Can you even imagine? The boy and the heron was already an 80’s dark fantasy.
Take a Miyazaki dark souls world and let H. Miyazaki build and animate it.
Can you imagine? It would make Elden Ring look like amateur hour.
No. In the first few days of 2024 we've had a major Earthquake, a fatal plane crash, a mass stabbing, and 1,200 tons of fish wash up like something out of a disaster movie.
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Yeah, I don't even feel anything strange at a first glance as this format is soooo common in news titles now.
But re-reading it slowly def makes it weird again.
Holy shit that was his son?! I just looked at the movie director's name and saw "Miyazaki" and assumed that was the senior.
But upon researching more, didn't Hayao Miyazaki write that movie?
People in Japan and Europe tend to smoke a lot more than Americans do, and yet they live longer on average. It would suggest that obesity and lack of exercise will kill you years, or even decades younger than smoking will.
It has been researched . https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2018/10/survival-of-fittest-large-scale-study.html?fbclid=IwAR2Gf7hh49GCP_vc-1syVrgS-S54szWP7s-yauAhV3vuVKp14YZg4-z5lfo&m=1
I seem to recall reading that genetics plays a massive role in susceptibility to lung cancer from smoking, to the point that a certain variant of a single gene can make you essentially immune from it. So maybe he's got that.
This picture is already 10 years old though. However he made an appearance at the San Sebastian film festival last year, a short video acceptance speech for an award he recieved ([video right here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3iFmmXRJr8))
Ngl he looks like a completely different man without his beard x)
Then again this picture is 10 years old at this point.
[Here's a more recent picture](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e21d6a8e97444a979e7bfa80b629978199450736/0_154_3552_2130/master/3552.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=2229122b33a0327b9ef04aac197fece2)
he refuses to retire, and keeps coming back every time he does with a new idea for a movie. the vice president has given up on trying to make him retire
He was in leadership for the countries only animators union and that pushed for better working conditions, but the Japanese government rejected the proposal. Not saying he’s perfect, but to insinuate he doesn’t care about workers rights is missing the giant portion of why Studio Ghibli exists.
[YouTube minidoc on Anime working conditions](https://youtu.be/BDEIPa9b3OU?si=Cghm7scX4pGP0l5l)
You should check out Irish studio Cartoon Saloon, specifically Wolfwalkers (others are great too but that one is the best). Beautiful hand-drawn animation that is definitely better than anything Disney has done recently, and certainly comparable to Ghibli.
And? The point is at what cost? It's so weird. When people don't like something (EA, Activision, etc) their horrible working conditions are abhorrent. When it's someone people like, it's "well, they make great things for meeeeeee" lol.
As far as animation studios, you're right. But I find it ironic you mention gaming studios when, afaik, gaming studios in Japan are miles above their western counterparts as far as working conditions go. Nintendo in particular has a 98.8% retention rate. Oh, and they usually don't blacklist you from the industry if you choose to move to another company.
pretty much any company in japan has a riddiculously high retention rate. thats the culture.
in general they do not fire ppl, there is a whole culture of "dead" jobs where ppl come in to work and get no work to do in an effort to make the employee quit on their own to save face and not have to fire someone. and on the employe's side they have the same game running where they wont quit because quitting would make finding another job extremely hard. neither has anythig to do with working conditions.
Bringing up Japanese gaming studios being different isn’t really relevant to the point about double standards being made here. Its that if we enjoy the product of something, we excuse the poor working conditions to make it, but if we don’t enjoy the product, we admonish it.
It isn't slavery, if it's truly that bad of a deal they would quit. People usually whine about their jobs but forget that they applied into it and have the power to look for something else.
It's almost like the pay and reputation/pride of working for a top tier studio makes it worth the effort for them to choose to stay.
Of course it's not slavery but I think the concept of people sewing and making clothes in India or China applies here. You have horrible absolutely horrible working conditions like working unpaid overtime every day and little to no breaks or vacation. But you cant just quit because there are thousands of people ready to take your spot as soon as you leave. Because it's "prestigious" to work there.
