Current location:	United Kingdom, Cambridge
Current mood:	excited

Favourite Movies
Laputa: Castle in the Sky is my favourite movie. It's one of the lesser known Ghibli Studio films that I saw when I was very little (maybe ten or eleven) and fell in love it. It was released in 1986 with a Japanese and English dub (I watched the English as a child), but was re-released several years later with a new English cast because of the connotations of the word "Laputa" in Spanish (meaning "whore"). The new dub was done by Disney and is terrible; not only because of the cast (although I do approve of Mark Hamill for the role of Muska) but Disney felt it necessary to add extra pieces of dialogue in silent moments of the film (which are, in the Ghibli fashion, reserved for contemplation) as well as take out important references to modern literature (such as the references to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels).

I recommend that anyone with a young heart and a taste for the fantastic watch this film (in Japanese or the original English dub)... and here's the official trailer with some of Mr. Hisaishi's beautiful and dramatic music on top! No giggling at the leading lady's name... Sheeta is a lovely name!!

Please post your favourite movie too! I'd love to see the one film you love above all others!