This film tells the funny daily life of the Yamada family, or shows the funny daily life of their family. You said the director did it on purpose, but it's not. It's natural and not overpowering like many comedies. The difference between Takada and Miyazaki is that Miyazaki is epic grand, while Takada's observation of real life is more nuanced.
The Japanese and the British are very similar, and the humor that pops out of the seriousness is the funniest. It's not funny, because funny is intentional, and humor is spontaneous.
I am very concerned about its style of painting. Looking at those paintings, they are simply things that elementary school students can draw casually. In Takada Hsun's next work "The Story of Kaguya Princess", he used ink painting again. Someone once said that the biggest difference between Eastern and Western cultures is that Westerners always want to make fake things real, while Easterners always want to make real things fake. You see "Star Wars", in order to try to create an alien environment, director George Lucas specially asked linguists to design a language that does not exist at all, although no one but those linguists could understand it, In some places, he wouldn't even type the subtitles. He just kept talking there, making it sound reasonable to you. Another example is the "Lord of the Rings", an ordinary store in the street scene, its door is covered with dead mice. Why, because this is a shop that sells rat poison. Director Peter Jackson thought that he created a medieval period similar to the Middle Ages in Europe. At that time, medicine was underdeveloped, and plagues and plagues were prevalent. At this time, there would inevitably be a seller of rat poison, and a seller of rat poison would inevitably be in him. Many dead mice hang in front of the store to show the efficacy of their home medicine. And how long does this store appear in the movie in total, a horse gallops past the store door, and the shot takes less than a second. Another example is the master Gregory Scott, who is best at creating scenes, which I will discuss later.
Similar examples abound. Those great directors who are like masters usually have a God complex, and he realizes that he is creating a thing, creating a world, just like God created the universe. Therefore, he must strive for truth and perfection. Because the real world just isn't perfect, they want to reinject a certain spirit into the perfect entity they've created. As for the Eastern culture, it is asking for a fake. You look at those landscape paintings, painting a mountain, painting a person, just a few strokes. You watch those dramas, you babble and babble. It's the exact opposite, it's an effort to take the mind out of the substance and make people more focused on it.
Comparing the differences between two cultures is not about their pros and cons. Is it true, of course not. There have been many people who criticized the concept of "acting what you want to be like". They think that if you act too real and too similar, it will easily make the audience trapped in it, and it is easy to mislead the audience with this kind of performance. Make people think that's right, or that's wrong. The concept they advocate is "acting something is not like something", such as oriental opera, such as Mei Lanfang. Because this way the audience will always stand a little bit higher than that performance and won't get stuck in it. Because we are already trapped in reality, when we are detached from reality, we will see more clearly.
What they embody, in the final analysis, are two completely different perspectives: the former is looking up, and the latter is looking down. But their purpose is the same, both are to enlighten us and teach us to transcend reality.
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