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We love Welcome to this week's episode of anime club Dirty Old
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Art Classroom, where every week we meet and we talk about our
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favorite anime series and films. And sometimes they're not our
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favorite. Sometimes we're seeing them for
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the first time and we don't know what's going to happen.
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Speaking of which, this week we haven't a very, very special
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guest. The man himself behind the
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behind that other guy, I was going to say behind the lovely
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community that is nerdy up north we have with us, Paul.
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I was just going to sit there and not move and just pretend it
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would be frozen just to see how long it took.
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Christopher. I would have dubbed you saying
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something about this. And of course have our lovely Co
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host Chris. And because it's your first time
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on Anime Club Paul, we ask everyone this question and it's
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but I appreciate that anime is not your normal like groove.
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It's not your normal sweet spot where you hang out.
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So you've very specially agreed to watch some anime with us
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coming into it. But have you seen?
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So what's your gateway anime? Have you seen anime before?
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What's your previous experience coming into this?
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The story of me joining this this amazing show is Chris said
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he's got footage of me that he's going to release to the world if
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I didn't come on this show. So he is a little he is a little
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spice monkey as well. So I actually believe him that
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he he would do something as odious and as sinister as that
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because he hears the bad boy of nerdy up north and his little
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partnership with that cretin that we called dangerous dog,
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dog headed Lee. That's called my dog.
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I don't know why now, but yes, I have watched anime in the past.
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I remember being a small child and Channel 4 used to showcase
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some of the the weird and wonderful used to be like a one
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half one 2:00 in the morning and showing these weird things like
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devil man and stuff like that. So where basically a man was
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possessed with a a devil demon and destroyed the world.
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It was quite interesting. I think that was called Devil
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man. Could be wrong devil.
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Man cried baby. Possibly, but it was a very long
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time ago. But yeah, I have Dip me tour.
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We have got members of the nerdy Up North community that has
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begged and played it for me to watch anime.
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The lovely donner of Sunny Club. Sunny Con Sunny Club get a
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trademark donor. Sunny Con.
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Quick Chris, let's set up Sunny club.
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But yeah, we we did an episode on, I believe it was Spirited
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Away last year. That was probably some first
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foray in the Studio Ghibli and I enjoyed it.
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Yeah, it wasn't what what I was expecting.
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It was very much different. It was, again, it's different
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because when you watch it with the English dub and the book,
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maybe me, I put the subtitles on, the subtitles in the dub
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wasn't quite the same. So it was quite interesting to
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see how the transition or the transition trans.
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I can't give you words. You can tell I've been to work
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today. It's it's different to basically
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the different formats or different things.
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So you don't know if you're getting the true story or the
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true meaning, which we'll talk about in in this this amazing
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movie today. But yes, that was my little
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foray into it. I do.
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I'm not going to say I'm never going to watch anime.
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I'm going to think, to be fair, I just normally say stuff to
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piss Chris off mostly. So it's just my little things
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that kind of irritate me with it.
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Well, no. And I actually.
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Watched it though, so you've made us happy even if you don't
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like it. Yeah, yeah, the fact.
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That oh, I kind of care because because when we do podcasts on
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like nerdy up north on the Sunday, I like to keep
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everything fresh, not have anything said.
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Don't know anything going to complete bad.
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These two little knuckle draggers here has just been
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Mexican. What did you think?
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Why did you think? Did you like it?
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We have a little chat. Chris and I are very, very
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collaborative in the way that we work.
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We just like talking to each other.
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There's that and we genuinely want to talk about it because
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sometimes we'll each mention a point that we're like, I didn't
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think about that. Actually, I'll mention it while
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we're on later. And also I, I do think genuinely
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that this podcast is inconsequential.
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Even if we weren't recording, we would still be talking about
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anime because that's how we started doing this podcast since
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we were doing it anyway. But yeah, I'll give the spoiler
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out now, so I'll take this out of your and Tessa.
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Sandwich. Yes, I I really enjoyed this.
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I thought it was like I just so interesting, so different.
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I went in because I know we'll talk about it a bit more, but
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like the animation style and the way it looks, this feels like
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it's going to be like like almost like a like a fairy tale
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and a story. And then it goes into quite
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adult themes, like how brutal it is, like some of the like fight
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scenes and stuff you don't see coming.
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Like I was literally taken aback and nearly fell off the bed at
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one point when like one of the made like the first fight fight
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scenes with the samurai I was like oh shit this this is real
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it. It's really, it's really brutal
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and I would say so it's we're doing Princess Mononoke I think.
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I don't think we actually said the title, but it's on the
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screen so people can figure it out.
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And I would always say that this is the one like one of the
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studio Jibby films that is not for kids.
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Like wait until your kids are like teenagers before you like
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introduce them to this don't like show.
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This isn't My neighbor Totoro. It's not even a Spirited away.
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I don't think you can show little kids this anime.
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It's it's it's cut me out if I had been a four year old.
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But it's done the way it's like brutal but cutesy at the same
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time. But again, I think the message
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like, especially towards like not not the very end, but
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towards the end, it's quite beautiful.
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And yeah, it makes you think about certain things in
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different ways and say like how life works.
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And it's it's not all shiny and nice and everything's got a time
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and a place. So it's kind of like realising
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that as well. So it was, it was, it was, it
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was quite a sweet story. But, and I am going to apologise
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now, I will butcher the names. So I'm not even trying to answer
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that. It's.
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OK, Chris and I frequently have to have a cast lists up in order
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to remember names. That's perfectly fine.
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But before we dive into more into the anime, a very important
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part of Anime Club every week is what's snacks you got?
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What's snacks you got? What are you guys munching?
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So I'm going to, I'm really pleased with this month's like
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I've just picked all my favorite things and put them on a fancy
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little plate. But I've got some macaroons now.
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You're going to take the North and South.
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Divide the North and South divide.
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We've got macaroons with Phoebe and what have you got with
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Chris? Yeah, yeah.
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Right. So it's Nike.
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Nike what, 7 or 6? This was out and I thought what
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would I be eating at the pictures or watching a film on
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the silver at that time. So got a tiny little bowl full
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of Maltesers, M&M's and Milky Way Magic Stars also mean all.
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Magic stars back in the back in the deer.
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Yeah, we do definitely have magic stars.
