A pleasant Sunday night
Nov. 20th, 2011 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordOkay so Porco Rosso was cute and inventive like I expected it to be, but just not very satisfying from a storytelling perspective. It's probably my least favourite Hayao Miyazaki movie so far, but hey - the Ghibli animation alone was worth it. Not to mention the Roald Dahl reference!
I've been thinking how I wish I'd seen Miyazaki movies as a child, and whether I would have viewed them differently than I do now (I first saw Spirited Away when I was eighteen). They seem a bit more... edifying than a lot of Disney movies. There's always this important lesson about how looks can be deceiving, how it's more important to be helpful and brave rather than pretty. And the girl characters, I mean, they're always heroines rather than maidens to be rescued. I think when Tiny's due child is old enough I'll have to introduce her to Miyazaki movies.
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Anyway, as I was looking for some early Miyazaki stuff I had the very rare experience of finding something unrelated and yet right up my alley - a lovely ballad sung by Yasuo Yamada (the late, original voice actor of Lupin III) and written by Yuji Ohno (a.k.a. "You" - the main composer of the Lupin franchise):
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With artwork obviously by Monkey Punch (the mangaka who created Lupin III) as well. Yet it's actually not a Lupin production, just some cash in side project, but the song is indeed very lovely. And sad. I might have had it on repeat for half an hour or so.
I've been thinking how I wish I'd seen Miyazaki movies as a child, and whether I would have viewed them differently than I do now (I first saw Spirited Away when I was eighteen). They seem a bit more... edifying than a lot of Disney movies. There's always this important lesson about how looks can be deceiving, how it's more important to be helpful and brave rather than pretty. And the girl characters, I mean, they're always heroines rather than maidens to be rescued. I think when Tiny's due child is old enough I'll have to introduce her to Miyazaki movies.
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Anyway, as I was looking for some early Miyazaki stuff I had the very rare experience of finding something unrelated and yet right up my alley - a lovely ballad sung by Yasuo Yamada (the late, original voice actor of Lupin III) and written by Yuji Ohno (a.k.a. "You" - the main composer of the Lupin franchise):
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With artwork obviously by Monkey Punch (the mangaka who created Lupin III) as well. Yet it's actually not a Lupin production, just some cash in side project, but the song is indeed very lovely. And sad. I might have had it on repeat for half an hour or so.
