天空の城ラピュタ Tenkū no shiro Rapyuta (Laputa il castello nel cielo)

Laputa - Castello nel cielo (天空の城ラピュタ Tenkū no shiro Rapyuta) è il terzo lungometraggio d'animazione diretto da Hayao Miyazaki.
Il titolo del film è un esplicito riferimento all'isola immaginaria Laputa, descritta nel romanzo I viaggi di Gulliver di Jonathan Swift.
Prodotto tra il giugno 1985 e il luglio 1986, e uscito nelle sale il 2 agosto di quello stesso anno, non tradì le aspettative né dei fan né dello stesso Studio Ghibli, che si apprestava a diventare uno dei più rinomati studi di animazione del mondo.

TRAMA
La storia inizia con una bambina, Sheeta, che, per scappare da un gruppo di pirati dell'aria intenzionati a catturarla, scivola dall'aeronave e cade dal cielo su un villaggio. Durante la caduta una misteriosa luce avvolge la piccola, che improvvisamente inizia a galleggiare nell'aria, fino ad atterrare dolcemente nelle braccia di un ragazzo orfano, Pazu, di ritorno alla fine del suo turno in miniera. Dopo averla soccorsa, Pazu la porta nella sua casa.
La mattina, appena svegli i due fanno subito amicizia, e durante la conversazione Pazu scopre che Sheeta è una discendente del popolo di Laputa, un leggendario castello volante che viaggia nel cielo nascosto dalle nuvole da centinaia di anni. In pochi credono alla sua esistenza, ma Pazu ne è convinto grazie al fatto che suo padre, anni addietro, fotografò parte della imponente struttura.
Pazu racconta che persino nel romanzo I viaggi di Gulliver di Jonathan Swift vi è una descrizione del castello. Il ragazzo decide quindi di aiutarla a ritornare nella sua città e insieme intraprendono una lunga avventura, costantemente inseguiti dai pirati e dall'esercito.

PERSONAGGI
Sheeta
personaggio principale del film, la ragazzina ha vissuto tra i monti in solitudine, custodendo un segreto a cui ora l'esercito è particolarmente interessato. Il suo nome segreto è "Lusheeta Toel Ul
Laputa" ed è una degli ultimi discendenti della famiglia reale di Laputa, il leggendario castello volante, come dimostra il suo pendente: una pietra con il simbolo di Laputa e il potere di annullare la forza di gravità.
Pazu
un giovane orfano che lavora nelle miniere. Aiuta Sheeta e l'accompagna per tutta l'avventura inseguendo il sogno sfiorato dal padre: la scoperta di Laputa. Assumerà un aspetto molto protettivo verso la sua amica.
Colonnello Muska
un uomo misterioso che controlla i servizi segreti e che si rivela il principale antagonista. Indossa occhiali neri, possiede molte informazioni su Laputa, ha modi educati ed è spietato. Muska cerca la pietra di Sheeta per trovare Laputa e impossessarsi del suo potere.
Dola
donna a capo di un gruppo di pirati dell'aria, in cerca della pietra di Sheeta. Non sembra conoscere appieno i poteri della pietra e il suo collegamento con Laputa.
Generale
comandante dell'esercito, è sovente in contrasto con Muska.

new year :)

For the first day of the year we had organized another special lunch and granny was still here with us, Momochan is happy when granny is there even if she doesn't show :)

Momochan and granny were looking tv togather while we were preparing food, some special strudel with ham and cheese inside (normally strudel is sweet but we have found some recipes to make a salted version), tortellini in broth and something else quick to do.

bubbles again :)

Momochan loves to make bubbles so here she is today just under our house, along the street :)
Daddy and granny are upstairs inside house preparing and dressing while Momochan and I have a quick walk outside.

Momo loves to make bubbles, she made a thousands bubbles of all the colours of the rainbow, she made and I exploded HAHAHA

Waling along the street we arrived at the little bridge over the water, there were some ducks, two females and a male quacking happily, pity we didn't have some bread to give but I guess it was not time for them to eat, if it not "lunch time" you throw them food they do not give a look at, from our house we can hear the ducks, so whenever we hear we can quickly get out and take some hard bread bread shop is just under our house or eventually we have some we did not eat so we use for them :) Quick now ! we have to come home again, daddy and granny are waiting for us for lunch !

three ducks are swimming :)

san silvester :)