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I don't think we did. And I'm just going and I'm a
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bitch with me Pringles. Because they all had little
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stories on the back of a packet. I can remember being a kid and
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reading them. We definitely had magic stars as
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kids. I'm going to say yes, that much
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older than me. You're older than me.
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I'm the baby. I'm the baby excellent and we've
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got Pringles from Paul and you've got to do classic duck
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lips pouting and selfie pouting before selfies were a thing
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with. Pringles, are you ever made that
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circle thing before? Oh.
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You see that where you pile them all on top of each other, keep
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going round and you make a circle.
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I'm not trying. Really clever.
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I've seen people do it like out of the packet, so they're like
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able to like distribute it straight out of very clever and.
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They'll tell me much cash now that was a mistake.
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I can't really Pringle dust. These are These are really good
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but also hard to talk around, so we've all made.
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Fun of macaroons. Macaroons.
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I love them. I love them so much.
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They make me feel, hey, I like how tiny they are so they make
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me feel like a giant. We all know I love tiny things
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because I like to feel enormous and powerful.
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Is that why you get on with Chris so much?
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Yeah, Chris makes me so powerful.
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Look at him trying to be bigger and things.
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That's why he's put me tiny on the screen and said I'm going to
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be more enforceable and bigger than Paul.
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It's just I've. Met you both in life.
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This seems about right, but it was very far down so it was hard
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for me to say. That's what she said.
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But yes. Right, but back into the film.
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So how would you guys describe Princess Mononoke to someone
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who's never seen an anime or never seen this film before?
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A Japanese version of The Jungle Book, you think?
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I think that does it a disservice.
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I think it's better than The Jungle Book Contra, but there
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are it's more like the original, like Rodger Kipling version of
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The Jungle Book. It's more brutal than like the
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Disney version. No, no, I still like, I'm a big
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Jungle Book fan, so again, I'm not.
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I would never say it's a disservice.
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I think this this same kind of beats, it's like like like
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certainly different cultures, different times, but there's
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like a human that's been brought up by wolves and again, Mowgli
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was brought up by wolves and trying to find the humanity in
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them without losing it and then man overstretching their
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boundaries and kind of take them through.
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So I think there's a lot of similar boot beats to it.
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Again, I know it's probably more of a simpler term, but I've got
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loads of Jungle Book vibes from watching it like last night
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again. But that's because I'm a, I'm a,
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I'm a Disney fan as well still. Yeah, but you're right, it is
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because Mowgli like, and that's what I mean in the in the book
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you have a lot more of that like tension between man and nature,
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whereas in the Disney film it's mostly just him trying to get
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back to the humans. Oh, I'm the king of the swingers
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there, jungle. Be happy.
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I have heard that about you, Paul.
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Somewhere else at Pompous Cross and he's Gordon.
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That's why I've always got the Velcro.
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I don't even know how that would be used and I'm afraid to ask.
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So, moving swiftly on, how would you describe it?
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See, normally when I describe things, compare it to something
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that normally people are familiar with.
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And I don't think I can because I think it's entirely its own
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entity and it's its style, the storytelling way and kind of the
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messages as well. Because like for it's time, I
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mean, there's no like villain in it.
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Like everyone's good aren't evil and the hunt.
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The hunt is a bit of a twat I don't like.
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Yeah, but I think, I think he was just a mouthpiece for the
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for the emperor really, because he was all just like, well, I've
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got these orders, I've got to do it.
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I'm he was a Dick. I didn't like him, but also, do
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you know his voice for Billy Bob Thornton, the English one?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I didn't. Know it till just now I just
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thought. I love and, and this is the
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thing about Studio Ghibli when they do the localisation.
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So we talked a bit when Jake came on about Subs versus dubs
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and how if you're going to watch the dubbed version, it's
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important that you watch a good dubbed version because some
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animes don't get it right and some animes nail it.
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Studio Ghibli, I think because they do have that kind of status
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in the industry of being like the powerhouse anime studio.
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They always manage to get amazing.
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So they've had like, Patrick Stewart is in Nausicaa Valley of
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the Wind. You've got Christian Bale is in
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House Moving Castle along with it's not, I'm going to say I
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think it's Gene Simmons. And but it's not the Gene
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Simmons from like, Kiss. It's like, you know, the female
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actress Gene Simmons, she plays so this Grandma Sophie as well
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in House Moving Castle. She's brilliant.
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Yeah. And then you have Billy Bob
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Thornton as the hunter. Anderson as well.
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Gillian Anderson Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's good. Like you get good voice, you get
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good acting in. But you're right, Paul, there
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isn't always going to be a difference.
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So with the films, the subtitles are closer to what the original
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Japanese would be. Yeah.
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And what you get is like a mismatch where you can see that
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whoever's done the localisation. There wasn't as bad in this one
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compared to spiritual. Yeah, Spirits aware was huge
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like like slot the plot I was reading, I was good.
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That's different, totally different than saying this one.
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There was little terms or little things in way around they were
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saying. I know we were talking before we
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went live about the transition from he should who should not be
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named change in certain aspects around and stuff like that, but
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in in spirit aware there was whole context and conversation
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that was changed and like I was like sitting there scratching my
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head, even rewind bits going that's that changes this whole
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saying when this wasn't that bad.
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It was just like words were in different orders or it was said
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something like it was like, Hey, you stop and then it was like
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sends me out. So it was like censoring then
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saying stop. So it's kind of I think it's
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just maybe like again round about how it works in the
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dialect where it was made. I think the spirit of the.
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Way. There's a lot of like or claw in
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it which a Western audience wouldn't be able to recognise
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from looking at it or naming it, so they have to do workarounds a
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lot with that. I know I'm seeing a lot of
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excuses, but that could be an answer for some of it.
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Yeah, I do think that is part of the some of the localisation
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inspirational way you get a lot of this like the Shinto belief,
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like everything has a spirit and in this you see a little bit of
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that in terms of how particularly how the forest
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creatures are there. I'll.
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Just say if I can spin my head round.
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Yeah, yeah. And the idea of having like all
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these different gods who are of the forest and of nature.
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I love that aspect again, if you can build on that legend.
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The only thing again, this is not me saying the disservice.
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This felt like a Part 1 when this ended and stuff there
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wasn't like a a true like ending time.
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He said like and I like that there wasn't any like didn't,
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wasn't too worried about a. Nice neat role.
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No, yeah. It was like, it's like life.
