Laputa: Castle in the Sky: Difference between revisions

Also known as just ''Castle in the Sky'', but not to be confused with the ''trope'' [[Castle in the Sky]] or the book ''[[Castle in the Air]]''.

 

 

''Laputa: Castle In The Sky'' could be considered a fairy tale... one with [[Steampunk]], flying castles, secret princesses, and magic. The film opens with a family of [[Sky Pirates]] led by the matriarch Dola attacking an airship intent on stealing a [[Orphan's Plot Trinket|blue crystal amulet]] from a girl named Sheeta. Sheeta, who had already been kidnapped by the evil [[State Sec]] Colonel Muska, uses the opportunity to escape and falls to what appears to be certain death until her pendant ignites and starts gently floating her back to Earth. Her descent is spotted by a young miner named Pazu, who catches her and takes her home, eager to determine if this mysterious floating girl is somehow connected with the fabled [[Floating Continent|floating castle Laputa]], which his father once saw, though [[Cassandra Truth|no one believed him]] or his photograph.

A little known fact: there also exists a rare English dub distributed, but not produced, by Carl Macek's company [[Streamline Pictures]], dubbed by Streamline regulars, apparently as an exclusive for Japan Air Lines as an in-flight movie. It was briefly released in 1989, but failed to find an audience. (It should be known, too, that Carl Macek was said to have been dissatisfied with how it turned out.)

 

 

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* [[Author Appeal]]: Loads of flying scenes, fantastical aircraft, and precipitous heights.

* [[Beneath the Earth]]: Uncle Pom, who Pazu and Sheeta encounters after going into the mines. He lives exclusively in the mines, only rarely going above the surface. He helps them through the location, and guides them through the location and onto the surface.

* [[Big Eater]]: All the pirates, which means that [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Sheeta is tasked with cooking for them.

* [[Bridal Carry]]: How Pazu holds Sheeta after he catches her in the beginning. Although he visibly strains while trying to carry her.

* [[Captain Obvious]]: Muska and one of the soldiers after the robot escapes.

* [[Determinator]]: Pazu and his quest to find the city his father told him about.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Pazu's father, the only man who had seen Laputa with his own eyes.

* [[Dulcinea Effect]]: A strange girl drops out of the sky with a mysterious pendant and she's getting chased by suspicious-looking men and even the army. [[Jumped At the Call|Does Pazu ask any questions? Never!]]

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Even though the pirates ransacked his house, Pazu teams up with them to save Sheeta and stop Muska.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: We first see Sheeta trapped in a room on an airship surrounded by military folks, looking an awful lot like a [[Damsel in Distress]]. Until the part where they stop watching her, and she [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|crashes a bottle over the only guard left in her room and escapes through the window of the moving blimp.]]

* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]

* [[Holding Hands]]: Pazu and Sheeta do this often.

* [[If My Calculations Are Correct]]: Dola says this, that if her calculations are correct she should reach Laputa within a couple of days, just ahead of the military.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Almost to the point of [[Guns Are Worthless]]. Apparently, the best a trained army can do against an unarmed boy is slightly graze his cheek.

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