selphinrose:sailorsandshipwrecks:This is too intenseNah but seriously I feel this, especially with M
selphinrose:sailorsandshipwrecks:This is too intenseNah but seriously I feel this, especially with Miyazaki’s brand of fantasy or something like it.Let’s waddle on over to Tolkien for a sec; all of the magic in his stories comes from the fact that, as much of a nerd as he was, making up languages and creating a world with a larger-than-life, but fully realized sociopolitical climate, when it came to magic?Gandalf generally fought with a sword. What magic he did do, in spite of his ancient and angelic status, was generally fairly minor. The charms and enchantments found in his world are ancient, unknown, strange, and absolute. One of the most treasured items in the series does the same thing as a level two spell in d&d does now.For magic to work as anything other than a convoluted fantasy science, it has to be allowed to exist in that unknown state that humanity originally needed to use it to explain.Miyazaki obviously isn’t saying he doesn’t understand the events of his movies (though I have heard that he has been known to let them write themselves his anger and exasperation comes from the fact that he is well aware that he wrote a story where the deus ex machina is a cat bus, and it’s brilliant, and he has no idea why it’s a cat bus. He has no idea why there’s a train running from a traditional Japanese bathhouse for Yokai, or why it goes to a witch in the woods.Of course he understands why this resonates with people outside of the fiction, but within the fiction, it simply is that way, because the world is magic, and as the one that spawned the story from mind all the way to animation, that he doesn’t understand is incredibly frustrating, however, not only does it not impede the creative process, but it is absolutely necessary for it.The take-away for artists, I think, is that oftentimes, your instincts have the right idea, but in cases like this, when you feel the need to peek behind the veneer and try to explain an inherently chaotic and confusing world, as painful as it is, you have to resist the urge to let your active mind come up with an explanation and canonize it for you, because frustration is the burden for the authenticity of a confusing and chaotic world.one can only imagine what was going through Satoshi Kon’s head -- source link