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Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki might not be done making films, says Ghibli exec
- jrajav 3y agoMiyazaki has announced his retirement so many times by now over several decades that this has to be a running joke that everyone warmly entertains.
- snorremd 3y agoTwo decades and counting. The man is nothing if not passionate about film making and animation. Whatever he, Joe Hisaishi (composer) and Studio Ghibli work on together is instant magic for me. The direction, stories, art, and music come together to create beautiful worlds and people living in them. I'm looking forward to The Boy and the Heron being released in Europe.
- hooverd 3y agoMiyazaki realized he would have to spend time with his son. /s
- toyg 3y agoHis son by now is like Prince/King Charles... He's spent most of his life in the shadow of a parent who was supposed to eventually hand him the reigns, but never really trusted him enough to actually do it.
- toyg 3y agoFamed boomer might not be done making what made him successful, says person who benefits from such success. As wonderful as it is, to have "old goatyao" still churning out stories, it is disappointing that Ghibli cannot seem to find a new way forward.
- slackfan 3y ago1) "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days 2) baby boomers are the generation born post post-1945 3) Miyazaki-san was born in 1941.
- yladiz 3y ago> "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days What? It's absolutely not as insulting as any number of terms used against people of color, people with disabilities, women, minorities (the list can go on), and saying it's a hateful slur starts to put it in the same ballpark as those, which is very disingenuous. It's also not even that true; "ok boomer" is often used ironically within a group of friends these days, and sometimes used against an actual baby boomer, but it's not really that hateful.
- savanaly 3y agoIt’s not a misery contest. I wouldn’t use the word either and concur it’s hateful.
- yladiz 3y agoIt's not about it being a contest, and while hateful words are hateful no matter how "badly hateful" they are, it's also not fair to just lump all words used in a hateful way together because it equates words legitimately used to demean, dehumanize, etc. a group of people with ones that are at worst moderately hateful, like boomer, which is what my point is. Basically, a hateful slur is the N-word, boomer is not the N-word, and equating them in any meaningful way belittles the legitimate hatefulness of the N-word. It's disingenuous to say that boomer is as bad at something like "bitch", but they're a lot closer.
- ranguna 3y agoIt's generally used as a synomim of "tech illiterate". But personally, just because that's the case, I don't think we should stop using it when referring the original meaning of the word.
- pengaru 3y ago
- BookhouseGames 3y agoThis is my surprised face.