History Trivia / CastleInTheSky

* CreatorBacklash: Joe Hisaishi doesn't consider his original score for the film one of his better works, noting that he didn't have a lot of time to get it put together compared to his other soundtracks, reflected in its more minimal arrangements and heavy use of synthesizers. Hisaishi strongly prefers the new score, a fully-orchestrated and elaborate work in the vein of his other soundtracks, to the point where it was the only one of the two to see a CD release past 2003.

* DawsonCasting:
** Pazu and Sheeta (both appear to be approximately 13-14) are voiced in the Disney English version by ([[TropeNamer fittingly enough]]) Creator/JamesVanDerBeek (21) and Creator/AnnaPaquin (17), and sound considerably more mature than teens usually do. Longtime fans of the original Japanese version see this as a point of contention, while others don't find it so distracting (in fact, much of the criticism for the voices come down to [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent Sheeta's odd accent]], rather than this trope). Ironically enough, the Japanese version may be worse in this regard, as Creator/MayumiTanaka and Keiko Yokoyama were both in their ''thirties'', and portray Pazu and Sheeta as high-pitched-sounding kids (Barbara Goodson and Lara Cody from the dub from the 80s Streamline release were also in their 30's too), but it remains debatable over whose performance of these two characters is preferable.

** Pazu and Sheeta (both at approximately 13-14; it's never stated in the movie) are voiced in the Disney English version by ([[TropeNamer fittingly enough]]) Creator/JamesVanDerBeek (21) and Creator/AnnaPaquin (17), and sound considerably more mature than their intended ages. Longtime fans of the original Japanese version have stated this as a point of contention, while others don't find it so distracting.
** Ironically enough, in the Japanese version, Creator/MayumiTanaka and Keiko Yokoyama, both who were in their ''thirties'' (as were Barbara Goodson and Lara Cody from the dub from the 80s Streamline release, at 38 and 30, respectively), portray Pazu and Sheeta as high-pitched-sounding kids. It remains debatable over whose performance of these two characters is preferable.

** The dub distributed by Creator/StreamlinePictures only appeared on home media in Japan - on the 1996 "Ghibli ga Ippai" laserdisc set from Tokuma Shoten (which featured every Studio Ghibli movie up until that point) and on the 2002 DVD by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The 2014 Japanese HD remaster uses the Disney dub.

* NoExportForYou: Ironically, the soundtrack of the US score is only available for purchase in Japan. The English dub with said soundtrack was admittedly included as a bonus feature on the Japanese UsefulNotes/BluRay. The rescore is also on the Australian and UK BD releases, while [=GKIDS=]' Blu-ray and DVD releases contain both scores.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The dub distributed by Creator/StreamlinePictures only appeared on home media in Japan - on the 1996 "Ghibli ga Ippai" laserdisc set from Tokuma Shoten (which featured every Studio Ghibli movie up until that point) and on the 2002 DVD by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The 2014 Japanese HD remaster uses the Disney dub.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The word "Laputa" was dropped from the title in the Spanish and US releases because it means "the whore" in Spanish. Miyazaki took the name from ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', likely without even realizing that Jonathan Swift had chosen the name for that very reason. However, most international releases of the film kept the word anyway. It is even exclusively called ''Laputa'' in Australia.

** Pazu and Sheeta (both at approximately 13-14; it's never stated in the movie) are voiced in the Disney English version by ([[TropeNamer fittingly enough]]) James Van Der Beek (21) and Creator/AnnaPaquin (17), and sound considerably more mature than their intended ages. Longtime fans of the original Japanese version have stated this as a point of contention, while others don't find it so distracting.

* NamesTheSame: Castle in the Sky is also the name of a song made by DJ Satomi.

* NoExportForYou: Ironically, the soundtrack of the US score is only available for purchase in Japan. The English dub with said soundtrack was admittedly included as a bonus feature on the Japanese UsefulNotes/BluRay. The rescore is also on the Australian and UK BD releases, while GkKIDS' Blu-ray and DVD releases contain both scores.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The dub distributed by Creator/StreamlinePictures only saw a few releases, all of which are out of print.

