Tales From Earthsea

LITT 3317 / HUSL 6330-- 17-18 Sept 2014
Tales from Earthsea
Epic Film or Epic Fail?
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History
1968 - Wizard of Earthsea published
1971 - Tombs of Atuan published
1972 - The Farthest Shore published
~1982 - Miyazaki and Suzuki write LeGuin asking to make an
animated version of Earthsea. LeGuin says no.
1983 - Miyazaki creates Shuna’s Journey
1990 - Tehanu published
~2000 - LeGuin first sees My Neighbor Totoro and becomes
a fan of Miyazaki
2001 - The Other Wind published
2005 - LeGuin agrees to allow Miyazaki to make Earthsea film
2006 - Tales from Earthsea premieres in Japan
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Tales of Earthsea based on The Farthest Shore
and Tehanu, books 3 and 4 of the Earthsea series
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Shuna’s Journey (Shuna no tabi)
Hayao Miyazaki 1983
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Gedo Senki (Tales From Earthsea)
dir. Goro Miyazaki
2006
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"The characters are the same as I wrote them, but other
things are different. Making something visual is so different
from making something to read. It takes more time to
make something that you see, so he had to cut things out.
Howl is less of a drama queen in the film, and more of a
hero. It didn't spoil the essence of Howl.”
---Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl’s Moving Castle
about Miyazaki’s film version
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