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A new interpretation of the famous scene from Castle in the Sky where Colonel Muska declares “I’ll give you three minutes,” based on the film’s storyboards, was introduced on Yahoo! News and became a hot topic on 5ch’s Geinou/Sports News+ board. Since there’s a scene in the film where he reloads his gun, the theory reads those three minutes not as mercy, but simply as the time it took to reload. Alongside voices agreeing with this reading, the thread expanded into deep-dive discussion of the film’s finer details — comparisons to Ultraman’s “three minutes,” and digging for the origins of Muska’s background and costume design. Attempts to tie it to Cup Noodle’s “three minutes” cook time were met with cooler heads pointing out it’s “fake news.”
Castle in the Sky: Muska’s “I’ll give you three minutes” wasn’t mercy — the “shocking truth” revealed by the storyboards
9/20 (Sun) 18:55
Reading Colonel Muska’s mind through the “storyboards”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
At 90 seconds that's a rules violation — it wouldn't count as an official record
That's literally what it says.
As for me, my "three minutes" is thanks to my son.
Even if he did know it, he might've figured it wouldn't matter as long as Sheeta didn't know it.
Muska's family is just a branch house, after all.
If the Deputy King's line had known the destruction spell, it would've been a national crisis, so I bet it was kept from them. It's a family that practiced inbreeding to preserve "pure" bloodlines, so if an ancestor had known it, it definitely would've been passed down to Muska too.
Basically just the writer's personal essay, right?
Maybe he's just rich? Kind of a bin Laden type.
Top of his class at the military academy — that's probably why he's in intelligence.
Well, Top Gun is Navy too.
Space pirates. Air pirates. Pirates. Submarine pirates. Deep-sea pirates.
That's because they share the same underlying plot — really the blame's on Miyazaki, since he based Laputa on a plot he'd already sold off earlier.
https://imgur.com/a/KuiMygX
What is this, I want one
The situation's different though
Just wants to enslave the people below. Plus unlimited concubines.
MAKE LAPUTA
GREAT AGAIN
Sheeta, protected by Laputa's blessing, had kids with some other handsome guy and lived a happy life.
Pazu, outside of Laputa's blessing, ended up single his whole life, working in the mines till he died.
What if Pazu time-slipped into the past, lost his memory, and ended up wandering the mines as Uncle Pom?
Tonbo came out on top.
Probably meant to evoke the Nazi SA (Brownshirts).
I really love this
Oh, the one with that intense 3-minute dance lol, nostalgic lol
There's an episode where footage of a police officer eating Cup Noodle during the Asama-Sanso Incident aired and became huge advertising for it, so cup ramen was already widespread by the '70s.
Cup Noodle came out way before I was even born though
Poor guy, got fed some mystery fake news and actually believed it…
Background and Talking Points
The storyboard-based reading that “Muska’s three minutes was actually reload time” is a good example of just how much depth Ghibli films still have nearly 40 years after release, with fresh interpretations still surfacing. The Yahoo! News article that sparked this thread bases its case on the film’s depiction of Muska reloading his gun, and many in the thread agreed, saying you can tell “if you watch closely.” Meanwhile, the well-known behind-the-scenes fact that Ultraman’s three-minute activity limit was really a production budget constraint got brought up, fueling speculation that Muska’s three minutes might be an homage to that. One easy misconception is linking Muska’s three minutes to Cup Noodle’s three-minute cook time — as commenters in the thread pointed out, that’s “fake news,” and no primary source has been found tying the two together. It’s true that Cup Noodle launched in 1971 and the Asama-Sanso Incident coverage aired in 1972, both before Laputa’s 1986 release, but neither the article nor the thread offers any testimony that director Hayao Miyazaki was consciously drawing on either one.
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