Dragonball
Joined: 06 Apr 2005
Posts: 7
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 Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: Anime Music |
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Nice:
>>>> Hope it goes somewhere; I`d be curious to see it, and the precedent
>>>> would
>>>> be neat.
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>>> Maybe. On the other hand, considering who directed the original,
>>> they`d have a hard act to follow.
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>> Of course it would be different. It`d have to be. Anybody who went
>> into a live-action Kiki movie looking for the same movie they saw
>> animated is going to be sorely disappointed. I predict Jiji will
>> probably annoy me something fierce, for instance. (Though for some
>> sick reason I kinda hope they use the cat from the Sabrina TV series--
>> that was so bad it was funny.)
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> Well, the way they chose to use a bad puppet at times to show Salem was
> bad, but that voice actor was a hoot, and he was the reason I watched the
> show in the first year. His scene with his parole officer was too funny
> for words !
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>> Of course, and it would neat to see what someone else (someone who
>> ISN`T Uwe Boll, that is) would bring to the story. There are many
>> towns in Spain, France, or Italy that would match the visual style of
>> the city very well, and could well bring an unexpected depth to the
>> production. As for directing, for some reason, probably that Kiki
>> just looks French to me, somehow, I`m only coming up with French
>> ones-- Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, or perhaps Luc Besson. I can
>> see Caro and Jeunet, for instance, giving the story an
>> ever-so-slightly surreal, dreamy feel, like the feeling you get after
>> a long, particularly good summer vacation.
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> But my other point is why bother? It was a fantasy, so the animation
> format was great with it. And it was done very well, visually imaginative
> and yet the story was down to earth, even if Kiki wasn`t at times. ^_^
>
> Nope, just another attempt by Holly-deadwood to make money on what looks
> like a sure thing, by taking something was turned out to be a sure thing
> after the fact (for the suit types) and doing it again in a different
> format.
Well, one can always hope that the live action version will turn out well in
it`s own way (my favorite L.A. is You`re Under Arrest!) If it works, maybe
someone will do a live action of Ghost in the Shell (that could be
interesting). ^_^
Dragonball
catch you l8ter!
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