Toyotama-hime – Wani (Dragon) Goddess disguised as a human
Wani was a dragon or sea monster in Japanese mythology. Wani is discribed as "crocodile", or sometimes "shark".
Toyotamahime (See) is a goddess in Japanese mythology. Daughter of the sea god Watatsumi, she was said to reside in a dragon palace. Their palace was as if made from fish scales and supposedly lies undersea. Her true form was “Yahiro no Owani (meaning giant crocodile, approx. 24 m long)”, and she was the wife of Hoori (See2), is known as the epitome of human–animal marriage tales. She was the mother of Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto (See3), father of Emperor Jinmu (the first Emperor: See4), and sister of Tamayori-hime (See5), the Emperor's mother.
Toyotamahime makes a fateful meeting with the demigod prince, Yamasachi, also known as Hoori ("Fire-Subside"). They married and lived happily in the dragon palace. 3 years later, she and her husband Hoori, who missed home, went ashore to give birth.
She then warned her husband, "All people from other parts of the world give birth in the form of their native country when giving birth. So I will give birth to a child in my true form”, and requested Hoori not watch how she gives birth. Hoori, however, was pazzled and peered in on his wife as she was giving birth, and saw her crawling around as a giant crocodile of about 24 metres (79 ft) long. He then startled in shock and retreated. Toyatama-hime learnt that being witnessed her true form by her husband, "I have always intended to pass through the path of the sea," she said, "but I am ashamed that you should have observed my true form.” She blocked the sea path, leaving the child behind and left.
(【特集】『ブレードランナー』伝説の名ゼリフ『雨の中の涙』を徹底解説【はじめてのブレードランナー2】 | THE RIVERから)
この記事には、映画『ブレードランナー』第一作のネタバレが含まれています。
雨の中の涙
「おまえたち人間には信じられないようなものを私は見てきた。オリオン座の近くで燃える宇宙戦艦。タンホイザー・ゲートの近くで暗闇に瞬くCビーム、そんな思い出も時間と共にやがて消える。雨の中の涙のように。死ぬ時が来た。」
(原文:I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.)
通称「Tears in rain monologue」(雨の中の涙モノローグ)、または「Cビームスピーチ」として知られるこの台詞は、SF映画だけでなく映画史全体においても屈指の感動的なスクリプトとして知られています。
筆者の個人的見解では、『ブレードランナー』を後世に残る偉大な作品たらしめる要素の中でも、この台詞を含めたロイの最後の場面は最も重要だったといって過言ではありません。
冷酷な殺人マシーンのようだったロイが、短い人生の最後に愛おしむように鳩を抱きしめ、動かなくなっていく体を雨の中震わせながら絞り出す稀代の詩人のようなセンテンス。全ての観客を予期しなかった感動の渦に巻き込んだこの名台詞は、一般的にロイ・バティーを演じたルトガー・ハウアーのアドリブであったとして知られています。しかし私見ながら、これは正確な情報とは言えないと考えます。
オリジナル脚本にアドリブを加えて生まれた名台詞
ハンプトン・ファンチャーが製作上の意見の相違から降りた後、二人目の脚本家として招集されたディヴィッド・ピープルズ。彼がこのシーンの為に書き下ろしたオリジナル脚本では、該当の台詞はこうなっていました。
「私は冒険を知っている。お前達人間が決して目にすることはない場所を見てきた。オフワールドへ行って戻ってきたんだ…フロンティアだぞ!プルーティション・キャンプへの信号機の背甲板に立って、汗で沁みる目で、オリオン座の近くの星間戦争を見たんだ。髪に風を感じていた。テストボートに乗って黒い銀河から去りながら、攻撃艦隊がマッチのように燃えて消えていくのを見た。そう、見た、感じたんだ!」
(原文:I have known adventures, seen places you people will never see, I’ve been Offworld and back…frontiers! I’ve stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion. I’ve felt wind in my hair, riding test boats off the black galaxies and seen an attack fleet burn like a match and disappear. I’ve seen it…felt it!)
