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NEWS: Producer: Miyazaki's Newest Is Not For Everyone to Relax & Watch

Will Ghibli ever create something badass like Ghost in the Shell and Akira?

When things are bad it's not the time to make something depressing and "realistic." When things are bad people want and need escapism.

I have a feeling that whatever he comes up with will blame man--and possibly America--for a natural disaster.

writerpatrick wrote:

When things are bad it's not the time to make something depressing and "realistic." When things are bad people want and need escapism. I have a feeling that whatever he comes up with will blame man--and possibly America--for a natural disaster.

Of course he's going to blame America and humanity, he's a gaijin-phobic hippie. And we're the Great Satan.

So I can ignore just like I have all of Ghibli's other stuff for the last 5 years.

writerpatrick wrote:

When things are bad it's not the time to make something depressing and "realistic." When things are bad people want and need escapism. I have a feeling that whatever he comes up with will blame man--and possibly America--for a natural disaster.

Of course he's going to blame America and humanity, he's a gaijin-phobic hippie. And we're the Great Satan.

So I can ignore just like I have all of Ghibli's other stuff for the last 5 years.

TopGunman wrote:

Will Ghibli ever create something badass like Ghost in the Shell and Akira?

Well I for one would argue that Princess Mononoke is pretty badass.

writerpatrick wrote:

When things are bad it's not the time to make something depressing and "realistic." When things are bad people want and need escapism. I have a feeling that whatever he comes up with will blame man--and possibly America--for a natural disaster.

Of course he's going to blame America and humanity, he's a gaijin-phobic hippie. And we're the Great Satan.

In a 1951 letter to an editor, Tolkien commented that The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion (1977) were primarily concerned with "the Fall, Mortality, and the Machine." He explained that the Machine (or magia, magic) were plans or devices that dominated, either by destroying the environment or by controlling the wills of people (Carpenter 2000, pp. 145, 146).

His Middle-earth writings (The Hobbit [1937], The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, the posthumously published Unfinished Tales [1980], and the twelve-volume History of Middle Earth [1982–1996]), can be understood as at least a partial response to a modern world that was embracing industry and technology. Tolkien believed the Machine (technology) was destroying his beautiful, rural, Edwardian countryside (represented in The Hobbit by the peaceful Shire) with wars, factories, cars, railroads, and pollution, and he saw no end in sight.

He passed on his distaste for mechanization to his hobbits in the prologue of The Lord of the Rings: "They [hobbits] do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom ..." (Tolkien 1994, p. 1). His two major villains in the story, Saruman and Sauron, are dependent on machines and use them to dominate and destroy the countryside. His descriptions of the realm of Mordor, with its desolate, scarred plains and history of being a stronghold of evil, were taken from his experiences on the battlefield.

"not the sort of work that everyone in the audience can relax and watch."

When things are bad it's not the time to make something depressing and "realistic." When things are bad people want and need escapism.

I have a feeling that whatever he comes up with will blame man--and possibly America--for a natural disaster.

And by the way, I have never once heard Miyazaki condemn America.

So I guess J.R.R. Tolkien was a gaijin-phobic, America-hating hippie as well? The Lord of the Rings explored the same ideas of man vs. nature and technology vs. nature as Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa did:

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In a 1951 letter to an editor, Tolkien commented that The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion (1977) were primarily concerned with "the Fall, Mortality, and the Machine." He explained that the Machine (or magia, magic) were plans or devices that dominated, either by destroying the environment or by controlling the wills of people (Carpenter 2000, pp. 145, 146). His Middle-earth writings (The Hobbit [1937], The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, the posthumously published Unfinished Tales [1980], and the twelve-volume History of Middle Earth [1982–1996]), can be understood as at least a partial response to a modern world that was embracing industry and technology. Tolkien believed the Machine (technology) was destroying his beautiful, rural, Edwardian countryside (represented in The Hobbit by the peaceful Shire) with wars, factories, cars, railroads, and pollution, and he saw no end in sight. He passed on his distaste for mechanization to his hobbits in the prologue of The Lord of the Rings: "They [hobbits] do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom ..." (Tolkien 1994, p. 1). His two major villains in the story, Saruman and Sauron, are dependent on machines and use them to dominate and destroy the countryside. His descriptions of the realm of Mordor, with its desolate, scarred plains and history of being a stronghold of evil, were taken from his experiences on the battlefield.

http://www.bookrags.com/research/tolkien-j-r-r-este-0001_0004_0/

…not the sort of work that everyone in the audience can relax and watch.

My thought processes are also "stuck in the 1940's" so I would rather people did not act like new automatically equals better. Many things have been lost in the process of modernization, and many admirable aspects of traditional society are on the way out today because of those advances. Many evils have been introduced as a result of modernization, so before we cheer our little society with it's arrogances we ought to seriously think about it's problems and possible solutions.

Will Ghibli ever create something badass like Ghost in the Shell and Akira?