Granny has come to party with us, inthe afternoon Momichan and I have gone to the shop under our house to buy some "magic wands" a kind of home little fireworks that sparkle but you can hold in your hands all the time and looks like a magic wand, Momo loves them :)

cotechino and lenticchies

polenta and mushrooms

We have prepared veggies and cotechino and some starts like polenta and mushrooms, we also had salami and ham and some tartufo cheese and salami.
Momo and granny were playing with a new game we had bought to play alltogather adn Momochan was winning everytime and was loosing, Momo laughed every time, the game treated to take away some sticks from a rocket shaped thing without letting the little balls inside fall down but everytime it was my turn I was unlucky and my sticks always made balls fall !!! the winner of the game is the one who has less balls than the other.
As we have finished eating Momochan asked about lighting her magic wands, they are coloured, green, red, orange and some white, she was amusing so much but in a short time all the livingroom was full of smoke HAHAHA

Momo and her magic wand

cotechino wrapped insde a special bread

Anyway, at midnight outside in the sky somewhere in the central plaza of the town, fireworks startedand Momo started to jump and shout happily, we were running from one side of the other inside the house to see the better possible, some fireworks were really enormous, other just made noise, some seemed gold fountains and some just magic sparkling dust, Momochan loved them all :)

Around one o'clock everything was finished and Momochan was tired.
I started to put everything in order and prepare milk bottle for her while daddy helped to put pijama and granny helped in the kitchen, I was tired too and I guess when everyone touched the bed, fall in a deep sleep :)

bubbles ...

Momochan loves to make bubbles so this morning for our usual walk I have given her permission to take the special bubble vase and she has start to run and make bubbles going to the central plaza for our usual coffee :)

Often we wake up and we take a walk to make breakfast at the coffee shop, we take a coffee and a croissants they have baked in the morning the same day, we chat, give a look at the news in the newspaper and after we go around for the plaza, today is a sunny morning, we have had a long rainy and cloudy week so we are happy to jump around with Momochan making bubbles :)
 

coffee shop central plaza :)

X'mas tree Dome plaza

After having taken the special balloon in the morning and had lunch at home, we have left for the big city, because every year we are curious to see what the Christmas Tree in Milan looks like.

Well, the tree is not bad, once "dressed" with lights and red ribbons, really looks nice :)

We wal around to see the glittering shops full of people buying everything despite the crisis in Italy, we enter in a coffee shop and after we take a lot of fotos, and an hour later I take the family behind the Dome plaza to a special shop, Luini, a shop existing since 1888 and selling fried panzerotti YUM YUM :)
Theese panzerotti are so special that when in Milan you want one, you just say "I want a Luini" :)

Momo and dad waiting to buy panzerotti :)

It is already dark and cold so is best for us to start going home, Momochan has to eat and go bed before 21,00 PM and we have to prepare food, her milk bottle and everything also she has not had her usul nap today so she is quite tired :)

X'mas balloon

This morning as everyday we are in the center of our town for a walk, we have to go to the ballon shop to take Momochan special X'Mas tree balloon, she has waiting since 24 december.
Momo is very happy to have this balloon, she had the same last year but during the moving to the new house we have lost it (anyway it was flat no air inside) so we have bought her a new one and we have had the lucky occasion of finding the same one, guess she will ask also the next year :)

Christmas dinner :)

We have an appointment at 20.30 to aunt and oncle house for dinner with our parents. Momochan is happy because she knows Santa Claus has taken some other presents for her and she guess in a box there will be a special one she waits since last year: a small kid pc she can take everywhere and learn colours, how to read and write words, english words and much more. (We have found this Clementoni Clem Touch Plus on the web at a reduced price and we have bought on Amazon a few days ago for her, it has a tons of small cassettes to play, it is sufficient you buy some other cassetts and you can change game, the folder of the small pc can contain four of them and once closed protects the pc in case of falling on the floor). Last year Momochan was too small to play with it also I did not found it anywhere and price was double than what I found now so now is more convenient in both cases :)

Momochan is really happy about her presents, she has had many. With that toy she will be able to learn how to write and read and she will use for long time :)

Christmas :))

Santa Claus and gnomes :)

This morning Momochan awakes and the first thing she tells me is " mommy I want to go livingroom to look under the Tree if Santa Claus hass come and took presents, I am worried !" HAHAHA

Just a few seconds after we hear Momochan shout happily "mommy ! the Tree is full of presents Santa Claus has passed by !!!"

Daddy and I go to the livingroom, nearly all the presents are for Momochan this year and some others have to come this evening when wee will go to the oncle and aunt to big town for dinner, granny will be there also.

YUM YUM, I like scrambled eggs !

