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NEWS: Miyazaki's The Wind Rises Does Not Win Awards at Venice

Guess this might make Based Miyazaki a little frustrated and get back into the business again. I guess he might've expected on a high note?

Jiro's Zero fighters were later built at slave labour camps and were used for kamikaze missions, although the film does not mention this. Jiro, for his part, is painted as an innocent, incurious man who perhaps feels that his responsibilities end when his planes are complete. All of which would be fine – a great springboard for a drama about art and its consequences – were it not for the fact that Miyazaki is so incurious too. The film-maker so clearly admires his subject that he never truly stoops to question his vision or hold his man to account.

Whatever. Awards are basically a Mafia anyway, does not matter much, awards have no credibility at all.

dan9999 wrote:

Whatever. Awards are basically a Mafia anyway, does not matter much, awards have no credibility at all.

So according to your logic, you're saying this Taiwanese film which won the Golden lion at the Venice in 1989 is horrible:

I guess this film from Korea, Pieta (which won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival) wasn't good too, right??

I guess Oldboy sucks, because as you claim, awards has no credibility.

mdo7 wrote:

dan9999 wrote: Whatever. Awards are basically a Mafia anyway, does not matter much, awards have no credibility at all. So according to your logic, you're saying this Taiwanese film which won the Golden lion at the Venice in 1989 is horrible: I guess this film from Korea, Pieta (which won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival) wasn't good too, right?? I guess Oldboy sucks, because as you claim, awards has no credibility.

Actually, he's not saying that award-winning films automatically suck, he's just saying that there's no guarantee that awards are always given to the most deserving films.

Not surprising. The animation was great, but if they saw it in the original Japanese they had to put up with Hideaki Anno's wooden attempts at acting, and even if they didn't... well:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/01/venice-film-festival-review-wind-rises?INTCMP=SRCH

Whatever. Awards are basically a Mafia anyway, does not matter much, awards have no credibility at all.

Jiro's Zero fighters were later built at slave labour camps and were used for kamikaze missions, although the film does not mention this. Jiro, for his part, is painted as an innocent, incurious man who perhaps feels that his responsibilities end when his planes are complete. All of which would be fine – a great springboard for a drama about art and its consequences – were it not for the fact that Miyazaki is so incurious too. The film-maker so clearly admires his subject that he never truly stoops to question his vision or hold his man to account.

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Jiro's Zero fighters were later built at slave labour camps and were used for kamikaze missions, although the film does not mention this. Jiro, for his part, is painted as an innocent, incurious man who perhaps feels that his responsibilities end when his planes are complete. All of which would be fine – a great springboard for a drama about art and its consequences – were it not for the fact that Miyazaki is so incurious too. The film-maker so clearly admires his subject that he never truly stoops to question his vision or hold his man to account.

I find this point of view curious. It seems to be saying that an inventor should be held accountable if his invention is ever used to injure or kill a human being. By that logic, manufacturers of hammers, knives, ropes, and fireplace pokers should be held accountable for the way their products are misused.

A tool is just that - a tool. It is the person who uses the tool who should be held accountable for how he or she uses it, not the person who made it.

A tool is just that - a tool. It is the person who uses the tool who should be held accountable for how he or she uses it, not the person who made it.