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Subject: ROBOT SCRIPT
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ROBOT SCRIPT
Subject: 1.) ROBOT CARNIVAL script (Ron Azuma, January 17, 1990?)
ORIGINAL TRANSLATOR: Anonymous
TRANSCRIPTION & POLISHING: Ron Azuma
Robot Carnival script v 1.00
Robot Carnival is a collection of eight short animated films by
different people. About the only thing that links them together is
that each film has at least one robot in it. The films vary from
comedy to fast-paced action to philosophical drama, so there's
something for everyone.
Also, all but two of the films lack a voice track, so Robot Carnival
is a good film to introduce people to Japanese animation. And in one
of those films, half of the dialogue is in English! This script
includes detailed descriptions of the two segments with voice tracks.
So without further ado, here are the descriptions of the films:
============================
Robot Carnival Opening Title
============================
A kid sees a poster fly by, which sends him into shock. He warns
the villagers, who hole themselves up in their homes or flee for
their lives. In the distance, something huge approaches...
(Incidentally, the kid's speech is just gibberish.)
======================
Franken's New Creation
======================
A scientist tries to bring life to his creation, which this time
is a robot instead of a green-skinned cadaver!
=======
Deprive
=======
Evil troops take girl from her robot/cyborg friend. Robot fights to
rescue girl. There's nothing deep to this one - it's a fast paced
action video!
========
Presence
========
Unlike Deprive, Presence tries to deliver a message. Sometimes, robots
can become too real...
[In this world, human-appearing robots are commonplace.
The film opens with a bunch of schoolkids attacking a teacher
robot, knocking off his head and kicking it high into the sky...]
[In a house, a man enjoys his soup and sees his daughter say goodbye.
As the man drives off to work, he thinks about his wife.]
Man: "My wife is an aggressive career woman. I sometimes
sense great ambition inside her."
Man: "She is active, takes initiative, and is someone
you can rely on. She almost works better than I do!"
Man: "My collegues think I'm a feminist. I admit it to
myself, but with others it's different." <1>
[At a lake, the man picks up and throws a screw. A clock flies by.]
Man: "You scared me!"
Clock: "It's 12:40. Return to your work."
Man: "Ok, ok."
[The Man walks down a path.]
Man: "I have a secret."
[The Man goes into a workshop and sees a girl robot sitting on a desk.]
Man: "Of course, this is a secret for my family."
[He brings some tools.]
Man: "I never had the love of a mother. I understand
why I needed to get married so badly... I
desperately wanted femininity in my wife (?)"
[He touches the girl robot. One gets the sense that he is not entirely
happy with being married to a wife who is an aggressive career woman.]
[As the man walks down the street, he sees some people leaving a bar.
Various robot body parts are left dumped in a nearby trash can.]
[Back in the workshop, the girl robot starts moving.]
Girl: "I don't have a name."
Man: "Meow." (?)
Girl: "I think I want to fall in love."
Man: "What are you saying? I don't remember programming
such a word into you!"
Girl: "You are lonely, aren't you?"
Man: "What happened to you?"
Girl: "I could hear and I could feel."
"You are still a little boy, aren't you?"
[Man picks up flying saucer toy.]
Man: "I'm surprised that you recognize your own consciousness."
[Girl jumps on desk.]
Man: "Huh?"
Girl: "Don't be surprised."
Man: "You shouldn't step into my life." (?)
Girl: "Why do I exist?"
"I'd like to be closer to you."
Man: "Does a machine feel pain?"
"There are no robot 'groupies'!"
"Does a machine have a personality?"
Girl: "But I know myself very well."
"I want to experience lots of love, by my own choice!"
Girl: "Hm. You are wearing a cynical smile."
[As the man walks away, the girl robot grabs him. Surprised, he
throws her against a wall. As she bleeds, he grabs a wrench...]
[Now many years in the future, he sits in a chair outside a house.
His now grown-up daughter and grandaughter approach.]
Man: "Are you leaving already?"
Daughter: "Yes, father. Next time, three of us will come.
Please take care of my mother. (To grandaughter)
Now say goodbye to grandpa."
Granddaughter: "See you next time, grandpa! Next time,
please make me a toy."
Man: "Be careful on the way home."
Granddaughter: "Bye bye!"
[The wind starts to blow. Suddenly, the man sees a vision of the girl robot.]
Girl: "I was waiting for a prince..."
Man: (Sadly) "I couldn't be your protector." <2>
[The vision disappears. The Man returns to the workshop to view
the long-decayed body...]
[Now even further in the future, the man is again sitting outside the
house. The wind starts blowing.]
