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

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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.”
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Mega Man 2 Intro - NES said:
What is Digimon Tamers and why is it right-wing?
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It's not really right wing, but the main writter made an audio drama with the Voice actors where the main characters defeat cancel culture, since digimon tends to use concepts humans create and they become digital monsters (there's digimon representing angels, demons, the Olympic gods, Chinese zodiac, etc). He also was open to the idea of 911 conspiracies and was hesitant on vaccines. So many trannies decided to cancel him
 
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topsikrets said:
Old commie faggot has never produced anything of worth, hope someone bashes his defective brains out his cunt skull.
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Eat shit, niggerfaggot.
TurdFondler said:
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.
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You haven't watched many movies, have you? I mean even if I were to exclude the range of possible movies to "movies with Gene Hackman in them," you'd have The Conversation in 1974. How about "movies with Coppola family members involved with them?" Okay, we have Lost in Conversation with Bill Murray. Oh and how about Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage (also a Coppola)?

Even completely restricting the range of movies, how could you possibly think The French Connection is the only film that doesn't end with a complete victory?

Reservoir Dogs? Does that even have a protagonist? Who wins? (Specifically, does Mr. Pink get away?)
 
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Really Japan? Is this the best you can do to harp on America? Go on and on about "military presence and post colonialism?"

Your animation and video game industry has Hollywood weeping by having them peel their onions of assets down to their cores and make shitty little takes at them through Cal Arts at whatever cartoon concentration camp exists out in Burbank with assmad butthurt and salt, and despite having the advantage to push them over like a bunch of weenie paper light weights, you toss a pebble at the Military Industrial Complex.

Nothing's perfect, it's a free world. But if you're going to make criticism, you'd best down the whole plate of poison and lick it clean while you're at it. We're talking the country that depicts God in its RPGs as the final boss. We're talking the country that depicts the Aryan Superman and Not Hitler as its main villains in fighting games. We're talking the country that liberally used Christian symbolism and imagery in one of its most challenging series of anime. We're talking the country that once had an anime short about how the US military made a BO based bioweapon and sicced it in Japan for testing. Fucking DO IT FAGGOTS.

Also, Hayao Miyazaki, aylmao. Why am I not surprised. Along with Nobuhiko Watsuki, I swear Disney is pulling some strings in Japan, one way or another.
 
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Edit : On another note, I will never understand these "pacifists" take with regard to tyrants or tyranny. What exactly were the people of Middle Earth supposed to do? Give Sauron the One Ring, and submit? Perhaps Doctor Jones should have let Der Fuhrer have the Ark. Maybe the Earth Federation should have pat the Zeon on the back for dropping a colony on one of their major cities. This is simply retarded. You can find a better, more sincere way to advocate for peace/condone war without making a fool of yourself by whining about Hollywood movies.
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The answer is that he wouldn't complain if Aragorn was a woman. Miyazaki has terminal case of white knighting and basically believes that only women can be a moral leader, men can only follow. So having a war leader is okay in Princess Mononoke.

Nevermind the guy ignores that the LotR films had one half with the Hobbits who barely has the ability to fight back and literally get nature to fight against industry.
 
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