I honestly think Totoro, and most Ghibli movies, are hailed as masterpieces specifically because they do this. They resist formula- creating these moments of grace without losing the audience is an art that we’ve lost, I think bc our profit-obsession leads us to a min-max mindsethttps://twitter.com/tonkohouse/status/1238663349962829825 …
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We look at stories as lean machines, “is it useful?” is the governing principle, and while that feels like success it strips the opportunities for poetry away systematically. The opposite isn’t defacto better- we must create “useless” asides with artful discernment, which is hard
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But because it’s hard, and because it doesn’t pass our usefulness test, and because it would (critically) cost *money*, it doesn’t make it through our writers rooms.
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not just money, but labor...! there's kind of an ugly side to this which is how overworked japanese animators are, especially ghibli... ^^; as a director it's hard to justify high-intensity low-"usefulness" ideas when you take responsibility for folks' well-being
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can't deny this stuff is gorgeous and moving though!! this conversation & threading that needle of necessary vs. beautiful is one of the joys for me
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