To most viewers, Howl’s Moving Castle will prompt the same response that Lewis Carroll’s Alice had to the Jabberwocky poem: “It seems very pretty but it’s rather hard to understand.” That didn’t worry Japanese audiences, who made Howl a monster hit, but Western viewers may have less patience.įortunately, Howl is as much of a hand-drawn treat as Spirited Away, chock-full of numinous sunsets, fabulous organic machinery and gratuitously delightful touches. The irony is, now we’ve got a Miyazaki film in multiplexes, excellently dubbed by an A-list cast (with a subtitled version simultaneously released for purists), the director’s abandoned clarity altogether. Then Miyazaki’s Spirited Away won an Oscar and suddenly everyone was a fan – despite complaints that his movies weren’t so clear any more. Anime fans would always respond in the same way: they’d point to the delightful and brilliant early films of Hayao Miyazaki, such as My Neighbour Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, with their thoroughly simple, lucid storytelling. (6) What I watched in (6) Episode 9 (5) What I read in (5) #RebelliousWriting (4) Best Overall rating (4) Episode 11 (4) Prequel (4) What's My Line? (4) Episode 10 (3) Episode 12 (3) Episode 13 (3) Mount TBR (3) Audiobook (2) Author Interview (2) Dreamworks (2) Live Action vs.A few years ago, the standard perception of Japanese anime was of strange, noisy cartoons that made no sense.
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Quotes: 9, "Help me someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!" "Now go downstairs and think of something else to do. Words: 8, a few bad words, but not too bad. Lettie and Martha, I love their stories through all of this! Michael, he is so sweet and kind and does his best. Sophie, it is so interesting to see how a person's view can change. Where she pretends to be a cleaning lady to try to find a way to break the spell she is under.Ĭharacters: 9, there are so many fun characters and they are all so complex! One day, the Witch of the Waste storms in and turns Sophie into an old woman! And the worst part is she can't tell anybody that she is under a spell unless they already know! Sophie runs away and comes upon the Wizard Howl's Moving Castle. The best thing to do is sit in the hat shop and make hats. The eldest of three girls, Sophie, knows that since she is the eldest nothing will ever happen to her, or if she tries to seek her fortune something terrible will happen.