QUOTE(KLthinker91 @ Mar 24 2019, 01:58 PM)
offtopic sikit: I would go further than that actually
If you look at most American WW2 media, they mainly focus on just 4 battles - 1) Pearl Harbour, naturally; 2) Normandy D-day and French campaign, the first American-led victory in Europe; 3) Battle of the Bulge 1944, only the American half and only the victorious part; and 4) Pacific campaign, again only the American and victorious part in from island-hopping onwards
so this observation is not without merit
but again, you have to read OP which it looks like until now you still haven't, to get where my critique of HM is coming from
HM shit on LOTR because he said it glorifies war. Well, LOTR is a story of good guys forced to go to war against bad guys, to save the world. The main themes are friendship, sacrifice, and ultimately upholding righteous moral principles such as mercy despite seemingly being against practical considerations. It's not what he claims at all.
If even this level of conflict he considers "glorifying war", then hell, he himself shouldn't be doing anything like Porco Rosso or even the brief fighting in Howl's Moving Castle
which is why he is a hypocrite.
I re-read the article just now.
Seems like his point of contempt is more to the underlying xenophobic theme of LOTR. So we're both wrong.
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“If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them,” he continued. “Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage. How many people are being killed in attacks in Afghanistan? The Lord of the Rings is a movie that has no problem doing that [not separating civilians from enemies, apparently]. If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy are idiots.”
That said, I don't really care either way, I'll appreciate both tolkien's and miyazaki work, as they are both tasteful art in their own way.
Also, his anti-american stance is from an excerpt he made long ago.
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A lot has happened in the past 32 years, and Miyazaki has obviously either changed his stance since then or has come to terms with how things are and has learned to go with the flow. Hearing accounts of how stubborn Miyazaki could be as a director, I doubt he would have let Studio Ghibli embrace Disney as it has if he still felt that way. Of course, while Miyazaki does own a car, it’s a Citroen C4. A French automobile...
https://kotaku.com/the-time-hayao-miyazaki-...rica-1696699923Nice journalism from kotaku.