Hayao Miyazaki, as a child, had an encyclopedia of Greek Mythology, and he really loved the Nausicaa character as described in that book. (though he said that when he actually read the Odyssey he was disappointed, and that he liked the way the author of the other book described her more than the way Homer did.) Anyway, he named his character after her, because he felt like it.
Yes, I have seen it. I enjoyed it but it was definitely more kid friendly. My issue was Nausicaa was that it rubbed me as having some PSA agenda, a la Ferngully. A bit overdramatic! It's possible I read too much into it but I didn't care for it.
Well, the movie definitely had environmentalist themes, but I saw them as being done tastefully, giving the film depth rather than a superficial PSA style thing, but I can see where you're coming from. (Also, I'm a big fan of the comic and the all the big environmental plot points from the movie are from the first and second of seven books, so they were sorta like exposition there...and other than those scenes it's mostly nothing but huge deviations from the comic, but because they were both written by Miyazaki you know that the it's not a matter of corrupting his artistic vision...) Anyway, I feel the whole environmentalism/pasificism themes were really featured strongly in Mononoke Hime as well....In fact Mononoke Hime is very similar to Nausicaa in many other respects too (to the extent that the scene with the stampeding Ohmus is staged almost exactly the same as the scene with the stampeding Pigs
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it's one of my favs. really great.
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fuseji has no good reason not to own this yet.
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