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Guillermo del Toro really put it well: > We are privileged enough to be living in a time where Mozart is composing symphonies I'd encourage anyone who hasn't
by phillipcarter 3y ago
Guillermo del Toro really put it well:
> We are privileged enough to be living in a time where Mozart is composing symphonies
I'd encourage anyone who hasn't seen the full breadth of Miyazaki's work to watch them all. It's well worth your time, and especially to see how his work has helped shape a lot of other media you've likely consumed.
- layer8 3y agoAside from the feature films, also don’t forget: • his one major manga/graphic novel, Nausicaä • Future Boy Conan (TV series) • Panda Kopanda (aka Panda! Go, Panda!) (two short films) • the five episodes of Sherlock Hound he directed • On Your Mark (music video) (of course, there’s more)
- tehnub 3y agoDeeper in the iceberg we find early animation work by Miyazaki on the 1969 film Phantom Flying Ship: https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/4d0af6c0638a415173b7de6676660cbd.mp4 https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/4d0af6c0638a415173b7de66766...
- DocKitKat 3y agoFuture boy Conan is one of my absolute favourite tv shows and it feels so pertinent to our current time. I recommend it to others often, but no one takes a chance on it :(
- pcdoodle 3y agoI go back to watch FBC it every 5 years, it's absolutely fantastic in every way and for anyone.
- riffruff24 3y agoNot Ghibli or Miyazaki at all but I would recommend Now And Then, Here And There as a companion piece. It's tropes and plot points are similar to FBC but seen through a very different lens.
- pcdoodle 3y agoCool! I'll check that out!
- epilys 3y agoNausicaa the comic is incredible, beautiful, bigger story than the film, and has deeper worldbuilding. I second the recommendation. Miyazaki has also two books with collected essays/articles of his; I have the first one and I would not strongly recommend them though they have wonderful sketch art inside. The essays are mostly old man rants about how everything is done worse these days and they weren't even written recently.
- huytersd 3y agoThey are artistically sound and beautiful, but kind of boring to be honest. Kurosawa on the other hand satisfies all three.
- slekker 3y agoAny recommendations from his work for someone who hadn't heard of him before?
- huytersd 3y agoRashomon and Seven Samurai are classics. Kagemusha is probably my favorite.
- pallas_athena 3y ago"samurai" movies: - Seven Samurai - Rashomon - Ran - Throne of Blood - Kagemusha non-samurai: - High and Low - Ikiru I would say that the essentials are Seven Samurai, High and Low, Rashomon.
- baby 3y agoMiyazaki’s films are boring? What?
- huytersd 3y agoYeah, it took an effort to get through spirited away and nausica. I even tried a second watch through of spirited away but at the risk of being blasphemous, I found it boring.
- 4death4 3y agoI think it comes down to whether or not you enjoy slice of life. I just watched My Neighbor Totoro with my daughter. It was the first time for both of us. I found it amazing, but, ultimately, nothing actually happens in the movie. Spirited Away and some of the other movies are obviously more fantastical, but they still share a kind of mundane, day-to-day feel to their plots.
- ilamont 3y agoThe only two animated films that have ever triggered an emotional response are Watership Down (when I was a kid) and Ghibli's Grave of the Fireflies (when I was an adult). Both were really heavy in ways that are hard to articulate. The trailer for the latter: https://youtu.be/4vPeTSRd580?si=CAN__Md9KIKQcehN https://youtu.be/4vPeTSRd580?si=CAN__Md9KIKQcehN
- surgical_fire 3y agoGrave of Fireflies was to this day the only movie that made me cry. It did so twice.
- apricot 3y agoBest movie I never want to see again.
- triceratops 3y agoPedant's note: GP's comment was how Guillermo del Toro compared Miyazaki to Mozart. Grave of the Fireflies was written and directed by Isao Takahata, not Hayao Miyazaki.
- WhyOhWhyQ 3y agoThe Wind Rises makes me cry every time. It resonates with me in specific personal ways, however.
- boppo1 3y agoI think Sylvian Chomet is way closer to 'animation Mozart'. Miyazaki is very good, but overrated.