Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_atrh From: ins_atrh@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas Richard Holtz) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Latest on Arthur Adams (or, more specifically, the P.S.) Message-ID: <1114@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 21:04:21 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1114 Posted: Wed Nov 6 21:04:21 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:01:57 EST References: <651@osu-eddie.UUCP> <982@canisius.UUCP> <10874@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: ins_atrh@jhunix.ARPA (Thomas Richard Holtz) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 31 (Please excuse any ineptitude here. I'm not used to the net yet.) As to the plot of Nausicaa, this is as much as I can remember: On what may be (in my opinion) an Earth colony seperated from the mother planet and become technologically more primitive (like MacCaffrey's Pern), huge humanoid alien beings attacked the humans, only to be repelled by equally large giant arthropods (which looked kind of like potato bugs). Anyway, that war ended long before the story begins, and much of that knowledge has been lost. Beginning of movie: our heroine, Nausicaa, a cute young woman who's a dead ringer for Clarice Cagliostro from the Lupin III movie "Castle Cagliostro", is a member of a fairly primitive, pseudomedieval village in an isolated valley. She goes in for things like flying around on her jet-propelled surfboard contraption and making friends with the wildlife of her homeworld's nasty jungles. On one of her excursions she gets involved in a war between two more advanced (roughly 20th century Earth technology) nations. One side wants to use the potato bugs to trash the enemy's cities, while the other is trying to resurrect a mutant version of the giant humanoid invaders, with a radioactive breath weapon like a small Wave-Motion Gun. (You following all of this?) Anyway, lots of bad things happen to both sides, lots of things go wrong, Nausicaa falls in love with a handsome pilot, etc. The movie is basically a pro-enviromentalist statement ("Don't fool with Mother Nature!!!"), is VERY well animated, and (now get this) HAS RECENTLY BEEN RELEASED IN ENGLISH!!!!! I haven't seen the English version myself, so I can't tell you how close it is to the original. Tom Holtz, Dominus Draconum