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RE: When Marnie Was There - Farewell to Studio Ghibli
Hmm... see I liked both the book and the movie of Howl. They were different, with Miyazaki bending the story for his own ideas, but that is ok. It worked for Kubrick when he stole and more or less rewrote "The Shining", and I think it works for Miyazaki. Having said that, I do agree with you that the book was better. But I like them both.
Mononoke was great. I'm more partial to Spirited Away (or Porco Rosso), but they are all great. I have to take back what I said—I have seen one other Ghilbi film after Howl. I saw Earthsea, which again was not as good as the book but was still good in its own right.
Earthsea is notorious for how bad it was. Even if I hadn't read Earthsea, that one was just so bad.
They also copy-pasted characters from other movies in that one. It was just a phoned-in mess :(
There's a reason Miyazaki Goro did not direct anything for years afterwards :-/
But, I'm glad you liked it! I felt so bad about that film after I watched it in a big theatre...
haha I know that was the common belief. Sure it isn't even on the same level as other Ghibli films, but I didn't think it was that bad. I always felt sorry for Goro. Because of his name, everyone expected him to just instantly and magically be amazing. But I say that without knowing any of the behind the scenes story.
I'll say this - I don't think I knew it was Goro behind Earthsea till later. Much later.
All I knew was that the film was terrible. And then it later made sense when I found out. Marnie is the director's second offering, didn't care too much for the first, but it was ok. Earthsea is one of the worst anime films I watched, from my perspective, at least, heh.
And it's definitely not easy to follow up in Hayao's footsteps, and as his son to boot. No doubt about that.