* NoExportForYou: Ironically, the soundtrack of the US score is only available for purchase in Japan. The English dub with said soundtrack was admittedly included as a bonus feature on the Japanese UsefulNotes/BluRay. The rescore is also on the Australian and UK BD releases, while Gkids' Blu-ray and DVD releases contain both scores.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The word "Laputa" was dropped from the title in the Spanish and US releases because it means "the whore" in Spanish. Miyazaki took the name from ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', likely without even realizing that Jonathan Swift had chosen the name for that very reason. However, most international releases of the film kept the word anyway. It is exclusively called ''Laputa'' in Australia.

* RecycledScript: From ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', an anime series whose concept was created by Miyazaki in TheEighties as a proposed sequel to his work ''Anime/FutureBoyConan''. Like ''Castle in the Sky'', it also features blue skies, ancient civilizations, flying machines, a brave boy and his more mystic female friend from said civilization who carries a blue magic gemstone, a small clan of robbers led by a woman who eventually become allies, and a paramilitary order of villains whose leader is also related to it. The rejection of Miyazaki's pitch by Toho led him to recycle this script in his own film, ''Castle in the Sky'', but ''Nadia'' would end up being produced too some years later (ironically, under the direction of an old colleague of Miyazaki's, Creator/HideakiAnno).

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Joe Hisishi has gone on record to prefer his rescore over the original more synth-heavy and miminalist score and even Hayao Miyazaki has gone on to approve of the new score. Many hardcore fans of the Japanese version at the time, however, thought otherwise, disliking the new score and preferring the original instead. Some critics, however, did indeed echo Miyazaki and Hisaishi's sentiments, and while some people still do detest it, [[VindicatedByHistory today, there are many who like the rescore]].

* CreatorBacklash: Joe Hisaishi doesn't consider his original score for the film one of his better works, noting that he didn't have a lot of time to get it put together compared to his other soundtracks. Hisaishi strongly prefers the new score, to the point where it was the only one of the two to see a CD release past 2003.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Joe Hisishi has gone on record to prefer his rescore over the original more snyth-heavy and miminalist score and even Hayao Miyazaki has gone on to approve of the new score. Many hardcore fans of the Japanese version at the time, however, thought otherwise, disliking the new score and preferring the original instead. Some critics, however, did indeed echo Miyazaki and Hisaishi's sentiments, and while some people still do detest it, [[VindicatedByHistory today, there are many who like the rescore]].

* StockSoundEffect: While Pazu and Sheeta's glider is swept through the storm clouds around Laputa, there's a roaring sound frequently used with numerous {{Kaiju}} monsters in Japanese films and TV series.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Joe Hisishi has gone on record to prefer his rescore over the original more snyth-heavy and miminalist score and even Hayao Miyazaki has gone on to approve of the new score. Many hardcore fans however, thought otherwise, disliking the new score and preferring the original instead. Some critics, however, did indeed echo Miyazaki and Hisaishi's sentiments, and [[VindicatedByHistory today, there are many who like the rescore]].

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Joe Hisishi has gone on record to prefer his rescore over the original more snyth-heavy and miminalist score and even Hayao Miyazaki has gone on to approve of the new score. Many critics and fans however, thought otherwise, disliking the new score and preferring the original instead (that said, there are many who like the rescore, particularly nowadays).

* CreatorBacklash: Joe Hisaishi doesn't consider his original score for the film one of his better works, noting that he didn't have a lot of time to get it put together compared to his other soundtracks. This explains both its unusually minimalist and electronic direction (as synthesizers, while expensive, are versatile enough to imitate multiple instruments from a single unit) and the decision to produce a new, more elaborate score for Disney's dub of the film; Hisaishi strongly prefers the new score, to the point where it was the only one of the two to see a CD release past 2003.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The word "Laputa" was dropped from the title in the Spanish and US releases because [[UnfortunateName it means "the whore" in Spanish]]. Miyazaki took the name from ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', likely without even realizing that Jonathan Swift had chosen the name for that very reason. However, most international releases of the film kept the word anyway. It is exclusively called ''Laputa'' in Australia.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Joe Hisishi has gone on record to prefer his rescore over the original more snyth-heavy and miminal score and even Hayao Miyazaki has gone on to approve of the new score, many critics and fans however, thought otherwise, disliking the new score and preferring the original instead (that said, there are many who like the rescore, particularly nowadays).

