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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? After hearing Pazu out, they prepare to intercept and capture the crystal, allowing Pazu to join them. As preparations proceed, Sheeta recites an apotropaic verse and unexpectedly activates the amulet and the robot, which follows Sheeta, destroying the fortress along the way until it is overcome by the military's airship Goliath.
Pazu arrives and rescues Sheeta, but Muska obtains the amulet. The pirates, accompanied by Pazu and Sheeta, return to their airship, Tiger Moth. They pursue the Goliath , which is following directions indicated by Sheeta's amulet to locate Laputa. Both airships arrive at Laputa on the following day, with the Tiger Moth having been shot down by Goliath.
The two children, separated from Dola's pirates, discover the city to be ruined and overgrown. Dola's pirates are captured and Muska's soldiers plunder the city's treasures. Upon gaining entrance to the city's central sphere, a vast repository for all of Laputa's scientific knowledge, Muska captures Sheeta and his agents open fire upon Pazu, who escapes and frees the pirates.
In the center of Laputa, which contains the immense 'volucite' crystal keeping the city aloft, Muska identifies himself as 'Romuska Palo Ul Laputa', another member of Laputa's royal line, and uses Sheeta's crystal to access the advanced Laputan technology.
He betrays his own soldiers and destroys the Goliath by unleashing Laputa's weapon of mass destruction. During the mayhem, the horrified Sheeta retrieves the crystal amulet and flees, but Muska pursues her. Hearing Pazu's voice, Sheeta gives the amulet to him through a gap in the wall and is cornered by Muska in Laputa's throne room.
During her confrontation with Muska, Sheeta explains that the people of Laputa left the castle because they realized that man was meant to live on earth and not in the sky. Muska refuses her arguments, shoots off her braids and threatens to kill her unless the crystal amulet is given to him. Pazu requests to be allowed to talk with Sheeta; Muska grants them one minute three in the original Japanese version.
Sheeta and Pazu recite a 'Spell of Destruction', which causes the castle to disintegrate, causing Muska to fall to his death. After surviving the collapse, Pazu and Sheeta reunite with Dola and her pirates and leave Laputa behind. When they part with the pirates, Pazu flies Sheeta home as he had promised her, to start a new life together.
During the end credits, the remnants of Laputa float in orbit, maintained by the volucite crystal embedded in the roots of the central tree.
Miyazaki's earlier anime series Future Boy Conan featured a number of elements that he later adapted for Castle in the Sky. Conan and Lana, for example, were precedents for Pazu and Sheeta, and it had similarities to Sheeta's rescue by Pazu. The name 'Laputa' is derived from Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels , wherein Swift's Laputa is also a flying island controlled by its citizens. Anthony Lioi feels that Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle in the Sky is similar to Swift's Laputa, where the technological superiority of the castle in the sky is used for political ends.
Laputa is credited by Colonel Muska with having informed Biblical and Hindulegends — thus tying the world of Laputa to our Earth and to western European civilization — as do the medieval castle architecture on the ground; the Gothic and half-timbered buildings in the village near the fort; the Welsh mining-town architecture, clothing, and ground vehicles of Pazu's homeland; and the Victorian ambiance of the pirate ship.
The anime also features the use of cuneiform script on Laputa's interactive panels and tombstones; and makes references to the Hindu epic Ramayana , including 'Indra's arrow', while the name Sheeta may be a related to Sita, the female lead in the Ramayana. Some of the architecture seen in the film was inspired by a Welsh mining town. Miyazaki first visited Wales in and witnessed the miners' strike firsthand. He returned to the country in to prepare for Laputa , which he said reflected his Welsh experience: 'I was in Wales just after the miners' strike.
I really admired the way the miners' unions fought to the very end for their jobs and communities, and I wanted to reflect the strength of those communities in my film. Many people of my generation see the miners as a symbol; a dying breed of fighting men. Now they are gone. Except for the technology of Laputa itself, the technologies especially the flying machines are an example of the retrofuturistic genre of steampunk.
Carl Macek, the head of Streamline, was disappointed with this dub, deeming it 'adequate, but clumsy'. The initial Japanese DVD release is now out of print and the subsequent re-release in replaces it with the Disney dubbed version. The Disney-produced English dub was recorded in and planned for release on video in , but the release was cancelled after Princess Mononoke did not fare as well in the US as Japan, and so Laputa's release date was pushed back yet again; on occasion the completed dub was screened at select children's festivals.
The film received a re-screening on May 22, in Aberystwyth as part of a charity fund for Japan. The print shown was the original theatrical Japanese print with English subtitles. For a special promotion, it went back into US theaters November th , with the widest release at theaters. By , Laputa: Castle in the Sky had sold 1. The site's critics consensus reads, 'With a storytelling palette as rich and brilliant as its animation, Castle in the Sky thrillingly encapsulates Studio Ghibli's unique strengths.
Castle in the Sky has had a strong influence on Japanese popular culture, with the 'Laputa Effect' comparable to 'a modern day monomyth for Japanese genre films and media. Manga author Katsura Hoshino was fascinated by the film to the point where she decided to seek work as an animator when growing up, but instead she ended up writing manga.
Game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi cited Laputa as an inspiration behind his Final Fantasy video game series, particularly citing it as an influence on the series' airships.
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