{"id":7669,"date":"2009-05-21T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2009-05-22T07:22:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:22:16","slug":"to-modern-movies-hayao-miyazaki-thinks-youre-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/to-modern-movies-hayao-miyazaki-thinks-youre-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"TO: Modern Movies. Hayao Miyazaki Thinks You&#8217;re Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article contains tons of telling tidbits on one of our favorite directors, <a href=\"http:\/\/tonymcnicol.com\/2008\/12\/10\/hayao-mizayaki-for-prime-minister\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Hayao Miyazaki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=7671\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/200px-ponyo.jpg\" alt=\"200px-ponyo\" title=\"200px-ponyo\" width=\"200\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7671\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHumans face a basic choice between love or money, he believes. &#8220;A five-year-old understands that in a way an adult obsessed with the economy and share prices cannot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/hayao-miyazaki-modern-movies-are-too-weird-for-me-1678129.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">I make movies that can be understood by that five-year-old, and to bring out that purity of heart<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t stand modern movies,&#8221; he winces. &#8220;The images are too weird and eccentric for me.&#8221; He shuns TV and most modern media, reading books or travelling instead. It is no surprise to find that the multimillionaire director&#8217;s car, parked outside the Ghibli studio, is an antique Citr\u00c3\u00b6en CV, an icon of minimalist, unfussy driving.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Young people are surrounded by virtual things,&#8221; he laments. &#8220;They lack real experience of life and lose their imaginations. Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s refreshing to know that in a world of McGs and Ratners and Bays, a modest fellow sits there. Tucked away in his corner of the world, Hayao Miyazaki is dreaming up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hayao_Miyazaki#Films\" class=\"external external_icon\">wondrous awesomes<\/a> like: My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Mononoke Hime, Spirited Away, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, etc etc. He&#8217;s there, at his desk, making these things and sharing with world at large, just because he can. <\/p>\n<p>We admit to being apprehensive over the coming<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ponyo_on_a_Cliff\" class=\"external external_icon\">Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea<\/a>.  But then we recall feeling the same way before viewing Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service and being literally blown away by the emotional impact that film held in store for us. Until he proves otherwise, Miyazaki remains on our list of The Good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very short list.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/hayao-miyazaki-modern-movies-are-too-weird-for-me-1678129.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">independant.co.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article contains tons of telling tidbits on one of our favorite directors, Hayao Miyazaki. Humans face a basic choice between love or money, he believes. &#8220;A five-year-old understands that in a way an adult obsessed with the economy and share prices cannot. I make movies that can be understood by that five-year-old, and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,47,51],"tags":[109,1151,1233,1235,1234,1232],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-interviews","category-only-in-japan","tag-better-not-suck","tag-director","tag-genius-storyteller","tag-hand-drawn","tag-hayao-miyazaki","tag-true-creators-are-isane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}