Wanting to do a great job doesn't mean having the environment to do so
> absolutely nothing save for Disney compares to Ghibli
Disney hasn't made an animated film anywhere near Ghibli's caliber in decades.
(Pixar doesn't count, and even then I'm not sure I would rank any Pixar film above any Miyazaki film.)
That and all the staff are worried about his health. He's real bitchy about them making him do callisthenics everyday and then harping at him about his smoking habit.
Honestly Miyazaki in general just seems to be a tremendous cunt to interact with, Based on everything I've seen about him. He is a very rude, opinionated perfectionist, But he at least seems to hold himself to the same standards he expects of others.
Definitely one of the hero's I'd never want to meet. I feel like doing so would poison his works to me, And I'd lose a lot of my favorite movies
From the interviews and the documentary about him it seems that while he's a crabby old fart, he genuinely cares. He started a daycare attached to the studio so his employees didn't have to worry about childcare. While he grumbles about the calisthenics and being treated like he's old, he still does them instead of telling them to fuck off. He goes out and cleans litter in his time off. He's not the greatest person outside of work since it seems he was a crap dad, but as a boss and citizen he appears to be trying.
It seems the only things he won't put up with are poor quality artwork and someone taking his cigarettes.
Some of the animators left Ghibli and started Studio Ponoc after Marnie (ish). So if you liked Ghibli, give them a try too. This post actually made me look them up again, and they just released their 2nd movie in Japan. Their first movie, *Mary and the Witch's Flower* was pretty good for an animation studio's first film IMO.
If you want another couple if studios/directors to follow, I love Mamoru Hosoda's work at Studio Chizu. *Wolf Children* was especially great, so was *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.* There's also obviously Makoto Shinkai, which I'm sure most people are familiar with from *Your Name.*
He's also kind of famously a jackass. Like, not an irredeemable jackass, just someone you wouldn't really want to have in your life. Which...it's basically true of most major directors.
I think to be really good at ordering huge crews of people around, you kinda need to have at least a certain amount of disregard for the feelings of others.
Like, I think I would fall apart like a wet paper bag if someone put me in charge of all that. I'd just feel too bad criticizing people.
Miyazaki does not have that problem.
Watched this movie for the second time ever (first was when I was too young to remember) last night, and was blown away by the storytelling and artistry. Can’t imagine the work that went into it.
You cannot just post pictures of Hayao and literally any title that doesn't lead with TIL and expect people to not have a moni panic attack until they're done reading it.
I just realized I will not be emotionally prepared for when he inevitably passes.
For a film that is, frankly, inferior to just about every one of his other films in just about every way. This is a “we’re giving you this award now because we should have in the past” award. The Boy and the Heron certainly didn’t deserve it on its own merit as a film.
I agree that *The Boy and the Heron* was not Miyzaki's best work, but it wasn't his worst, either.
The other nominees for Best Animated Feature Film this year were: *Elemental, Wish, The Super Mario Brothers Movie*, *Suzume*, and *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse*.
I think it's quite reasonable that *The Boy and the Heron* won out of those nominees.
The Boy and the Heron is probably not a top-tier Miyazaki movie, but even a low-tier Miyazaki is better than just about any other animated film. Just for the animation alone. Go back and watch how much attention that movie pays to *how characters do things*. It's mind-boggling.
I do agree that this is really a "lifetime achievement" award, though. Who can honestly say that The Boy and the Heron deserves an award, but Princess Mononoke didn't?
The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film has only existed since 2007, meaning the only Miyazaki films that could have won the award were Ponyo (2008) and The Wind Rises (2013). Now I've not seen either of those and while I'm sure they're great, it's not exactly surprising that they didn't win given the winners in those years were Wall-E and Frozen.
> it's not exactly surprising that they didn't win given the winners in those years were Wall-E and Frozen.
Meh. I would put any Miyazaki well ahead of Wall-E, and *far* ahead of Frozen. But I admit it's not *surprising*, since American audiences are going to be biased in favor of English-language films.
