So, he embraced a watercolor aesthetic, one that he hoped would allow viewers to "vividly imagine or recall the reality deep within the drawings." The result is a dreamy, evocative saga of a young heroine experiencing the world. He wanted them to empathize with the princess, which is something he couldn't get from the book on first reading. ![]() Takahata didn't want audiences to be distracted by a more realistic art style. Kaguya is based on The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a book he read as a child about a bamboo cutter who discovers a miniature girl within a stalk of bamboo who grows to become a woman of great beauty. "However, they'd be forced to for an anime feature because anime captures things we do and reflects more solid reality than how they actually are." This was his goal for what became his final film and speaks to the legacy he left behind at Studio Ghibli. "I don't think audiences really 'watch' live-action features carefully," he once said. Takahata believed animation could reach certain depths of reality that live-action could not. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is also the tale of Isao Takahata, one of the three co-founders of Studio Ghibli who passed away in 2018. These days, fans of Ged and Arren's sea journey in The Farthest Shore will find a more satisfying adaptation in Moana. Still, it's a shame that aside from a brief opening scene, an Earthsea movie spends so little time on the ocean. To its credit, it does nail the most important themes of the Earthsea series (namely, that mankind should use its power in concert with the natural order rather than try to oppress it, and that death is what makes life beautiful in the first place) and there are some delightful mash-ups of Le Guin's style with Ghibli's aesthetic. Named after the fifth Earthsea book but based on plot elements and character moments from the first, third, and fourth novels, Tales From Earthsea gets a little too tripped up mixing and matching disparate references to tell a completely coherent story. which makes it a slight bummer that the legendary animator passed this project off to his son GorÅ Miyazaki instead. ![]() Le Guin's one-of-a-kind fantasy series for the screen, it was probably Hayao Miyazaki. If anyone was capable of adapting Ursula K.
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