4 Interesting Things about Hayao Miyazaki Movie Collection

Over the past few decades, the Hayao Miyazaki movie collection by Hayao Miyazaki who is also the co-founder of the famous Studio Ghibli has produced countless animated films that have fascinated audiences of all ages. He has received acclaim from around the world and is one of the greatest filmmakers for his imaginative and meaningful footage. Here interesting things about hiding stories of the talented Hayao Miyazaki and what creates the masterpieces Hayao Miyazaki Movie Collection.

Airplanes appear in many Hayao Miyazaki Movie Collection

One of airplane scene from Miyazaki movie
One of airplane scene from Miyazaki movie

Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941 in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. Throughout his childhood, he demonstrated a talent for art, especially drawing manga. With his passion for manga, he gave up graduating from Gakushuin College with a bachelor’s degree in economics and politics to pursue painting. In the process of forging himself, he spends most of his time redrawing his favorite things, the most prominent of which are airplanes.This passion help him to create Studio Ghibli that famous with the animation of Hayao Miyazaki movie collection 

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The airplane scene from Porco Rosso
The airplane scene from Porco Rosso

So what made Miyazaki so fond of the sky and airplanes? Like many other children in Japan during World War II, Miyazaki was all too familiar with the warplanes flying overhead. Moreover, unlike other children of his time, Miyazaki was also in constant contact with the planes in his father’s factory, the Miyazaki airline company. So, of course, airplanes have become a familiar part of his childhood life. The image of iron birds flying in the sky is not only associated with Miyazaki’s youth, his passion and love for airplanes extends to adulthood and becomes part of nothing. indispensable in animated works throughout his filmmaking career.

The Wind Rise
The Wind Rise

It is easy to see that, although not a big fan of Ghibli animation, Miyazaki movies collection always has the presence of elements flying in the air. works such as “Howl’s moving castle” (2004) with a series of flying scenes in the sky, a castle in the sky in Laputa: Castle in the sky (1984), or most recently The film The Wind rises (Kaze Tachinu – 2013) … and many other works. Besides, the airplanes in the Miyazaki movies collection are also very different from the animated films from other studios like Disney. Through each film, the objects flying in the sky of Miyazaki take on a very different look, a very different meaning, only image quality is always improving. A flying object in Ghibli movies can wear many different coats. They can be graceful, lovely objects like Totoro or Kiki’s flying broom, but they can also become giant steampunk-style machines like Howl’s castle.

Miyazaki films often have a female protagonist

Before releasing hit Miyazaki bundle animated movies of the 80s like Laputa: Castle in the sky (1984) or Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Miyazaki started his career as a Scene transition artist at Toei Animation animation studio. After his relentless contributions and dedication to Toei, he quickly became an animator at the studio.

Kiki's Delivery Service
Kiki’s Delivery Service

In 1971, MIyazaki left Toei to cooperate with many major Japanese studios such as A-Pro, Nippon Animation and Telecom Animation Film before directing the landmark cartoon in his career: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) – an animated film based on the very successful manga series of the same name at that time by Miyazaki.

This is considered an important milestone marking the initial success of Miyazaki when he is not only widely known as a talented director but also as a scene artist and cartoon character designer. Figure. In particular, this is also the first film laying the foundation for the trend of “strong, energetic heroine” in his next works. This can be seen in most of Miyazaki collected works, where the women are the protagonists and the main characters in the story. He has been very successful in building “a strong, brave, independent female image and ready to fight to achieve his ideals and goals” – Miyazaki shared with the media in 2013. For him, women need companionship, need support and help, but never need a savior. A woman can become a powerful hero like any other man.

Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke

In 1997, Miyazaki and Ghibli studios once again proved this point when releasing Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke). In the movie, we never see the usual “beauty in distress” scene, instead a powerful warrior princess riding on the magic wolf’s back, protecting the forest in which she lives. San (the character of the princess in the movie) when he meets Ashitaka – a young and prestigious prince who does not want a kiss or a romance like in Disney movies. Besides, the hypothesis of  Mononoke’s jacket will shock audiences …

Scary But Reasonable Hypothesis From Studio Ghibli Films

The familiar element of anime romance seems to have been minimized in the works of Ghibli and Miyazaki, stepping backwards to serve as the background of the heroine’s strength, courage, and indomitableness. The Miyazaki bundle does not focus on a happy ending where people can live “happily ever after” like Aladdin and Jasmine or Pocahontas and John Smith. Miyazaki collected works praise the character’s enlightenment and maturity, something that not only warriors with glorious achievements or princesses can achieve. Most of the characters in the collected works of Hayao Miyazaki films are teenage girls like Kiki, Sen or Chihiro (Spirited Away), and they all have the courage and energy to explore themselves and find them. creating new values ​​for themselves, thereby creating a deep connection with viewers, especially women.

Spirited Away
Spirited Away

Miyazaki movies collection do not use built-in scripts 

After the huge success of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki with Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki co-founded the legendary Ghibli studio in 1985. Since then, Miyazaki has directed in total. 9 movies, of which there are works that have entered the hearts of fans such as My Neighbor Totoro (1988); Spirited Away (2001), or most recently the movie The Wind rises, released in 2013. The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki Rank To Best

Miyazaki with Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki
Miyazaki with Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki

During the filmmaking process, storyboard drawing is an important part to help the director use the variation of the film more effectively. But for Miyazaki collected works, this passage comes back, especially important and meaningful, because he rarely has a pre-built script, instead just built the story in the spontaneous direction but even then he also doesn’t know the end of the story.

In an interview in 2002, Miyazaki said, “I didn’t really prepare a script or a complete story before I made a movie.” He added: “Usually I don’t have time to prepare the script. Therefore, the story will build and develop the details in the process of drawing the scene by itself. Production of the film will take place as soon as a storyline is unified. We almost never know how the story will end, how it will unfold, but the filmmaking process continues as the story progresses.” For Miyazaki, he is not the film’s creator, but the film itself. Although Miyazaki himself is aware that this approach has many risks and shortcomings, but it has also contributed to the creation of world-famous works of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki movie collection, notably the movie Spirited Away with the The character is full of depth and human significance, but there is no complete script.

Miyazaki Hayao - A co-founder of Studio Ghibli
Miyazaki Hayao – A co-founder of Studio Ghibli

CGI is uses in Hayao Miyazaki movie in 2016

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the few filmmakers who still retain the hand-drawn form of their films. Hence, CGI, or computer simulation, was still a relatively unknown filmmaking tool to Miyazaki. And unlike other studios around the world, Studio Ghibli also Hayao Miyazaki movie collection has hardly used CGI in its films for decades. Ninety percent of Miyazaki’s collected works are entirely hand-drawn and he often only uses CGI technology to embellish the details in the film. Although he does not often use CGI in his film works, he does not deny the potential that this technology can bring to the movie universe: “In fact, I think CGI has enough potential. ability to be able to match or even surpass human abilities. But I seem to be past the age to try using this technology “- he shared in 2005.

Hayao Miyazaki Movie Collection Boro the Caterpillar
Boro the Caterpillar

 However, after more than a decade, he decided to try his hand with CGI technology and released a short animated film produced entirely by CGI called Boro the Caterpillar in 2016.

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Posted by LuuLy on Jan 14, 2021 2:37:27 AM
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