Wednesday, March 19, 2008
tales From Earthsea
Many weeks ago I rented the DVD "tales From Earthsea" from blockbuster. I
had another incoherent conversation with the clerk at the Blockbuster
about anime, mostly because I was full of after work Friday night
beer. The same people who were involved in the wonderful (my parents
are greedy pigs) "spirited away" did this film as well.
I had read The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin and this is what
attracted me to the film. I read the book some time ago, so I couldn't
remember exactly what happened. However, this film seemed very
different to that book. Looks like it was based on a book she wrote much
later. Some of the film was about the "balance", which is some hippy
sh*t for loving nature.
The boy hero of the book murders his father for some
unspecified reason, perhaps he was possessed, or perhaps his
father was evil as many are.
The history of these earthsea novels looks interesting, at least
from the amazon reviews. Le Guin seemed to have a problem
with the world she created. Ummm.
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