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Friday, 18-Dec-2009 06:16:56 CST
Global
History of Anime
The Huge Films of the Mid-80's
As the market entered the mid 1980's, huge
film followed huge film with no end in sight. Miyazaki stunned the
world again with his Nausicaä in the Valley of the Wind, and then
again with Laputa: Castle in the Sky. The first two Urusei Yatsura
movies (Only You and Beautiful Dreamer) carved out a sizable chunks
of money for themselves,
Matsumoto tried three times with My Youth In Arcadia, the Queen
Millennia movie (with a score by Kitaro ... probably his single
best work) and the second "final" Yamato film where the Yamato is
blown apart once and for all (at least, until the new series). Still,
all was not well. Films were getting more and more expensive, and
the voices that were saying that no film was ever going to be made
for this much money again were being taken seriously. To be fair,
the revenues were not being generated in proportion to the expenditures
... a situation that any business person will tell you will lead
to disaster is something isn't done about it. That something was
a new medium.
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