Culture Hayao Miyazaki named the Hollywood films that he hates the most - Old man has shit opinion

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/hayao-miyazaki-hates-hollywood-films/

Hayao Miyazaki is undoubtedly among the greatest living artists today, known for his seminal masterpieces such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away among many others. His contributions to the art of animation have inspired artists from various domains, including live-action filmmakers who have praised Miyazaki’s understanding of movement.

Although the ageing auteur had announced his retirement to the world, Miyazaki decided to make one final addition to his illustrious filmography before bidding farewell to the world of cinema. He is currently making an adaptation of his favourite childhood novel – How Do You Live? by Yoshino Genzaburo – and he has dedicated the upcoming project to his grandson.
Over the years, Miyazaki’s political stance about America’s involvement in global conflicts as well as the country’s contribution towards the globalisation of American culture has been unwavering. “Anti-jeans, Anti-bourbon, Anti-burgers, Anti-fried chicken, Anti-cola, Anti-American coffee, Anti-New York, Anti-West Coast,” Miyazaki once said while describing his beliefs.

According to excerpts from multiple interviews, Miyazaki’s dislike for all things American also extends to the realm of cinema. Despite the fact that the Japanese auteur had named John Ford as one of his chief visual influences and even named his 1946 film My Darling Clementine among his personal favourites, he doesn’t feel the same way about other popular American films.

“Americans shoot things and they blow up and the like, so as you’d expect, they make movies like that,” Miyazaki stated. “If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them. Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage.”

Miyazaki compared the visual politics of large-scale Hollywood productions such as the Lord of the Rings to the country’s international policies. Attacking America’s actions in Afghanistan, Miyazaki claimed that such projects are a dangerous addition to public discourse because they diminish the value of human life by weaponising the audience through cinematic violence.
Miyazaki continued: “How many people are being killed in attacks in Afghanistan? The Lord of the Rings is a movie that has no problem doing that [not separating civilians from enemies, apparently]. If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy are idiots.”

Throughout his body work, Miyazaki has conducted continuous conversations about antiwar pacifism – an ethical belief that has been deeply influenced by his own experiences. Miyazaki has often explored the paradoxes of pacifism in a world that embraces violence through his art which is why these cinematic spectacles fail to amuse him.

When his magnum opus Spirited Away became the first anime to win Best Animated Feature Film at the Oscars, Miyazaki refused to attend the ceremony because he did not want to support America’s actions in the Iraq war. Even though his producer asked him not to speak about the issue, he later came clean and revealed that his producer had felt the same way.

Miyazaki was also very critical of Steven Spielberg’s iconic film series Indiana Jones. Addressing many of the issues caused by capitalism in post-colonial nations, Miyazaki admonished those who failed to recognise the political and racial allegories embedded within the subtexts of supposedly innocent and purely entertaining action films.

“Even in the Indiana Jones movies, there is a white guy who, ‘bang,’ shoots people, right? Japanese people who go along and enjoy with that are unbelievably embarrassing,” he explained. “You are the ones that, ‘bang,’ get shot. Watching [those movies] without any self-awareness is unbelievable. There’s no pride, no historical perspective. You don’t know how you are viewed by a country like America.”

 

[TurdFondler]

I have to agree. Films like...i dunno die hard and American sniper arent exactly paragons of nuance

The French Connection is the only film I can think of that doesn't end with a complete victory for the protagonist, and that's going way back.

I like Chinese cartoons because the main characters aren't usually driven to be morally good. I like the kind of realism that comes with flawed characters. Miyazaki is a little over rated but in my eyes studio Ghibli can do no wrong.

 

[thyme]

Anti-fried chicken

When you want to say you hate niggers but you can't say you hate niggers

 

[DeusVult]

What's the problem with the LotR movies? I've watched the films some ~15-20 years ago and read the books before that, so I've forgotten the most, but my impression at the time was that the films are a pretty good adaptation.