1ページの半分ほどもあったこの長台詞を読んだルトガー・ハウアーが、死を前にしたレプリカントの言葉としては長すぎると、台詞がもたらすイメージをそのままに要約し、そして”All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”という言葉を付け加えて完成したのが、「雨の中の涙」モノローグです。
お気づきの方も多いと思いますが、ピープルズのオリジナル脚本には「タンホイザーゲート」、そして「Cビーム」という単語は登場しません。その代わりに、「オフワールド」や「プルーティションキャンプ」といった造語が登場しています。
ポール・M・サモン著『メイキング・オブ・ブレードランナー』(ソニーマガジンズ、1997)によると、ルトガー・ハウアー本人がインタビューで、
「私のことやあのセリフのことはよく取り上げられるが、肝心の脚本家が無視されているのはよくない。バティの独白を書いたディヴィット・ピープルズの仕事は本当に素晴らしい。私は彼が掘り下げたあのイメージがとても好きだった」とピープルズを賞賛しています。
「銀河っぽくカッコいい造語の固有名詞」を使うこと、信号灯のようなものが暗黒の宇宙で輝いていること、オリオン座の近くで宇宙船が燃えていること、これらのイメージを作り上げたピープルズを抜きに、この台詞は誕生しなかったというわけです。
このロイ・バティーの最後の言葉は、映画中盤のチュウの眼球工房でロイが口にするアメリカの詩人ウィリアム・ブレイクの詩のアレンジ「燃える様に天使は落ちた。轟くような雷鳴が岸をころがり、怪獣の火と共に消えた」や、「チュウ、お前が造った目で私が見たものを、お前にも見せてやりたかった」という台詞と対になっています(これらの台詞もピープルズによるものです)。
チュウを殺すこの場面では、戦闘用レプリカントであるロイはさぞかし凄惨な情景ばかり見せつけられて、自らの造物主に恨みを抱いているんだろうなという印象を受けるのですが、『雨の中の涙』モノローグによって、醜いものばかりでなく美しいものもたくさん見たからこそ、彼はもっと生きていたかったのかもしれないと受け取ることができるわけです。
というわけで個人的に『雨の中の涙』モノローグは、ピープルズが造った土台に、ルトガーが素晴らしいアドリブを加えた二人の共作であるとするのが一番しっくり来ます。
ちなみに「タンホイザー・ゲート」や「Cビーム」とは何か?という質問をよく受けるのですが、前述したように造語ですので正式な意味はありません。
それでも無理やり適当に解説すると「タンホイザー」とはそもそもリヒャルト・ワーグナーのオペラ『タンホイザーとヴァルトブルクの歌合戦』に登場する主人公の名前です。ゲートってからには、ワープの発着点のようなものが想像できます。ドイツ系のタンホイザーという人が開発したんでしょう、きっと。
「Cビーム」の方は何でしょう、宇宙戦艦がマッチのように燃えていることから『ブレードランナー』世界における兵器ではないかと推測できます。「Charged particle-beam 」(荷電粒子ビーム)という言葉はあるので、これの略ってことでいかがでしょうか。(あくまでも個人的推察です。)
Leshy – ‘Forest guardian’, the lord of the forests
The Leshy is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology. He is the spirit who rules the forest and the hunt, and the master of the forest animals.
Leshy had well developed polymorphic skills. Mostly, he was appearing as an anthropoid creature, old man with a beard, sometimes a one eyed cyclops. He could change his sizes due to the height of the forest. Moreover, he could take the form of animals such as wolf, bear, eagle-owl, or even transform into wind. Leshy’s helpers were various small demons, ghosts and forest imps, such as auk (the ghost of echo), puszczewik, Mochowiks, (guardians of mosses) Lugowoj and Polewoj. There were also caring creatures, for example grybicz (mushrooms), jagodynicz (blueberries), pczelicz (bees), whose names clearly show what kinds of forest “inhabitants” they were taking care of.
