Mr. Hayao Miyazaki was an outstanding Japanese animator from the 1980s to the 1990s.
He is definitely very important in the Japanese animation industry. Hayao Miyazaki's works are mostly imaginative, but they contain profound meanings. This moral actually stems from dissatisfaction with reality. Hayao Miyazaki once said that Tokyo (Japan) is full of money worshipers, and people are simply unwilling to give up the consciousness that "money talks". For this reason, Hayao Miyazaki said: "I hope to save the fallen soul of mankind with the help of works with a certain depth again." Therefore, although the themes of each of Hayao Miyazaki's works are different, they combine dreams, environmental protection, life, Survive these reflective messages and blend them in.
Miyazaki Hayao's persistence not only arouses excitement among people around the world, but also makes Japanese animation valued by the world, even Disney, the kingdom of American animation, is no exception. Not only is it seeking distribution rights for Hayao Miyazaki's animated films (except in Asia), but it also plans to arrange for "Princess Mononoke" to be released nationwide at the end of July. It can be said that Hayao Miyazaki made Japanese animation famous all over the world.
Miyazaki's works are wild and imaginative. I wonder if this is related to his love of reading children's books. In an interview with "East Weekly" in 1995, Hayao Miyazaki once said: "I like to read books written by children, not works written by adults. Of course, I also have to watch TV and movies that reflect reality, and sometimes Read the comics of other young cartoonists and try to understand what they are thinking. "Maybe it is Hayao Miyazaki's innocence that touches our hearts so much.
Simple people, simple stories
Many people will try to compare the similarities and differences between Hayao Miyazaki’s world and Disney, and even wonder whether the largest animation park in the East and West can Working together? However, Hayao Miyazaki has stated many times in interviews: He does not hope that his works are just pure joy and dream-weaving paradise. Viewing them fifty years ago and fifty years later can only achieve the same entertainment effect; although he He positions his work as a simple story told by a simple person, but he also has full confidence and believes that he is by no means a realist who gives up his ideals and lives.
Flight, exotic countries, and girls are the basic elements of many Hayao Miyazaki animation worlds. Through flying cats, the little sisters in "My Neighbor Totoro" can visit their hospitalized mother, and "Castle in the Sky" , the protagonist of "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" defends his homeland by flying, "Porco Rosso" spends his dazzling youth in the years of soaring and regains his lost confidence, and KiKi of "Kiki's Delivery Service" is even learning to fly. In the process, it gradually transforms and matures.
By setting the stage for many stories in foreign countries, Gong Qijun hopes to transcend the Japanese lifestyle and national character and convey the stories he wants to say. In choosing a young girl as the protagonist, Hayao Miyazaki admitted that this is a reflection of the times. Young girls live a more energetic and ideal life than men, while men do carry a lot of baggage and fall into the dilemma of "men are really miserable".
Anti-urban character and hometown complex
In a modern society where cities lead the trend, Hayao Miyazaki’s works are full of “anti-urban” character, ＜Memories＞ Although the heroine Yuko has grown up in Tokyo since she was a child, as early as ten years old, she had the expectation of "hometown" for summer vacation. At the age of 2, when her career and relationship were at a bottleneck, she chose to go to her sister's home. My sister's mother-in-law's family in the country experienced farm life. My ten-year-old self exchanged thoughts and found a way of life that truly belonged to me. In "Happy Bump", a man who cannot protect his natural home and has to turn into a human form to make a living in the city has never been wiped out by the cruelty of reality. In an era when egoism and individualism are on the rise, Hayao Miyazaki constantly reminds the ideal of kindness and warmth in interpersonal relationships in his works. In "My Neighbor Totoro", people in the countryside take care of little sisters who have just arrived as if they are their own children. , anxious about the lost little sister, just like a family. Qiqi from "Kiki's Delivery Service" met a smart and considerate bakery proprietress in a city near the sea. During the years when she was searching for independence, she had friends to talk to and help each other.
