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NEWS: Article 'Ghost in the Shell 2' Competes for Cannes Honors

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.

Just the fact that it, or any anime for that matter, is there at all is a notch in it's handle already. Who knows maybe some might say "This is like The Matrix" not knowing the truth. only to be gently surprised that it in fact is the other way round.

his first directorial effort in nine years.

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.

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.'"

Directors fortnight is not Cannes. I was aware of those movies and specificly discoutned them when I wrote the article.

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.

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.