Scenes would change, and I would audibly gasp as I took in the loveliness and exquisite attention to detail. Nature always plays a big role in Studio Ghibli films, but in The Secret World Of Arrietty, nature is the absolute star. Arrietty is a 14 year old Borrower, and it’s her first time to go “borrowing.” But Borrowers must never be seen by humans, and when an invalid boy named Shawn spots Arrietty, her whole family’s life is thrown into turmoil. I’ve always been taken with the idea of tiny people just out of sight, living their lives around us – be they Borrowers, Faeries, or Leprechauns. The story is based upon the famous children’s book series, “The Borrowers” by Mary Norton. I’m always blown away by the rich background mattes in Miyazaki’s work, but the attention to detail in this film is just beyond belief. It’s one of the most beautiful, lush and highly textured films I’ve ever seen. I was invited to a screening of the film over at Disney Studios, and I braved rush hour traffic to the VALLEY to see it! I know, right? I’m a hero.Īnd this film did not disappoint. So, yes, you could say that this film has been “highly anticipated” here at Chez Rutherford. I’ve been looking at it every day since then. When we were in Tokyo visiting the Ghibli Museum in 2010, we grabbed a couple to take home. It’s safe to say that he is considered a master of animated film. On my kitchen wall hangs a flyer advertising the Japanese version of The Secret World Of Arrietty. To even have this tiny, tiny part in a Miyazaki film is one of the greatest honors ever bestowed on me. There are Totoros everywhere, stuffed catbuses and soot sprites litter the floor, and on my desk (where I am typing this right now!) is a tiny replica of Howl’s Moving Castle, another soot sprite, and a postcard of “ Le Voyage de Chihiro.” Our daughter’s first movie – both here at home and in a movie theatre is “ My Neighbor Totoro.” (Thank heavens we live in a city where you can find random Miyazaki retrospectives playing at local art houses!)īack in 2007 I was very lucky to be cast in a small role in Howl’s Moving Castle. The propaganda is everywhere.We are huge Miyazaki fans in our house. Courtroom dramas send the message that the legal system ultimately produces justice. The upcoming film Battleship (yes, based on the board game, but with aliens) will, I'm fairly sure, portray the U.S.
The NRA doesn't seem displeased about that, and I don't hear Lou Dobbs complaining. Half of what the movie industry puts out makes clear that most problems can be solved with the enthusiastic use of firearms. Lots of what Hollywood does is propaganda of one form or another, and the fact that the town is full of liberals doesn't mean all the propaganda runs in one direction. Seuss intended it, and you couldn't make a Lorax movie that wasn't. Seriously.īut as David Haglund says, of course The Lorax is propaganda-that's just how Dr. Lou Dobbs, always ready to explore new frontiers in bloviating jackassery, sees a conspiracy linking Hollywood, Occupy Wall Street, and the Obama White House, pushing not just the environmental extremism of The Lorax, but also the socialist redistributionism of the children's classic The Borrowers (in its form as a new film called The Secret World of Arrietty) because the tiny little beings steal things like sugar cubes from humans, whom Dobbs believes represent the 1 percent. And did they ever Grist's David Roberts, upon seeing the trailer, called it a "rainbow-barf monstrosity."īut the fact that they've made a movie out of the enviro-rhyming book has made conservatives predictably outraged. Seuss never dreamed of to get it to 90 action-packed minutes. Seuss movies ( Horton Hears a Who, not bad The Cat In the Hat, a soul-sucking crime against nature), but particularly with The Lorax, a rather bleak morality tale with only a couple of characters, they'd have to cram in a whole bunch of humans and events that Dr. Seuss movies!-has finally gotten around to making a full-length version of The Lorax.
Seuss kids love movies ergo, kids will love Dr. Seuss' exasperated little dude who tries in vain to protect the Truffula trees never fails to win admiration from any and all who see it.īut now Hollywood has come along, and using its impeccable logic- Kids love Dr.
He got it 10 or 15 years ago, and his ink of Dr. I have a friend, a strong environmentalist and all-around lefty of the kind your average conservative talk show host would just love to punch in the face, who has a Lorax tattooed on his shoulder.
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