History Anime / TalesFromEarthsea

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: When Therru tells Arren her true name. Also, [[spoiler:she defeats Cob by turning into a dragon after he strangles her to death.]].

* KarmaHoudini: For all his repulsiveness, Hare gets away scot-free in the end.
** Subverted with Arren; he decides to turn himself in for [[spoiler:killing his father]].

* NotGoodWithPeople: Therru switches between painfully shy, when talking to someone named 'Sparrowhawk', but the first thing she says to Arren is "Did you come here to kill this lamb?"
** Although Therru and Arren's relationship is [[BelligerentSexualTension another trope]] entirely.

* ClimbingClimax: On to the top of a castle tower.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness / InformedDeformity: Therru. In the original books she suffered from third-degree burns on her face. In the movie, the left side of it is somewhat redder than the rest of her skin, looking more like a port wine stain. Interestingly, slave-traders still call her ugly.
* AdaptationDistillation: It's a mix of several of the books. Le Guin said what confused her most about the film was that she kept expecting it to follow one of the original plots. If you really want to be specific it mixes the storyline of ''The Farthest Shore'' with some elements of ''Tehanu''.
** AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Nonetheless, among other things, to know what Arren's shadow is, you have to have read the books.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Therru being able to turn into a dragon.]]

* {{Expy}}: Hare is the [[CaptainErsatz spitting image]] of Kurotowa from ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' and fulfills a similar role. Even his men resemble Torumekian soldiers.
** In fact, the film borrows heavily from several of Ghibli's previous films, which may or may not be intentional.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:Cob is burned alive by Dragon!Therru.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: There is a few in this film. For example:

** Arren's mount is possibly in the noble line of Ghibli {{Expy}}s, a copy of [[Anime/PrincessMononoke Ashitaka's]] red elk Yakul.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: When Therru tells Arren her true name. Also, [[spoiler:she defeats Cob by turning into a dragon after he strangles her to death. It's [[InexplicablyAwesome never really explained why]] she can do this]].
** We are given two extremely small hints: Root (the king's wizard/advisor from the beginning) mentions that humans and dragons used to be the same race, and when Sparrowhawk first sees Therru he remarks that there's something strange about her.

* MadeASlave: Nearly happens twice.

* PluckyGirl: Therru, later in the film.

* TheQuietOne: Arren.
* SaharanShipwreck: Opening scenes.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness / InformedDeformity: Therru. In the original books she suffered from third-degree burns on her face. In the movie, the left side of it is somewhat redder than the rest of her skin. Interestingly, slave-traders still call her ugly.

* ButNowIMustGo: Arren decides to return to Enlad to turn himself in for murdering his father, but he promises Therru that he will see her again.

** Later, when Arren's father, the king, is walking down a hall to his chambers, Arren sneaks up to him and plunges a knife into his stomach! The pool of blood leaking near him doesn't help either.
** At the end of the film, once Arren finally unsheathes his sword, he charges at Cob and ''cuts his right hand off''. The severed limb is laying in a pool of blood. [[spoiler: However, Cob reattaches his hand.]]

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: When Therru tells Arren her true name. Also, [[spoiler:she defeats Cob by turning into a dragon after he strangles her to death. It's [[InexplicablyAwesome never really explained why]] she can do this.]]

** Subverted with Arren; he decides to turn himself in for killing his father.

* {{Patricide}}: Committed by Arren in the beginning of the film, the reason for him running away.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Arren murders his father for seemingly no reason at the start of the film.

* ShadowArchetype: Inverted. Throughout the movie, Arren is pursued by a shadow in his form. [[spoiler: As a matter of fact, the Arren we watch for most of the movie is actually Arren's shadow, and is fleeing in fear from the noble and courageous self he refuses to acknowledge, instead blaming it for all the violence and fear he's lived through]].

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Arren's father, the king of Enlad, is only shown in the prologue before he is murdered by his own son.

** Cob even applies, when he almost crushes Arren's heart with a spell. He even strangles Therru to death. [[spoiler: She survives.]]

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[[caption-width-right:310:Don't let this fool you. The movie is NOT about dragons. ]]

While this film is covered under the Disney/Ghibli distribution deal, licensing issues with [[{{Series/Earthsea}} the SciFi Channel miniseries]] had prevented it from being released in North America. It finally hit US shores in August of 2010, with the dub cast featuring the likes of Creator/WillemDafoe, Creator/TimothyDalton, and Mariska Hargitay.

While this film is covered under the Disney/Ghibli distribution deal, licensing issues with [[{{Series/Earthsea}} the SciFi Channel miniseries]] had prevented it from being released in North America. It finally hit US shores in August of 2010, with the dub cast featuring the likes of Willem Dafoe, Timothy Dalton, and Mariska Hargitay.

