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The Cagliostro is an experimental space craft which is destined to begin mans first faster than light voyage beyond his solar system and into a greater universe filled with dangerous adversaries, intrigue and a deadly conspiracy set to tear humanity apart! Join Mark Johnson and his crew of adventurers as they travel beyond our wildest dreams and into a universe fraught with mystery and danger! Some chapters in the middle of the book might have been a little tough to get through when I was telling the actual story of what our heroes were going through.
There was one scene in particular where the main crew of the Cagliostro had been captured and were being beaten and tortured. That was a little rough to write I believe. The plot, the characterizations, the cast and what I wanted to do with them as well as the story I wanted to tell. Are your characters entirely fictitious or have you borrowed from real world people you know?
We all know how important it is for writers to read. Are there any particular authors that have influenced how you write and, if so, how have they influenced you? Not really, though I make it a point NOT to write sexually explicit stuff, so teens could enjoy my writing as much as adults.
My writing process is to try to write words per day, and I usually write at night. My target book length is usually between 65 and 95, words. If so, do you do so extensively or just chapter headings and a couple of sentences? I do a very basic outline, which is just a rough plot.
I like discovering the adventure as much as the reader would. I hire a pro editor to go over my books. No, I have a few New Pulp publishers I publish through but the bulk of my publishing is done through my own publishing label, Cosmic Comet Publishing. What made you decide to go Indie, whether self-publishing or with an indie publisher? Was it a particular event or a gradual process? Two years ago I was having my first book published through a company called Publish America that I had used eight years earlier for a non-fiction motorcycle instructional book I had written.
They were actually quite good back then, even though the finished product was slightly overpriced at the time. They just threw the rough draft out there and published it. So I bought the rights back and looked into self-publishing. So this is science fiction? Science Fiction, Space Opera, adventure, action. What kind of readers will it appeal to? Tell us about this engineer and what makes him so brilliant. He plans two steps ahead of everyone else, and always seems to have the right answers for whatever situation he finds himself in.
But when he miscalculates he feels it very personally. He does not accept failure very easily.
Meanwhile, Lupin intends to stop the wedding and rescue the princess. He also reveals his reasons for rescuing Clarisse to Jigen, Goemon and her family's former gardener — as a young girl, she had saved his life during his unsuccessful first attempt to find the source of the counterfeit bills ten years earlier.
Fujiko tips off Lupin on a way to sneak into the castle, and forms a plan with Zenigata to publicly reveal the counterfeiting operation under the cover of pursuing Lupin.
The wedding with a drugged Clarisse appears to go as planned, until Lupin disrupts the ceremony and, despite the Count's precautions, makes off with both Clarisse and the Count's rings. Meanwhile, Zenigata and his squadron arrive in the chaos, and the inspector leads Fujiko, posing as a television reporter, to the Count's counterfeiting facility to expose the operation to the world.
The Count pursues Lupin and Clarisse to the face of the castle's clock tower. Lupin is forced to surrender the rings to save Clarisse, and they are both knocked into the lake surrounding the tower. After using the rings to reveal the secret of Cagliostro, the Count is killed by the mechanism unveiling the treasure. Lupin and Clarisse watch as the lake around the castle drains to reveal exquisite ancient Roman ruins — the true treasure of Cagliostro. Lupin and his friends bid farewell to Clarisse, now the rightful ruler of Cagliostro.
With Zenigata pursuing them again for the crime of "stealing Clarisse's heart" and Fujiko fleeing with the plates from counterfeit printing presses, Lupin and the gang drive out of Cagliostro, with the police close behind them. Cagliostro followed the year later following the financial success of that film. This is marked as the first feature length film to be directed by Miyazaki, who had previously co-directed episodes of the first Lupin anime series with Isao Takahata and the two directors along with Toshio Suzuki will give birth to Studio Ghibli in He was also a writer and director of two episodes in the second series under the pseudonym "Telecom", both produced a year after Cagliostro.
Miyazaki's film conflicts with the typical behavior and personality of the characters, a change that has been described as Lupin "growing up". Castle of Cagliostro marked Miyazaki's debut as a theatrical movie director, but he also was a writer, a designer, and a storyboardist on the movie. After the first draft scenario was returned to Miyazaki without change, he began the storyboards.
The story was divided into four parts, but after reaching the third part changes had to be made at the storyboard phase in order to not exceed the decided running time. Production wrapped up at the end of November and the film's premier on December 15, was a short seven and a half months from the project's undertaking, with only five months of production time. The film draws upon many sources of inspiration that were important in the production of the film.
