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I don’t know why I bother working with the Movie Database. Their rules are so fucking rigid they won’t allow Miyazaki’s short film "On Your Mark" to have an entry on there because it’s also a music video but not a music video with extended footage that was released at a festival. That’s a completely asinine and weirdly specific set of criteria that’s causing a significant Miyazaki work to be erased from the site.

Finished reading Kiki's Delivery Service. It's a completely different experience from Hayao Miyazaki's film adaptation, but each version is charming on its own merits.

The beginning of the story is nearly the same in both versions, but after that, they each take their own path. Eiko Kadono's original novel is more of a collection of vignettes in Kiki's life, with most of the scenes not even found in the Ghibli film. Miyazaki took some moments and characters from the book and reworked them into a completely new story, with many things not found in the novel.

I am now curious, though, if there are any easter eggs referencing unused parts of the book in the film. I'll have to look carefully the next time I watch it!

Anyway, if you like Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service (it's still my favorite Ghibli film, now having read the original), check out the original …

https://www.alojapan.com/1287000/tokyo-through-studio-ghiblis-lens-2/ Tokyo Through Studio Ghibli’s Lens From Metropolis (1927) to Taxi Driver (1976) and Salaam Bombay! (1988) to Gully Boy (2019), cities on screen have long fascinated us – mirroring, distorting and reimagining urban life. Scholars such as Raymond Williams and David B. Clarke have shown how literature and film shape our understanding of c…

Tokyo Through Studio Ghibli’s Lens

There was huge backlash last month when OpenAI announced its new AI image generator and demonstrated it by showing Studio Ghibli-inspired pictures. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, responded to the criticism last Sunday by describing it as "democratization" of art creation. @ArtNews's digital director Harrison Jacobs says Altman's missed the point, quoting Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki. "I can’t watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

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