to a number of non-Spanish speaking countries, including Britain and France, under Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment label, despite Laputa (La puta) having no meaning in either English or French (however the French La pute is quite close). The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Curiously, although the word Laputa was removed from the title, it appeared on the rear cover of the DVD, and was used throughout the film, without modification.

The film's full name was later restored in Britain, in February 2006, when Optimum Asia - a division of London based Optimum Releasing - acquired the UK distribution rights to the Studio Ghibli collection.

Additionally, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the aforementioned pre-Disney dub was screened in the UK, as an Art-house film, under the alternative title Laputa: The Flying Island. It was also shown at least twice on British television, but some scenes were cut. [6]

Differences between versions

Castle in the Sky Region 1 DVD cover.
Castle in the Sky Region 1 DVD cover.
Ratings
Australia:  G
United Kingdom:  PG
United States:  PG

Although the plot and much of the script was left intact, Disney's English dub of Laputa: Castle in the Sky contains some changes. A motion picture rating system categorizes films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex violence substance abuse profanity impudence or other types The Office of Film and Literature Classification is a Statutory Censorship and classification body which provides day to day administrative support for the Classification The British Board of Film Classification ( BBFC) originally British Board of Film Censors, is the organisation responsible for Film, DVD The Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is used in the U

Although all these alterations were approved by Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki, there have been a number of critics and fans who called them into question. In particular, some fans pointed out that the new soundtrack placed music in scenes that previously involved the dramatic use of natural silence, as in the opening airship raid or when Pazu and Sheeta pass through the storm-cloud. On the other hand, Miyazaki himself is said to have approved of Hisaishi's reworking [7]; his compliments were echoed by several reviewers. [8][9]

Trivia

Awards

References

  1. ^ Leonardo da Vinci's Helicopter (2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1178 BC - A Solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom
  2. ^ hackwriters.com - Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki - David Gordon
  3. ^ A god among animators | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film
  4. ^ FAQ // Laputa: The Castle in the Sky // Nausicaa.net
  5. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Pictures
  6. ^ FAQ // Laputa: The Castle in the Sky // Nausicaa.net
  7. ^ Music // Laputa: The Castle in the Sky // Nausicaa.net
  8. ^ DVD Verdict Review - Castle In The Sky
  9. ^ Dark Horizons - Lots of Eye Candy

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