Hayao Miyazaki usually adds something into his movies that relates to his life. The scene from Spirited Away when the girl is helping the giant stink spirit in the tub was related to Miyazaki's life. When Miyazaki was little he lived in front of a river. It was drained and while it was empty workers went into it and pulled things out of the mud.
In Totorro the two girl's mother is sick in the hospital. Miyazaki added this because his mother was sick in the hospital with spinal tuberculosis when he was little. She was sick for 8 years.
Also if you notice, many of Miyazaki's movies take place in some sort of war. In Princess Mononoke Iron Town is in a war with the Samurai.
In most of Miyazaki's movies girls are the main characters. In Totorro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, KiKi's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, and Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, the main character is a girl. If a girl isn't the main character in one of his movies, then they are usually really outgoing and are almost manly.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Waking Life and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Both of these movies made me think more about life. For instance after I saw Waking Life I started thinking " What if my whole life is just a dream and I'm already dead." or " Is free will real? Or is my brain planning all of my actions ahead of time?" Waking life was also a really well made movie. I like how they painted over everything. It makes the movie seem more like a dream. The people were exagerated depending on their personality and how they spoke. For instance, one of the character's eyes always grew when he exagerated his words. I also liked the music in the movie. It fit with it good because it had a mysterious sound to it.
Eternal Sunshine was also a good movie. At first I was completley lost, but I finally figured it out. The only thing that bothered me in that movie was Jim Carey. I'm so used to him playing a hilarious character, but he was the exact opposite in this movie. It was weird seeing him like that.
The plot in Eternal Sunshine was good. I liked how most of the movie took place in Jim Carey's dream. It was cool how they were trying to escape from being erased. The lighting in the movie was also interesting. It made the movie look like a dream. Most of the settings took place in a dark place with only a spotlight on the main characters.
I need to see this movie again so I can really understand it. I think I got the gist of it though. He met this girl and they fell in love. But after awhile they both ended up deciding to get eachother erased from their memories because they weren't happy with their relationship. While Joel (Jim Carey) is having his mind erased he realizes that he loves Clemetine and doesn't want to have her erased from his memory. So Joel tries to keep his memory of Clementine from being erased while trapped in his dream. In the end she gets erased and he wakes up without any memory of her and all memories from the past couple of days. He ends up meeting her again, but they figure out that they had both erased eachother from their memories. This is shocking and they are about to decide to never see eachother again when Joel runs out and stops her. He asks her if they can just try to be in a relationship. She agrees and then they live happily ever after (hopefully).
Waking Life is about a guy who can't stop dreaming and tries to figure out why he can't by talking to people in his dreams. As the movie progresses he realizes he may in fact be dead (which he is). In the beginning he is walking across a sidewalk and he picks up a sheet of paper that says "look to your right." He looks and a car hits him. I don't think this was actually him dieing but I think this may have been a memory of how he died. Only he didn't pick up a sheet of paper that warned him.
I also need to see this movie again because a lot of the time I wasn't paying attention to what the characters he interviewed were saying. I was looking at the weird animation. I'll have to rent both of these movies and watch them again.
Eternal Sunshine was also a good movie. At first I was completley lost, but I finally figured it out. The only thing that bothered me in that movie was Jim Carey. I'm so used to him playing a hilarious character, but he was the exact opposite in this movie. It was weird seeing him like that.
The plot in Eternal Sunshine was good. I liked how most of the movie took place in Jim Carey's dream. It was cool how they were trying to escape from being erased. The lighting in the movie was also interesting. It made the movie look like a dream. Most of the settings took place in a dark place with only a spotlight on the main characters.
I need to see this movie again so I can really understand it. I think I got the gist of it though. He met this girl and they fell in love. But after awhile they both ended up deciding to get eachother erased from their memories because they weren't happy with their relationship. While Joel (Jim Carey) is having his mind erased he realizes that he loves Clemetine and doesn't want to have her erased from his memory. So Joel tries to keep his memory of Clementine from being erased while trapped in his dream. In the end she gets erased and he wakes up without any memory of her and all memories from the past couple of days. He ends up meeting her again, but they figure out that they had both erased eachother from their memories. This is shocking and they are about to decide to never see eachother again when Joel runs out and stops her. He asks her if they can just try to be in a relationship. She agrees and then they live happily ever after (hopefully).
Waking Life is about a guy who can't stop dreaming and tries to figure out why he can't by talking to people in his dreams. As the movie progresses he realizes he may in fact be dead (which he is). In the beginning he is walking across a sidewalk and he picks up a sheet of paper that says "look to your right." He looks and a car hits him. I don't think this was actually him dieing but I think this may have been a memory of how he died. Only he didn't pick up a sheet of paper that warned him.
I also need to see this movie again because a lot of the time I wasn't paying attention to what the characters he interviewed were saying. I was looking at the weird animation. I'll have to rent both of these movies and watch them again.
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