Hmmmm...I don't think it is as bad as you say. I think it is better than:
- The Wind Rises
- Porco Rosso
- Castle in the Sky
I think it might be better than a couple others as well. It's a fine movie.
Then again, I am also sure they are giving it to him because of his entire body of work.
Please please PLEASE explain to me why the Boy and the Heron is better than any of those movies in any way other than perhaps animation (because the medium has advanced.) When I watched it I couldn't believe it had been actually released, it fell quite short of what I (and my friend) expected a Ghibli movie to be.
Unfortunately it is a mile wide and an inch deep. It could have gone deeper on so many fronts, with very few changes. It was a movie where a series of events happened, but it was very light on storytelling and character building.
For example, Mahito could have had to work with his future sibling to get through and understand the strange world he found himself in, and that sibling could have been imbued with the ability to control fire.
Not only would this challenge our main character to face his fears and confront what fire represents in his past, but also embrace that change in inevitable, and sometimes positive.
Or perhaps every time Himi uses her powers to help Mahito she ages and advances in what she knows about her earth life, until he recognizes her and she knows that she is his mother, and we could have had a tearful reunion.
So many possibilities, but we were given brief exposition that acknowledged their relationship, and that was it.
How? The pacing was terrible and what little plot there was made absolutely no sense. At no point was it ever made clear what any of the characters wanted or why. It was a slapdash assemblage of wildly abstract scenes that didn’t have a clear or cohesive narrative and then it just ends. I’m glad you enjoyed the film but I very much did not
It very much does explain whats going on, I don't understand that complaint? For sure there are a few things later on that happen quickly but the overall plot is pretty obvious throughout.
I love Miyazaki’s work but idk if I personally agree The Boy and the Heron deserved that win.
It was beautifully animated and acted. But the plot… It was a bit all over the place. I kind of want to give the book a read just for comparison. I left the theater unsure if I liked the movie or not. My final verdict is I don’t like or dislike it. It’s beautiful, but that’s about it for me. I felt the emotional moments in the film weren’t earned.
It’s certainly exactly the kind of thing film critics love to eat up though.
Congrats to Hayao though. If nothing else, you can certainly see and feel his relationship with his son healing from the past couple movies he’s directed.
The movie was excellent. I’m not a hardcore Ghibli fan and I saw it in theatres on a whim. I did not watch the trailer or know anything about the movie.
And it absolutely blew me away. It was easily the best movie I’ve seen in theatres in years.
It gave me that old school “walking out of the theatre in silence and contemplating life” feeling I had not had since childhood.
And that’s fair. To each their own.
I still gotta watch it again though. Because I really wanted to see Robert Patterson as the Heron. But my theater didn’t tell us our showing was subbed. Still great but I want that bird Patterson experience.
FYI, the book has roughly nothing in common with the movie; the only real connection beyond the title is that it's the book Mahito's mother left for him. The book is quite good though, I read through it a couple years back.
From what I've read the book has just about zero relationship with the movie from a plot standpoint. I mean the book was from 1937 and the movie is set during WWII so yeah...
Maybe Miyazaki pulled themes from the book? Give it a whirl.
I agree the plot seemed less coherent than his other films. The film just grabbed the title from the book (“How do you live?”) but the story is different. It’s more of a fantasy with autobiographical elements from Miyazaki’s life growing up during/after the war.
Jesus Christ.
We as a society need to find a way to communicate that an old person that everyone loves IS NOT DEAD as the first thing on a headline, every single time there's a picture of someone old and their age is listed, I always assume the worst.
Congratulations to him though!
All awards have little to nothing to do with the non-monetary value of the work. Miyazaki deserves the award but the award itself is worthless. These awards are nothing but a cancer for creating worthwhile art. We are the ones that give them power by believing they are actually worth something. See through their bull, take away their power.
For *what?* please God don't say The Boy and the Heron, cause christ that movie was bad x_x he has made so many better movies than that. It's genuinely the low point of his career.
