Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 117 - Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai
Hosts: Dylan, Jeremy, Star
We saw the US premiere of the new animated documentary Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai at the San Francisco International Animation Festival on November 14th, 2009.
It's about dishonorable samurai duels, potato-headed academics with klutzy assistants, and how bushido is bullcrap. It wasn't even introduced until the 20th century!
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We went to the San Francisco International Animation Festival!
Here we are at the US premiere of Musashi! Left to right: Star, Jeremy, Dylan. Photo by Mike.
Here's my ticket for Musashi.
| Posted 16 November, 2009 - 04:42 by Destroy All Pod... |
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Comments
4 comments postedI kindly disagree with the animation quality being outdated poorly enough to be obsolete for all of mankind to care in the near future sir. If a movie like Musashi is executed that well, then aging has no relevance. Aging can never corrode the bulk of style & substance in medium.
Even though the Asian anime industry won't thrive on making animation like this 2 decades from now, but hopefully this movie's charm will be influential to other aspiring filmmakers who want to embrace this technique whether it's classical animation or not. Those emerging artists whoever maybe will carry on that kind of animation if the call is great. It's all about posterity & in human nature, that will never fade.
Besides, Mr. Oshii can always remaster the film if his auteuristic feelings wishes it so, but as I've witnessed in other shows... patching up the spots would be pointless & Mr. Oshii probably knows that.
-R78
It's strange.....why do I have this eerie feeling that I'm only listener who loves this movie?
-R78
Well, it's brand new so I think most people haven't seen it yet.
In the last scene, Musashi throws away the boat oar that he used to waste that samurai dude. I was a bit confused as to why this happened, but then I realized that it's just Musashi following one of his primary philosophies; that is, "never do the same thing twice, even if it worked once."