Tales from Earthsea (film)

Tales from Earthsea Japanese , Hepburn Gedo Senki? , literally Geds War Chronicles is a 2006 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Gor Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film is based on a combination of plots and characters from the first four books of Ursula K. Le Guins Earthsea series A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu however, the films title is named from the collection of short stories, Tales from Earthsea, made in 2001. The plot was entirely different according to the author Ursula K. Le Guin, who told director Gor Miyazaki, It is not my book. It is your movie. It is a good movie, although she later expressed her disappointment with the end result.

The King of Enlad, already troubled by tales of drought and pestilence in the land, as well as the news about people going insane, receives news both of the strange omen at sea and of the disappearance of his son, Prince Arren. The Kings wizard Root tells the tale of how dragons and men were once one, until people who cherished freedom became dragons, and men chose possessions and of his fears of how the lands plight is because of the weakening of the worlds Balance. The King has little time to ponder on this before he is killed in a dark corridor by a young boy who is revealed to be his son Arren. The young prince steals his fathers sword and flees the palace.Later, the Archmage Sparrowhawk Ged arrives at the desert, where he witnesses Arren being pursued by wolves. He rescues Arren, who later agrees to accompany Sparrowhawk on his journey and travels to the city of Hort Town, where vendors scam people and slavers sell and trade slaves. Arren, after earning a cloak from Sparrowhawk, who buys it at a cloak vendors stand, almost eats some Hazia from a Hazia dealer. Sparrowhawk stops him and tells him that Hazia is a drug that makes people hallucinate and then eventually die if they continue to eat it. Sparrowhawk returns to the inn while Arren goes to explore the town alone. Arren suddenly becomes scared, as if something is following him. While fleeing in fright, Arren sees a young girl with a burn scar on her face named Therru, fleeing from slavers and their leader, Hare. Although Arren saves her by fighting off the slavers, he also shocks her with his indifference to the life of any person, even his own, causing Therru to not trust him. ........

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