The depth of love and the breadth of love
In the love between men and women described by Hayao Miyazaki, understanding and cherishing each other is the most important element. The male and female protagonists in love almost never express "love" "The word is spoken, but it is touching because of the profoundness and breadth of love. "Porco Rosso" and the proprietress of the seaside hotel are lovers and confidants. As long as you look up at the flying posture, you can know everything. Qiqi from "Kiki's Delivery Service" and a boy who loves flying develop a young and healthy love and friendship because of their yearning and exploration of the same thing about flying. The heroine Xiuko in "Memories" meets a rural youth who also lives a simple and natural life, and love naturally grows in friendship.
Last year's Hayao Miyazaki's latest work "The Valley of the Heart" is a simple "shojo manga style" sketch. Through a story about the love between a boy and a girl, Hayao Miyazaki hopes to tell the story of modern times. Man, what is love? The protagonists' admiration for each other spurs them to achieve a report card that surpasses themselves in life. In the test room, I saw the young male protagonist at the end of the film, in the morning light, mustering up the courage to say to the young heroine: "Maybe we can't do it now, but let's get married in the future!" I laughed at this pure and unattainable love. For urban people, there may be a certain amount of loss and loneliness in their smiles.
Representative Works
★ "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", a 1984 work, is Hayao Miyazaki's second big-screen film after "Ray-Ban III: Fortress of Counterfeit Money". The film profoundly explains the stupid and bloodthirsty behavior of human beings destroying nature and killing each other. This film is also Hayao Miyazaki's first internationally renowned work.
★ "Castle in the Sky" is another masterpiece by Hayao Miyazaki after "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind". The film tells an adventure story of a boy and a girl, with a fast pace; the adventure plot also tells the story of young people's dream of flying. Like "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", this film was well received when it was screened in Europe and the United States.
★ "My Neighbor Totoro" is set in rural Japan in the 1930s. It tells the story of two sisters who accidentally encounter the strange creature Totoro from folklore, bringing out a warm pastoral life story. The film also depicts the beauty of mountain villages that is difficult to see in post-war Japan.
★"Princess Mononoke" 1997 work, the highest box office in Japan, with box office exceeding 9 billion yen that year
Other works
"Girl of the Alps" "Flying Porco Rosso" "Heisei Tanuki Battle" "Kiki's Delivery Service" "Lupine the Third" "Future Boy Conan" "Hear the Sound of the Waves" "Listen Up" "Grave of the Fireflies" "Cellist Kashu" "Prince of the Sun" "Holmes' Adventure" "Detective Sherlock Holmes" "Fairy Tales of Time" "Panda, Red Panda"
"The Tomb of Fire" is Takahata's first film directed by GHIBLI and has won numerous awards. , has a high reputation at home and abroad.
The entire film is completely immersed in a dark and sad atmosphere and proceeds quietly. The story tells the story of two brothers and sisters who became war orphans in Japan during World War II. Because they couldn't get along with their distant relatives who were forced to take care of them, they lived in a nearby abandoned air raid shelter. In the end, they could not escape the torture of starvation and died one after another. .
When the brother and sister died, it almost took away the tears of all the audience. Indeed, the whole story is a tragedy. At the beginning of the film, the souls of the two brothers and sisters and the lingering fireflies are brought out in flashbacks. Such a tragic story, the audience's heart immediately sank.
The creators used this film to accuse the cruelty of war and warn people of the scourge of war. I hope we can avoid war as much as possible.
"The Fairy Tale of Time" is also an animated film adapted from a comic book. The manga itself does not have much excitement that could be adapted into a movie. It just uses an elementary school student as the protagonist to tell interesting stories about elementary school in the 1960s. However, when Takahata directed the film, he added original elements and delayed the background for more than ten years. The title is the same. The heroine, who is almost thirty years old, recalls the events of her elementary school days bit by bit (the literal translation of the original title is "bit by bit memories"), and also adds a small episode in which the protagonist finally finds the one she loves.
The film focuses on recalling Japan’s elementary school past in the 1960s, stringing together fragmented stories through memories. At the same time, in order to strive for authenticity, the social background, customs, and popular things of the past are restored and reproduced in front of the audience one by one. It is a pity that domestic audiences may have few opportunities to experience Japan of that era, and cannot fully appreciate the originality and ingenuity of the production staff, which lacks a sense of intimacy.
