Miyazaki WAS Re: OT: Titan AE


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from Shadow6865@aol.com
subject Miyazaki WAS Re: OT: Titan AE
date Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:19:30 EST
In a message dated 1/31/2000 3:14:53 PM, replicant@northstate.net writes:

<< Please do not wish such an atrocity on america. Being one of the
only anime fans in existence that doesn't care for Miyazaki films.

        You are defintly in a minority but I have seen others so you are not 
the only one.

I would hope that america could somehow reach the level of
beauty that is found in Tenchi Muyo! or El Hazard. One can only
look at the simplistic, first year student artwork that is his trademark
for so long.

        The beauty in many of Miyazaki's films stems from it's simplicity 
though. This is especially true with his films like My Neighbor Totoro (one 
of his most loved films and also one of the few Japanese films to be one 
Akira Kurosawa's list of 100 best films.) I find his simplistic drawing style 
very relaxing and endearing. Complexity does not always mean quality and 
simplicity does not always mean inferior work. I find that Miyazaki's 
simplistic art style probably stems from deep buddhist beliefs.

 He also tends to be tremendously long winded beyond
tolerance. I did enjoy the English Dub of Kiki, but the animation and
artwork were still a hard thing to tolerate. I can't understand what
everyone loves about his contributions to anime. Please, do not
bring up Valley or Mononoke because they are examples of what
I mean by non-tolerable. >>

        I agree that there is nothing worse than watching a play, a movie or 
anything else that is really good but goes on for longer than it should (e.g. 
The Talented Mr. Ripley or Ibsen's A Doll's House.) But with all the Miyazaki 
cinema I have ever seen (Laputa, Mononoke, Valley, Kiki's, and Totoro) I have 
never been bored of thought that the movie is good but should have ended 
earlier. Miyazaki's films show a deep love and compassion for humanity 
especially those who are going through times of tranision and/or rites of 
passage. I see Hayao Miyazaki as a human being who has a sense of compasion 
that is almost unheard of in today's modern society and he is not affraid to 
show it in his movies. I also like Miyazaki's movies for there strong yet 
humble and kind female characters something that is unalmost unheard of in 
animation even anime. I wonder what you thought of Takahata's Grave of the 
Fireflies. Other Studio Ghibli movies I suggest you watch are Miyazaki's My 
Neighbor Totoro, Takahata's Only Yesterday, and Kondo's Whispers of the Heart.

    Shadow      
    

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