Studio Ghibli Essays

[IMG=P0J] [BC]__________ [C]Something Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki has learned and made known through his years as a legend amongst animators, is that if one wishes to write about anything pertaining to life, they must first go out into the world and experience it for themselves. [IMG=I0Y] [C]In my opinion, this is something many people in the industry should take to heart and is one of the foremost reasons behind Studio Ghibli's awesome success. Their films are known to evoke

Choiceboard 2.1 In the book “The Roar,” the character Mika, has to overcome an external conflict known as a man vs society conflict. Mika has to face the man vs society conflict because he still believes that his twin sister Ellie is still alive, even though the antagonist told them she was dead and her apparent body was found dead under the school. No one but Mika believes that his sister could or is still alive, this is why this would be considered a man vs society conflict. This is considered

Hansel and Gretel “retold” written by Priya Sharma #20 “Hansel, where are you?” father asked. “Oh Gretel!” mother cried. Mother and Father didn’t know where their children were. They were getting very worried! Mother and Father started looking for Hansel and Gretel in their secret treehouse. “ There you are !!” Mother was going on and on about how worried she was getting! “ What are you doing in here?” father asked. “We were just tidying it up, it was a surprise for you guys, but good thing you

Generals Miki and Washizu are Samurai commanders under a local lord, Lord Tsuzuki, who reigns in the castle of the Spider's Web Forest. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they return to Tsuzuki's castle. On their way through the thick forest surrounding the castle, they meet a spirit, who foretells their future. The spirit tells them that today Washizu will be named Lord of the Northern Garrison and Miki will now be commander of the first fortress. She then foretells that Washizu will

Conflicts in So Far From The Bamboo Grove  The historical fiction novel So Far From The Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins is a story about a Japanese family living in Korea during WWII. Conflicts, challenges that characters need to face in order to reach their goal. In your opinion, whose journey had more conflicts? In So Far From The Bamboo Grove the author, Yoko shows different conflicts like individual vs individual, individual vs self, and individual vs society. First, the girls faced

Class of 2017! We all have had our favorite movies growing up. Let 's share some movie reviews ten years after we watch them again. Most of these movie are also based on childhood books. Many of you may not have heard or these movies. If you have, you are falling behind on your childhood memories. Or just simply don 't have the time due to so much work you have to do. Either or, This is a review of each movie many people had watched as kids. 10. The Ant Bully (2006) - Based on a popular book with

WHY STEVEN SPIELBERG DESERVES TO BE CALLED AN AUTEUR Steven Spielberg is an American movie director and producer. He is the director of multiple hugely succesful hollywood blockbuster movies like “Jurassic Park” and Jaws. He also directed science fiction movies like Close Encounters of the “Third Kind” and “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” . These are only some of his over 40 movies of which some are mentioned by film critics among the best movies ever made, for example “Schindler’s List” is rated

Finding a way to present environmental issues to the general public can be a rather taxing process. For most, it needs to be presented in a certain medium in subtle undertones of a larger theme. Hayao Miyazaki was able to find a strong and impressive middle ground in his film Princess Mononoke, where he could combine the issue of deforestation with a tale of fantasy in order to captivate his audience. While the film does a strong job of presenting the issue of deforestation, it tends to play down

Spirited Away is an anime film by Hayao Miyazaki which tells the story of Chihiro, a young girl who enters an abandoned amusement park with her parents wherein spirits spend their time to replenish themselves and relax after being out in the world of humans. It is entertaining and insightful of Japanese culture and gender stereotypes. Miyazaki’s depiction of Chihiro’s growth, gender stereotypes and capitalism and Shintoism all make the film educational and inspiring to the audience. In the opening

“Don’t eat too much or they’ll eat you.”(Spirited away, Miyazaki) In the movie Spirited away, Sen said this to her pig-like parents, to remain them not eat too much. This sentence express a theme of this movie which is greed. The movie Spirited away tells a story about a ten-year-old girl enter the Spirit world accidently and trying to find a way to turn her pig-like parents back to normal and back to real world. Her parents eat the food that they should not eat and transformed into pig. Food is

