Talk:Castle in the Sky/Archive 1

First header
The military trains featured in the film -do- have a comparison in our world; they're german ww2 amoured trains.

Pronunciation
How about making a note that in the Disney dub, the voice actors always spoke 'laputa' with the first a having a very distinct 'short' sound, the u with a distinct long and no pause to avoid sounding like 'la puta' where the first a sounds like 'ah' and the u sounds like 'oo'. (If you've ever heard a hispanic person call someone a puta, you know that I mean.)

Even with the careful pronunciation throughout the film, I still couldn't keep from giggling.

I'm not an English teacher, so I don't know the special marks etc to denote how vowels should sound when spoken.

Edited (heavily) for grammar and style
I would like this article to be as flawless as the film itself, and I think any Miyazaki fan would agree that it should be. I have edited this article (heavily) for grammar and style, but I am curious about why the article is so long. Does every detail of the story need to be described here?Comme le Lapin 18:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Cast table?
Would it be worthwhile to make a table listing the voice actors for the various dubs? It would save some space, and you wouldn't have to repeat the character names three times. Nareek 18:50, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Finite 22:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I restructured it into a table today, but one of the japanese actors was listed also in the original english cast (Uncle Pomme), is this correct?--194.22.4.101 13:49, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Final Fantasy?
Wasn't the Lefeinish civilization inspired to some degree by Laputa: Castle in the Sky? At least in the GBA Dawn of Souls remake, the similitudes are remarkable, right down to the smilar looking robots, levistone for the crystal, and such. Jaimeastorga2000 01:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Nausicaa- Of the valley of the wind-
When watching this film it was realy wierd to see the amount of similarities. Anyone else who has seen both these movies will agree, the charactor designs are the same between sheeta and nausicaa and that guy from pejite (cant remember his name) and Pazu. The scene of sheeta crying in a golden field is similar to the scene of nausicaa picking flowers when she is young and when the robot comes to meet them on laputa and leads them to the big tree those creature things that nausicaa has as a pet are circling the robot..... it realy isnt that important since this is a brilliant anime, but i thought someone would be interested.
 * Same studio, same animators, same inspirations :) Kareeser|Talk! 19:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

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Laputian name
so the girl's full name is Lusheeta Toel Ul Laputa which is Laputian for "Sheeta, True Ruler of Laputa" What about the evil guy's name? what does Romuska Palo Ur Laputa mean exactly? I'm guessing "Muska, ????? Ruler of Laputa" what is Palo thou. Anyone know if it's told anywhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.207.235.211 (talk) 19:18, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Island's namesake
Is there any possibility that the idea of an island named Laputa, floating in the sky, was taken from Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver?


 * Yes, the floating city story element was drawn from the inspiration of Gulliver's Travels. --Soetermans (talk) 00:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

A little note about the name
"La puta" is an expression common in Spanish. In English, it could possibly be translated as "bloody hell", but more rude. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.18.47.14 (talk) 03:17, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

"Puta" means "whore" in spanish. In Spaniard dub, "Lapuntu" was used in the film as euphemism.
 * It means much worse than "whore" or "bitch." I'm a 40 year old hispanic so maybe the word as gotten desenitized since I was young but "la puta" is equivalent to the 'c' word really (c**t).  Its really nasty, very much a fighting word.  Not something you'd even throw around as an insult unless it was a relationship-ending one.  Equivalent to the term _la salope_ in French which will get your face slapped if you even just say it out loud to no one in particular.  Hence all the crazy firewalking dances that Disney and other translaters do with the title, leaving it out altogether.  Yanqui9 (talk) 01:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Another Miyazaki's film, "Kiki's Delivery Service" had the same problem ("kiki" is a slang word), and was traslated as "Niki, aprendiz de bruja" (Niki, witch aprentice). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.33.220.240 (talk) 22:07, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Allmovie
Reference available for citing in the article body. Erik (talk) 20:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ... plot synopsis, review, cast, production credits, awards

Version?
The version just on FilmFour had subtitles, not dubs, yet retained the credits from the Disney version. They also referred to Pom as "grandpa," not uncle, but the biggest - or at least, most jarring to me - was that the name of the "magic stone" was "Levinstone," with an extra n that seemed out of place and wasn't listed with the other names in the plot section. The other things aren't that big at all (I can understand Pom being referred by different things, or all the newer english versions containing the Disney credits), but was Levinstone just missed out in the article, is the article's (much more reasonable sounding) Levistone a typo or is it something else? 86.13.179.168 (talk) 02:49, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

JAL/Streamline Cast
Is there a reference for the JAL/Streamline english dub cast? I think the cast listed in the main article maybe incorrect.

I have for the cast:

Pazu - Bertha Green

Sheeta - Louise Chambell

Dola - Rachel Vanowen

Muska - Jack Witte

Boss - Charles Wilson

General - Mark Richards

The source is the credits from a video recording of an english version shown on british Tv in the early 90's.

Can anyone confirm this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.113.246 (talk) 10:08, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

i think this reference can be added
The links i have given were from a site that was one of the very important site related to the topic. In that case it was about studio ghibli. Now the link i have given was from onlineghibli.com which is no less popular than nausicaa.net if not more. And there is no need to promote the site as it is even more popular than the nausicaa.net and it is the first result in the search engine.And i absolutely know about the no-follow system or rule of wikipedia.And that site actually verifies the character list as it actually gives pictures of the artists and it has many other infos like music pieces etc.And this site also has been there for 10 years so it is one of the most important reference site to the topic. The problem is i do not know how to use the reference template[and also do not have access to] that is why i needed to give the external link. We all need to improve wikipedia so review my suggestion.Nibir2011 (talk) 16:31, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

"Castle in the Sky" sets a new Twitter record
"On Saturday, August 3 in Japan, people watched an airing of Castle in the Sky, and at one moment they took to Twitter so much that we hit a one-second peak of 143,199 Tweets per second."

(The average Tweets-per-second is 5,000)

Souce: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-and-how — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.127.103.246 (talk) 18:44, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Too many parentheses
So we have the first paragraph saying:

"Laputa: Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta?) (or simply Laputa) (re-titled Castle in the Sky for release in the United States) is a 1986 animated adventure feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki."

Which is basically "A (B)(C)(D) is E", which is just stupid looking. --Rev L. Snowfox (talk) 11:53, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

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Narrator
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Ethereum name/logo claim
The article claims that Ethereum's name and logo come from the Aetherium crystal, but this is unsourced, and other sources (see Ethereum, also , , ) suggest that this isn't the case. The claim was added in – @, did you have a source for this? Sorrel 🦉 (talk) 16:49, 27 June 2020 (UTC)


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Time of the story?
The intro says 19th Century. But one can't really tie it to a specific time period. It looks steampunkish, but, even excluding the Laputan technology, there are machines from other time periods (giant airships, powerful locomotives) and some that don't exist even today (the pirates' fighter planes). KevinBTheobald (talk) 03:43, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Wrong data?
This line: "In the United Kingdom, the film's 2012 release grossed $327,559 in its first week" has a citation that doesn't seem to match either than amount, or the year 2012. I've not checked all the other data for inaccuracies, that was the only citation I looked into as the year seemed strange, and I'm afraid don't have the time to research to fix things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:3181:5501:DDD2:F42E:FE0B:B752 (talk) 19:15, 3 June 2022 (UTC)