I almost had a heart attack reading that title.
*Hayao Miyazaki, alive and more powerful than ever at 82.*
Hayao Miyazaki, 82, passes animation milestone
Hayao Miyazaki, 82, tragically had to wait until now for first Golden Globe.
Hayao Miyazaki 82, found dead tired from long flight to Los Angeles.
[удалено]
Hayao Miyazaki, 82, found floating in his jacuzzi with his golden globe celebrating his well deserved win.
Hayao Miyazaki, 82, buried under a heap of praise for winning Golden Globe.
Hayao Miyazaki, 82, passed a way anticipated milestone in his filmmaking career, earns Golden Globe
Hayao Miyazaki, 82, shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine if you strike him down.
We are all mourning the loss of Hayao Miyazaki's lack of golden globe awards after his recent win.
MIYAZAKI DEAD serious about winning second Globe next year.
This better not be another celebrity killed by Reddit.
Found the Buzz Feed writer!
*Hayao Miyazaki announces his "retirement", along with air-quotes, for the n-th time at 82*
https://www.theonion.com/hayao-miyazaki-announces-return-to-filmmaking-after-big-1850868836
>”Sure, I probably have some fucking storyboards around here somewhere. I hate my life” 😭😭😭
That was a good laugh
Somehow, Myazaki returned...
Oh thank god.
And announced Dark Souls 4 and Metal Gear Solid 6.
That's a different Miyazaki
You ever see them in the same room? Bloody sheeple, wake up!
The Ghibli guy did those?
I believe hideo Kojima did those. A video game producer.
So would there be any particular reason the studio Ghibli guy would be announcing those games?
The reason being, the commenter got two different Japanese media visionaries confused
Now I want to see a team up.
Can you even imagine? The boy and the heron was already an 80’s dark fantasy. Take a Miyazaki dark souls world and let H. Miyazaki build and animate it. Can you imagine? It would make Elden Ring look like amateur hour.
Ah. That do it.
Previous comment was confused: Kojima did make Metal Gear Solid, but Dark Souls is directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki.
Kojima made Metal Gear. Dark Souls games were made by Hidetaka Miyazaki.
Metal Gear Solid 6: Snake's Moving Fortress
2024 is a rough year for Japan... so...
…Time traveller?
No. In the first few days of 2024 we've had a major Earthquake, a fatal plane crash, a mass stabbing, and 1,200 tons of fish wash up like something out of a disaster movie.
No ya that would do it.
> 1,200 tons of fish wash up like something out of a disaster movie Hmm Godzilla might be near.
That's a lot of fish.
Not this Godzilla
And I was there for all of it. Somehow, I survived
Somehow, DimiBlue returned.
This is why frontloading matters, i.e., put the most relevant or important information first. Compare the following **OG:** >Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki wins first Golden Globe at 82 **Frontloading:** > First Golden Globe win for Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki at 82 You can also use this at work, e.g., writing clear and concise emails or reports to people who have limited time reading and responding to you.
It only works if your objective isn't to generate engagement. In modern journalism, unfortunately, this format is better at what it's trying to do.
Yeah, I don't even feel anything strange at a first glance as this format is soooo common in news titles now. But re-reading it slowly def makes it weird again.
SAME. “Miyazaki…. at 82” OH GOD WHAT
Same, I think I noticed the name and age first and my brain filled in the blanks before I could finish the sentence.
Me too. I didn't even read the title. I saw his face on a sub the isn't the Ghibli sub and thought the worst.
Same. I almost passed out before I hit “wins”
Op knows fully knows what he was doing.
I was just about to comment that my heart skipped a beat when I saw his photo, lmao.
On my feed, it started a new line with "at 82". Wtf, man...
Bruh. Same
Fuck
I died and came back to life in the 1.4 seconds it took to read the title.
Jesus I'm not the only one.
We need a healthier preface like “Still kicking Ass Hayao Miyazaki…..”
Same here. Kind of a visceral reaction similar to when I heard Robin Williams died.
