My mom has said before that she wants her funeral to be more of a celebration than a time of grief, and I can respect that. But, I really feel like the most important thing is not to FORCE anything. I think the leader of such things, pastor or family or whatever, should keep in mind what the tone of the gathering is. If the majority of people are trying to cheer up, trying to remember just the good times without adding in too much grief, then that should be encouraged. But, if the overall tone is grief, sadness, loss...a cheery upbeat attitude shouldn't be FORCED upon them.
But, that's just my opinion about things like funerals, which really are a lot more about helping those who are continuing to live deal with the loss of a fellow human, than they are about honoring the deceased.
As for animes/adaptions from Japanese things in general, I really feel like one of the most important things that is never done, is to have the English version director TALK/COMMUNICATE/ETC with the original Japanese director. Because you can watch something through and think, okay, I can do that/understand that. But, if you talk to the director, you can get a much deeper sense of why they chose to do such and such over such and such, and why they wanted to cast This Voice instead of That One, and so on. But, they often just throw people into these things, figuring that the translators will do their job, and now it's just a matter of matching sound to movement of mouths. It's one of the reasons why dubs blow so hard--it's just often too difficult to act properly when one is so concerned with matching timing.
I have a theory about a Mirror Conspiracy. Some places, I swear to god, have mirrors designed to make me look bad. Like, amazingly bad, where I go...hey. Wait a second. As an artist, I can see that there are some minute tweakings of things that are causing odd angles, and a distortion of perspective here. HEEEEEEEY!
But, have you ever been in the reverse? I met a mirror in this one place that I would swear made me look better than I really do. And when I got home, I was dismayed to find, yeah. That mirror made it look better on me than my mirror at home. It's times like that when I'm grateful to have a Fitting Partner, though I'll say here and now I so prefer shopping with other girls who know what they're supposed to be looking for/at ("This will look a LOT better with that one pair of jeans. Look what it does for your shoulders! Just look past the odd line formed with this skirt."), but even Brian can be helpful sometimes. Shopping alone is so sad. D=
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But, that's just my opinion about things like funerals, which really are a lot more about helping those who are continuing to live deal with the loss of a fellow human, than they are about honoring the deceased.
As for animes/adaptions from Japanese things in general, I really feel like one of the most important things that is never done, is to have the English version director TALK/COMMUNICATE/ETC with the original Japanese director. Because you can watch something through and think, okay, I can do that/understand that. But, if you talk to the director, you can get a much deeper sense of why they chose to do such and such over such and such, and why they wanted to cast This Voice instead of That One, and so on. But, they often just throw people into these things, figuring that the translators will do their job, and now it's just a matter of matching sound to movement of mouths. It's one of the reasons why dubs blow so hard--it's just often too difficult to act properly when one is so concerned with matching timing.
I have a theory about a Mirror Conspiracy. Some places, I swear to god, have mirrors designed to make me look bad. Like, amazingly bad, where I go...hey. Wait a second. As an artist, I can see that there are some minute tweakings of things that are causing odd angles, and a distortion of perspective here. HEEEEEEEY!
But, have you ever been in the reverse? I met a mirror in this one place that I would swear made me look better than I really do. And when I got home, I was dismayed to find, yeah. That mirror made it look better on me than my mirror at home. It's times like that when I'm grateful to have a Fitting Partner, though I'll say here and now I so prefer shopping with other girls who know what they're supposed to be looking for/at ("This will look a LOT better with that one pair of jeans. Look what it does for your shoulders! Just look past the odd line formed with this skirt."), but even Brian can be helpful sometimes. Shopping alone is so sad. D=