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.”

 

[BooneHelm]

Hates: LoTR
Reason: Afghanistan

Hates: Indiana Jones
Reason: White Guy

Sounds like a reasonable man.

 

[Lasersuit Larry]

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

The real joke is on him then, because making a mouthpiece out of the platform created by selling his movies to the exact same people he despises so much has more political relevance than anything tiny little pinko parties in otherwise sane parts of the world ever accomplish.

 

[eDove]

He makes beautiful animations about little girls going into ghost whore houses. His opinion on morality is worth less than shit.

To be fair, it wasn't a whore house. It was a bathhouse for demons.

I'd say his morality is lacking (more so) 'cause he focuses heavily on witchcraft, devils, etc. And he makes those concepts attractive to children.

Unless someone's art is really objectionable, I don't think you can accuse them of being amoral based on that. He's a bitter old dude who's fallen for lots of propaganda.

I'm not a Ghibli dick sucker, by the way. I found most of their movies outrageously disappointing.

 

[Mikoyan]

To be fair, it wasn't a whore house. It was a bathhouse for demons.

Yeah they tried calling it that in my town too.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

It’s ok to like stuff that even retarded commies or other political brain dead people make. Like I’m pretty sure that dude who made Return Of The Mack is a BLM commie faggot, but damn if that song ain’t bumping when trying to drop a load in a fat chick you picked up from the bar in desperation.

 

[Uncle June]

Lmao at him calling Americans immoral Warhawks when he's from Japan. What a pot meet kettle situation.

Ever heard of Nanking?

 

[Lasersuit Larry]

Lmao at him calling Americans immoral Warhawks when he's from Japan. What a pot meet kettle situation.

Ever heard of Nanking?

Nah, he's of the mind that there was nothing Japan could have ever done to deserve the bombs, and even if there was, sticking your head in the sand almost a century later and pretending that China isn't fixing to steamroll the entire quaint little island makes it all better.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Eh, the guy is approximately a billion years old and spent his earliest years actually getting bombed by Americans. If he wants to hold that grudge, fine.

 

[Absolutego]

>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.

He probably actually believes the Japanese Empire's propaganda that the war was to liberate the rest of Asia from colonialism.

 

[ZehnBoat]

how many people does indiana jones shoot?
i can only think of one

 

[DaBigBopper]

I've got some bad news for him

>Niggers miss out on Theodan's character arc
The burning of the Westfold in the movies literally connects to him failing his son. Literally a mother shoves her children on a horse for them to safety while she's raped and murderd. It even has Saurman inflaming radicals to commit war crimes.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

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.

He sure loved being seen as one of them to the hollywood crowd when he got those oscars.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

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

He seems to have adopted the SJW victimhood mindset of seeing a white guy shoot literally anybody and think 'wow.... he (guy who gets shot) is literally me!' It actually manages to be more pathetic than whatever good vs bad power fantasy mindset he's trying to criticize.

 

[Mongo0o]

Fucking who??

"I don't watch stupid fucking cartoons" - Mike Stoklasa

 

[Dumb Bitch Smoothie]

Bold words coming from someone who has his own works distributed by the epitome of American colonialism, and said company has invested in Ghibli.
He does enjoy cashing those Disney checks, huh?

 

[OrionBalls]

Part of me wishes we lost him instead of Miura. Stupid waifu games...

 

[Lunete]

. 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.”

Sir, the bastardized Hollywood films are America's fault but the original books are British. And based after a fictional version of medieval Europe. Blame the Brits if you don't like it.

Also, sounds like grandpa here needs to be reminded of all the atrocities his country was doing to the rest of east Asia back in the day.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Part of me wishes we lost him instead of Miura. Stupid waifu games...

I bet Idolmaster was what was keeping Miura alive...

 

[Red Hood]

To be fair, it wasn't a whore house. It was a bathhouse for demons.

I'd say his morality is lacking (more so) 'cause he focuses heavily on witchcraft, devils, etc. And he makes those concepts attractive to children.

Unless someone's art is really objectionable, I don't think you can accuse them of being amoral based on that. He's a bitter old dude who's fallen for lots of propaganda.

I'm not a Ghibli dick sucker, by the way. I found most of their movies outrageously disappointing.

I think the only Ghibli thing I didn't find overrated (and don't get me wrong, they have nice animation) is Nausicaa; and a lot of that comes from enjoying it as an obvious Dune ripoff.

 

[Titos]

I always struggle to come to a conclusion on if this retard or GRRMs take on LotR is more retarded. I'd say Miyazakis is probably more dumb. LotR isn't even American either, it's written by a Britbong and the films were made by a Kiwi. Also his movies are shit, I was forced to watch Ponyo and Spirited Away and I wanted to blow my brains out. If you want a good anti-war anime film watch Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade which also has better animation than any of the Ghibli films despite having like 1/10th of the budget.