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Nothing ever goes the way and ends the way a certain way.
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So it's kind of like quite refreshing they got that way to
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get all we're not kind of finalizing anything.
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But can I just say as well, I don't know what I can't remember
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it's name now, but if any, like if, if they killed the the deer,
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I might she would have went through the window.
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I you mean you? Mean the deer that he rides on?
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Or do you mean the forest God? The deer?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I couldn't.
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Give you the animal companion. That's yeah.
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He was he was beautiful and he's little like his little
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friendship as well. And like how he was like, oh,
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you stared. He's like, no, no, didn't have
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to speak, but you could tell and his own little personality as
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well. And when he got shot in the leg,
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I was like heartbroken. I was like, don't you dare
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because this, as you said, this is brutal.
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You thought things were going to happen and bad things were going
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to happen in this as well, especially when we get to the
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end bits and stuff. But I was just like, don't you
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dare even think about hurting this little beautiful beast
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here. And I think this one of the
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reasons I remember watching this for the first time and the first
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Studio Ghibli film I did I watched was Spirited Away and I
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watched it with my family and I thought, oh, this is a lovely
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studio that do nice sweet fairy tales and called.
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Fireflies are next. And called Johnny Oaklaw.
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And then this was the next one I watched and I was like, Oh no,
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these are very different films. But, and the opening scene for
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this is the like one of the boar gods from the forest who has
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been killed by like an iron shot and a curse.
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A a curse of hatred has fallen upon him and he is become this
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like monstrous thing who's like just carving his way through the
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forest. And they're having to like like
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immediately it starts with fighting and blood and a guy
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getting like a horrible like wound.
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The Prince gets a horrible wound on his arm that he then has to
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like. He's exiled from his tribe as a
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result. The exiled was like, oh, it's
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like you've saved us, thank you, you've been cursed, now fuck
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off. Yeah, you have.
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You kind of, you feel that kind of sense of loss for him as well
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because it's like he's been exiled from a tribe who
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themselves are exiles. Like how low does one guy have
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to go before he can kind of sort like basically save the world?
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Like, it's really tough, but yeah, really.
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Excited. I love it.
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Yeah, I got really excited with the start how they built up like
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the whole demon. I was like, oh, there's going to
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be loads of demons and stuff like that.
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And not saying it was let down, but there wasn't like more
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demons or like, I know we got to say gods, but they weren't doing
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like God forms, like almost like just giant beasts of him till we
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got like the the the forest spirit, which we got a multitude
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of different viewpoints or different like characters,
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almost like different, different things for the spirit gods,
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which again, was done really well.
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But that was where you thought it looked strange, especially
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when it looked in his face and it was like that.
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But anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Kind of human, but kind of like very uncanny valley kind of.
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Yeah, but I wanted more of the demon side I was getting.
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This is really interesting, quite I.
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Thought there wasn't any demons because I thought that none of
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the people in this, no matter through the actions or portrayed
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as necessarily absolute evil, absolute good.
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So to have demons in it would be evil.
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So I mean, you could make the point that the the Iron City
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people were evil or the sight of the forest people were at the
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forest, animals were evil because they they're taking
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lives away, they're killing the humans, all that kind of stuff.
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But I think the only the bad thing, what a scary demon thing
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was, was them fucking baboons. Yeah, but even then, they're not
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evil because they're in the dark.
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They are dark. And that's one of the so one of
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the next questions was going to be what, what character would
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you least want to encounter in a dark forest at night?
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But before I ask, that is for me it's 100% those apes.
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But even then they are like trying to recount the forest and
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man keep ripping up the trees and they're trying to maintain
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their home. And what they want isn't to to
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destroy man, it's to save their home.
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But that in order to do that, they want to eat the eat the
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Prince to gain his strength. Dark, dark and creepy.
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And I think this film is interesting because it gives you
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action very quickly. But you're right, Paul, then you
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don't get action for a while. What you get is like him
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journeying and trying to understand what's happening.
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So then the next time you get action is when you see the
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wolves coming to attack Iron Town, and you of course have the
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introduction of Princess Mononoke herself, who is this
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figure who the people believe that she has had her spirit
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stolen by the wolves. The wolves have actually kind of
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raised her and she sees them as her family.
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And she's this kind of bridge between humanity and the natural
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world. And it's.
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Yeah. And so then you see, and her,
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like the scenes, like her first scene, she's like, covered in
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blood, freaking out people's throats.
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Like it's. Just something on the it's just
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something on the the wolf's wound as well.
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That's the thing when he acted the girl.
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Trying to get the trying to get the poison out like it is, like
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even the moments of like hair and healing are a little bit
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violent. It's like nature red and tooth
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and claw. If I'm allowed to like, quote
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some I can't remember, it's Byron or George Bernard Shaw who
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said that, but one of the poets. Oh yeah, there you.
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Bring a bit of class to the podcast there Phoebes, Well
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done. We live and try, but yeah.
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So, yeah, what would? But what about you put like,
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what Paul? What what spirit would you least
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want to encounter in a dark forest or what character?
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It might not be one of the spirits.
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You might not want to meet one of the people.
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And the thing that spooked us, like Chris said, as Chris said
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that the apes were horrifying, especially when you're first
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encountering with the red eyes and the dark, but then later on
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when you see them in the forest, it kind of softens them a little
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bit as well. So it's kind of like you're
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like, oh, well, the thing that freaked me out is what is the
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hunters dressed as the dead bars, like the dead eyes and
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like flying like like almost like they were flying about just
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to get the heat. But but yeah, because that was
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the one thing again. So to jump on this just because
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with you saying it, one thing I mentioned the start was I've I
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really thought this was going to film about demons, but it
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wasn't. It was more about like almost
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like the demon wasn't like a, like a demon demon from hell.
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It was like an infection that was brought on by hate.
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And the more that the hate spread, the infection kind of
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took hold. And I thought it was quite
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interesting when like you saw his arm not going to try and
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pronounce his name and Prince Prince it start taking shape and
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groan and like every time he was getting a little bit angry or
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hateful, like it would come alive.
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And that was quite nerve wracking because it wasn't just
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like seeing the spread of the the colour like a bruise, it was
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the fact that it was almost like his whole arm became like
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elastic and elastic manner as well.
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So that was interesting. It become it's like a distort
23:39
and I think this is because it is about I think ultimately
23:44
there like there isn't a bad guy, but the like the force to
23:48
be fought against is like hatred and imbalance in particular.
