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That's disturbingly brutal for a professional interaction. I wouldn't want to work in an office where that's a thing that happens–whether it happens to me or wa
by perihelions 3y ago
That's disturbingly brutal for a professional interaction. I wouldn't want to work in an office where that's a thing that happens–whether it happens to me or watching it happen to someone else.
("Then you would never get to work for a genius like the great Miyazaki, haha!" Sure, I understand that. That isn't a novel observation: he's far from the only celebrity genius in the world who gets away with abusing their underlings, who's so great and amazing that people are willing to turn a blind eye to their personality issues. They say "never meet your heroes").
- debacle 3y agoRespectfully, I've sat in meetings with 100s of VCs and most of them were far more "disturbingly brutal" than this. There are serious people and unserious people.
- class4behavior 3y agoYou need first to understand a perspective before you judge it. That's what cultural difference is and a lot of it is at play here. Good or bad, this is a different style of life. Not to mention that it is not unusual for executives or board members to have their personal priorities, especially in the art industry. But, even in that context, they did a horrible presentation. At least from this clip they appear like full-blown nerds with low EQ who didn't consider what kind of person their senior they will present this to is like. Any fan could have told them HM wouldn't like the animation and it would not reveal what DL can do.
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- michaelt 3y agoThey show him a 3D rendered animation of a deformed humanoid struggling to move on the floor. Looks like something out of a zombie horror PC game. They say it has no sense of pain, and that it's a horror beyond human imagination. Miyazaki says whoever made it gives no thought to pain, and it's very unpleasant. That just seems like he was repeating back pretty much what they said to him? Also, I'm not familiar with Miyazaki's entire oeuvre, but he doesn't seem to be into zombie horror, or 3D? So kinda understandable that he wouldn't be interested in adopting a product where their number 1 demo was zombie horror.
- yakubin 3y agoI watched the video and the only brutality I saw was the animation.
- barrysteve 3y agoThat's where all the value is, though. Miyazaki told you who he is, where he's going in life and how he plans to run his business in three minutes. I'd prefer a moment of brutal harshness, packed with rich information like that. Over mealy-mouthed, information-less, repetitive nonsense, any day of the week.