motto of Ashitaka (and all the great adventurers )
James Cameron's Avatar I imagine it like before and fatty, somewhat vain dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant, rubbing his stomach is satisfied, the views out into the distance and says to see the future. The Iron Giant, which he believes to have symbiotic arrogance in the way, has many names, for me he is Hayao Miyazaki, and Avatar is, if you would like to say it kindly, a tribute to this greatest of all animators. As you now can read on some sites (for example here and here ), Cameron has served in many works of Miyazaki, but especially at Princess Mononoke (1997). At the species can be off next Monday, 5 April, as part of a Miyazaki Showcase an idea abscond has brought out the Bartel the must.
Bloody as Avatar : Princess Mononoke
Avatar told as Princess Mononoke of the quest of a young hero who moves into a foreign land to save his own tribe, while the frontier in a war between a supposedly civilized and a mystical natural world. Both Jake Sully and Ashitaka mediate between a work-sharing, resource-devouring, by force of arms growing, schools and hospitals be built in areas conquered imperial power and a self-sufficient, ecologically balanced, inhabited by many creatures and animated kingdom. In both films (as well as in the myth of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), it is a wild princess (Neytiri / Mononoke), which leads the hero through the dangers of the forest and reveals its wonders. So far, so universal, but Cameron has also taken a number of details. In both films is a gigantic tree, the spiritual center of the forest. Both heroes have serious injuries, Sully can not move his legs, Ashitaka's right arm was poisoned by a demon. The small, chattering, white Kodamas from Princess Mononoke return to Avatar as floating, jellyfish-like forest spirits again, and both films end with a great battle in which sweeps away as a last resort nature a huge stampede of people (at Cameron Miyazaki boars have received the visages of hammerhead sharks). And then there are the flying mountains of Laputa and the many flight sequences that are found throughout the entire work Miyazaki ( Nausicaa, Laputa, Porco Rosso , Kiki's Delivery Service ) and would have to be Avatar like to trim. However
is Hayao Miyazaki himself one of the greatest masters in the synthesis of European, mythical, Asian fabrics and art historical motifs, from which he conjures own universes. Not the borrowing itself is to complain then, but perhaps what is left behind at Cameron: a deep sensitivity that worlds are not milk and honey countries but fragile ecosystems, where there are shortages, balances must be prepared in which each transformation has its price and must be used where. Princess Mononoke is on a very complex world of fantastical design, in which both the natural world as well as the civilization is differentiated in itself. Ashitaka is indeed an unconditional advocate of the rights of animals, while a sympathetic observer of the complexities in the village, whose inhabitants have set themselves against marauding samurai to defend. By no means driven only by greed, the lady turned out to be eboshi benefactress who worked in their factory bought free prostitutes and beggars. The residents of the settlement are among the most self-confident female characters of the animated movie theaters that find their work in the iron works well as emancipatory. Images of the work, prostitution and begging are nowhere in Avatar .
The Large and the Small: Laputa - Castle in the Sky The unique balance between the Great and Small, the animate and the inanimate, the work and pleasure / flies Miyazaki knows how to keep forever, it is also very beautiful in Laputa - Castle in the sky watching (1986), which also Swift's Gulliver's Travels stood godfather. The fantastic adventure story about a kingdom in the clouds, which can locate by using a magical crystal, is a children's film in the best sense of all that we think we see everything here, for the first time in wonder. Whether it is the smallest or the largest creatures is, organic or metallic, butterflies and robots, each element of the natural and industrial creation, the same attention will be given. Above all, the vast and fantastic animated flight sequences, and air battles, which stood for the flights of literary devices and Jules Verne's sponsor, are of an imaginative power and enthusiasm, as whether the flies were just invented. But even in Laputa the characters, locations, units in complex environmental and economic systems are involved, there is nothing here for free. On board the pirate-machine, go with the kid's hero Sheeta and Pazu to Laputa, is from washing up to the kitchen duty all regulated to a strict schedule, and the magic castle itself, projected around the world escape fantasies, emerges finally as uprooted habitat that is ordained without integration into the Earth's ecosystem from destruction.
story of a mask: Spirited Away Land Aburaya the kingdom, which discovered the eponymous heroine in Spirited Away Land (2001) at the end of a dark tunnel, is not a land of plenty. As in medieval Japan by Princess Mononoke , in the retro-futuristic world of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984) or on the Laputa Castle in the air here are strict rules, failure to comply will be punished. The center of the Empire is a giant bathhouse for the gods and spirits, leading the witch Yubaba strict hand. To get into it either as a paying guest or a worker, and so Chihiro soon finds a pool attendant again to rid the demons from their huge mud crusts must. Or small, great beings, the grotesque as the beautiful, which operate in the bath house are decorated with his usual precision and boundless respect. Good and evil, they are not registered, but only arise from the actions of the characters in a complex web of action and reaction, of self-control and modesty. The driving force of this moral journey of discovery is quite as often the curiosity of a young girl who is with his courage and respect even before fearsome creatures amazing metamorphoses in motion. Gigantic monster turn out to be vulnerable minds, even the despotic witch Yubaba revealed as a caring mother.
also 's Moving Castle (2004), the children's book based on an English story of the young milliner Sophie, who is in love with a magician and as a punishment by a witch into an old woman transformed, impresses with the richness and accuracy of the fed from many sources, Miyazaki's imagination. The home town of Sophie, in their teeming with magnificent figures streets she meets the wizard Howl first time is a strange amalgam of medieval market town, an enchanted maze and early industrial city, the sky of steam railways and giant flying ships obscured is. Howl's Moving Castle Hauros, in Sophie hires as a housekeeper in order to be exempted from the curse, is a composite from scrap parts Steam engine and also a living monster that travels on thin legs through the misty landscape. His front door opens onto different worlds, in which Hauro pursues his craft.
The Art of Balance: Howl's Moving Castle As always carries a fantastic effect in Miyazaki a profound moral dilemma, because the multiplication of worlds through the magic door that Hauro any time the obligations of a can rid the world by changing to another. Thus it has become an irresponsible wizard that even the suffering of the war barely moves yet to act. This is the flip side of magic, fight with the magician and the Miyazaki to this time something has, for the large number of locations, characters and magic options confusing towards the end of something the narratives so that the resolution of all too much like a rabbit out of a hat. But like all truly great magicians one is at the end of the illusion expire so that an accurate view of occurs on the hands of the master as an outrage.
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The series of films by Hayao Miyazaki On Monday, 5 April, at 20.15 clock with Spirited Away Land opened. All films and broadcast dates available on the Web site Arte. Especially recommended is the program on 8 April: After My Neighbor Totoro , perhaps the most beautiful animated film ever, is the documentation The temple of a thousand dreams. Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli, the studio.
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