Towards people, his behaviour was changing, from neutral to hostile. It depended mostly on how people treated the forest and its creatures. Leshy was especially unfriendly to hunters and lumberjacks, who were clearly violating his inhabited lands. Depending on his attitude, he could either misguide people, or help them to find a way out from the forest, play pranks by, such as scattering forest undergrowth from the basket, or protect them from wild animals attacks. Formerly, the place, where Leshy’s presence, or signs of his activity, were observed, was considered as a sanctuary. It was forbidden to come in to that part of the forest, but more importantly, to cause damage such as cutting down trees, hunt, or collect fruits of the undergrowth like nature reserves.
If you are walking through a deep, overgrown forest and feel someone looking at you or following you, it could be a Lshey. If you turn around to look at him, you cannot see him as he’s much quicker than you.
He may try to misorientates travellers entering the forest and lure them deeper into the forest, but if they wear their shoes backwards and their clothes backwards and forwards, the Laceys will be confused and their magic will be easily broken.
(Below is a cleaned up machine translation. Please note that due to the nature of machine translation, the text may not be wholly accurate or may read oddly. Japanese is included after English for reference. The text was lifted from the images using this site, and though there's been care taken to make sure everything is correct, there is a chance of unintentional typos.)
With the Only one prince + superb honeymoon in paradise♡
Only oneの王子様と+楽園で極上ハネムーン♡
▼ Spade offers a handkerchief to Joker, who is soaking wet from the rain. Phoenix is in a panic because of the rain, which he doesn't like!
Joker dressed up as a woman to participate in the World Bride Grand Prix. The exotic dress suits him ♪
世界花嫁グランプリ出場のため、ジョーカーが女装した姿。 エキゾチックなドレスがお似合い ♪
--Producer Mabuchi Yoshiki Interview
Joker and new characters such as Phoenix (Akai Tsubasa) and members of the "Devil Fang" organization led by President D continue their unpredictable adventures in "Kaitou Joker" Season 3. I'm sure your hearts are racing with excitement, but how about another thing that makes your heart flutter♥
This time, we have a fantasy of newlywed life with Joker and friends ♪ We also have special cooking tips for the future brides. Of course, the excitement will be even more intense in the full-length anime! We received the following secret information from producer Yoshiki Mabuchi of Shin-Ei Animation! The main highlights are Phoenix and Hosshi. Their mysteries will be gradually revealed during the 16 episodes between Season 3 and the upcoming Season 4. In Season 1 and Season 2, the story was rather complete, but in Season 3 and Season 4, the mystery will be solved by watching all the episodes. Also, the tricks this time were supervised by a real magician, RYOTA, who came up with the ideas for the tricks.
Let's explore the charms of Season 3 from various angles, such as the concepts of new characters and the event report manga, with Producer Mabuchi still with us. ♪
Tsubasa: "Hm, I've never cooked before… Well, here's the question: if I were to cook, what would it be? 1. Super spicy curry, 2. Super spicy mapo tofu, 3. Konpeito Southern Cross style (very spicy). By the way, I like very spicy food."
Spade: "I guess it's hard to decide between cooking and eating. Dark Eye makes delicious food, so I leave it up to him, but when I'm stuck in a writing dilemma, sometimes I just make French food."
Mabuchi P big prediction★
What if you let the phantom thieves do your housework!?
馬渕P大予想★
怪盗たちに家事を任せるなら!?
Joker
"Likely has the ability to select good things, so it could be shopping."
ジョーカー
「良い物を選別する力 があると思うので、 ショッピングでしょうか」
Hachi
"All the housework. He's the ideal wife that everyone wants (laughs)"
ハチ
「家事すべて。 もはや 誰もが欲しがる、 理想の嫁ですね (笑)」
Phoenix
"He's sleeping all the time, so I feel like he's going to be a lazy house-husband (laughs)"
フェニックス
「ずっと寝ているので、 ダラダラした主夫になりそうです (笑)」
Shadow
"He seems to take good care of people, so I guess it would be picking up the kids and taking out the trash."
シャドウ
「面倒見は良さそうなので、子どものお迎えやゴミ出しでしょうか」
Spade
"He's also a novelist, so perhaps he might not do well with housework."
スペード
「小説家もやっている ので、家事向きではないかもしれないですね」
--Mini Talk
Reverse Proposal Tips! Phantom Thief Mini Talk ♪
What gift makes you happiest?