23:53
So this idea of like going too far into one one thing because
23:58
they it because they also like explore like this relationship
24:02
with that the wolves have to being hunters and protectors and
24:07
are needing to hunt and needing violence in order to survive.
24:11
And they explore like that. And there is a marked
24:14
distinction between hunting versus like a vendetta.
24:21
And I think the the Iron Town have a vendetta against the
24:24
wolves. The Wolves have a vendetta
24:26
against. I think it's lack of
24:28
communication at the sit at the end well.
24:31
And I think it's the eighth thing I think is interesting
24:33
because you get like they're they're this really sinister
24:36
presence to begin with. But then as you come to
24:38
understand what's motivating them and as you come to
24:41
understand the forest, you see them in their kind of true self.
24:45
And the whole, the whole thing that the whole like point of the
24:49
Prince, as he says most like a lot of the time that he's just
24:52
coming to try and see with eyes that are like unclouded by hate.
24:56
So he's just trying to see things as they are.
24:58
He's not trying to like, he's just trying to understand stuff.
25:01
That's his mission. It isn't to like try and sway
25:04
people one way or the other. He just wants people to
25:06
understand each other. And I think that isn't something
25:09
that you don't see in a lot of films and you should have in
25:11
more films. I think it's a really beautiful
25:14
truth. I am.
25:16
No, no. You've said it perfectly that
25:18
it's interesting though. There's two movies I've watched
25:20
this week and two movies that's had a profound effect on us.
25:23
Like, I know it sounds cheesy. I went to see Superman at the
25:27
weekend and it brought me to tears.
25:30
But the whole story with that movie is all about kindness,
25:34
human acceptance and moves on. And again, almost this movie as
25:38
well, it has the same beats. It's about hope, acceptance,
25:42
kindness, like people being like Princess Manonoco being a human
25:49
in the forest brought up by wolves.
25:52
It's almost Apparel's like Clark Kent is an alien being brought
25:56
up by humans and he's ostracized by a lot of the human world
26:01
because they still see him as an alien.
26:03
And it's like the same type of thing.
26:06
So 1997 has still got the same type of like vibe and stuff that
26:12
movies in 2025 is still capturing as well.
26:14
So just it just it was again, totally by chance and totally by
26:20
accident that like I say, that did happen.
26:22
But I kind of got similar vibes from both films.
26:25
Totally different premises, totally different storylines,
26:28
totally different ways of doing it.
26:30
But kindness is is the main thing that kind of shone through
26:33
on both these movies. And I do think it's, it is.
26:37
I think it's very true. I was watching something about
26:42
how how do you talk to people who like so say if like so is it
26:49
was about it was about actually about how do you talk to people
26:52
about trans issues if they're coming to the conversation
26:57
already decided that they're going to hate you.
26:59
And one of the advocates were saying, The thing is, most
27:02
people who have decided that they don't like trans people
27:05
have never actually met someone who's trans.
27:07
So the best thing you can do is just to show up and be
27:09
understanding and try and be understood.
27:12
And I think there is that thing in this film of it's very
27:15
difficult to hate the things that you understand.
27:18
And that's one of the reasons why none of the characters are
27:20
villains, as you were saying, Chris, because it's like it
27:25
gives you time to understand what's behind characters, what
27:29
motivation. And and that leaves the audience
27:32
in a kind of like like ambiguous quandary where you just want
27:36
everyone to get along like you need, you want you want them to
27:40
find a way through it. And you don't actually want one
27:44
side to lose or one side to win. You want them to all figure it
27:47
out. And I think that's kind of
27:48
magical. It's also like just we talked
27:51
about actors and I've just got it up because I wanted to check
27:53
what the prince's name was. But Mini Driver Lady Uboshi,
27:58
Claire Danes as Sam as as Princess Mononoke.
28:04
Billy Colton as Yeah. Billy Colton as the Prince as
28:08
well, wasn't he? Yeah.
28:09
Yeah, yeah, it's truly a gorgeous cast.
28:14
You will enjoy like you will enjoy it in the dub I think if
28:16
you if you're not a sub watcher. I'll watch, I'll watch the sub
28:21
this time. I've never seen a dub.
28:23
That's why I was shocked by Gillian Anderson.
28:25
It makes sense. So because son was calling the
28:29
the wolf mother, but he's voiced by by a bloke in the Japanese
28:34
dub. So I was like.
28:36
That's weird, yeah. I mean.
28:39
Yeah, yeah. One of the things.
28:41
I wanted you to speak during the night so I could bite your head
28:44
off. Mother has it has a different
28:48
tone. Yeah.
28:50
What did you take? Because.
28:51
Because I'm conscious that we've taken Chris recently on a
28:54
journey back into vintage anime, having watched some like really
28:59
slick new anime. How do you feel like it's held
29:01
up? Because Paul was saying like
29:03
thematically, you're right, it is very, it feels very 2025 in
29:06
the conversation that it's having in that it kind of
29:09
matches the Superman energy animation wise.
29:12
What did you think? Obviously amazing.
29:16
I know they're getting the it's getting a 4K release in the
29:20
pictures in August the 15th in the UK.
29:24
I would. Like to see you put that in the
29:26
discord and I got very excited. I know I was like, where's the
29:29
nearest 4K? London, OK.
29:33
No, that was the IMAX I think, but it's still being 4 Ki think
29:36
there is 4K cinemas around. It's just the IMAX is the bigger
29:40
screen. But the ones, because the ones
29:43
that claim to be IMAX are just like half IMAX is like the
29:45
Gateshead ones, like half the size is what it's meant to be.
29:49
Right. Either way, I still I've never
29:52
seen anime in the big screen and I would love to go and see see
29:56
something like this. Yeah, I think it's held up
30:00
amazingly because it's it's Ghibli or Ghibli style, isn't
30:04
it? Which is kind of like, I don't
30:08
think it's outdated. No, no, I agree totally.
30:14
It's very much of late 80s nineties animation style that
30:19
was big and a lot of cartoons and like try to replicate like I
30:24
think there was like, oh, I forgot what was now like the
30:29
Golden City or something like that used to be on years ago.
30:32
And the one where these cars that turn into like like plants
30:37
and stuff that used to be always chasing after the father and
30:40
stuff. I'm talking swing wheels.
30:42
Rug trip? What is this?
