{"id":485,"date":"2004-11-21T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/21\/a-mini-review-of-howls-moving-castle\/"},"modified":"2004-11-21T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T15:43:03","slug":"a-mini-review-of-howls-moving-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/21\/a-mini-review-of-howls-moving-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"A mini review of Howl’s Moving Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n I just went to see Howl’s Moving Castle in theaters in Japan now. Being
\n a Studio Ghibli fan it was a must see in the theaters for me.\n <\/p>\n

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\n I will try to avoid any spoilers since I don’t believe in ruining the fun
\n beforehand. That’s like giving away The Sixth Sense. First off, if you
\n have read the novel<\/a>
\n by Diana Wynne Jones, then the first thing you’ll notice is that there were
\n some changes between the movie and the original novel. Personally, I didn’t
\n think the changes were bad but the changes did bring up what I felt were
\n some inconsistencies in the overall flow of the story. Actually, that is
\n my main gripe with the film. The overall story flow felt a little stilted
\n as it jumped from one scene to the next and you were left wondering why
\n event X happened. I guess this stems from the fact that this story wasn’t
\n written by Miyazaki himself so he had to spend time loading the original
\n story into his mind and trying to figure out what made it on-screen and
\n what needed to be cut. If the story is your own work you would have
\n a much clearer picture of what would work translating it to the big
\n screen and what would not. And unfortunately, this shows in Howl’s. This
\n is a disappointment compared to watching Spirited Away or Laputa
\n which have a superb story flow progression.\n <\/p>\n

\n However, having said that, the cinematography and artwork are exactly
\n what you would expect from Studio Ghibli film. Absolutely stunning. Watching
\n a Studio Ghibli film on the big screen is such a different experience from
\n watching it on a televion screen at home. The voice actors did a fine
\n job of conveying their characters. Kimura Takuya, a well known star in
\n Japan, lent his voice to Howl (I could barely tell it was his voice). I
\n can’t remember who else played what voice roles, I’m afraid.\n <\/p>\n

\n Overall, I’d say this was worth going to the movie theater to see at
\n full admission but it’s still a little bit of a disappointment compared
\n to previous works by Miyazaki due to the inconsistent progression of
\n the story. I think adding another 30 minutes to add a scene here or
\n there would have made this a much better movie than it was. But I’m
\n glad I caught it.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just went to see Howl’s Moving Castle in theaters in Japan now. Being a Studio Ghibli fan it was a must see in the theaters for me. I will try to avoid any spoilers since I don’t believe in ruining the fun beforehand. That’s like giving away The Sixth Sense. First off, if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}