Speaking of Japanese animation, the first thing that comes to mind is Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, but we forget another big name from Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata. His works have never achieved a good record, so that everyone remembers Hayao Miyazaki and forgets Isao Takahata. Its animation works include "Grave of Fireflies", "Thinking", "Variety of Civet Cats", "Three Thousand Miles to Find Mother", "Heidi" and so on. As the two masters of Ghibli, Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki contrast sharply in terms of subject matter and style of painting. Miyazaki depicts ideals, hopes and the future, while Takahata is more focused on the authentic copying of reality and the past.
What I want to talk about next is Takahata Isao's last work "The Story of Kaguya Hime", which cost 5.15 billion yen billion yen and took 8 years to produce. During this period, the studio staff was driven crazy. Because of its painting method and music production, it has extremely high requirements. In February 2013, when the promotion of the film began. Even 390 of the 1423 shots have not been completed, so you can imagine how high the quality requirements are for the work, which can be described as the spirit of craftsmanship.
The film is based on the Japanese folklore "The Tale of Bamboo". It tells that a long time ago, there was a bamboo cutter who was cutting bamboo in the forest. Suddenly, a girl appeared on a bamboo, so the bamboo-cutter took her home.
The girl grows very fast day by day. In the fields, everyone calls her Bamboo, but one day, the Bamboo Cutter got gold and noble fabrics in that Bamboo, so that Bamboo should be like a noble princess. Life.
After leaving the days of catching chickens and stealing melons with their friends, their family came to the capital. The Bamboo Cutter invited her an etiquette teacher, Sagami, and asked her to be named Princess Huiyao. But her heart has always been yearning for the old days, so she lived very unhappy. Because of her peerless beauty, the four princes proposed to her one by one, but they were all rejected. In the end, the emperor's heart was also captured by her. However, this was not what she wanted, so she asked Moon to take her away.
After the moon heard her request, she was scheduled to take her away on the 15th. But she didn't want to leave, she liked it here, there are flowers, trees, fish, and human touch. Before she was about to leave, she went back to her hometown, but the reality was cruel. On this day, she still had to go back to the moon. After she lost her memory and left the earth, she looked back at the earth and shed meaningful tears.
The whole film from birth to the moon shows that many things are unavoidable in growing up, and the world of children is very different from that of adults. Facing the patriarchy is between doing and not doing, and facing personal desires is a good explanation of how to choose. The scene of trimming her eyebrows and dyeing her teeth can reflect Kaguya's resistance to being materialized by secular standards and her defense of her own nature, so her heart is struggling with loneliness. When the third prince said her sincerity, she wanted to She was reclusive, but the main room of Prince Shi Zuo brought by the old woman broke his lie, she cried, she had been longing to return to the old days.
There is a song in the film, turning and turning, the waterwheel keeps turning, birds, insects and beasts, grass and trees and flowers, come with spring, summer, autumn and winter. Come back, come back, call back my heart. Birds, insects and beasts, green grass, trees and flowers, please try to breed hopeful human feelings. The pine wind is like a call to return, and it will return as soon as possible, connecting the entire animation. It also shows that Kaguya was punished and fell into the world because of her longing for what was sung in the song of heaven and man.
Some people may see that the film uses a lot of blank space in ink painting. Takahata Xun also said in an interview with Southern Weekend: Chinese painting is amazing, and it has a great influence on Japanese people who learn to paint. A large amount of white space is in line with Japanese aesthetics, so I learned to use white space when I filmed "The Story of Kaguya." The white space is full of truth.
So why can't China make such animations? Afterwards, he also said: Miyazaki's disappointment with China cannot be added. I am at this point too. Because we have a lot of respect for Shanghai Art Film Studio, but the top management of Shanghai Art Film Studio only cares about this. Once the piece rate is paid, there will be no more Chinese school films.
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