Movies205 said:
Your opinion, personally I think Studio Ghibli's film equals Disney movies, but doesn't blow it away. I'll concede studio Ghibli has a very unique style and quality but it's like deep movies, simply because a movie is deep it doesn't make it better than a simple movie. At least that's my opinion, and I'm not going argue it because it comes down to opinion since Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Alice and Wonderland, etc all have amazing animation and stories, to tell me otherwise is ridiculous but which is better, is personal taste, and thus it's useless arguing. Don't get me wrong I love Studio Ghibli and beats the **** out of Disney new stuff but everything before 1999 rivals it.
Of course it's your opinion and it is mine, and I do not judge you any less inferior for comparing Disney to the almighty Miya (tss, we have been arguing enough to respect each others in the last year, me thinks
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Miya is not just about dept, but it sure does help. I mean, watch again Totoro. It's magical, but why ? Because of how sad and innocent it all is. The dept doesn't just make it more significant, it makes the magic more magical and important.
You've got those 2 little girls, trying to live as if nothing wrong was happening, and yet, their mother is in the hospital. She has been for long, and will still be for a long time. She might die, she might survive, we are not certain, but the girls know. They are 4 and 10 years old, and yet, like many of us, they have to live with such a burden.
Sad, yes. Dept, yes. But that's not it. It is because of this burden that they try to hide in their magical dreams, that Totoro exist. He exist because of their sorrow, and with him, the girls will fly to a magic world full of fur and flying cat bus.
When you see these kids flying with Totoro, you see them trying to forget about their mother's condition, you see them being kids again, which they have difficulty being (since they have to live in such a sad world). And we smile while watching it. Just like the father does, alone in his workshop. We are happy to see kids evade the real world and just be happy.
We were all kids, and we all got to know death and sickness around us. We all used to try hiding ourself from all of that, with books, dreams, movies, games, etc.
The kids in Totoro hides it with real magic. That makes me happy. And that's what you'll never find in snow white, or The little mermaid.
It's not just about dept. You see, the flying sequence IS better and more real and magical because of those details.
So, no, there is no rival here, imo. The only rival Miya ever knew was his best friend, Takahata himself. And he also works for Ghibli.
The day Hayao Miyazaki will die, is the day animation will suffer the most. We don't get a Miya every 10 years. We get one every 100 years.
Hell I disagree, also oscars are about quality, since most nominations I find are spot-on nearly every year. Also Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia are both on AFI best 100 movies, your tastes can be highly bias sometimes.
