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Being a Dedicated Fangirl, part two
Mar. 2nd, 2005 12:20 pmAnd now... "Suna no Utsuwa": What Really Happened (in the book, which unhelpfully, is different from the TV adaptation in several important respects, but which kind of made some things clearer nonetheless).
( Book vs. TV: Fight! )
ETA: if by this point you are hugely curious about this series, go here:
http://www.tbs.co.jp/utsuwa/main.html
Up at the top, there is a scrolling menu -- let it scroll until you see the choice "Gallery". Click on that, and it will allow you to click on each episode number, whereupon it will play for you a little montage of screen-shots from each episode. Not complete by any means, but takes way less time to watch than, say, the series itself.
Odd choices, though -- there is no shot of Adult Eiryo, at *ALL*. There is only a shot of the victim in Gallery 11, from the flashback sequences. Weird. Gallery 03 has a shot that shows Artsy Girl/Rieko talking to a little boy and his mother -- that's the Inspector's wife and son, and the next shot is the Inspector at home with his son. It's freakishly weird to me that the entire Gallery was assembled to show highlights of the story... with not one shot of the main character. I mean, sure, next to Eiryo, Rieko and the Inspector are the most prominent characters, and they are both *amply* represented.
Even odder... next to Gallery there is a choice for "Photo", which features many production stills. Eiryo is severely unrepresented there, either. I wonder if it's something odd to do with the actor who plays Eiryo? Yeah, gotta be -- because when you go to the "Cast" section, next to his name, Masahiro Nakai, there is a photo only of the young-boy-Eiryo, not the adult actor. How utterly odd! So, just for the sake of completeness, here's Adult Eiryo:
http://www.machiuke-jsh.net/image/12/z_famouse_m/nakai_masahiro_05.jpg
( Book vs. TV: Fight! )
ETA: if by this point you are hugely curious about this series, go here:
http://www.tbs.co.jp/utsuwa/main.html
Up at the top, there is a scrolling menu -- let it scroll until you see the choice "Gallery". Click on that, and it will allow you to click on each episode number, whereupon it will play for you a little montage of screen-shots from each episode. Not complete by any means, but takes way less time to watch than, say, the series itself.
Odd choices, though -- there is no shot of Adult Eiryo, at *ALL*. There is only a shot of the victim in Gallery 11, from the flashback sequences. Weird. Gallery 03 has a shot that shows Artsy Girl/Rieko talking to a little boy and his mother -- that's the Inspector's wife and son, and the next shot is the Inspector at home with his son. It's freakishly weird to me that the entire Gallery was assembled to show highlights of the story... with not one shot of the main character. I mean, sure, next to Eiryo, Rieko and the Inspector are the most prominent characters, and they are both *amply* represented.
Even odder... next to Gallery there is a choice for "Photo", which features many production stills. Eiryo is severely unrepresented there, either. I wonder if it's something odd to do with the actor who plays Eiryo? Yeah, gotta be -- because when you go to the "Cast" section, next to his name, Masahiro Nakai, there is a photo only of the young-boy-Eiryo, not the adult actor. How utterly odd! So, just for the sake of completeness, here's Adult Eiryo:
http://www.machiuke-jsh.net/image/12/z_famouse_m/nakai_masahiro_05.jpg
