Studio Ghibli exhibition!!!
There is a Studio Ghibli exhibition going on right now in a shopping mall in Seoul. Studio Ghibli, lead by Hayao Miyazaki, is a Japanese animation firm, producing amazing movies enjoyable for both children but also for adults like me! The movies often have a deeper message and moral in it. Typical characteristiscs of Hayao Miyazaki's works are the strong will of the young, peace-loving main characters, human destruction of nature and in almost every movie there is a woman with a strong personality.
Outside the shopping mall, a scene from "Ponyo on the cliff by the sea".
Inside the exhibition, they have recreated scenes from a selection of movies. Each room have a description of the movie in the beginning. Here is "Howl's Moving Castle"
The "castle", which really did move, compare the two pictures!
Calicifier!
Inside the castle
Howl himself
Saliman's dog Heen
The main character in the movie - a young lady in her 20ties who was transformed to an old granny by a witch. Throughout the movie, she slowly starts to accept herself and stops comparing herself to others as well as finding confidence in herself which eventually breaks the spell.
The picture above is illustrating the scene below from the movie. The picture below is a TV-screen showing the movie
This is one of my top favorities among the movies! Sadly this part of the exhibition was not as big as the others. This movie, however, is the one that shows most clearly (and dramatically) about the human destruction of nature
The wolf princess who have joined the forest gods in the fight to protect their forest
Pom Poko! A movie about racoons, and just like in the movie right above, they are trying to protect their forest against humans too.
Protect the forest against humans like this one...
A scene from the movie
This is probably the most famous movie, or at least the one that sells the most souviners. The story is about two young girls who just moved to the country side and found a big and old tree nearby where a forest spirit called Totoro lives in. The trick is, Totoro can not be seen bby adults, and even among children, only lucky ones who are friendly to the forest can find him!
The tunnel to the tree
Hah! I'm still within the lengths of a child!(?)
But not you. Are you not a friend of the forest??
Totoro sleeping!
Scenes from the movie, when one of the girls first found Totoro
A scene where the girls are waiting at the bus stop for their dad to come back from work, when all of sudden Totoro joins them too.
(It's raining in the scene, so Issac joined the scene while protecting himself from "the rain")
The end scene
Porco Rosso, not one of his famous movies, but still enjoyable.
If Totoro is not the most famous movie, then this one certainly is. It's widely considered to be one of the best animated movies in history. The story is a bit complicated, and yet the deeper messages are eve more complicated and there is still discussions about how to interprent the movie. It is truly great!
(I'm posing as the girl in movie)
(Another pose)
TV-screen showing the train scene, recreated here below
I'm trying to mimick the girl in the movie.
Issac and his new buddy the No Face
The last picture, from outside the exhibition togehter with Totoro again at the rainy scene at the bus stop
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