A giant red and white striped bag contains an Ikea big seal and son, from aunt Sarah (my sister) two small boxes: one Hello Kitty cookie shaped box and a Hello Kitty watch, a paint box with pastels, paints, felt pens ..., two dvd: Cinderella and Peppa Pig X'Mas adventures :)

Other small packets contain a Hello Kitty red bag for me, a jacket for daddy, a Coca Cola pc key for me and a blackberry marmelade for daddy.

In the kitchen brackfast is waiting, daddy starts to cook scrambled eggs while Momochan eats milk and corn flakes, she has fruit juice and yogurt also, we have bisquits, panettone and tea :)
Weather outside is terrible, a cold rain is keeping everything humid, we do not want to get out, wee will stay home until evening to relax, play and look cartoon and Christmas films on tv :)

X'Mas night .... Santa Claus is coming !

Daddy and I are preparing dinner, I have plannes to make something special so we have bought a small turkey wee want to fill with chestnuts, apples, onions and potatoes, bake in the oven and accompany with other veggies, we also have ham and salami. Momochan is watching Christmas Peppa Pig, this toon we have never seen and pity is I have not the time to record it to put on my pc to see thousand times.
On the table we have an Ikea Christmas sheep and a Santa Claus deer we have assembled before.
Dinner flows and is nearly midnight, we have the panettone cake I have decorated with chinese mandarines and chokolate, we cheer with champagne and I prepare milk bottle for Momochan while she is running to wash her dummy, quick Momochan, quick, Santa Claus is coming and you have to sleep or he will go away and comes later !!! Momochan runs to wear her pijama worried Santa Claus is not coming soon because she is still awake, she takes her milk bottle, kiss goodnight while I go to put order in the kitchen and wash dishes and ... silently put the presents under the Tree tinkling some bells and making some "HO HO HO" pretending to be Santa Claus arriving ........... ^_______________^

らメン ramen :)

Today we have gone to Chinatown and we have come home late so we are preparing food now.
Daddy is home on vacation and thus prepares food for everybody. Momochan is already eating in her new bowl bought in Chinatown this morning her おいしいらメン oishii ramen :)

Now that we have new bowls we can eat ramen often and as here weeatherr is pretty cold and cloudy nothing is better to keep us warm :)
Daddy makes ramen with noodles, veggies (chinese cabbage and carrots), a hard boiled egg ゆで卵, broth without soy sauce (too salted for Momochan), and pices of turkey we have left from the other dinner last night. This time he hass also addes some slices of wiener because Momochan likes them, really dad is making ramen everrytime different depending what we have in the fridge :)

livingroom :)

This one is our new livingroom as it is now :)

We have our X'mas Tree decorated near the window, I have assembled the new red curtains,our old table is in his perfect corner, chairs have a decoration that is a big Santa Claus berret and the room gives a order feeling.
Momochan seems to appreciate the new room as it looks like now, curtains give a festive look and I can close them in the evening so that noone can look inside (the buildings outside are veeery near and if I go around the house with pijama or pants and Tshirt someone from outside can see HAHAHA !

new table and stool :)

This evening Momochan and I have a new occasion to celebrate: the first dinner inside the new kitchen with the new table !!!
Granny today has taken me to Ikea store to buy our X'Mas present in advance and, as period is what it is, and is best to give something useful instead of something to waste, we decided it was great to have the table Melltorp and two stool Marius, all white :)
For us is best to eat in the kitchen as we did before but now our table is in the living room so the kitchen needed a new one, eventually smaller we can use to prepare breackfast, to have space more when we will invite freinds for dinner, to leave some food and table prepared for Sampei when he comes back home in the night and in every other occasion :)

Give a look atour old table in the livingroom now, he has a perfect corner where we can eat in particular occasions or use to write and colour, use pc and make puzzles alltogather :)

kindergarden Christmas show :)

As every year teachers have prepared the annual Christmas show with all the kids. Everyone has a part in the show and they enter by groups. Momochan is in the first group of kids and she is a cat :)

She has to walk like a cat and togather with all the other kids of the cat group she has to tell a poetry. Meanwhile, a teacher is telling a story, the story of Santa Claus coming on the roof of the houses where cats live and chimney sweepers work and clean :)
During the night the teacher says, snow arrives (a group of kids dressed in white pretend to be snow flakes and they act as if they were snow falling from the sky). Look in the last foto here on the right, show is nearly ended and all the kindergarden kids wave goodbye and sing a Christmas song, Momochan is the middle with grey long sleeve shirt waving bye bye and the face painted like a cat with black nose and moustache :)