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...Gemi came from--specifically to find what or who created the iron slug he finds in the Tartari Gemi's corpse. Eventually, he discovers a group of iron-workers destroying an ancient forest and killing its gods. He also meets Princess Mononoke, a human girl raised by Moro, a Wolf Goddess, who is engaged in a war with the humans of the ironworks. Miyazaki refuses to let the situation become too simple; by somewhat contrived means it becomes clear that the ironworkers are not evil, and the animal gods not entirely good. Though there are quite a few important characters...
...famous voices to attract general audiences in America degrades the brilliance of what is, on its own, a wonderful film, and interferes with the creation of a captivating fantasy. Several of the vocal performances are wonderful, such as Billy Crudup as Ashitaka and Gillian Anderson as Moro the Wolf Goddess. Crudup is entirely believable, sounding in turn appropriately brave, vulnerable, and kind. Gillian Anderson's voice is altered here, designed to sound more godlike (the effect succeeds). Her growling tones are menacing and eerie, and her Moro is as intelligently complex as many of the human characters. Others, however...
...nothing remotely spiritual, monstrous or ghostly about Danes' Princess Mononoke. While her behavior and lines present Princess Mononoke as a tough, dangerous, furious woman, she sounds like a whiny teenager. When she first appears in the film wearing a strange mask and riding the back of a giant wolf, fighting acrobatically with Eboshi's warriors, Princess Mononoke inspires awe. When she appears next, sucking the blood from her brother-wolf's wound, she is terrifying. When she looks at Ashitaka and says, "Get out," she is laughable. Fortunately, Princess Mononoke spends more time rushing into battle or hand-to-hand...
Sophomore Raffi Wolf (31, 12) finished fourth in the conference in goal-scoring last season, good enough for a spot on the ECAC All-Rookie Team. A lot of those goals came on assists from sophomore forward Kira Misikowetz (12, 28). Filiguera hopes that Lane and Monroe will provide speed to give Maine a more explosive offense...
...friends might seem to be Wordsworth and Shakespeare and Keats; her story reads as if one of the Bronte sisters had gone off whaling. Yet for all the literary grandeur, much of the book possesses the reader like an unholy fever. A woman walks through the mist in a wolf-trimmed cloak. A madman cries, "Now we eat our fingernails. Now the spiny stars." Naslund writes with the fearlessness of her protagonist...