The new year's bell is about to ring, and the best movies for the New Year are already ready to go.
Cops, suspense, mysteries, healing...
So many good movies, it's really eye-watering.
However, in this New Year's Day festival, there is a wave of audiences that have been waiting, but only she -
Clifftop Waves Ponyo on the Cliff
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writers: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Nara Yuzuri / Doi Yosuke / Yamaguchi Tomoko / Maki Kazushige Maki / Yuki Amami
Release: 2020-12-31(Chinese mainland) / 2008-07-19 (Japan)
Runtime: 101 minutes
Douban rated 8.5, 330,000 people, better than 87% of cartoons.
Compared with "Bo Niu on the Cliff", we are more familiar with the translation of "Goldfish On the Cliff".
As early as 2008, "Ponyo" was already released in Japan.
Not only was he the box office champion of the year at the time, but he was also nominated for the venice film festival and the highest honor of the Animated Annie Award.
You should know that the competitor at that time was "Flying House", which won the Oscar for best animated feature film.
After a full 12 years, the chance to reunite with the goldfish Himeboku in the cinema is enough to make people feel excited just thinking about it.
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"Ponyo" has an extraordinary significance for director Hayao Miyazaki.
During the four-year production period, director Hayao Miyazaki, who is nearly 70 years old, insisted on painting 12 hours a day, and only 5 seconds of the picture took a week to complete.
The film has accumulated 17,653 manuscripts, which is 1.5 times that of Spirited Away, setting a record for Miyazaki's "painting".
In that industrial era when technology exploded, it was incredible not to use computer CG technology and use all hand-drawn drawings.
In the 1970s, to shoot Star Wars, George Lucas founded Industrial Light and Magic in a factory building in California.
This also triggered a revolutionary tsunami of film technology, opening the boom era of science fiction films.
Star Wars
In the twenty-first century, breakthroughs in the field of technology are constantly being made.
Whether it is "Avatar", which permanently refreshes our viewing experience, or "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle", which has adopted 120 frames per second shooting technology in recent years, and "The Jungle Book", which shows cutting-edge realistic animation technology, it has a high degree of topic.
The Enchanted Forest
The same is true in the Japanese animation industry, and even Miyazaki personally has not escaped the wave of technological innovation.
Beginning with Princess Mononoke, including Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, Miyazaki used computer synthesis techniques.
Before making Poyo, Miyazaki traveled to the Tate Gallery in London, England, where he was inspired by Milles' famous painting Ophelia and began to rethink his way of painting.
The unique use of color and meticulous live-action sketching of "Ophelia" made Miyazaki realize the lack of texture of the film under the flood of CG.
"Experience tells us that works done by electronic means do not leave a deep impression on people.
We decided to go completely hand-drawn... That's what makes us strong. ”
Ophelia
In the end, he chose to abandon any computer effects and personally painted 170,000 frames for "Ponyo", creating a work that returned to basics and was full of sincerity.
Simple hand-drawn and simple painting style make "Ponyo" a clear stream in the era of technological explosion.
In such a plain and gentle way, Miyazaki presents that fairytale seaside town to all those who believe in love and beauty.
Producer Toshio Suzuki said miyazaki wanted to challenge himself in his approach to expression, especially since 80 percent of the scenes in the game were about seawater.
And this is also the first time he has used the sea as a stage, miyazaki hayao personally painted all the waves, trying to find the best way to present.
But for Miyazaki, he wants "Ponyo" to be a movie that even a 5-year-old can read.
Surprisingly, this film full of warmth was actually born out of a somewhat bad father-son relationship.
The human boy in the film, Sosuke, was created based on Miyazaki's son, Miyazaki Goro.
Miyazaki Goro
In the documentary "Hayao Miyazaki: Ten Years together", Miyazaki confessed that he often neglected to accompany his son due to his busy work.
This tepid, bland father-son relationship has become a knot in the hearts of the omnipotent animation master who has been powerless for many years.
He can only use his works, with the happy dreams of the other world as a sustenance, clumsily expressing his apologies and desires to his son, trying to reconcile with the incompetent self of the past.
So, compared to several previous works, "Ponyo" is unique in that it reinforces the concept of "family".
The cliff hut in the film itself is based on Hayao Miyazaki's old home, Tatsunoura in Fukuyama City, Seto Uchiha.
In terms of character design, in addition to taking his son as a model, Miyazaki also created his mother-in-law with reference to the image of his mother.
And "family", as one of the important themes of "Bo Niu", is also reflected in the narrative of the film.
The "lighthouse" and "small green bucket" in the film are Miyazaki's various interpretations of the concept of "family".
Sosuke, who is reunited with his father Koichi, will smile and wish him "all the best" through the Morse code;
The mother called her husband "stupid" on her lips, but was the first to run to meet him when he returned.
The Little Witch of "Witch House Rush" and Sophie of "Hal's Moving Castle" are both leaving their hometown and embarking on their own journey.
The father in "Bo You" returned from the waves after a difficult situation and re-entered the arms of his family.
The little goldfish finally broke away from the "abode" that bound her and joined a new, real "family".
As Miyazaki said—
"The role of popular works is to liberate the audience from the daily pressure, to accumulate resentment, to discover the longing and self-affirmation that have never been noticed in their hearts, and to become spiritual – even if it is only a little."
"Pony" abandons the fancy narrative and gives the audience a relaxed viewing experience in the purest form.
The plot of the movie is very simple and simple.
Five-year-old Sosuke picks up a goldfish trapped in a glass bottle under a cliff.
In the process of rescuing the goldfish, Sosuke's finger was accidentally scratched by broken glass, and the goldfish licked the wound for Sosuke, but miraculously healed it.
Sosuke names the goldfish "Bo Yu" and promises to protect her.
But because of the intake of human blood, the goldfish became a mermaid, learned human language and behavior, and even developed the idea of staying in the human world.
The talking Bona
Meanwhile, Ponyo's sorcerer's father discovers his missing daughter and is trying to take her back to the bottom of the sea.
In order to become a true human being and stay with Sosuke forever, Bo Yu embarks on her fantasy adventure.
It is such a simple and simple Miyazaki-style fairy tale, but it vividly interprets the meaning of love and courage.
And this courage contains a moving power for a society like us that labels "early love".
Countless parents and teachers have painstakingly persuaded us that at this age, "like" is not necessary to express, and "early love" is more self-destructive.
In our remake of "The Little Thing About First Love", the male and female protagonists who have been in love for a long time in both directions wait until college to dare to really fall in love.
Remade from the Thai film of the same name
But looking abroad, Julie of "Heartbeat" went to great lengths to get a kiss from Bryce.
Sam in True Love Is Supreme can already "hit his head and bleed for love."
The so-called "early love", but it is only a natural love germination.
This is an emotion that has nothing to do with external factors such as age, but only follows the true thoughts of the heart.
Of course, in addition to the purely moving feelings, there are many elements in this film that are worth exploring.
For example, environmental protection, anti-war, etc., have been consistent themes in Miyazaki's works.
Because of this, this is not just a movie made for children.
It allows us to see kindness and warmth, evoking the beauty of the deepest part of everyone's heart.
Most importantly, he used his imaginative stories to inspire us to pursue the people and things we love.
Finally, i would like to send you a sentence from the poster:
If you have someone in mind at the moment, then boldly run to meet each other!
*Author of this article: Eat Eat Eat