Ghibli and Earthsea
Because some of you (one of you) asked for it. Here’s a followup to the Earthsea/SciFi essay by the same author. And Then Ghibli Screwed Earthsea.
I don’t think Ghibli whitewashed Earthsea. Though they might have made most of them Japanese. It looked to me like all the characters who should’ve been brown had brown hair and brown eyes. Not that I’ve seen the movie or read the books, so my opinion admittedly doesn’t count for as much as it could if I had.
Tried reading Earthsea at one point. Didn’t get into it.
K Said,
August 29, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
I guess my real question is… WHY did LeGuin agree to a contract where she had so little creative control?
I just can’t buy this whole ‘I had to do it’ business. Oh, boohoo, sob sob, I was taken advantage of again by the mean mean movie people.
If she was pissed about what happened with the Sci-Fi adaptation, she should have insisted on oversight of this movie. Had it written into the contract that she could shut them down if they didn’t let her approve the script and the character designs. Does that mean that maybe they wouldn’t have made the movie? Yeah, maybe. But if she’s going to bitch and moan about the movie that was made, wouldn’t it be better to have none?!
I can understand if she was a young author, unversed in the ways of the world. But she’s old, and she’s been around. To have it happen once, okay, maybe she trusted them and shouldn’t have — fool me once, shame on you. But fool me twice? Frankly, you’re just a moron.
Jellyn Said,
August 30, 2006 @ 2:06 am
I don’t know the dates she signed the two contracts or what exactly was in them. By the time she learned the lesson from SciFi, it might’ve been too late for the other.