逆プロポーズのヒント!? 怪盗ミニトーク♪
プレゼントされて一番嬉しいものは?
Joker & Tsubasa: "A game!!"
Spade: "You guys are so in-tune…"
Joker: "No way! Okay, if you like games, let's play an action game!"
Tsubasa: "That sounds fun!"
Spade: "I'll pass. You really do like that sort of thing, you're like children."
Tsubasa: "You just don't like losing, do you?"
Joker: "Yeah, right!"
Spade: "That isn't the case! Fine then, let's do it!"
Wings: "By the way, what's an action game?"
Joker & Spade: "Eh……"
Mabuchi P's Big Prediction ★
What kind of brides will the female phantom thieves be!?
"Queen is rough around the edges and wants to do the housework but often fails. She will need someone like Roko to follow her through. Ai is versatile, and she also cooks when in her Dark Eye form, so I think she will make the best bride. Rose seems surprisingly caring; However, she has been asleep for a long time, so I think she will be studying and learning modern common sense."
The characters are fundamentally the same as in Seasons 1 and 2, but we asked Miho Shimogasa to design them with a slightly more adult or "cool" look in mind. Phoenix, Hosshi, and "Devil Fang" became the main characters at the suggestion of director Yukiyo Teramoto and series director Dai Sato. Originally, the original author, Hideyasu Takahashi, had an idea for the Phoenix and the Divine Beast, and we pulled the concepts from a rough draft of that idea. There are still many mysteries about President D, but by creating an organization called "Devil Fang" and having rival thieves belong to it, it became easier to bring out various characters in the anime. There are many fascinating characters in the original story, and we want to include them in the anime as much as possible.
In Season 3, you seem to have included a number of concepts that are original to the anime.
Yes, that's right. The concept of Hosshi eating treasures and laying eggs, where key items of the story come out of, is also an original concept of the anime. On the other hand, Akai's three-choice questions are a concept that existed in the original story, and we decided to make use of it in the anime as well, so Akai always says the three-choice question every time he appears in the story. Mr. Sato raised the bar himself, saying, "I want the questions to rhyme nicely" (laughs). He had a hard time thinking about it.
Speaking of originality, Kaneko transformed into a murderous woman in episode 30. I was surprised because this was an idea that Director Teramoto had mentioned in the August 2015 issue of Otomedia.
It was an idea that Director Teramoto had been working on for a long time. The transformation scene was quite forced, but since it was a gag episode, I thought it would be okay (laughs). The next episode, episode 31, "Shadow and Eyes and Fakes" was also a gag episode, and everyone on the staff wanted to do it. Shadow also made an appearance for the first time in a while, and he too became more of a gag (laugh). We also introduced Fake Silver Heart and fake Roko, who were not in the original work. Fake-Silver is a robot and Fake-Roko is a skunk. In the original, Fake-Queen is the character who farts, but in the anime, we switched that concept to Fake-Roko. The cast is also spectacular, with Kenichi Suzumura as fake Joker, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as fake Spade, and Kaori Nazuka as fake Queen. The casting was done after asking Ayumu Murase, who plays Joker, who he would like to play a fake version of his character.
The opening and ending sequences were just as impressive as the previous and the OP was storyboarded by Takashi Otsuka, who also directed the previous season's OP, to match Arukara's "Miracle Shounen Boy 2" with an emphasis on coolness. Tasuke Inamura, the vocalist of Arukara, came up with the idea for the intro of the song, which includes the call "Hachi!" The ED is innovative, with Joker in red and the Hachi in blue, each running on a road in their image color. The ED is sung by Fuki Commune and fits perfectly with the song "Welcome to the Shining Night!"
What are the upcoming episodes and characters?
There are stories featuring DJ Peacock and Ali Baba. Stay tuned for a rendition of "Ali Baba and the Four Detectives." The story of Rainbow Justice will also involve the Devil Fang. In addition, watch for the original anime episode "The Sky Joker in Peril"! The story and tricks are completely original, and it takes place on Joker's airship, the Sky Joker. You will also see Joker's treasure room and learn about the inside of the ship.