30:44
Film. I'll share the I'll share the
30:46
videos that it is. So yeah, I've not heard of this
30:49
before. Fever dream.
30:52
It definitely was used to be on Channel 4 before I went to
30:54
school, but the art style, but I think what gets more beautiful,
30:59
it's not what's in close up, It's the stuff that's in the
31:03
background that gets you like things that's around and kind of
31:07
things like everything is so polished.
31:09
Like people can say, oh, the like the drawings of the people
31:12
like not to do it down, but the face of the facial expressions
31:15
and stuff is isn't like like that detailed, but everything
31:20
around it is like even like the I'm going to try and pronounce
31:24
the Kodama and these are all Sprite things like the guides.
31:30
They look initially like all they've just been drawn crudely,
31:34
but to see them around and Chris had the perfect explanation of
31:39
one last night when he described described as Finley leaving the
31:43
bath and running up the run away.
31:45
It's it is like a like a innocent child.
31:47
You have, like, mischievous children energy.
31:49
Yeah. Yeah, And it's something just
31:51
really adorable and like, there's that much care and
31:54
moving in. And even when, like, like, the
31:57
forest spirit loses his head and goes nuclear, like, even that is
32:01
terrifying, but beautifully done.
32:03
How it's all engulfing in hall enveloping and it's not just the
32:08
like the little thing, it's not like the big things that you can
32:10
say, it's the little things. How the tones and things are
32:14
starting to wilt and change and it's just the date, like the cat
32:18
and detail is just amazing. Yeah, and I agree entirely.
32:22
The backgrounds are, I think the backgrounds in Studio Ghibli are
32:26
a signature and they do they, they make everything feel like,
32:31
and I when I say fairy tale, I don't mean like a kind of hangs
32:34
Christian Anderson kind of fairy tale.
32:36
I mean like fairy tales before the Christians got here, like
32:40
the dark ones where you get fairies, like kidnapping babies,
32:43
like those kind of like really grippy ones.
32:46
And the and the level of detail that you get in in a Studio
32:49
Ghibli background, it's always going to be stunning.
32:52
I think I've read before. As well.
32:54
Yeah, I think I've read before like this was one of the
32:57
biggest, like most expensive movie that the studio would ever
33:00
made. And, and I'm not going to even
33:04
try and pronounce his name. Sorry.
33:05
The guy who does it all was just laughing, saying I don't, Yeah,
33:08
I don't care if if the studio goes out of business, this is
33:11
where I want to make it. That's that one single mind is
33:17
this to go fuck everyone else, fuck the establishment.
33:19
This is my vision. And I this is this is the film
33:23
that really kind of establishes Miyazaki as a powerhouse in the
33:27
industry. It's also a film in where he
33:31
took a lot of stands about how it was not only going to be
33:34
made, but how it was going to be shared globally.
33:38
Because that was something that you were saying, Chris, wasn't
33:40
it about the, I can't remember now what was it the when it was
33:45
going to go to America and they wanted to cut out bits of it?
33:49
Oh yeah, he said. It was, it was Weinstein.
33:52
Weinstein, Yeah. And wanted to cut loads.
33:55
Another reason to hate the guy is if you didn't have enough.
33:57
Already he thought for a resting audience it was too slow pace
34:01
where there's too many like establishing shots and all that.
34:04
So he wanted them all cut down and he didn't want a 2 hour
34:07
length And I think he's like he sent him a samurai sword with no
34:13
cuts etched into it Kept. It on which is such AI think
34:19
such a ball away to be like if someone sends me a samurai sword
34:22
with a message on it, I'm paying attention to the message.
34:25
It's such a ball away to be like, no, no, you're wrong.
34:31
And I think it would have like completely.
34:33
It could would have completely changed the the whole pace of
34:37
it, the whole that whole spirit of like coming to understand the
34:43
environment, the I mean. We've seen loads of there's
34:48
loads of stories of anime in the the 90s, eighties and even 2000s
34:53
babies where they've come over to a Western audience and
34:56
they've butchered it up. They've mistranslated, they're
34:59
on purpose because they thought it would fit better with the
35:02
audience and it turns out shit. There's always famous when the
35:10
actual original comes here. I think the the most famous 1 is
35:16
like one piece with the the live action.
35:19
I would have crammed like if you watch the anime, the anime
35:22
version like literally like the phases or the fights and stuff
35:27
go on for like episodes and episodes and episodes and stuff
35:30
where the with it being changed now to the live action in one
35:35
season, the got through probably is about 600 episodes of they.
35:39
Got through three full arcs because the Fishman story arc
35:44
ends the first season and I think it's the third.
35:49
This is where Jake's going to be in the live chat or something
35:51
and he's going to be like, well, actually it's episode 62.
35:58
Because I'm not a huge one. I'm not like anywhere close to
36:01
being as big a One Piece fan as Jake is.
36:03
And I'll happily give him the crown on that one.
36:07
But yeah, but you're right, there is a kind of like a
36:09
paciness. And I think, yeah, I wonder if
36:13
this anime would would be made now because I think we do do
36:16
faster storytelling than we did in the 90s.
36:20
But I also like to think that there is still space for this.
36:23
And even though it feels, even though there are bits where it
36:26
is very where it does take its time and it does have those long
36:30
establishing shots because they're so beautiful.
36:33
Like this film, you can freeze at any moment and it's just
36:38
beautiful. And you can watch it like it.
36:39
Actually, you don't. I didn't get bored.
36:42
And my attention span is out of a goldfish.
36:44
It didn't feel like a 2 hour movie.
36:46
That's probably the best way I can describe it.
36:48
You can sit there and just like let it involve Pew into the
36:52
whole aesthetics and like the atmosphere and you kind of get
36:56
taken with the story. Well than you trying to force
36:59
yourself to understand and there is certain aspects where you do
37:02
feel like, oh, I've lost a little bit here, but you don't
37:05
care. It's you're in that type of
37:06
environment. And then when you get like such
37:11
enriched characters as well, when you get Iron Town, like the
37:14
people in Iron Town, it's loads of different people, but each
37:17
one of them has got their own little personality.
37:18
And then women that's been rescued from all the whole
37:22
houses is just honestly some of the funnest, playfulest
37:27
entertainment that you've seen as well.