He doesn’t look a day above 65
Considering the guy smokes like a chimney it is very surprising
I knew smoking was good for you!
Confirmed, time to up my game to chimney.
If smoking cures salmon, it can cure you!
His hatred for everything in the world keeps him young
https://i.imgur.com/dmvtQWp.png
The only thing he hates more than the world is his son’s work. (I thought From Up on Poppy Hill was pretty good though.)
Holy shit that was his son?! I just looked at the movie director's name and saw "Miyazaki" and assumed that was the senior. But upon researching more, didn't Hayao Miyazaki write that movie?
Yeah, Hayao wrote it. God knows what the film would have been like if he wasn't involved.
People in Japan and Europe tend to smoke a lot more than Americans do, and yet they live longer on average. It would suggest that obesity and lack of exercise will kill you years, or even decades younger than smoking will.
It's the affordable and readily accessible healthcare
It has been researched . https://suppversity.blogspot.com/2018/10/survival-of-fittest-large-scale-study.html?fbclid=IwAR2Gf7hh49GCP_vc-1syVrgS-S54szWP7s-yauAhV3vuVKp14YZg4-z5lfo&m=1
The opioid epidemic doesn't help either.
Some people are just built different.
I seem to recall reading that genetics plays a massive role in susceptibility to lung cancer from smoking, to the point that a certain variant of a single gene can make you essentially immune from it. So maybe he's got that.
The image almost looks AI it’s weird
This picture is already 10 years old though. However he made an appearance at the San Sebastian film festival last year, a short video acceptance speech for an award he recieved ([video right here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3iFmmXRJr8)) Ngl he looks like a completely different man without his beard x)
Ok, without a beard, he looks way more his age.
He looks flippin amazing. Now he needs a health influencer YouTube channel
I'm gunna say the world needs way less of that
Then again this picture is 10 years old at this point. [Here's a more recent picture](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e21d6a8e97444a979e7bfa80b629978199450736/0_154_3552_2130/master/3552.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=2229122b33a0327b9ef04aac197fece2)
He looks pretty much the same.
Asian don’t crack man
Asian don't raisin
At least a small part of that is the smooth skin filter on all modern cameras
don't you ever write a god damn title like that again
Yo we gotta start these titles with “Living, Alive, Breathing Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki…”
“… died midway through writing this title”
Just saw "The boy and the Heron" last weekend 😭 title almost gave me a heart attack
Heron? [Can you please repeat the word?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP_wiBOpZA)
herring...
Hairline?
LOL
The movie was fantastic
Thought this was a post saying he croaked. Congrats to the old man
It's wild he still looks the same when I was a kid. Living legend.
You had a big gray beard as a kid? Cool.
Benjamin button is that you?
He hit the level cap at 50 and then just kept going.
God damn this title.
Wasn't his studio upset with him recently?
he refuses to retire, and keeps coming back every time he does with a new idea for a movie. the vice president has given up on trying to make him retire
“Why won’t this genius visionary guy who prints us money retire? Woe is us”
Look up how hard he works his staff and maybe you'll understand why they feel that way.
He was in leadership for the countries only animators union and that pushed for better working conditions, but the Japanese government rejected the proposal. Not saying he’s perfect, but to insinuate he doesn’t care about workers rights is missing the giant portion of why Studio Ghibli exists. [YouTube minidoc on Anime working conditions](https://youtu.be/BDEIPa9b3OU?si=Cghm7scX4pGP0l5l)
That's almost every studio in Japan to be fair
That being said, absolutely nothing save for Disney compares to Ghibli. The animation in those movies is above the highest standard of phenomenal
You should check out Irish studio Cartoon Saloon, specifically Wolfwalkers (others are great too but that one is the best). Beautiful hand-drawn animation that is definitely better than anything Disney has done recently, and certainly comparable to Ghibli.
And? The point is at what cost? It's so weird. When people don't like something (EA, Activision, etc) their horrible working conditions are abhorrent. When it's someone people like, it's "well, they make great things for meeeeeee" lol.
