Which animated image in Miyazaki Hayao's works impressed you the most?

Miyazaki Hayao, a legend in animation, winner of Academy Award and Lifetime Achievement Award, stands out among the cool 3D works of American filmmakers such as Pixar and Disney. His cartoons stand out among many BBQ and American fried chicken, like a beautiful Japanese cuisine, and bring us the splendor and magic of oriental animation with inner charm. I once read a book called Miyazaki Hayao and His World, which solidified the master and his animated world in words and showed them to people one by one.

What is the world like in Miyazaki Hayao?

This book is divided into six parts to introduce what Miyazaki Hayao's world is like.

The creator Miyazaki Hayao told people how he established the Studio Ghibli and turned Ghibli into a cartoon studio that fascinated children.

Miyazaki Hayao's supernatural world lets people know how fascinating his magical world is and how technology develops.

The characters in Miyazaki Hayao's cartoons tell people which characters in his cartoons and the creation of "creatures" (or elves).

"Miyazaki Hayao and History" tells everyone about his historical view and growth path.

This paper analyzes the machinery in the Miyazaki Hayao world, and introduces various mechanical weapons in comic world, Miyazaki Hayao.

Testimony and The World Overlooking Miyazaki Hayao introduced the framework and "texture" of the Miyazaki Hayao world.

The so-called "world", in fact, everyone's story is a world, and the cartoon world describing real life is the simplest, relying entirely on the real world: No.22 Baker Street1is the home of Sherlock Holmes, and the message board in front of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo in "City Hunter" says XYZ, and the slam dunk master is sweating profusely on the basketball court of Xiangbei Middle School. ...

Whether this world is "overhead" actually does not depend on whether there are things in the real world, but whether you have built a fantasy world with its own system and internal logic. From this point of view, although there is Chang 'an in The Journey to the West, Tang Priest started from Chang 'an, passed Wuzhishan, lived in Gaolaozhuang and crossed the Liusha River ... The people he met, as well as monsters, were all overhead. Miyazaki Hayao's world, because of cartoons, is much less restricted than movies and TV series. Whether it's the Totoro bus in the roaring forest, the castle floating in the air or the secluded world in Spirited Away, the magnificent imagination gives people a brand-new experience.

Break Osamu Tezuka.

The story that impressed me the most in this book is the "break" between Miyazaki Hayao and Tezuka. The so-called breakup, in fact, is not that two people used to be good friends and then alienated. Osamu Tezuka was Miyazaki Hayao's favorite cartoonist as a teenager, especially his masterpiece Astro Boy, which made Miyazaki Hayao dream of becoming a cartoonist. From this perspective, Tezuka is the owner of Miyazaki Hayao. However, after he started to work in comics, Miyazaki Hayao gradually felt the far-reaching influence of his works, because he deeply loved his works. He himself said:

Teacher Osamu Tezuka's cartoons have a great influence on me. When I really started working in comics, I realized that I couldn't work with such influence.

Osamu Tezuka's influence on Miyazaki Hayao is so deep that the future "cartoon world Akira Kurosawa" will feel humiliated and even set fire to a drawer full of drafts when others say that his paintings smell like Tezuka.

Qi Baishi once famously said, "Those who learn from me will live as if I were dead". If you want to expand your territory in the creative field, you must let yourself have your own things. When Jackie Chan first made his debut, Bruce Lee movies were in full swing, so all the Hong Kong martial arts films at that time imitated Bruce Lee's: bare-chested, showing muscles, punching with the fierce roar of "Ada", and it was best to solve opponents with nunchakus. Jackie Chan has also made many such films. However, when he really became popular, it was he who made a different style of "laughing fist".

Emerson, an American thinker, also said, "Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide." Jackie Chan and Miyazaki Hayao were even more so. It was not until more than 30 years later that one of Miyazaki Hayao's representative works, The Valley of the Wind, was also said to refer to Osamu Tezuka's work The Forest Emperor. However, at that time, Miyazaki Hayao was very aware of the difference between himself and Tezuka, and even though some bridges were borrowed, it felt like a tribute to the old-timers.

If Osamu Tezuka's works are full of tragedy and darkness, then Miyazaki Hayao leads people to find the silver lining in the darkness.

What kind of fairy tale world do we need?

I haven't seen much of Miyazaki Hayao's works, but I like every one I have seen very much. Some people in Zhihu divide the works of Miyazaki Hayao and his studio Ghibli into three categories:

One is realism, with the director's own reflection and voice. The Valley of the Wind and Princess Ghost show Miyazaki Hayao's thoughts on man and nature. "Red Pig" and "The Wind is Blowing" show reflections on the war. Similarly, the Tomb of Fireflies directed by Gao Tianxun is the most profound animated film I have ever seen, and there is no one.

The second category is pure warmth healing movies, Miyazaki Hayao My Neighbor Totoro's "The Witch's Home Help" and "Jin Yuji on the Cliff"; Gao Tianxun's Panda Family, Fairy Tales of the Years and My Neighbor Jun Yamada; Give ear to listen by given Kant; Hiroyuki Morita's Thanksgiving of Cats; Including Goro Miyazaki's Mountains in Bloom.

The third category, between the first two, not only has complicated context and thoughts, but also gives people warmth with happy endings, such as City in the Sky, Hal, the Moving Castle in Spirited Away, Hearing the Sound of the Waves and Aglietti, the Borrowing Man.

I am lucky to have seen some of these three kinds of works, both profound and cured, which left a deep impression on me. My favorite work is Spirited Away. Because it has created a magnificent and huge hidden world, in which self-discovery and self-persistence are still so important, sincere treatment and efforts are an important way to achieve the goal. Such a cartoon with correct "three views" is much more meaningful than Doraemon's magic pocket.

Reading "Miyazaki Hayao and His World" is to open beautifully printed pages and understand how Miyazaki Hayao built these grand epic worlds behind the story and how the master grew up like a leopard. This is also a kind of luck!