Wife: "Grandpa, grandpa, the wind is starting to blow [so
you should come inside]."
Wife: "Ok grandpa, you're not a little boy anymore, so you
should listen to what I say!"
Wife: "Grandpa?"
[The girl and the man walk off together and vanish. A toy angel hovers
in front of the camera.]
Notes:
<1> Apparently in Japanese, "feminist" can mean either a person who
promotes equal rights for women, or it can mean an effeminate man.
<2> Literally, "I couldn't be your 'long-legged Uncle.'" If anyone knows
the story that this comes from, please let me know!
===============
Starlight Angel
===============
In the future, Tokyo Disneyland is still "the Happiest place in the
World!" Especially for a "robot" who falls in love with one of the
visitors...
=====
Cloud
=====
A lonely robot walks by as the sky fills with different types of clouds.
Not much of a plot, but it is beautiful to watch...
=======================================================================
Extraordinary Meiji machine stories: A story of a Western man attacking <1>
=======================================================================
Set in the early Meiji period (around 1830 or 1840?), this film is a
hilarious spoof of Japanese 'giant robot' films! The villain speaks
English, and the Japanese defenders speak Japanese. Therefore, this
script will only summarize the villain's lines...
The cast of this film is:
American
-------
John Jack Orkafin(?) The evil scientist villain
Japanese
--------
Sankichi The leader with the headband
Yayoi The girl
Fukuda The kid with the glasses
Daimaru The big guy who works the engine
Genjiro The thin guy who steers the machine
To make this easier to follow, I will label their parts as:
Villain, Leader, Girl, Glasses, Big Guy and Thin Guy.
[The film opens with the town's population running for their lives as
the Villain's robot smashes through the town. The title appears, and
the Villain happily announces his plans for world domination. Note
that he has Marco Polo's book describing the Far East!]
Leader: "That damn thing! I'm going to get even!"
"Are you ready?"
Girl: "Yes, but can we move this without permission?"
Glasses: "Won't all those people in the neighborhood get mad
at us?"
Leader: "You idiot! This is a national crisis!"
"Daimaru, shove a lot of coals in the furnace!"
Big Guy: "Ok!"
Leader: "Genjiro, wake up!" (?)
Thin Guy: "Ok."
Leader: "Go!"
[The Japanese robot rises up to challenge the invader...]
Villain: Eh?
[The Leader begins a long speech from the top of his machine.]
Leader: "Hey you big slob, stop right there! You are the nasty
one disturbing the order in this peaceful time after
the opening of our country [to the West]! For the
upcoming festival, all of the people in the neighborhood
built this machine. It is not the most technologically
advanced, but I, Sankichi Komajo, will not let you
advance one more step from that spot! I'm going to
destroy you, so get ready!" <2>
[He disappears down a hatch]
Leader: "Forward!"
"Genjiro, raise the right leg!"
[The robot punts a nearby house]
Leader: "Move it more carefully!"
[Meanwhile, the Villain starts getting furious]
Glasses: "Someone is coming out [of the Villain's machine]!"
Leader: "What? Genjiro, stop!"
[He looks through a telescope]
Leader: "Oh, let's see, ah..."
[Sees the Villain and his cannon!]
Leader: "It's a foreigner! It's a foreigner! What should I do?"
Glasses: "Calm down! Calm down!"
[The Villain begins a long speech through a megaphone, giving them 3
seconds to surrender before he blows them up.]
Leader: "What is he saying?"
Glasses: [Thumbing through book] "I understand English, but
I'm not that familiar with American!"
[Villain shoots a cannonball]
Villian: "Eh?"
Thin Guy: "Ah!"
Leader: "Daimaru, they are firing the big cannon, so come
upstairs!"
Big Guy: "All right!"
[The Villain aims and shoots again, hitting the Japanese robot.
The girl screams.]
Girl: "Wha?"
Leader: "Damn, he hit us!"
Girl: "What's going on?"
Leader: "Be quiet! Just be patient!"
Girl: "What do you mean, 'Be quiet'?"
[Daimaru makes it up to the top of the machine]
Big Guy: "I'm here! [Sees the tube] Isn't that the big
fireworks?"
Leader: "Yeah, but I made some changes to it..."
[The Villain cleans his cannon while Sankichi aims his]
Leader &
Big Guy: "Ok, here it goes, look up!"
[Fires and hits the Villain's machine]
Leader &
Big Guy: "All right! Ah? The inside of the machine is made
of brick?"
[The Villain fires another shot that hits the Japanese machine]
Thin Guy: [Mumbles something...] (?)
Big Guy: "What are we going to do, Sankichi?"
Leader: "Ok, hit the guy who is standing on the shoulder
of that thing!"