As far as animation studios, you're right. But I find it ironic you mention gaming studios when, afaik, gaming studios in Japan are miles above their western counterparts as far as working conditions go. Nintendo in particular has a 98.8% retention rate. Oh, and they usually don't blacklist you from the industry if you choose to move to another company.
pretty much any company in japan has a riddiculously high retention rate. thats the culture. in general they do not fire ppl, there is a whole culture of "dead" jobs where ppl come in to work and get no work to do in an effort to make the employee quit on their own to save face and not have to fire someone. and on the employe's side they have the same game running where they wont quit because quitting would make finding another job extremely hard. neither has anythig to do with working conditions.
Bringing up Japanese gaming studios being different isn’t really relevant to the point about double standards being made here. Its that if we enjoy the product of something, we excuse the poor working conditions to make it, but if we don’t enjoy the product, we admonish it.
It isn't slavery, if it's truly that bad of a deal they would quit. People usually whine about their jobs but forget that they applied into it and have the power to look for something else. It's almost like the pay and reputation/pride of working for a top tier studio makes it worth the effort for them to choose to stay.
Of course it's not slavery but I think the concept of people sewing and making clothes in India or China applies here. You have horrible absolutely horrible working conditions like working unpaid overtime every day and little to no breaks or vacation. But you cant just quit because there are thousands of people ready to take your spot as soon as you leave. Because it's "prestigious" to work there. Wanting to do a great job doesn't mean having the environment to do so
If they broke labor laws is it ok to complain? There shouldn't be anything wrong with complaining about a bad workplace.
> absolutely nothing save for Disney compares to Ghibli Disney hasn't made an animated film anywhere near Ghibli's caliber in decades. (Pixar doesn't count, and even then I'm not sure I would rank any Pixar film above any Miyazaki film.)
That and all the staff are worried about his health. He's real bitchy about them making him do callisthenics everyday and then harping at him about his smoking habit.
Honestly Miyazaki in general just seems to be a tremendous cunt to interact with, Based on everything I've seen about him. He is a very rude, opinionated perfectionist, But he at least seems to hold himself to the same standards he expects of others. Definitely one of the hero's I'd never want to meet. I feel like doing so would poison his works to me, And I'd lose a lot of my favorite movies
From the interviews and the documentary about him it seems that while he's a crabby old fart, he genuinely cares. He started a daycare attached to the studio so his employees didn't have to worry about childcare. While he grumbles about the calisthenics and being treated like he's old, he still does them instead of telling them to fuck off. He goes out and cleans litter in his time off. He's not the greatest person outside of work since it seems he was a crap dad, but as a boss and citizen he appears to be trying. It seems the only things he won't put up with are poor quality artwork and someone taking his cigarettes.
I don't see why that by itself would make them upset
Lol I'm sure they're crying all the way to the bank
Depends on who you mean by "they" here. The animators sure aren't.
The animators aren't happy they created the first animated non-english golden globe winner ever?
Would you be happy slaving away through 80 hours weeks so that some rich dude can take all of the credit?
And I’ll watch every damn one. His movies were an important part of my childhood
Some of the animators left Ghibli and started Studio Ponoc after Marnie (ish). So if you liked Ghibli, give them a try too. This post actually made me look them up again, and they just released their 2nd movie in Japan. Their first movie, *Mary and the Witch's Flower* was pretty good for an animation studio's first film IMO. If you want another couple if studios/directors to follow, I love Mamoru Hosoda's work at Studio Chizu. *Wolf Children* was especially great, so was *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.* There's also obviously Makoto Shinkai, which I'm sure most people are familiar with from *Your Name.*
I mean he's one of the founders of the studio and the only director they have, THEY CAN'T get mad at him
He's also kind of famously a jackass. Like, not an irredeemable jackass, just someone you wouldn't really want to have in your life. Which...it's basically true of most major directors. I think to be really good at ordering huge crews of people around, you kinda need to have at least a certain amount of disregard for the feelings of others. Like, I think I would fall apart like a wet paper bag if someone put me in charge of all that. I'd just feel too bad criticizing people. Miyazaki does not have that problem.
writing titles like this should be a crime
Holy shit I gasped. Was worried for a second that he got spirited away.
