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Miyazaki's "Nausicaa" Dub Updates
srstoneb writes "Earlier this week the Disney dub of Miyazaki's "Porco Rosso" premiered at the Austin Film Festival. It will probably be the only theatrical showing of "Porco", sadly, but reviews of the dub have been quite favorable. Even more exciting, as reported at Nausicaa.net and elsewhere, is that the Hewitts -- who did the English scripts for "Spirited Away" and "Porco" -- said they're currently working on "Nausicaa"! The cast includes Patrick Stewart, as well as Uma Thurman and, tentatively, Natalie Portman. A post to the Nausicaa.net mailing list by fan Dan Vogler further states that Stewart's role is Lord Yupa. (Somebody already made the inevitable joke about Picard being stabbed by a Nausicaan, so don't bother.) Both movies are tentatively intended for DVD release in spring 2004." Porco Rosso is a great flick, check it out if you aren't to dead inside to enjoy a kids flick. Greatly looking forward to both DVDs.
And I love Natalie Portman.
Yes. Without a doubt supporting pirates is far better than supporting Disney.
Disney is guilty of undermining the constitution by extending copyright past any reasonable level. The founders were far more interested in works of intellectual property penetrating the society than they were in protecting the profit margin of the author. The original was only 7 years, later extended to 14 then doubled to support the widows of authors. But Disney is not an individual and therefor should not be protected in the same way as a human being. Corporations should in fact get less protection because they have the benefit of limited liability.
This country was founded to fight the concept of oligarchy, Disney is in effect creating oligarchs of intellectual property through their abuse of the legislative branch of government. If you can buy a senator you can piss on anybody you want.
Just like the Boston tea Party we are obliged to actively resist policy that undermines our individual rights and freedoms. Disney is attacking our freedoms in an attempt to keep their profit base beyond any reasonable time frame. If Walt was still alive and near starvation I would have no problem giving him a few year extension so he could buy some viagra, but Walt's dead and his dependants aren't starving so fuck em.
My right to the public domain far exceeds Disney's false and ignoble manipulations of the law to protect their profit on 70-year-old scribbles on a napkin. Mickey Mouse IS A PART OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DOMAIN, just as much as apple pie and the old red white and blue and should be treated as such. If they think they can exclusively turn a profit on this till the end of time they are attacking the concept of America just as much as Bin Laden does, make no mistake.
A free and open society is dependant on the free use of ideas that are intergrated into it. We have paid out dues for Mickey 100 times over and he is ours, not the shareholder's, not the artist's, not the fucking CEO's, only the American individual citizen.
P.S. You can buy legal copies of thier work in Japanese w/ subtitles.