Spirited Away

We watched the part of Spririted Away about the stink/river god tonight. After Sen pulls out all the garbage that was inside the river god, she becomes enveloped in a bubble of water. When the river god talks to her, does everyone hear what he says, or is he just talking to her? He just tells her that she did a good job, but I don't know if the rest of the gods and workers heard the compliment. Does this acknowledgement play a large part in her maturity in the story, or is her maturity just a factor of the labor? I cannot recall specific actions she takes before and afterward that would show the maturity. Let me know what you think!

Paper

Are y'all bringing copies of your paper or emailing them to Mr. Duncan?

Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke - which is better?

Okay, I must admit, it's been about four years since I saw Princess Mononoke, so I'm going to have to do some homework before I can completely comment on this. However, these are the two anime films that stick out in my mind as having made the transition from Japan to the States. Does anyone who has seen both of these have any comments? Discuss. Or else I'll make you talk about how the Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy nor Roman (10 points for whoever gets that joke).

Spirted Away

I enjoyed Spirted Away. I was really impressed with how well they dubbed it, as the english words were perfectly insync with the characters' mouth movements. I also enjoyed watching Chihero develop from a whiney little brat to the sort of heroine she becomes.

Spirited Away

So I put this movie off as long as I could as I was not looking forward to it. If it's not Disney then animation and I don't really get along, I mean, I even hate cartoons.
So I sat down last night and watched it. I have to admit, I enjoyed it. The charcters were awesome, I loved No Face and the parents got on my nerves, as pigs and otherwise. It was a little long for me and I found at times my attention wandered elsewhere, but all in all, it was a fun movie.

To me the parents of Chihero didn't really look Japanese, neither did the witch or some of the other characters. The parents to me had a sort of American appearance to me. I don't know if this is because I'm looking with American eyes, or if they were intended to look this way to everyone. I thought this could possibly be a commentary on Americans and their greed and gluttony. Any thoughts?

shoe and marriage question

I don't know if I should call the man in the Cinderella story a prince. It never says that he isn't but it never says that he is either. I know he must be some kind of celebrity because he sees his wife in the pictures on the girl's wall. Anyone have any suggestions for what i should call him?

A little something I found randomly.

Since L. Frank Baum's works were all published over seventy years ago, they are all in the public domain. I found a Wikisource page, here, that has links to all installments in the Oz series and some others by Baum. Just in case last week's discussion piqued your curiousity, or so you can brag that you've read all the whole Oz series, if you go in for that kind of shameless self-promotion.
You could be like that Axe Gamekiller comercial, "Think you know about Oz? Obviously you haven't read the entire series." The major difference here of course is that being an expert on early twentieth century fantasy satire (or would it be satire fantasy?) is infinitely more geeky than the popped-collar on the commercial, though maybe that's a good thing.