Big Guy: (Surprised) "But if we hit, that guy will be killed!"
Leader: "That's ok, just shoot!"
[They shoot but hit the head of the Villain's robot instead. The Villain
starts laughing until the shot sets off his storage of ammo...]
Leader: "Yeah!"
Big Guy: "Of course, we were aiming for the head to being with!" (?)
Leader: "Oh no we weren't..."
"Now we're going to tear down that machine!"
[The Villain rants some more...]
Girl: "Now we should stop fighting!" (?)
Leader: "Huh?"
Girl: "If we keep fighting, we'll destroy the whole
neighborhood!"
Leader: "Don't make a fuss! This is important!"
Girl: "What did you say, you pinhead?"
Leader: "Pinhead?"
Glasses: "Pinhead!"
Girl: "If you don't like pinhead, how about peabrain, dunce,
moron..." <3>
Leader: [gets irritated]
Glasses: "Since the last hit we took, something's not working
right!" (?)
Leader: "Shut up! Be quiet!"
Girl: "Someone who is so headstrong is called 'bullheaded'!" <4>
Leader: "Ah?"
Girl: "Don't act like you're so brave! You don't have any
brains! Why don't you learn to read or write?
A monkey is smarter than you are!"
Leader: "You have a really mean personality!"
Girl: [Sticks her tongue at him]
[The kid with glasses rides some gears to get to another part of the
machine. He yells, "Sankichi," then by accident sees under the
girl's kimono.]
Glasses: "Sorry!"
Girl: [Kicks a shoe in his face]
[Meanwhile the Villain discovers he's out of battery power.]
Big Guy: "Hey Sankichi, we ran out of coals!"
Leader: "Don't worry, just peel off and burn
any available wood!"
[The Villain recharges his batteries. It takes until sunset before
the two machines advance far enough to reach each other.]
Leader: "We finally got here..."
[The Villain rants some more and raises the right arm of his machine]
Leader: "Raise the right arm!"
[The kid with glasses raises the Japanese robot's right arm]
Leader: "That's good! Raise the left hand and grab his arm!"
Girl: "What are you going to do?"
Leader: "We're going to grab and throw him!" (?)
Girl: "I grabbed it!"
Leader: "Hold on tight! Are you ok?"
Glasses: "Yes, I'm ok!"
Leader: "Daimaru, grab onto something!"
[Daimaru clings for dear life]
Leader: [To pilot] "Is everything ok?"
"Good! Raise the left leg and twist!"
[The robot starts spinning]
Leader: "Go!"
[The Japanese machine throws the Villain's machine into the river,
but the Japanese machine also falls. The Villain's
robot causes a minature wave that washes out a bridge and the
spectators on it... The kid with glasses views the destruction.]
Glasses: "Oh my town! My neighborhood!"
Leader: "We won!"
Thin Guy: "I'm not so sure about that..."
Big Guy: "Yeah..."
Girl: "But we did a lot..."
Leader: "Hey look, that's a Japanese sunrise!"
[Sky fills with an old-style 'Rising Sun' emblem]
Girl: "No, that's sunset."
[Emblem abruptly disappears...]
Leader: "Oh."
Girl: [Laughs] "Sorry!"
Leader: "Anyway, that battle is over. We fought off the
foreigner with our own hands. But since I saved
the peace in this town..."
[Sankichi puts his arm on the girl's shoulder. She responds by
stomping on his foot...]
[And the Villain paddles off into the sunset, making plans for next
time...]
Notes: <1> The first part of the title literally reads,
"Meiji Karakuri modern Western civilization
strange story" where karakuri is an old word
for a machine.
<2> A lot of liberties are taken here. Eg, instead of
"It is not the most technologically advanced," he
literally says, "It is not a big steam locomotive."
<3> All the insults have to do with implying that
Sankichi has a low mental capacity...
<4> Literally "Someone who gets hot-headed so quickly
is called 'kettleheaded'!"
=====================
Chicken Man & Redneck
=====================
At night, the robots wake up... to terrorize a hapless man on a scooter!
The chase sequence is very reminiscient of Disney's "Legend of Sleepy
Hollow."
============================
Robot Carnival Closing Title
============================
Out of the wreckage of the machine, a man finds a small metal ball
and brings it back to his kids. The toy delights them, but it has
one last surprise...
Translator: Anonymous
Transcription & polishing: Ron Azuma
Liberties have been taken in some of the translations, and undoubtedly
we made mistakes along the way. The more questionable passages are
marked with a (?). Notes and comments are marked with a <#>.
Send any corrections to:
Ron Azuma
(azuma@dopey.cs.unc.edu)