37:29
Like how normally you get all the lectures men, but it's the
37:32
lectures women because they've got a new guy and he's like
37:34
young, fit and they're like, oh, come here, I'll look after you,
37:38
little boy. Paul's personal fantasy A load
37:43
of a load of older women offering to look after him.
37:49
I thought that's what Neriot and authors build on.
37:53
Now it is and those character and so the female characters in
37:56
this are absolutely amazing, especially for the 90s.
38:01
Like they've like to think about like, like you're going up
38:05
against schoolgirls and very two-dimensional cat like anime
38:09
characters, characters like you see in JoJo where you have like
38:12
the women are just just so weak. Like and even like Dragon Ball,
38:19
Dragon Ball Z, like you've got one really one main female
38:23
character. You don't get huge casts of
38:25
women. And in this film, you've got the
38:28
amazing Princess Mononoke. You've got Morrow the wolf in
38:30
the English version, if not, if not the Japanese version, you
38:34
have Lady Iboshi and her and her women and like them like
38:39
changing all the rifles and stuff so that the women can hunt
38:44
as well. There's like a kind of this like
38:47
self-sufficient spirit to it as well.
38:50
I love how. The lepers as well.
38:52
That was an interesting. I don't think think that was
38:55
going to pop out. But that's where, as Chris
38:57
pointed out before, but there's no one that you think are these
39:00
are evil. But then it's like, oh, shoot
39:03
the the the commander, the lady lady.
39:10
She's kind of like running the place and you think, oh, she
39:13
must be a bitch or she must be callous, but she's not.
39:16
She's just a woman of industry and trying to like progress.
39:19
But then she's got a heart of gold because she treats the
39:21
women in such high esteem. She treats like the letters like
39:25
say, like family and looking after them, making sure they're
39:28
all cared for. So it's, it's, as I said, it's
39:32
just two different sides of the world coming together and not
39:37
knowing how to deal with each other in a certain way and not
39:39
how to coexist in a way. Yeah, for sure.
39:43
What do you think, Chris, with the like the whole lion town
39:47
thing? I don't know, because I think no
39:53
one's got A1 dimensional alliance to good or evil and I
39:59
think Iron Tone is what people, modern people would want to live
40:06
in. I think it's a progressive
40:07
society. Like Lady Aboshi is not the I
40:13
think she leads the village, which is not the an
40:16
authoritative. Like she's not like the be all
40:19
end all dictator. Like she's said a couple of
40:21
things and she's been questioned by what's the last called talkie
40:27
and she's the pregnant one where she'll offer her opinion and the
40:32
list 1 stuff like that. The care for the sick, they make
40:35
adaptations for the disabled and people who aren't as strong say
40:43
like the women couldn't carry the guns.
40:47
Sorry. They don't give a fuck who the
40:49
emperor is. That's one of my favorite bits,
40:51
where they're like, do you know who the Emperor is?
40:53
And I think it's Toshi who's one of the women's.
40:56
Like who is he? Like, like what's his deal?
41:03
Yeah. Yeah.
41:05
So yeah, I think it's kind of like what people think a society
41:13
should be. But then you see the evil side
41:16
from the the other perspective where to say they were trying to
41:20
they took out all of the land under the forest and they were
41:25
trying to get into the mountains.
41:27
They've killed countless amount of balls.
41:29
Obviously the the ball God isn't happy with that and that's why
41:35
they're at odds with each other. Yeah.
41:41
It's interesting as well because even though this looks as, as I
41:46
said at the start, this looks like a a nice fairy tale and
41:49
beautifully cast and stuff. The tones and it's so dark.
41:53
Like when the spirit God, the spirit, the forest spirit comes
41:58
into and you think, oh, he's just going to heal everything
42:00
and make everything right. It's it's, it's all about like
42:03
light and dark life and death and stuff.
42:05
So it's kind of like we had to give life at the same time
42:09
because when the Princess is mortally wounded, protecting
42:13
Princess Monaoki, if you can see this forest God taking away life
42:20
from the the things in the forest to give him life.
42:24
And then when the two massive beasts, the the wolf, the wolf
42:31
God and the ball God, because the ball God starts getting
42:34
possessed in almost that involves Princess Manoki into
42:39
the the demon of hate, which was just absolutely amazingly
42:43
shocked because he thought the Prince was going to save and he
42:46
even he can't save her. So the wolf comes to the wolf
42:49
God saves a deer. And then instead of a kind of
42:52
fixing it and saying, oh, like as like as what Disney would
42:55
have done, just put it like a glass a sheet over and went the
42:58
back to life. Everything's all rosy and
43:00
everything's life. It's like, no, rather than
43:03
letting these people suffer, I'll give them a nice easy death
43:06
and let them like go on with the forest.
43:08
I thought that was a spectacularly done.
43:11
Yeah, yeah. Death is death is part of this
43:13
story, and it's unflinchingly part of this story.
43:18
It's it's you're right, They don't do a Disney thing.
43:20
I do think that there is something about the technology.
43:23
So Chris, you sent through a thing saying it's what, the
43:26
first Studio Ghibli film to use CGI And I do think it's kind of
43:32
steps up the game for anime in general because we've so I don't
43:37
know if you've seen our other episodes, Paul.
43:40
So we did a film called Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika, which
43:44
are were by an animator called Satoshi Khan.
43:48
And in that they have very, very expressive faces.
43:51
So you said like the figures in this are very simple, but the
43:53
background's very lush. And in Tokyo Godfathers they
43:56
kind of put detail into both. But it's interesting because you
44:01
a lot of people who worked on Tokyo Godfathers, our Studio
44:04
Ghibli kind of alumni and like experienced Studio Ghibli
44:09
animators before they went to work with Satoshi Khan.
44:12
And I think you can see in this film how those animators have
44:17
learnt a new way of kind of doing a new way of storytelling
44:23
that they're able to translate into other films.
44:26
And how it kind of like ripples out like it does feel without
44:30
wanting to like bigger because I, you know, all cinema
44:34
contributes to itself and without wanting to get too wanky
44:37
and meta, this film, you know what I mean?
44:39
Like like like you know there are other films that influenced
44:43
anime as well. No, no.
44:46
It's an important 1 I think. Yeah, it's interesting you say
44:49
that because I did do a little bit of research on this as well,
44:52
because I'm trying to be all clever and shit. 10 minutes of
44:57
this movie was CGI. 10 minutes, that was the whole.
