Why Studio Ghibli films have that extra magic | Inside Cinema - BBC

[Music] welcome to the world of Japanese animation legends studio ghibli a world filled with extraordinary characters uncanny transformations and breathtaking fantasy landscapes where it seems anything can happen but what's truly magical about Ghibli in their films is when they're at their most every day two girls are standing at a bus stop and a giant forest troll walks up beside them my neighbor totoro might be director Hayao Miyazaki's most spellbinding and iconic adventure but what makes this scene so transcendent isn't Totoro himself it's his enthusiastic response to the rain scenes like this crop up throughout Ghibli's films moments where fantastical stories home in on mundane details to enthralling effect in the middle of an apocalyptic tsunami a supernatural fish girl discovers a new favorite food [Music] and the combined hand-drawn skill of Ghibli animators turn honey tea into a thing of wonder is in the best in the world of Ghibli food is magical and often lives alongside magic in Kiki's Delivery Service were just as beguiled by the young witches otherworldly powers as we are by the alchemy of baking and if you're moving castle is powered by a domesticated fire spirits well why not enlist him to cook up the ultimate fried breakfast [Music] when we watch animation we expect to see things that are out of the ordinary but jubblies unique gift is to infuse the ordinary with magical qualities even that most boring of daily chores cleaning is given the Ghibli treatment from old Sophie taking it upon herself to spruce up Howl's Moving Castle such a heroes enchanted bath house in spirited away [Music] there is an or inspiring attention to detail and a sense of wonder in those details that makes these scenes so transporting mysterious train tracks lead off into the horizon majestic flying machines fill the sky the beguiling fantasy vistas of a Ghibli film and ever that far from our own but what about Ghibli's real-world films often the opposite is true in the historical melodrama the wind rises scenes are given a spark of stylized fantasy from the terrifying Great Kanto Earthquake which ripples across the landscape like a billowing bedsheets [Music] to the chosen profession of our lead character Jiro only in Ghibli films with the work of an airplane engineer be captured with such energy and magic [Music] [Applause] - hi-oh Miyazaki in both fantasy and reality airplanes are beautiful dreams in Studio Ghibli's films reality doesn't always require realism we see this in the painterly hyper-real countryside's of when Marnie was there and only yesterday where the characters emotions seem to be imbuing they're very surroundings with a palpable irresistible charge or in whisper of the heart a team romance in which the landscape of suburban Tokyo is rendered with exquisite detail come here it's getting cold Shizuku I love you too our young lovers even a sleepy commuter town brims with the promise of adventure and given the right place and right time of day you can find magic wherever you are for over 35 years Studio Ghibli's films have offered as spectacular visions without parallel but their greatest most captivating achievement is that they make us look at the world around us with new eyes [Music] welcome to the world of studio ghibli a world where magic is only ever just around the corner [Music]

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Length: 5min 23sec (323 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020