[lit-ideas] Ghost in the Shell II
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:41:23 -0700
Saw "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" last night. GITS finally opened yesterday
in movie art
houses for its US distribution.
This is another Japanese mecha anime movie. Directed by Mamoru Oshii, it was
wildly popular
in Japan.
If you like the American computer generated movies (Shrek, Toy Story, Nemo,
etc.), the
Japanese movies are different. Where the American movies try to attain
ultra-realism (a
breeze moves the individual hairs in an animal's fur), the Japanese movies use
a flat
comic-book manga look and develop instead the complexity of characters and
story.
GITS has many elements from dark gothic movies. The storyline is practically
borrowed from
Bladerunner, along with many images and scenes. The two detectives are like Don
Quixote and
Sancho Panza, or Joe Friday and Bill Gannon, his partner, who walk through
crime scenes and
throw platitudes at each other, from Descartes, Pascal, the Bible, Zen, and
many others.
The website is at www.gofishpictures.com/GITS2/ and it's a great example of
anime websites.
The website is pretty cool to look at.
It's in Japanese with subtitles.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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