日语无能,引用一下英语材料:
来源:
http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Laputa:_Castle_in_the_Sky_(FAQ)
问题:为何拉普达荒无人迹?
根据“拉普达”早期版本解释,拉普达最早出现在柏拉图(应该是Plato不知为何原文拼成了Platon)失传的地理书籍“天空之书”中,此时的拉普达被称作“拉普达地利斯”。柏拉图写到拉普达地利斯是一群拥有极为先进文明的人们,为了逃避战争而创造出来的。但是,这些人变得过于依赖高度发达的机械文明,从而使自身生命力变得虚弱。不久之后,一场瘟疫来袭,在公元前500年左右瘟疫杀死了绝大多数的拉普达人。少数的幸存者回到了地面,而拉普达则被荒弃了。
但是,电影中的故事又不同于这个初期设定,因为在电影中拉普达是在700年前被荒废的。我们不知道为何电影中的拉普达荒无人迹。
注:1,著名的亚特兰蒂斯就出现于柏拉图的著作《对话录》里,所以原设中虚构柏拉图也曾在另一部著作中提到拉普达。
2,根据电影片头可以看到有很多拉普达一样的空中岛屿,不久这些岛屿被笼罩在阴云中,在雷电里崩坏,然后出现了空中岛坠毁在地面上,很多人排队从废墟中离开的镜头。
英语原文:
Q: Why was Laputa deserted?
The early draft of "Laputa" explains that Laputa first appeared in history as "Laputatilis", in Platon's lost geography, "The Book of Sky". Platon wrote that Laputatilis was built by a people with a highly advanced civilization to escape from war. However, they became too dependent on the highly advanced mechanical civilization, which eventually weakened their vitality. Then, a disease hit, and killed off most of them, around 500 B.C. A handful of survivors came down to earth, and Laputa was deserted. However, the story in the movie was changed from this earlier setting, since in the movie, Laputa was deserted 700 years ago. We do not know why Laputa was deserted in the movie.