The brave one

The brave one soundtrack

Uchusenkan Yamato , Space Battleship Yamato ,1974 was as well. Why didnt they let me work on it drawing battleships? I was the best authority of military, I thought. BUT, I never do that. I shouldnt do such work. When I was a kid, I saw fighter planes and felt them to be very cool. Why did I think them, such sharpened things, to be cool? After the war, Japan was forbidden to manufacture sharpened things fighter planes, because the USA wanted to sell them to Japan. So instead of planes, they sharpened the trains laughing note: Miyazaki refers to Shinkansen trains. What do these sharpened things mean? In another way of saying, they are a kind of human aggressiveness or form of like the soccer hooligans in Britain. Humans might essentially have such tendencies. We shouldnt reason that the whole of humanity hopes for being in peace. Humans are rather outrageous creatures. That is also one of the things I learned from Hotta. 20th of October, CINEKID FESTIVAL OPENS WITH PONYO: Saturday 18 October an invitation-only opening of Cinekid Festival took place at Amsterdam s Westergasfabriek. This years edition was officially opened by Dutch Minister of Culture, Education and Science Ronald Plasterk and joined by countless industry professionals and their children. The festival s opening film: Miyazaki Hayao s Gake no ue no Ponyo , Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. Cinekid, a festival stimulating and developing activities for children in the areas of film, television and new media, collaborated on the opening with Studio Ghibli s international distributor Wild Bunch. Furthermore, Japanese Ambassador Shibuya Minoru was present and held an introduction speech on Miyazaki and his films. Telling about his own daughter, Shibuya told she has been in love with Miyazaki s work since she was young. She once made a phone call to Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki coincidently was the one to pick up the phone. My daughter asked him what to do to become an animator. A loooot of hard work!, was his answer. I enjoyed Ponyo very much. It was fascinating. It was not only good for small kids, but also moving for adults. Some of Miyazaki s previous works had a profound meaning small kids might not be able to understand, but Ponyo is very simple and I think everybody is able to enjoy it!, commented Shibuya after the screening to Other guests at Cinekids opening included Sandra den Hamer, former director of the acclaimed International Film Festival Rotterdam and current director of Filmmuseum Hollands museum for cinematography, who noted, I am big fan of Miyazaki s work. Several years ago Howl s Moving Castle was part of the IFFR and that really, REALLY was one of my favorite films of the year. And of course we also screened Princess Mononoke in the past. Actually, back then we even shortly thought of making Howl s Moving Castle into the opening film of the festival. It s THAT special. However, the film had already been screened at Venice and for an international film festival like Rotterdam one always tries to search for a world premiere to open with. Anyway, I think his works are marvelous. I was once asked to write down one of those lists and Miyazaki s work is definitely part of it. Concerning Ponyo Den Hamer was enthusiastic as well, It was beautiful. What I had not experienced as much with Miyazaki s previous films, is that this time Miyazaki really took place in a children s seat. Something which was less the case with his former works, which were great for young and old. I also noticed it was sweeter than the brave one soundtrack I am used of Miyazaki doing, and I don t mean that in negative kind of way. Visually Ponyo is of course more simplistic, and proves that can be beautiful as well. Sometimes there are movies which make you completely dizzy the brave one soundtrack seeing it, instead of Ponyo, which was more toned down. In terms of strengths I think Ponyo s greatest one lays in the way everything is visualized and animated. Howl s had some plot holes and in a way Miyazaki slightly repeated that in Ponyo as well; story wise there are some things that are hard to understand or kept unexplained, for example What is the exact relationship between Fujimoto and GranMare? How did they get kids?. However, that doesn t really matter, I don t need to understand all of it. Next to a children s program, Cinekid pays special attention to industry professionals as well.