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I just read a really great article about a couple of Norwegian animators who got a chance to meet Miyazaki back in 2009 (you can read it here, if you know Norwegian:
http://znett.com/2009/02/hvordan-jeg-traff-hayao-miyazaki/
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I'll translate the last paragraph, which I thought was really interesting:
"It's hard to say how much time we spent together with Hayao Miyazaki in his Studio Ghibli. Maybe a month, maybe an hour. But finally it was over and we got out again. It was still light out, but the moon was already visible. Even Hai (their guide), who had stoically translated for us, came with us. She gave us gifts, something edible. She said: 'Miyazaki-san likes you. He told me to show you something, his Big Secret. But you must promise not to talk about it to anyone.' We swore to never tell.
We followed Even Hai around a corner, down a small street, where we could see Miyazaki's house deep within the garden. We saw the tree, we saw the pond, we saw a silver moon in the water and we saw Miyazaki's Big Secret. We sat on a stonebench and ate our gifts, and looked at it.
Then we went home."
So, what do you think Miyazaki's Big Secret is?
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Ghibli films are often considered to be cute and family friendly, but sometimes there are moments that are just downright awesome. What moments in the Ghibli films do you consider the coolest or most badass? What moments made you think "Dude, that was awesome!", or "Nice!", or gives you a grin of satisfaction?
For me some moments include (SPOILERS!!):
1. Ashitaka catching an enemy's arrow, using it to kill him, then decapitating another one with another arrow. Though it is violent, it is also badass.
2. The entire dogfight at the end of Porco Rosso.
3. Lupin running vertically down a wall to save Clarisse in Castle of Cagliostro.
4. The robot wreaking havoc at the military base in Laputa, Castle in the Sky.
5. When Kiki regains her ability to fly, there's a moment of utter silence as she concentrates, the dust fly away in a shockwave and she rushes into the air.
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Originally posted by Heidi80
In the US, they couldn't put the word Laputa in the title, because there is a large spanish speaking population and in spanish la puta means whore or bitch. (Helen McCarthy: Hayao Miyazaki. Master of animation).
I've always found that funny, though maybe they could have used the word Raputa instead  . Of course, it was Jonathan Swift who first used the word laputa for his flying island, on which Miyazaki based his version, and he was fully aware of its negative meaning in Spanish. Miyazaki, on the other hand, did not discover its real meaning until after he had made the film.
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Interesting. The Norwegian releases are mostly pretty faithful to the original titles, though Spirited Away was changed to Chihiro og Heksene (Chihiro and the Witches) and Howl's Moving Castle became simply Det Levende Slottet (The Living/Moving Castle). For some the English translation of the titles were used, such as Porco Rosso and Whisper of the Heart.
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My favorite would have to be "Kazuo Oga, the one who painted Totoro's Forest". I just love how it focuses almost completely on the beautiful paintings which Oga has created, accompanied by some lovely and relaxing music. It feels sort of like attending an art exhibit. At the same time you get to see some different animation techniques, such as distorting the image to create a feeling of depth when the camera moves. There's also a magnificent clip of a bunch of backgrounds from Princess Mononoke, stacked next to each other on individual class sheets, which makes it look like a semi-3D forest. I just loved that!
Those other documentaries are great too, though, especially Joy in Motion.
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Darn. Oh well, at least the whole concert is available through torrent (great for the ones not living in Japan).
What's torrent? I need to see the whole concert...
Bit-torrent is a way of sharing files over the internet. That concert was released on blu-ray in Japan, but not elsewhere, so someone has uploaded a rip of it on the internet for others to download, and view as a video file.
You can find it here:
http://www.bakabt.com/148337-joe-hisaish...-720p-live.html
To download torrents you first need to have a torrent downloading program installed on your computer, then you open the torrent files in this to download your files. Just search BitTorrent on google. It may look a little complicated, but it is in fact pretty easy. An important aspect of bit-torrent sharing is seeding, where you allow others to download from your computer after you have the files you need.
There are of course some legal issues connected with torrent-sharing, but that site I linked to is very reliable, and only uploads stuff that are not yet licensed outside of Japan. For the most part, at least.
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I know Norwegian (I'm from Norway) and therefore also, by default, basic Swedish and Danish, which are all very similar.
I also know English rather well, and some German, as I studied it for five years during high-school, though because it's a long time ago I've forgotten a lot  .
Learning Japanese would be fun, considering the amount of words and phrases I've picked up watching Japanese film and anime.
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