Forum - View topicNEWS: Article 'Ghost in the Shell 2' Competes for Cannes Honors
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Mohawk52
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WOO! HOO! This is great news I hope it goes all the way. Then those "knobby tw@s" who say "animation shouldn't be here" can feast on humble pie. Yes!
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Zac
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As much as I'd like to say that if there's anywhere 'Innocence' can succeed it's at the ultra-elitist Cannes, that simply isn't true. Those people are prejudiced against animation for the most part; if it were live-action, they'd be tripping all over themselves to lavish it with praise. Since it's animated, though, I just can't see it winning much of anything.
Having seen the film, I can say that it's very complicated and the article's comments about it being inaccessable to a broad audience is most definitely true. |
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Mohawk52
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BrianRuh
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Just a bit of a nitpick: The ANN entry says that the showing of "Innocence" is "the first time that anime had been screened at the festival" although the Reuters article to which it refers just states that "'Ghost in the Shell 2' is the first Japanese animation film to compete for the Palme d'Or best film award."
Anime has been shown at Cannes before -- a recent ANN article* states that in 2003, the "Directors' Fortnight Screened Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 and the international premiere of Nasu-The Summer of Andalsia." Oshii's anime has even been shown at Cannes before -- namely "Angel's Egg," which, according to Carl Gustav Horn's filmography of Oshii in the book "Anime Interviews," was "entered at Cannes under the title 'L'Oeuf de l'Ange.'" However, "Innocence" is the first anime film to be screened in competition at Cannes, which is still big news. * animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=4915 |
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Berserker77
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The article even makes it out like the cityscapes of Innocence are somewhat derivitive of Blade Runner and The Matrix; when, as Mohawk stated, it is the exact opposite--The Matrix was influenced by the first Ghost in the Shell. I can see the influence of Blade Runner, which is great film, but I find it odd how the article states that the sequel sought inspiration from a movie, in which its own predecessor had inspired. I'm not knocking the Matrix, at least not too hard . I do think, however, that Ghost in the Shell has had a much greater influence on the Matrix Trilogy, than it will prove to have on Innocence.
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JETBLACK87
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Since where nitpicking...
He directed Avalon in 2001. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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Aside from both films being sci-fi epics set in dystopian futures, I'd be hard-pressed to find any direct similarities between any of the Matrix films and Innocence. I didn't notice any visual or thematic similarities between the two. |
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GATSU
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Brian: Don't forget Nasu.
Zac: Motoko fights like Trinity, and moves like Priss. Anyway, from what I've been gathering from articles on screenings, the judges don't seem biased against animation as a whole. (Tarantino-yes I'm actually praising him for once-has helped to insure that they give all the films a chance.) They just seem biased against 2-d films which don't feature farting ogres. |
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Tempest
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Directors fortnight is not Cannes. I was aware of those movies and specificly discoutned them when I wrote the article.
I'll double check that, if that's the case I'll issue a correction. |
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BrianRuh
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GATSU
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If I'm not mistaken, anime at Cannes goes back at least to Cagliostro.
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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spoiler[Motoko doesn't show up until the last 20 minutes of the film and then is simply a fragment of her net personality downloaded into a cyberdoll which fights alongside Batou. She moves like a marionette, not like Priss, and doesn't look like Trinity, since she doesn't even resemble Motoko.] So yeah. Wrong. Again. |
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jfrog
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Actually, Cannes has regonized animation in the past. The wonderful 1973 French film Fantastic Planet was awarded the Grand Prix, and given some of the competition this year (Shrek II? Remakes of 50's comedies? Michael Moore "documentaries"?), I'd say that Innocence has a pretty good chance. Last edited by jfrog on Sun May 23, 2004 3:29 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Tondog38
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It's official. Michael Moore's new crockumentary, Farenheit 9/11, is the winner of the Palme d'Or award for best film. Innocence won no awards at the Cannes competition.
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Mr Mania
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I was fairly surprised Moore won it. I thought it would be one of the two Asian movies (not GITS) as Tarantino was the Head of the panel this year and as he has a fondness for Asian cinema I thought he might have swayed the board that way. Then again those within the film industry are known to be liberal.
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