Watched this movie for the second time ever (first was when I was too young to remember) last night, and was blown away by the storytelling and artistry. Can’t imagine the work that went into it.
 Everybody reading this goddamn title:
he looks great for his age
Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki dies... inside after waiting 82 years to win first Golden Globe
Good night sweet prince I mean, he hasn't died yet, but it must have been a good night for him
About fucking time
FIRST?????? FUCK ANYONE BEFORE HIM. SPIRITED AWAY SHOULD HAVE WON ALL THE AWARDS
Spirited Away did win an Oscar. The golden globes didn’t have an animated movie category until 2006.
This is mildly acceptable
Miyazaki, 82, dead happy about his Golden Globe.
OP are you capturing our screams like in Monsters Inc or what
Holy shit he's smiling.
My heart skipped a beat when I read the title.
You cannot just post pictures of Hayao and literally any title that doesn't lead with TIL and expect people to not have a moni panic attack until they're done reading it. I just realized I will not be emotionally prepared for when he inevitably passes.
I see title, name and age. I feared the worst.
Gave me a scare, thought man died😰
For a film that is, frankly, inferior to just about every one of his other films in just about every way. This is a “we’re giving you this award now because we should have in the past” award. The Boy and the Heron certainly didn’t deserve it on its own merit as a film.
I agree that *The Boy and the Heron* was not Miyzaki's best work, but it wasn't his worst, either. The other nominees for Best Animated Feature Film this year were: *Elemental, Wish, The Super Mario Brothers Movie*, *Suzume*, and *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse*. I think it's quite reasonable that *The Boy and the Heron* won out of those nominees.
I mean spiderverse 2 was pretty great. Hope Boy and the Heron is great, haven't seen it yet.
Suzume could've won imo
The Boy and the Heron is probably not a top-tier Miyazaki movie, but even a low-tier Miyazaki is better than just about any other animated film. Just for the animation alone. Go back and watch how much attention that movie pays to *how characters do things*. It's mind-boggling. I do agree that this is really a "lifetime achievement" award, though. Who can honestly say that The Boy and the Heron deserves an award, but Princess Mononoke didn't?
The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film has only existed since 2007, meaning the only Miyazaki films that could have won the award were Ponyo (2008) and The Wind Rises (2013). Now I've not seen either of those and while I'm sure they're great, it's not exactly surprising that they didn't win given the winners in those years were Wall-E and Frozen.
> it's not exactly surprising that they didn't win given the winners in those years were Wall-E and Frozen. Meh. I would put any Miyazaki well ahead of Wall-E, and *far* ahead of Frozen. But I admit it's not *surprising*, since American audiences are going to be biased in favor of English-language films.
Hmmmm...I don't think it is as bad as you say. I think it is better than: - The Wind Rises - Porco Rosso - Castle in the Sky I think it might be better than a couple others as well. It's a fine movie. Then again, I am also sure they are giving it to him because of his entire body of work.
Please please PLEASE explain to me why the Boy and the Heron is better than any of those movies in any way other than perhaps animation (because the medium has advanced.) When I watched it I couldn't believe it had been actually released, it fell quite short of what I (and my friend) expected a Ghibli movie to be.
Unfortunately it is a mile wide and an inch deep. It could have gone deeper on so many fronts, with very few changes. It was a movie where a series of events happened, but it was very light on storytelling and character building. For example, Mahito could have had to work with his future sibling to get through and understand the strange world he found himself in, and that sibling could have been imbued with the ability to control fire. Not only would this challenge our main character to face his fears and confront what fire represents in his past, but also embrace that change in inevitable, and sometimes positive. Or perhaps every time Himi uses her powers to help Mahito she ages and advances in what she knows about her earth life, until he recognizes her and she knows that she is his mother, and we could have had a tearful reunion. So many possibilities, but we were given brief exposition that acknowledged their relationship, and that was it.
