Netflix streaming just added Miyazaki's first film, _The Castle of Cagliostro_. It's really good. It's clarifying for me a lot of things I dislike about most anime, by virtue of not doing them.
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Replying to @hillrober
One problem I have with most anime I've seen is it's so slow. DBZ is the worst example. Closeups of people yelling and groaning for 5 minutes as a substitute for plot and writing. In CoC there's always something interesting happening onscreen and there's always momentum.
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Replying to @St_Rev @hillrober
Related, in the action scenes there's a clear throughline, you can see things move from A to B and it's clear how the shots are in spatial relation to each other. Asian cinema is frequently weak on that. It's the difference between mediocre martial arts flicks and good ones.
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Replying to @St_Rev @hillrober
(Western cinema is usually worse than Asian cinema when filming fight scenes, of course) But again, compare to DBZ where so many fight scenes are just characters floating in midair as if it were Jell-O, to save on having to even think about structure and movement.
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Replying to @St_Rev @hillrober
In CoC you always have a feeling of where Lupin III is standing and where he's going. He has weight and place.
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Incidentally, I share your assessment of CoC. To me it’s the only Miyazaki film that I enjoy. The rest of his films are too preachy
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Replying to @hillrober
I liked a lot of Ghibli productions, but I walked out of Ponyo after like 30 minutes.
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