Although the backgrounds are different, the past events of primary school students are always surprisingly similar. We may also be able to find memories of the past in this film.
"The Battle of the Tanuki" is an original animation directed by Takahata Sao. After completing "Porco Rosso", Hayao Miyazaki suddenly had the idea of ??using a tanuki as the protagonist of his next animation, and thus "Tanuki" was born.
In the minds of the Japanese, tanukis are mysterious animals. They can use illusions similar to blindfolding. Their bodies can change into any shape, or they can turn leaves into money or something to deceive humans. . In "Tanuki", a group of tanukis living near Tokyo wanted to use this illusion to scare humans and put the community construction project on hold. Unfortunately, due to various internal and external reasons, the ending was quite helpless.
The thoughts of the civet cats in the play are no different from those of humans. It may be that the producers intentionally allude to people of a certain class (perhaps intellectuals).
Isn’t there a way to survive together when animals challenge humans?
"Porco Rosso" is an animated film based on a comic story serialized by Hayao Miyazaki in a model magazine. This comic is one of the short stories in "Miyazaki Hayao's Miscellaneous Thoughts NOTE". It is called "The Age of Airships". It is fully illustrated in watercolor and has 15 pages. (The illustrations shown at the end of the movie are from this comic)
"Porco Rosso" is set in Italy in the 1920s, with the same European-style background and music, in order to be more realistic. The location expresses the local customs and customs of Europe, and the production committee once went to the coast of Adria for on-the-spot investigation. The mid-term scene takes place at dusk over the Adria Sea, with Borgo’s red planes dotted in the distance. The scene is very attractive! I heard that one of the most difficult aspects of the production was to express the scene of the plane flying in the sky. The traditional method is to move the static image of the plane on the background to generate animation, but there are many plane battle scenes in "Porco Rosso", so the production The team finally decided to draw the specific movements of the plane frame by frame, which increased the production cost a lot, but everyone felt it was worth the money after watching the film. In addition, young and new workers from STUDIO GHIBLI were used in the production of the film, so the style of the film is also slightly different.
"Porco Rosso" is an autobiographical film by Hayao Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki refers to himself as the protagonist Porco in the play, and describes his own situation in the secular world where he can't help himself. Contradictions are conceived as the legend of Borgo. In fact, how many people are not helpless in the secular world?
The plot of the whole work is coherent, compact, and relaxed. Several air battle scenes are intense and intense, and the technique of overlapping shots is used many times in order to give the audience a sense of speed that transcends time. The ending is well-conceived and somewhat unexpected, but it makes sense if you think about it carefully. A typical Miyazaki-style pun cleverly brings the audience immersed in melancholy and emotion back to reality, and gives them a glimmer of suspense to regain hope. It is indeed the work of a master.
Swimming in the blue sky and blue waves with passion, having fame and honor, but also loneliness and regret. This is Poluk Rosseau, the "Red Pig" of the Adriatic Sea.
《Hear the Waves》Miyazaki Hayao's posthumous work. A photo of a beautiful woman in a swimsuit that fell to the ground reminded Du Qi of his time in junior high school when he and Yanagi Songfeng became best friends due to a protest against the cancellation of their graduation trip. They have maintained a very good friendship. However, in the summer when she was 17 years old, Lin Jiajia, a beautiful girl who moved from Tokyo to Kochi with her mother due to her parents' divorce, transferred to the class where Matsutoyo was studying. Unexpectedly, Du Qi's love was aroused.
Works by Hayao Miyazaki. The background of "Yu" is the Muromachi period in the Middle Ages of Japan, describing the struggle between humans, gods and demons.
The story takes place in Dadala, an ancient steel factory fortress. The film brought a shocking impact to many viewers. The script of "You" was brewed for 16 years, and the total number of films was as many as 135,000. This can be said to be unprecedented. The fluorescent giant, the demon god, etc. have also been produced. CG digital synthesis technology is used (it is not like a cartoon that just uses two-dimensional animation and three-dimensional background to reluctantly piece it together). Although there are a series of visual shocks, the main impact still comes from the spirit.
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