Tomm Guycot
(he/him)
Saw Boy and the Heron yesterday (25 years after first seeing Totoro fwiw) and that is some movie. I am curious for your thoughts and interpretations, but this can also be a place to discuss Ghiblies in general.
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On the list to see soon! Hopefully in theater, but I don't know if I want to listen to an English dub or wait so I can watch the sub.
I was surprised to hear this since showing it subbed is often a big deal, but yeah, even my dinky town theater is! Only at noon every day so obviously not happening on a workday but maybe we'll try to see this over the weekend before my mom visits.Theatres are showing both subs and dubs, for what it's worth
Watched VHS tapes of the Streamline releases of Kiki, Totoro, and Laputa as a kid. Parents made it a point to periodically exposed me to Japanese media/stories/culture as a kid and this was part of it.How did everyone first encounter Ghibli?
How did everyone first encounter Ghibli?
Wow that is bullshit.DO NOT watch it in IMAX. IMAX viewings will crop the sides off of the film in order to fit the Imax format "better".
I don't know if I would call him a self-insert for the audience in the vein of your silent video game protagonists. But I'm reminded a lot of the best versions of that trope like Link or some of the Suikoden protagonists where they have a lot of personality and agency there under the surface, and their body language when they react to the things that happen around them often speaks volumes. I found the story of his maturity over the course of the film one of the best parts of the movie, but I can get where pov's like yours would come from.it really feels like a bunch of short stories with a very weak overarching connection of a very boring/silent protagonist.
I really liked the extended first act full of slow quiet scenes that let us inhabit the depths Mahito's pain, anger, and self-loathing with nary a pandering exposition to be seen.
they have a lot of personality and agency there under the surface, and their body language when they react to the things that happen around them often speaks volumes.
I like watching subs for the reason you described upthread (it's really nice to have additional lingual context for what's going on, especially when proper nouns and pronouns are concerned). But one of the admitted advantages of watching a dub is that when you don't have to look at words at the bottom of the screen, your eyes are free to move about a scene and focus on other things that might otherwise slip your attention. It's not always a huge issue (Miyazaki often lets his most important moments in his films happen without any dialog - letting the visuals tell the entire story) but it's a thing. And it's not even necessarily a bad thing inherently - it makes successive watches even more fun because you'll be discovering all kinds of little things you didn't see the first time.Hmm, fair. This is something I wouldn't pick up on well so there could be additional layers there I wouldn't understand.