* CoolSword: Apparently, you need magic to draw it, so it gets one flashy action scene where the scabbard is enough, and another when it's ''not''. Otherwise, it has on conspicuous failure in the opening sequence, and is understandably mistaken for junk.

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** In the opening, there are two dragons fighting each other, and the fight ends when one of the dragons tears the other's ''throat'' out.

* AdaptationDistillation: It's a mix of several of the books. Le Guin said what confused her most about the film was that she kept expecting it to follow one of the original plots. If you really want to be specific it mixes the storyline of The Farthest Shore with some elements of Tehanu.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster above is supposed to make you think that the movie is about a boy who rides a dragon. Turns out it's not.

* Patricide: Committed by Arren in the beginning of the film, the reason for him running away.

* AdaptationDistillation: It's a mix of several of the books. Le Guin said what confused her most about the film was she kept expecting it to follow one of the original plots. If you really want to be specific it mixes the storyline of The Farthest Shore with some elements of Tehanu.

A StudioGhibli animated film based on the first, third, and fourth novels in the ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' series by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin. The film was directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of studio founder Creator/HayaoMiyazaki.

A StudioGhibli animated film based on the first, third, and fourth novels in the ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' series by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin. Le Guin's response to the film can be found [[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html here]]. In a nutshell, she thought the film suffered in comparison to her own novels and that is was overly violent and [[{{Anvilicious}} preachy]], and that the characters are too white (which is a serious issue for Le Guin), but that the movie was merely dissatisfying rather than outright bad. Given Le Guin's [[DisownedAdaptation vehemently negative opinions]] of all prior attempts at adapting her work to other media this can be interpreted as getting off lightly. (Critics broadly agreed with Le Guin. The movie scores 41% on RottenTomatoes, by far the worst score of all the Ghibli films.)

The film was directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's son Goro, as Miyazaki had planned to retire. The elder Miyazaki's own reaction to the end product reportedly caused some friction between father and son, as well as some concern on the part of Studio Ghibli management over their ongoing lack of a new generation of directors capable of taking over for founding directors Miyazaki and Creator/IsaoTakahata.

A StudioGhibli animated film based on the first, third, and fourth novels in the ''[[Literature/EarthseaTrilogy Earthsea]]'' series by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin. [=LeGuin's=] response to the film can be found [[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html here]]. In a nutshell, she thought the film suffered in comparison to her own novels and that is was overly violent and [[{{Anvilicious}} preachy]], and that the characters are too white (which is a serious issue for Le Guin), but that the movie was merely dissatisfying rather than outright bad. Given Le Guin's [[DisownedAdaptation vehemently negative opinions]] of all prior attempts at adapting her work to other media this can be interpreted as getting off lightly. (Critics broadly agreed with [=LeGuin=]. The movie scores 41% on RottenTomatoes, by far the worst score of all the Ghibli films.)

While this film is covered under the Disney/Ghibli distribution deal, licensing issues with the {{SciFi Channel}} miniseries had prevented it from being released in North America. It finally hit US shores in August of 2010, with the dub cast featuring the likes of Willem Dafoe, Timothy Dalton, and Mariska Hargitay.

The film was directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's son Goro, as Miyazaki had planned to retire. The elder Miyazaki's own reaction to the end product reportedly caused some friction between father and son, as well as some concern on the part of Studio Ghibli management over their ongoing lack of a new generation of directors capable of taking over for founding directors Miyazaki and IsaoTakahata.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Cob.
** This became a very weird semi case of ShesAManInJapan in the German dub where Cob spoke with a ''very'' feminine voice but was still talked about as 'he' and 'the sorcerer'.

* ShadowArchetype: Arren's shadow is rather confusingly characterized. Here goes: [[spoiler: It makes him kill his father (from inside), then doing nothing, then saving the love interest, then comes out to try and drown poor Arren, then out once more to save the day again and flirt with said love interest.]]
** [[spoiler: It is actually implied by the shadow in his last scene that Arren only ''thought'' that it was making him kill his father, be violent when saving Therru, and try to drown him. In actuality, all those deeds came from the darkness within Arren himself, and the shadow is the lost light he's subconsciously afraid of taking back, thus scapegoating it for all his bad deeds.]]

* DullSurprise: Most of the dub cast is exceptionally good...except for Mariska Hargitay as Tenar, who is very blatantly phoning it in.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They look like traditional Western dragons mostly, are creatures that chose "air and fire" when humans chose "earth and sea" and seeing two of them fighting and the beginning of the is a sign that bad times are there.

* ShadowArchetype: Arren's shadow is rather confusingly characterised. Here goes: [[spoiler: It makes him kill his father (from inside), then doing nothing, then saving the love interest, then comes out to try and drown poor Arren, then out once more to save the day again and flirt with said love interest.]]