45:01
Then a lot of the stuff like was hand drawn, but then they
45:04
started using digital colouring towards this one and this was
45:09
the first movie, the thing. Then I think after this movie,
45:13
that's when they start doing all the films in digital, not all
45:18
drawn, but digital colouring they use.
45:20
I think the term is because the hand drawn stuff was outdated,
45:25
expensive and just took too long.
45:27
So it was. Like the amount of man hours it
45:30
takes. So this one, this movie is kind
45:34
of like Revolution, but almost like it was like a little tester
45:38
for him to say, right, we'll test the water with this aspect,
45:41
see if it still embodies and gets my story across or doesn't
45:45
change the aspects that I want in this movie.
45:48
And then. But yeah, I thought that was
45:50
quite interesting as well because you can see that with
45:54
like most movies or like animation around this time as
45:58
well. If you think about like early
46:00
80s, like Disney kind of Rd. But then you had like things
46:03
like American Tail, Anastasia, All Dogs Go to Heaven, those
46:10
type of movies kind of getting made and changing how and you
46:14
can then you see with CGI coming into it.
46:18
Like then you get the 3D like Toy Story changing the game.
46:21
So evolution of animation from all different walks of life over
46:26
and around the world, kind of taking inspiration or learning
46:30
from each other as well. And that's like a kid.
46:32
I love that type of shit. Yeah, me too.
46:38
And Chris's brush. Are you the brushing crumbs or
46:40
being like yeah, OK, fine. So here's here's my question.
46:47
Like thank you very much for sharing your thoughts.
46:50
Is there do you has this one made you want to watch other
46:54
Studio Ghibli films or other anime?
46:56
Like has it kind of wanted to encourage you to to branch out
47:00
more? Do you?
47:01
Think I've always it's, it's one of the things with the stuff we
47:05
do and the amount of time I've got, it's, it's not saying I
47:10
don't want to spend my time in this world.
47:12
I do want to do it. I probably won't go up your way
47:16
to watch it, not because I'm not interested, it's just because I
47:19
haven't got the time to do it, to be honest with you.
47:22
But I will be more open to doing projects like coming on things
47:27
like Anime Club or even like doing a crossover with having
47:30
the Sunday episode where we can focus on doing like a whole wide
47:35
variety and stuff. Just basically stealing your
47:37
Thunder a little bit as well. But again, it's just trying to
47:41
fit that in and put the elements in.
47:43
Again, not all anime doesn't work.
47:45
I've tried watching some anime and I've turned it off hot like
47:47
within like not too long or couldn't even get through the
47:51
first episode. I'm sorry, Dragon Ball Z isn't
47:54
for me. This is the thing with anime.
47:59
It's like people think anime is all like one genre.
48:02
It isn't. It's like it's just it's a
48:04
medium rather than. So like Christmas time,
48:08
Christmas trying to tell us on this thing called hentai.
48:10
I don't know what it is but he's keep that I need to try it out
48:13
but. I'll send you some videos later.
48:16
And, and this obsession with tentacles, I don't know what he
48:19
keeps telling us, like, oh, this tentacle was really good or the
48:22
really long and I don't know. Yeah.
48:25
I don't want to know what you message each other about when
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I've gone to bed. That's just yeah, you're a siga
48:31
dodgy. Yeah, and again, there's a lot
48:37
of questionable stuff which, which with any type of format or
48:40
any type of movie or any type of realms, like you could go into
48:45
any type of like like genre and you can find stuff that you
48:49
might make you generally feel a bit ick.
48:51
But I think a lot of people do give anime that kind of broad
48:56
sword thing or it's all the same thing.
48:58
Again, it's like you have anime horror, you can have anime
49:03
action, you can have anime comedy.
49:05
There is a wide variety. And again, from what I've seen,
49:09
the Studio Ghibli stuff is top tier and it's more focused on
49:14
storylines and like interesting characters and doesn't go with
49:18
like the normal beat. Like by the end of this movie we
49:22
are I was like I was saying Nokia STEM 2 is going to go back
49:26
back off into the world of human and like everything is going to
49:29
go all rosy. No, no, that's not that's
49:32
probably Princess Monogy is probably more has more distrust
49:38
and dislike humans more due to what actions there.
49:42
The humans probably have a bit more understanding towards what
49:45
the forest brings. The Prince is a little bit more
49:49
world wiser, but I do think he gets love sick too easy.
49:53
It's like calm down son. Stop.
49:57
Stop giving away your presents and stuff.
50:00
I think there's only one lass in his village and he said she gave
50:03
him a little sparkly dagger and then he left and he's only seen
50:07
his family members besides that and he goes through yet the
50:11
first lassie sees is riding a wolf and he's like, right,
50:14
that's a going to take care rest of me like.
50:18
It's a pretty bold introduction. Yeah.
50:23
Yeah. What about you, Chris?
50:24
Are you going to, are you still? Has this made you watch other
50:28
Studio Ghibli that you haven't seen?
50:30
And yeah, because I want to, because I watched, I was Moving
50:38
Castle with Finney. It's his first time watching it
50:41
the other day. And he, Oh my God, he loved it.
50:44
I mean, I might I might give this a couple more years with
50:48
all the He would actually love all the heads popping off in
50:52
this. To be fair, you'd think it was
50:54
hilarious, but he'd be trying to do it to us all the time, so.
50:59
Dad, Daddy, why is your head not bouncing off the wall?
51:03
Yeah, why? I love House Moving Castle.
51:05
That's probably one of my favorites.
51:07
It's so. Gorgeous.
51:09
He's like, normally he's like. I love that he loved that.
51:12
Really bad attention span but he sat down and he watched it all
51:16
so I think now is the time to start introducing them and I
51:19
like watching them as well. So, you know, have you seen what
51:23
have you seen what Lego is bringing out not just the one
51:27
piece, the bring out a Ghibli line that Toro is getting his
51:31
own Lego. Oh no.
51:35
Definitely can't afford that, is it?
51:36
How I get into Lego and end up losing my flat?
51:42
It's OK, We'll we'll we'll. How's your up north faves?
51:45
It's fine. Yeah, we've got a shed.
51:51
But yeah, I'm definitely going to try to branch out and watch
51:54
more, more Jubilee in between them, other things, because it's
51:58
a nice like Sunday, sit down with Finney and watch him.
52:03
And I know we can kinda if there's any dog or themes, I
52:06
think at his age, they'll go over his head.