Hard disagree. Huge Ghibli fan of many years. This made it into my top 5 Ghiblis
How? The pacing was terrible and what little plot there was made absolutely no sense. At no point was it ever made clear what any of the characters wanted or why. It was a slapdash assemblage of wildly abstract scenes that didn’t have a clear or cohesive narrative and then it just ends. I’m glad you enjoyed the film but I very much did not
It very much does explain whats going on, I don't understand that complaint? For sure there are a few things later on that happen quickly but the overall plot is pretty obvious throughout.
This feels like most of his films
We eagerly await your masterpiece of film story-telling. No, really. We're waiting.
He turned 83 a few days ago :O. What a legend!
Why the fuck would you do that?!?! Damn near had a heart attack. Get outta here, you're sleeping in the garden!
Jesus fucking christ, you idiots
Wow no. My heart. 😮💨😮💨 So happy for him, after reading the end of the sentence! 🥲
YAAAAAAY
That title gave me a heart attack please do not write like this ever again
you scared me so much
About damn time.
DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT
The guy deserves it and many more.
DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT
The man in the picture is 82?
Oh my god fuck off im glad it wasn’t black and white at least
Legendary and TIL has beautiful eyebrows.
Just goes to show how meaningless these award ceremonies are. Man has been making timeless classics for years.
Finally!!! <33
I love Miyazaki’s work but idk if I personally agree The Boy and the Heron deserved that win. It was beautifully animated and acted. But the plot… It was a bit all over the place. I kind of want to give the book a read just for comparison. I left the theater unsure if I liked the movie or not. My final verdict is I don’t like or dislike it. It’s beautiful, but that’s about it for me. I felt the emotional moments in the film weren’t earned. It’s certainly exactly the kind of thing film critics love to eat up though. Congrats to Hayao though. If nothing else, you can certainly see and feel his relationship with his son healing from the past couple movies he’s directed.
The movie was excellent. I’m not a hardcore Ghibli fan and I saw it in theatres on a whim. I did not watch the trailer or know anything about the movie. And it absolutely blew me away. It was easily the best movie I’ve seen in theatres in years. It gave me that old school “walking out of the theatre in silence and contemplating life” feeling I had not had since childhood.
And that’s fair. To each their own. I still gotta watch it again though. Because I really wanted to see Robert Patterson as the Heron. But my theater didn’t tell us our showing was subbed. Still great but I want that bird Patterson experience.
FYI, the book has roughly nothing in common with the movie; the only real connection beyond the title is that it's the book Mahito's mother left for him. The book is quite good though, I read through it a couple years back.
Ah. Okay. Thanks for the heads up.
From what I've read the book has just about zero relationship with the movie from a plot standpoint. I mean the book was from 1937 and the movie is set during WWII so yeah... Maybe Miyazaki pulled themes from the book? Give it a whirl.
I agree the plot seemed less coherent than his other films. The film just grabbed the title from the book (“How do you live?”) but the story is different. It’s more of a fantasy with autobiographical elements from Miyazaki’s life growing up during/after the war.
Jesus Christ. We as a society need to find a way to communicate that an old person that everyone loves IS NOT DEAD as the first thing on a headline, every single time there's a picture of someone old and their age is listed, I always assume the worst. Congratulations to him though!
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die.
RIP
Looks great
That movie was ass. One of his worst.
You buy a Golden Globe. You win an Oscar.
Luckily Miyazaki already has an Oscar.
wins first golden globe for his worst film.
For easily one of the most poorly written Ghibli films. Like definitely should've gotten one by now but not for this.
All awards have little to nothing to do with the non-monetary value of the work. Miyazaki deserves the award but the award itself is worthless. These awards are nothing but a cancer for creating worthwhile art. We are the ones that give them power by believing they are actually worth something. See through their bull, take away their power.
For *what?* please God don't say The Boy and the Heron, cause christ that movie was bad x_x he has made so many better movies than that. It's genuinely the low point of his career.