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.”

 

[Uranus Pink]

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.

He been political ever since he started working for the Japanese Communist Party.

 

[NickDigger]

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

That's your prerogative. But it's no different than Miyazaki's grandstanding. Also if you were Japanese then you wouldn't be watching gook shit.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Miyazaki owns but he's also a crank. his criticism of imperialist propaganda pervading US cinema and culture is undeniable. just about every blockbuster movie is good guys good, bad guys bad, good guys own bad guys, the end. pretty much unlimited violence is entirely justified against the bad guys because they're so bad. but what none of the libs want to admit - despite being engaged in their own campaign of unlimited cultural violence against the bad guys - is that it's a great (and timeless) template for a story. there's a reason audiences keep turning out for fantasy epics like LOTR, where the last guardians of honor and civilization must fight a war for their very existence against a fallen world, in big ass epic battles with dudes carving up evil monsters and shit. sure, it's American self-mythology, and it's dumb and gay sometimes, but it's also fucking cool when it's done right. Miyazaki's movies are fantastic, and I acknowledge his criticisms as valid, but also, haters gonna hate.

 

[TurdEthics]

Based.

 

[Mongo0o]

For someone who hates the country and all it stands for he sure did rely on American media distributors and voice actors to make money.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

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.

Jin Kobayashi and Ken Akamatsu are probably in his shit list since they are fans of Indiana Jones. I’m wondering if he’s still sore about that Little Nemo movie decades ago.

 

[Mikoyan]

>Bitches about American militarism and "colonialism"
>Literally makes a film about the guy that designed the fucking Zero, thus enabling one of the most racist colonial-style regimes of the 20th century

Okay dude.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

>Bitches about American militarism and "colonialism"
>Literally makes a film about the guy that designed the fucking Zero, thus enabling one of the most racist colonial-style regimes of the 20th century

Okay dude.

Also starring the guy who created Evangelion as the voice of the designer

 

[melcarba99]

He is not wrong, you gun loving nuts.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I wonder how he feels about Tomino after he made a comment about Shinkai’s films not having sex

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Spirited Away is my favourite one. Though a lot of other Ghibli movies make me sleepy whether it be boredom or the atmosphere in a lot of them being sunny afternoons, Tales From Earthsea being the biggest offender. I still don’t really know what happened in that one.

 

[Drkinferno72]

Appreciate his work, but not the man himself

 

[augment]

"Hollywood is trash" - some guy in japan

The internet: omg life changing.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Assuming this is a proper representation of his views, my impression is mixed. For example, I can see this being true:

“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.

but this isn't even particularly an American thing. The Japanese army ate corpses as a show of dominance during WWII, and they literally ravaged Nanking. I get that the Japanese almost collectively decided to play the "UwU" angle after they got tag-teamed by Fat Man and Little Boy, but... I mean, come on.

And I regrettably haven't read LotR or watched the movies, so I can't confirm or refute whether the movies operate in the way he says or if that's consistent with the books. But the idea that they're really killing Asians and Africans is ridiculous on its face (even putting aside Tolkien's dislike of allegory) and sounds like the kind of thing he lifted from other Americans and leveraged as part of a general tirade against their media.

 

[MrHoneyBadger]

Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers.

civilians

I've got some bad news for him

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

>Bitches about American militarism and "colonialism"
>Literally makes a film about the guy that designed the fucking Zero, thus enabling one of the most racist colonial-style regimes of the 20th century

Okay dude.

'member when the japs tore up the Korean ecosystem so they could plant Japanese plants and also made every Korean adopt a Japanese name

 

[OrionBalls]

Why doesn't anyone ever talk about his true masterpiece, where a girl dooms humanity to its own self destruction? Nausicaa was his greatest work, and hos most cynical. Recognize it.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Indian Jones racist? Didn’t that nigga just kill Nazis and thuggi pedos?

 

[Uncle Paul]

Also all those America movies like Lord of the Rings are full of old people and no young people! I love how Miyazaki's films are always about young people!

 

[RX-78]

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.

He's not just senile, he's a hack who has made exactly four types of movie over and over for his entire career: stronk girl with environmental message, two kids on an adventure with environmental message, bastardization of a forgein novel, and bastardizing Lupin by making him disneyfied. Hideaki Anno is his superior in every way, fight me behind school basic bitch anime fans.