MIYAZAKI DREAMT AGAIN AND PRESENT US A NEW MARVEL
We have been starting talking about comic for short time and it wouldn't be opportune talking about animation movies at this point of the run... but I feel bound to do it. today I'll talk to you about the Japanese Anime myth: HAYAO MIYAZAKI.
But let's be methodical: What's an ANIME? The Anime is a close relative of manga, that is japanese comic; the Anime is a feature film made by cartoons (in japanese style), also called animation movie.
It's not uncommon that a well done anime takes a manga as a starting point and it's not uncommon that a well done anime is followed by a "film book", that is a book with manga size with the frames of the film.
But let's get back to the subject: MIYAZAKI!
There's nothing to be said, he's a King Midas of the animation. He's the famous Heidi and Lupin III's daddy... and the daddy of the Sherlock Holmes dog drew, too. This last will be remembered by the oldest guys.
Miyazaki is 64 and has an economy university degree, but his fantasy remained that of a child and we all pray that it last like this. He has been doing animation since 1963, but only in 1985 he founded the Studio Ghibli, which has produced nine feature films of Miyazaki: Nausicaä of the Wind Valley, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Lupin III and Cagliostro's Castle.
Recently Miyazaki has received the Golden Lion to the career and in the same period his last masterpiece has came out: The Howl Moving Castle.
When I finally saw it, I hadn't enough words to describe it, but I'll quote a friend who said: "It's beautiful up to make you move". Let's think to the sheerest, the most beautiful and significant poetry you've never read and you imagine to see it in two hours of film. To call it beautiful is reductive: it's poetry at the highest existing level, pure love poetry.
But let's be methodical: What's an ANIME? The Anime is a close relative of manga, that is japanese comic; the Anime is a feature film made by cartoons (in japanese style), also called animation movie.
It's not uncommon that a well done anime takes a manga as a starting point and it's not uncommon that a well done anime is followed by a "film book", that is a book with manga size with the frames of the film.
But let's get back to the subject: MIYAZAKI!
There's nothing to be said, he's a King Midas of the animation. He's the famous Heidi and Lupin III's daddy... and the daddy of the Sherlock Holmes dog drew, too. This last will be remembered by the oldest guys.
Miyazaki is 64 and has an economy university degree, but his fantasy remained that of a child and we all pray that it last like this. He has been doing animation since 1963, but only in 1985 he founded the Studio Ghibli, which has produced nine feature films of Miyazaki: Nausicaä of the Wind Valley, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Lupin III and Cagliostro's Castle.
Recently Miyazaki has received the Golden Lion to the career and in the same period his last masterpiece has came out: The Howl Moving Castle.
When I finally saw it, I hadn't enough words to describe it, but I'll quote a friend who said: "It's beautiful up to make you move". Let's think to the sheerest, the most beautiful and significant poetry you've never read and you imagine to see it in two hours of film. To call it beautiful is reductive: it's poetry at the highest existing level, pure love poetry.
In Miyazaki's movies the recurring themes are the flight, the nature menaced by the man unreasonableness, magic, love, pity as possibility of meeting among creatures, the transformation process that all his characters faces to gain an interior growth. Particular is the attention paid to the relationship between man and nature, to the contrast between new and traditional and to the attempt of making up for values that occidental world and his Japan putted apart. These themes are explored trough female characters that Miyazaki uses as protagonists. His characters and heroines are his eyes on the capitalistic society that's not so perfect and trough which he launch an act of accuse.
His heroines, creatures between childhood and adult age, masculine and feminine at the same time give life to the marvel countries devised by Miyazaki; such as Chiro in Spirited Away, where she tries to save her parents transformed in pigs because of their greed. At the end of her adventures she'll be more mature and more trustful in herself. Or such as San , The Princess Mononoke, hardened and brave warrior, who fights in order that man doesn't destroy the forest, but learns, like her, to live with its inhabitants. And finally Sophie, the least character of Miyazaki's world. She's an orphan girl who had to grow quickly and that is responsible since she was a child, to the point of feeling older than she really is. She faces up to be old without dramas, but searching positives things. Anyway she'll have her weackness moments too...
Almost always Miyazaki's female characters are excluded or live on the fringe of society and must redeem theirselves to this comunity eyes: so it's for Kiki, Mononoke, Chiro and Sophie. Probably this makes them more enterprising and more pratical. The surprising thing is that there aren't stereotyped good or bad characters but every single one has his faceting and crosses a growth course. During the film characters evolves and that's great considering that they aren't real actors!
Miyazaki's world is fantastic to discover and to do it I'll present you two juicy things: the link of an interview by the english Guardian to Miyazaki and the translation of the ending theme of "The Howl Moving Castle" written by Miyazaki himself. At least I hope to have made you curious...! See you soon!
Kia ^_^
The Promise of the World
(ending theme)
The smile is trembling at the end of tears
From the very beginning of the time
The promise of the world
Even if now I'm alone
I remember our yesterday
The today rises sparkling
Such as the day when we first met
You're not in the
The house of memories
You skim over my cheeks
Such as a lightly breeze
Even after we divided
At the hour when the sun disappears among trees
The promise of the world
will never ends
Even if now I'm alone
Tomorrows are never-ending
You teached me
The kindness hided in the night
You're not into
The house of memories
But you'll live for eternity
In the roaring whispers's sing
In this sky's colour
In the flowers' parfume
posted by Kia @ 5:08 PM
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