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Sep 17, 2020 - 5:12 AM
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EricHG30
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I also don't care for the Disneyfied Laputa score. I don't have an issue with synth when done well by a master composer like Hisaishi.
BTW you weren't kidding when you call the new Laputa score "Disneyfied" (and I say that as a fan of a big number of Disney scores). I know I'd watched the English dub of Laputa with that score when the DVD from Disney first came out, but probably not since then... till just today. I'm mostly familiar with the score from the CD in the Miyazaki soundtrack box set, and it plays fine isolated.
But today, while looking after my niece and nephew, they asked to watch a movie and Laputa is one of the few major Ghiblis that they still hadn't seen and, due to the age of my niece, it was out of the question to watch it subtitled. I knew that Hisaishi had replaced a number of silent scenes with music and the "dated" (to some) synth tracks for some of the action scenes, but even right near the start when Pazu finds Sheeta falling, the original had light, tinkling (for lack of a better word) synths that sound magical to accompany her--nothing much more. The heavily orchestrated and, yes, Disney new score, on the other hand, really ruins a lot of the magic of that moment. And of course that's just the first of many scenes like that...
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Sep 17, 2020 - 6:39 AM
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Solium
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I also don't care for the Disneyfied Laputa score. I don't have an issue with synth when done well by a master composer like Hisaishi.
BTW you weren't kidding when you call the new Laputa score "Disneyfied" (and I say that as a fan of a big number of Disney scores). I know I'd watched the English dub of Laputa with that score when the DVD from Disney first came out, but probably not since then... till just today. I'm mostly familiar with the score from the CD in the Miyazaki soundtrack box set, and it plays fine isolated.
But today, while looking after my niece and nephew, they asked to watch a movie and Laputa is one of the few major Ghiblis that they still hadn't seen and, due to the age of my niece, it was out of the question to watch it subtitled. I knew that Hisaishi had replaced a number of silent scenes with music and the "dated" (to some) synth tracks for some of the action scenes, but even right near the start when Pazu finds Sheeta falling, the original had light, tinkling (for lack of a better word) synths that sound magical to accompany her--nothing much more. The heavily orchestrated and, yes, Disney new score, on the other hand, really ruins a lot of the magic of that moment. And of course that's just the first of many scenes like that...
Yes, I agree with all of that. Perhaps part of it is loving what you're used to. But I really cannot stand the re-score and I never watch English dubs to begin with. (I did once just to hear the new score.)
When I said "Disneyfied" I wasn't saying anything negative about Disney scores. They're some of my favorites in fact. I meant it more in this current age where Disney as a corporation muddles and messes with things, everything is done by committee, and they don't believe or respect the artist.
I'm shocked Hayao Miyazaki let them mess with his film. He swore after the initial release of Naussica in the US he would never let a foreign distributors alter his films again.
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