McCarthy writes that a research trip was not specifically undertaken for the film, but says Miyazaki's Heidi sketchbooks were useful for the scenery. McCarthy describes the summery color palette of the film as matching the scenery and the characters, but notes the use of dark and light colors are used to emphasize the subplot of the dark and light sides of the Cagliostros.
It was originally sold on vinyl and cassette tape in , but later saw release on CD in with several additional prints runs. The Castle of Cagliostro — Music File and also contained 13 unused cues. Castle of Cagliostro ' s portrayal of the characters was changed to better identify with Miyazaki's concept of a "hero" and to remove a sense of apathy in the story.
Fred Patten , who worked at Streamline Pictures was involved in the English adaptation of the film and was involved in the choice of title for the English release,. Cagliostro of Castle [ sic ]. It was my argument that The Castle of Cagliostro sounded the most sinister. Cagliostro Castle is just a castle's name, like Windsor Castle, but the Castle of Cagliostro emphasizes that it is the evil Count's lair! In his first feature length directorial role, Miyazaki deploys numerous examples of his style to great effect.
Dani Cavallaro highlights the signature details of Miyazaki's style and form being displayed in this work and how it impacts the portrayal of the story. The use of unexpected and unique camera angles and attention to individual movement of the characters are distinctive signatures of Miyazaki's style, including the opening heist scene which provides characterization and spirit to understanding the character of Lupin.
The film's Japanese theatrical release was on 15 December According to Fred Patten , the primary reason was that, "most people did not bother to come to it since it was "only" an animated-cartoon feature, not a "serious" live-action movie.
Retrieved 8 July To ask other readers questions about The Cagliostro Chronicles , please sign up. Archived from the original on 2 April Final Stage — Tengai Makyou: So this is science fiction?
In , Manga released the film on home video in the United States with a newly commissioned dub that adhered closer to the original script with the correct names restored. The DVD preserves the film in its original aspect ratio of 1. It additionally features remastered audio and picture, but contains no extras. The same company later released a new special edition DVD of Cagliostro in It includes a new digital transfer; Manga's English dub in 2. The English-translated names are superimposed over these stills. This change was negatively received by fans of the film.
In December , the film was released on Blu-ray in Japan. Both these newer releases were released by Studio Ghibli in conjunction with Disney. North American anime distributor Discotek Media announced on 26 March that they had licensed the film and planned to release it on DVD in , with a Blu-ray release to follow at a then-unspecified future date. This release features only the Streamline dub and the Japanese audio with English subtitles; none of the extras from Discotek's releases are included. While the film was not initially a box-office success, it gained popularity through numerous re-releases and was even voted as "the best anime in history" by the readers of Animage.
Sometimes it works, and unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't. He said, "I wouldn't have had him rescue the girl, I would have had him rape her!
The film has itself been an influence in a range of other productions. There is an unconfirmed rumor that film director Steven Spielberg saw a screening of The Castle of Cagliostro in the early 80's. From that rumor, one would assume that Spielberg was so impressed with the film that it later influenced the action sequences in his Indiana Jones films and The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Some sources claim that Spielberg saw the film at the Cannes Film Festival , [7] but, according to official Cannes sources, Castle of Cagliostro was not shown that year.
The character of Clarisse has also been cited as a potential ancestral example of moe character design, [49] a trend Miyazaki would later criticize as leading to the promotion of unhealthy lolicon fetishism. They released the arcade game, Cliff Hanger , which used footage from this film, along with the previous Lupin film The Mystery of Mamo.
Cagliostro deeply influenced Pixar co-founder John Lasseter , along with Miyazaki's later films; in October , Lasseter delivered a keynote address to the Tokyo International Film Festival describing how Miyazaki's influence upon his own life and work began when he first saw a clip from Cagliostro. The Lost Empire , admitted that a scene at the end of Atlantis , where the waters recede from the sunken city, was directly inspired from the ending in Cagliostro.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Castle of Cagliostro Japanese film poster art. The Streamline dub, which used TMS' subtitles as a primary translation source, explains that "Ghoto" was the name of the person responsible for the creation of Cagliostro's counterfeiting ring. Archived from the original on 5 January Retrieved 20 August The New York Times.
Retrieved 10 August The Castle of Cagliostro. Event occurs at 1: Archived from the original on 29 July The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki. Archived from the original on 18 October Retrieved 27 August Hayao Miyazaki Master of Japanese Animation.