 

[Tackleberry]

To be fair Christopher Tolkien himself had a similar criticism of the LotR films.

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He said, quietly shutting off the money-printing press in the next room.

 

[TurdFondler]

What's the problem with the LotR movies? I've watched the films some ~15-20 years ago and read the books before that, so I've forgotten the most, but my impression at the time was that the films are a pretty good adaptation.

Dude probably just dislikes western fantasy and its tropes. Probably not enough whimsy in the movies and not ONCE is meiji era Japan referenced, in fact I don't think Imperial Japan plays any role on LOTR so it rubs miyazaki the wrong way.

 

[Lasersuit Larry]

How old is he? 70s, 80s? Guy was like 30 years too late to attach braindead political takes to his pretty moving pictures. Now I'm just gonna wait till he fucking kicks it so I can enjoy his movies without having to hear him fill his diaper about it all.

Never meet your heroes. Don't even look at them.

 

[Velvet Sedan]

Funny, comes off like he drank the "orcs are blacks" koolaid.
But I notice he only bitches about big summer spectacle films, likely the only ones that make it to Nihon, and says the entire entertainment industry in the US is this.
Man, he must be upset most foreigners consider anime to just be pedophilia.

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

Miyazaki is pretty based, but i knew that already

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Eh, if having shitty takes about movies was a crime, we'd all have served jail time. Still like his works though.

 

[Xarpho]

The same guy who spent the last 20 years shitting on otakus got into animation because he literally fell in love with some animated character in the 50s. The same guy who calls Indiana Jones a movie where "a white guy shoots people" makes movies where white girls somehow beat up hordes of armed men with a stick. This guy's a senile idiot.

Weren’t the “otaku, they disgust me” memes either faked or out of context? I vaguely recall something to that extent.

 

[Happy Fish]

If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy are idiots.”

The part that stood out to me. This is an old man eating up the lies of the news. Depressing.

 

[NickDigger]

Of course Miyazaki would say this. And reminder that the real cunt at Ghibli was the late Isao Takahata. Dude literally worked people to death and never thanked his staff for the movies he constantly delayed while sucking away money.

Weren’t the “otaku, they disgust me” memes either faked or out of context? I vaguely recall something to that extent.

Yes. Miyazaki was directing his ire towards military and gun otaku, not otaku in and of themselves.

https://soranews24.com/2014/12/12/hayao-miyazaki-reveals-the-kind-of-otaku-he-hates-the-most/

The "anime is trash" gifs are all faked that tons of retards still fall for.

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

I'm not interested in the critical opinions of any Japanese person about morality and racism

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

Fucking who??

 

[TurdFondler]

The "anime is trash" gifs are all faked that tons of retards still fall for.

It's because it's funny

I'm not interested in the critical opinions of any Japanese person about morality and racism

I'll take the media made by racists with a loose sense of morality over moralizing western faggotry tbh

That goes for all asian media. Parasite and Into the Fire still better than most Hollywood trash

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Quit elevating the geezer as some paragon of hating all things american. He does some commentary on america culture and cinema, has a spicy take, and yet somehow this chucklefuck of a journo extrapolates "hated movies" from this.

Rope, tree, journalists

Hey now, this guy hates all things japanese media too. Including his disappointing son that can't live up to his name.

 

[Post Reply]

He has cracked the code. The orcs = Japanese. Tolkien you sunovabitch, you did it again.

 

[NickDigger]

I'll take the media made by racists with a loose sense of morality over moralizing western faggotry tbh

That goes for all asian media. Parasite and Into the Fire still better than most Hollywood trash

Parasite? The commie gook class warfare movie that has Hollywood's stamp of approval?

Get some taste nigger.

 

[TurdFondler]

Get some taste nigger.

Make me

It was a good movie, Hollywood be damned. I love trash media as long as it's asian trash media, I'm Japanese in my soul

 

[HondaRider271]

If it's not Kurosawa why should I care about Japanese directors?