* RecycledScript: From ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', an anime series whose concept was created by Miyazaki in TheEighties as a proposed sequel to his work ''Anime/FutureBoyConan''. Like ''Castle in the Sky'', it also features blue skies, ancient civilizations, flying machines, a brave boy and his more mystic female friend from said civilization who carries a blue magic gemstone, a small clan of robbers led by a woman who eventually become allies, and a paramilitary order of villains whose leader is also related to it. The rejection of Miyazaki's pitch by Toho led him to recycle this script in his own film, ''Castle in the Sky'', but''Nadia'' would end up being produced too some years later (ironically, under the direction of an old colleague of Miyazaki's, Creator/HideakiAnno).

* RecycledScript: From ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', an anime series whose concept was created by Miyazaki in TheEighties as a proposed sequel to his work ''Anime/FutureBoyConan''. Like ''Castle in the Sky'', it also features blue skies, ancient civilizations, flying machines, a brave boy and his more mystic female friend from said civilization who carries a blue magic gemstone, a small clan of robbers led by a woman who eventually become allies, and a paramilitary order of villains whose leader is also related to it. The rejection of Miyazaki's pitch by Toho led him to recycle this script in his own film, ''Castle in the Sky'', although ''Nadia'' would end up being produced too some years later (ironically, under the direction of an old colleague of Miyazaki's, Creator/HideakiAnno).

* RecycledScript: From ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', an anime series whose concept was created by Miyazaki in a proposed pitch for Toho in TheSeventies. Like ''Castle in the Sky'', it also features blue skies, ancient civilizations, flying machines, a brave boy and his more mystic female friend from said civilization who carries a blue magic gemstone, a small clan of robbers led by a woman who eventually become allies, and a paramilitary order of villains whose leader is also related to it. The rejection of Miyazaki's pitch led him to recycle this script in his own film, ''Castle in the Sky'', although ''Nadia'' would end up being produced too some years later (ironically, under the direction of an old colleague of Miyazaki's, Creator/HideakiAnno).

* DawsonCasting: Pazu and Sheeta (both at approximately 13-14; it's never stated in the movie) are voiced in the Disney English version by ([[TropeNamer fittingly enough]]) James Van Der Beek (21) and Creator/AnnaPaquin (17), and sound considerably more mature than their intended ages. Longtime fans of the original Japanese version have stated this as a point of contention, while others don't find it so distracting.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Among Japanese fans, a popular rumor exists purporting that a supposed alternate ending to the film was once broadcast during one of the film's annual airings on Japanese TV; the rumor started from a number of low-quality screenshots posted online in 2007, all of which contained shots not seen in the final film and some of which include credits superimposed onto them. While Ghibli themselves debunked the claim that an alternate ending exists, a number of fans are still trying to prove that it exists by hunting down TV airings without any publicly available home recordings, with one even offering ¥50,000 to anyone who can find footage of the alleged alternate ending alone and ¥70,000 to anyone who can find a full recording of a broadcast containing the ending, with commercial breaks intact.

** Ironically enough, in the Japanese version, Creator/MayumiTanaka and Keiko Yokoyama, both who were in their ''thirties'' (as were Barbara Goodson and Lara Cody from the dub from the 80s Streamline release, at 38 and 30, respectively), portray Pazu and Sheeta as high-pitched-sounding kids. It remains debatable over whose performance of these two characters are preferable.

* TheRedStapler: The film casued an increase in Asian tourism to Italy because of [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-as-chinese-tourists-stay-home-a-world-that-has-grown-dependent-on-them-feels-their-absence/2020/02/07/0ff7a37e-46a4-11ea-91ab-ce439aa5c7c1_story.html a building that resembles the epynomous location]].