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7 Oct 2005 11:58 pmI thought Ghost in the Shell came out ages ago?
"The bird does not feed on the green persimmon. It waits for the fruit to ripen."
That's good to know.
........Right. That's sarcasm if I've ever know it. Does anyone remember what scene this person's referring to?
I'm ready to rage about how they could possibly miss such a blatant allegory. Or metaphor. Or whatever the literary jargon that describes it is.
This follow up to the 1995 anime hit looks like Blade Runner and sounds like The Matrix.
Ooooh..as soon as I saw that, my heart sank.
The Matrix? You're accusing an oriental film of ripping off a film that was blatantly ripping off oriental culture? *Head --> computer screen*
And I hesitate to make any comparison between Blade Runner, The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell...because all three are science-fiction films in which a lot of the ideas are concerning domination of technology, a comparison like that will mislead readers to think that GitS has the same tone as the previous two. As I saw it, it didn't. (*Haven't seen BR though) Whereas the first two were extremely wary to the point of antagonistic about the role of technology, and places a greater value placed on human life, GitS struck me as something that also valued "machines" as a life. Cyborgs, robots, artificial intelligence. The conflict, unlike your traditional sci-fi film, isn't between humans and monsters created from technological misconduct. It is one of the rare few films that embraces the future of machines, or at least does not see it as a threat to "nature".
.....Though I did watch it in Japanese and was so busy reading the subtitles and goggling at the beautiful graphics I might have missed the point entirely.
"The bird does not feed on the green persimmon. It waits for the fruit to ripen."
That's good to know.
........Right. That's sarcasm if I've ever know it. Does anyone remember what scene this person's referring to?
I'm ready to rage about how they could possibly miss such a blatant allegory. Or metaphor. Or whatever the literary jargon that describes it is.
This follow up to the 1995 anime hit looks like Blade Runner and sounds like The Matrix.
Ooooh..as soon as I saw that, my heart sank.
The Matrix? You're accusing an oriental film of ripping off a film that was blatantly ripping off oriental culture? *Head --> computer screen*
And I hesitate to make any comparison between Blade Runner, The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell...because all three are science-fiction films in which a lot of the ideas are concerning domination of technology, a comparison like that will mislead readers to think that GitS has the same tone as the previous two. As I saw it, it didn't. (*Haven't seen BR though) Whereas the first two were extremely wary to the point of antagonistic about the role of technology, and places a greater value placed on human life, GitS struck me as something that also valued "machines" as a life. Cyborgs, robots, artificial intelligence. The conflict, unlike your traditional sci-fi film, isn't between humans and monsters created from technological misconduct. It is one of the rare few films that embraces the future of machines, or at least does not see it as a threat to "nature".
.....Though I did watch it in Japanese and was so busy reading the subtitles and goggling at the beautiful graphics I might have missed the point entirely.