Unusual bird that inspired the creators of Harry Potter Animals can be very inspiring. Some of them were the inspiration for the cartoon creation, while others have served as the basis for creating some more serious film attempt. One of them served to the creators of the famous series about Harry Potter. The lonely nests If you ever see a nest of a bird called Shoebill stork, be sure you will not find the same one nearby, so take the opportunity to look over this fantastic structure. These birds

1) Three elements that are of great importance to a successful screenplay are sex, patriotism, and violence. These three elements are what brings in the audience to the movies. Sex is an element which sells very well and has a huge audience already. For instance, the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is surrounded by sex and captivates a huge audience to come in the theatre. Patriotism is also a great element because the audience is already rooting for somebody in the film. Patriotism also drives the

Whether you know it or not, many big name Hollywood movies are influenced by popular Japanese animes. Inception, The Matrix, The Lion King, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Black Swan are all notable examples of this. There is one movie in particular, with many striking similarities shared with a widely popular anime: Pacific Rim. Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most popular animes to ever be created; it was created in the 90’s while Pacific Rim was only brought into the light in 2013. With

Akemi, the twelve year old daughter of Sato, had come north to Gray Village with one of her father's at-arms who bore a message for the castle. As of late she had taken any chance she could get to make the journey to Gray Village, hoping to see the seer. Her father didn't seem much impressed by the seer's abilities, but Akemi was in awe of him. The seer was also the armorer to the Knights of Morpheus and their at-arms. The weapons and armor that he provided them were fantastic to say the least, all

Animated films have the unique ability to use colors more deliberately than live action films, and can be more creative and surrealistic with color. They are given still more leniency when they exist removed from the real world, in a spirit world, as is the case with Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001). This allows the director to enhance and emphasize the message and purpose of a film. By using color in rhetorical ways Spirited Away, and numerous other films add to their meaning to create more impactful

Chiyoko materializes in a world with a grey floor and a starless black sky. She is greeted by a tall figure with their face not shown similar to that of the grim reaper. They welcome Chiyoko to Limbo where some go once they die and have her follow them to a town guarded by a Samurai woman who politely greets the tall figure and notices Chiyoki as she bears a great resemblance to herself. She happily introduces herself as Azumi Shimuzi who believes Chiyoko to be a descendant of hers. Chiyoko spends

Princess Mononoke was released in 1997, and became the highest grossing film in Japan until Titanic came out later that year. It was meant to be director Hayao Miyazaki’s last film before he went into retirement, and is praised as one of his absolute masterpieces. Today, I will be analyzing two articles that discuss aspects of Princess Mononoke’s themes and influences. The first is titled Hayao Miyazaki and Shinto: A Spiritual Connection by Oscar Garza and the other is Young Girls and Flying Images:

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a highly influential anime series from 1995, directed by Hideaki Anno who had already directed another great show earlier in his career. It became wildly popular for it 's deep characters, religious symbolism and storytelling that definitely does NOT hold your hand. Now let 's get to the merits. Evangelion has a bleak setting where, after a catastrophe known as the second impact, over half of the planet was killed, and the course of nature has changed, leaving Japan in

The people who make horror movies really know how to get to the root of our fears and course that makes sense because scaring the wits out of us is their bread and butter. Whether they’re playing on our insecurities about own lives or bringing our darkest nightmares to life, we can’t get enough of horror movies. The truth is that we love the feeling of being afraid, it’s thrilling and gets our blood pumping, but we also want to feel that way in a safe environment i.e half hiding under the blanket

Have you ever been in love? If you have, then you know that love is the force that can change someone’s life. If not, you will learn that love can make you do crazy things or change your life for better or for worse. In Spirited Away, director Hayao Miyazaki illustrates the power of love as a driving force for change. One can clearly see this by analyzing the character progressions of Chihiro, Haku, Yubaba and Zeniba—four prominent characters throughout the film. Chihiro starts as a spoiled and