52:09
He's not going to be like, dad, why do we make eye and then, I
52:14
don't know, encroach on nature so much in this world and I'll
52:17
be like, I don't know if any go back to eat and you see.
52:23
Dad, what about like, why is capitalism so bad and why are
52:26
the parents turning into pigs because of their own greed?
52:31
See you, smarty son. I would be like, I want to sit,
52:35
I want to sit spite. Yeah, I'll get.
52:39
Oh I would love a little cute sprayed pushy and the little
52:43
wooden. Kadama.
52:47
Yeah, I would love one of them. I am desperate for a Kadama
52:51
plush, but I'm also worried that Eddie would try and hump it, so
52:55
that would be really sad. Yeah.
52:59
Well, last thoughts guys. Any any kind of anything that
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you. Because.
53:03
Since you both did research, well done gold stars you guys
53:06
winning anime club this week. Is there anything that you
53:10
wanted to say that you haven't had a chance before we move into
53:13
the promos for what else is out this week?
53:18
Yeah, the Aquadamus reminders of Chris.
53:20
Yeah, that makes sense in both looks and in personality.
53:26
I have often referred to Chris as like one of those old
53:29
fashioned Pixies, like the North, like the ones who will
53:31
lead you astray. There's one point that I wanted
53:37
to ask you, right? So do you know if the forest
53:39
cord is either the big night man or is there?
53:44
Nightmare. Or the dear man thing.
53:49
Why do you think he can't talk? I think that he doesn't need to.
53:55
I think he can talk. He just didn't have anything to
53:57
say in that moment. I think that's worded it
54:02
perfectly by Phoebes. I can't add anything better than
54:04
what she's just said other than defender of the day.
54:13
Champion of the sun. I genuinely I think there is
54:18
something about so you have like the there feels to me like it's
54:25
like a higher, like a like a greater God, lesser God
54:28
situation. And often you see in Japanese
54:35
folklore, you have these, like you have the kind of gods who
54:38
interact with humans and are kind of on a similar wavelength
54:42
to them and often team up. And that's the wolves, that's
54:45
the boars, that's the apes. And then you have these ancient
54:49
divinities who are operating on just a different level.
54:55
I know I've been called many of things, but that's, that's
54:57
probably the nicest thing you've said about us, Phoebe, So that's
54:59
nice. And I think the forest God slash
55:03
Night Walker is a creature that is so old and so wise that what
55:08
could it possibly have to say to any anyone that it cannot
55:12
translate with a simple look in its creepy human face?
55:16
Can you stop the green iron from your mountain?
55:19
Maybe some, yeah. I wouldn't, but I but I also
55:22
think it's like it's above that. It's about it's above the fact
55:26
the forest is dying like this is a this is a God that is is just.
55:31
It's not concerned with that. It's.
55:35
I agree with that point, I do think it was on a higher you
55:40
couldn't comprehend me what I was thinking even if I explained
55:43
it to you in your language kind of thing.
55:45
Also if you did talk it would get rid of a lot of the plot
55:49
points and make them less mysterious.
55:51
Or him or her then. Also, but if you were going to
55:54
have it talk who what actor are you casting as?
55:57
That as that guy, do you know the courage from Aladdin?
56:05
Iago. Iago, who's his voice again?
56:10
Zoran Atkinson, wasn't it? I don't.
56:14
Remember, I don't know, I can remember that.
56:16
What's his face? Mr. Gilbert Gilbert.
56:18
Gilbert Godfrey. Gilbert Godfrey, that's who you
56:21
like. That would be.
56:23
So. Strange, it reminds me of in
56:27
Dogma. You know where Alanis Morissette
56:30
is God in Dogma, and she and God can't talk because if God talks,
56:34
your head explodes. I think it's that kind of vibe.
56:37
I think I'd have Alanis Morissette where she's just
56:39
like. I think I would achievement it
56:43
as well in a lot of places and a lot of things if you did have
56:47
have him have a voice. But yeah.
56:50
All problem solved and the film ends in 5 minutes.
56:54
Definitely. Yeah, yeah.
56:56
No, I enjoyed that. Yeah, that is great.
57:00
Thank you so much for coming on, Paul.
57:01
I am so glad that you enjoyed this experience because I was
57:05
hoping that you would have fun and that you'd actually enjoy
57:08
the film and it wouldn't be like a massive chore that we got you
57:11
to do. And this week, if you enjoyed
57:15
listening to Anime Club as much as Paul enjoyed being on Anime
57:18
Club, which I think is a lot. Right, Paul OK, not answering.
57:24
Moving on. You enjoyed anime club.
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57:32
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57:34
So coming up on Monday we have The Town that Dreaded Sundown on
57:39
Monsters, which sounds like a like a a horror film romp of a
57:44
dark time. I think it's I think it's a busy
57:47
RIP off of like or not a RIP off like an early version of like
57:51
Friday the 13th mixed with Halloween typing.
57:55
Also, it's like someone who's night blind.
57:57
That sounds like my actual living waking nightmare.
58:01
I too dread sundown because I get lots of bruises from bumping
58:04
into things. And then on top gramps we have
58:08
Chris. What are we doing on top Gramps
58:10
next week? Oh great, we've got Napoleon
58:13
Dynamite. Oh, Pedro.
58:17
Pedro. Pedro, Pedro.
58:20
And we should be recording scenes of it, our own
58:25
interpretations. Hopefully I'll be able to throw
58:32
a massive stake off someone. There are so many great scenes
58:35
in that film. The bit where they're doing the
58:37
interpretive sign language dance at the beginning has ruined all
58:42
sign language for me because that is always the thing that
58:46
comes into my head when I, yeah, whenever I see, see a
58:49
translation. And then of course, on Sunday
58:52
Pub, we have a whole episode on Tarantino.
58:57
And if you haven't already seen, I think it was Wednesday,
59:01
yesterday or Tuesday. Well, there.
59:04
Was a very, very special episode for the Superman review.
59:08
So if you like the themes of Princess Mononoke and that's and
59:12
Paul's brief description here whet is your appetite, go check
59:15
out that video as well. It'll be all all in the YouTube
59:19
channel. Just hit videos.
59:20
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59:22
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59:25
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59:29
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59:32
Thanks all very much. We love you very much.
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Love you all. Bye bye.
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Everyone, bye bye.