[There are artistic realms · art space] "Ghost Princess": a masterpiece that confuses Hollywood

Anime movie "Ghost Princess".

The masterpiece of the famous animation film master Hayao Miyazaki premiered in Japan on July 12, 1997, which happened to be at this time 25 years ago. The release of "Ghost Princess" has set off a wave in Japan and even the world, which has aroused extensive comments and attention from people. But at the same time, its release also represents some kind of departure of Hayao Miyazaki. Because compared with the previous warm movies such as "My Neighbor Totoro", "Ghost Princess" contains more "dark" components. And its creation is just in the transition period of Ghibli Studio, and the historical turning period of the entire country in Japan.

According to the BBC BBC, in 1997, British fantasy writer Neil Gaman suddenly received a call from Harvey Winstan, the person in charge of Miramax at the time. "There is an anime movie called" Ghost Princess "." Gaman recalled what Winstein said at the time. "This is the biggest thing in the Japanese animation industry, so I think I must do my best to do it. Call Quentin Taletino and said, 'Quentin, can you come to do its English script?' He said, 'Don't find me, you should go to Gaman.' So, I hit this Call you. "

Disney's subsidiary Mira Max at that time was the power to release the latest movie "Ghost Princess" in the release of Japan's Ghibli Animation Studio in the United States, so Winstan wanted to invite Gamen to watch the English editing version of the movie in Los Angeles.

In the late 1980s, Hayao Miyazaki established his reputation and the success of Ghibli Studio. He and director Gao Xunxun created movies such as "Witch House" and "My Neighbor Totoro"; these works are ambitious and have rich themes, but they all have a positive tone and the nature of beautiful families.

Bloody violence is a major element in "Ghost Princess", which makes it different from ordinary children's anime works.

By the 1990s, some changing oil spontaneously emerged. First of all, he began to feel angry about some comments on Ghibli Studio. People think that Ghibli only produces how great a gentle movie is about how great nature is. "I hear people say that Ghibli is 'sweet' or 'healing'," Miyazaki Jun in "Ghost Princess: How is the movie conceived" — a six -hour documentary about movie production -complaining Tao, "I have an urge to destroy it."

However, more importantly, he is more and more desperate for the world he survives, and he increasingly believes that the world is cursed.

"He used to think that he was a leftist, a worship of a people's power." Yoshioka Siro, a lecturer of the Department of Japanese Research at the University of Newcastle, explained, "But due to obvious reasons -the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the upgrade of the entire European racial conflict, he The political belief was completely shaken in the early 1990s. "

Kirin beasts like deer represent the cycle of life and death.

In addition, Japan itself is also experiencing a crisis of survival. Japan's economic bubble period, that is, the economic prosperity of the late 1980s, suddenly ruptured in 1992 -it caught the country's seemingly endless decline. Three years later, in 1995, Japan suffered a Kobe earthquake, which was the worst earthquake that the country suffered since 1922. It killed 6,000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. Just two months later, a terrorist organization named Om Shinism launched a Salin poisonous gas attack on the Tokyo Metro, causing 13 people to die and thousands of people injured. Miyazaki, who was disgusting by materialism in the era of economic bubbles, felt that he lived in a traumatic and trapped country -whether it was the relationship between this country and nature, or a faint spirit of spirit over this country. Empty sense.

"He started to think," Yoshioka Siro said, "Maybe I shouldn't just make such fun and relaxed things for the children, maybe I should make some substantial content."

Xiaoshu Jing represents the spirit of nature.

Hayao Miyazaki believes that he is a contradictory collection. Reading his works, looking at his interviews, and listening to his speech, the audience can feel that he is depicting the portrait of an artist between idealism and nihilism, optimism and despair. He is a peacekeeper who is fascinated by fighters; a harsh boss who despise authority, but as a director, he uses it coldly and ruthlessly; a father who is full of enthusiasm for children, but has almost no time to raise his child at home; A firm environmentalist is trying to live a life in line with ecological ethics. "When I saw that the tuna was captured by the fishermen, I felt 'wow, humans were terrible'," he told Japanese writer Tetsuo Yamaori in 2002.

This kind of concept of a man and himself is obvious in the role of "Princess Ghost" and the world created: as Miyazaki said at the press conference of the 1998 Berlin Film Festival, this movie "It is not used to judge good and evil."

Mrs. Eboji.

Taking Mrs. Eubic as an example, her mining colony is making a large number of guns to fight against the god of the forest. In most anime movies, she was shaped into the natural scourge of greed and evil. But Eboji is also a generous leader. She liberated women (hinted as predecessor) from feudal oppression, providing a shelter for patients with leprosy and abandoned. Standard of life.

"It is usually easy to create such a story. 'Technology is evil, and the beasts in the forest are kind."Susan Nipil said, "But Mrs. Eboji's casting factory helps these marginalized people live. It gives them a sense of group sense and pride in the community." In an interview with the Cine Furontosha magazine in 1997,Hayao Miyazaki himself used this sentence to explain the role of Mrs. Eboji. "Usually, those who destroy nature are actually kind people.It will lead to more terrible issues. "

Edit: Li Han

Beautiful editor: Yueyue

Review: Haruko

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