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brielledoesastrology · 10 months

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Asteroid Hayao Miyazaki (8883) in your astrology natal chart

by : Brielledoesastrology (tumblr)

"I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination." - Hayao Miyazaki

asteroid "Miyazaki Hayao" code number : 8883

The asteroid "Miyazaki Hayao" (8883) is named after the famous japanese animator and movie director Hayao Miyazaki.

Hayao Miyazaki is best known as an acclaimed Japanese film director and animator. He is best known for his imaginative and visually stunning animated films, often called anime. Miyazaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation studio, and has directed some of his most popular and successful films.

Miyazaki has been nominated for and won several Academy Awards. His film "Spirited Away" (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003 making it the first and only hand-drawn and non-English-language film to win in that category.

His work often deals with themes such as nature, conservation, growth and the importance of kindness.

Miyazaki's films such as Spirited Away, Totoro, and Princess Mononoke are known for their compelling storytelling, beautiful hand-drawn animation, and unforgettable characters. He gained worldwide recognition and became an influential figure in the animation world.

Hayao Miyazaki's art style is characterized by attention to detail, fluidity, and the ability to evoke a sense of wonder and magic. His hand-drawn animations are known for their meticulous attention to detail and care put into each frame.

Miyazaki often emphasizes the beauty of nature, including lush landscapes, intricate cityscapes, and fantastical creatures. His characters are brought to life by expressive facial features and subtle movements to capture a wide range of emotions.

Miyazaki's art style also incorporates elements of traditional Japanese aesthetics, including a strong connection with nature and an emphasis on simplicity and elegance.

Overall, his art style is distinctive and recognizable, creating a visually stunning and immersive experience for the viewer.

(source : chat gpt)

In astrology the asteroid "Hayao Miyazaki" (8883) could indicate : your artistic expression, your imagination, your storytelling, your environmental consciousness, or ur a sense of wonder and magic, where could hayao miyazaki's work inspires or influence ur life in a type of way, ur interest in animation, your interest in art , where u are widely respected or admired for your artistic work, where your artistic work could gain wide or global recognition, where u plan to retired a lot of times when u are old but you still do ur job anyway lmao

⚠️ Warning : i consider this asteroid as prominent and brings the most effect if it conjuncts ur personal planets (sun,moon,venus,mercury,mars) and if it conjuncts ur personal points (ac,dc,ic,mc), i use 0 - 2.5 orbs (for conjunctions). For sextile, trine, opposite and square aspects to asteroids i usually use 0 - 2 orbs. Yes tight conjunctions of planet / personal points to asteroids tends to give the most effect, but other aspects (sextile,trine,square,opposite, etc) still exist, even they produce effects. If it doesn't aspect any of your planets or personal points, check the house placement of the asteroid, maybe some stuff/topics relating to this asteroid could affect some topics/stuff relating to the house placement . ⚠️

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sleeper9 · 4 months

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Favorite Films of 2023

(There’s only a few I’ve still got on my list to see by for the most part I’m happy with this)

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beefcake-penguin · 4 months

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9 favorite films that I watched for the first time in 2023 | tagged by @occidentaltourist (thank you, my friend! ✊🏼🥺 🐧❤🐧)

In no beefticular (beefcake particular) order:

The Holdovers - A really heartwarming movie. Saw this one with my mom and we both really enjoyed it. Can't recommend this one enough!

Asteroid City - I love Wes Anderson's films and this is my favorite of his recent work. Great performances from the whole cast and a really interesting concept

Dream Scenario - Just such a wild premise, a great performance from Nic Cage and some surprisingly relevant social commentary. Would have been the biggest pleasant surprise of the year for me, had it not been for...

Godzilla Minus One - Biggest surprise of the year for me from a movie. Please go see this in theaters if you can. Surprisingly heartfelt movie. Really has no right being so good and it breaks my heart that some will just write this off as "another Godzilla movie"

When Evil Lurks - Just a truly WILD horror movie. Fair warning: NOT for the faint of heart.

Poor Things - There really isn't any movie like this one. A really wild ride. Beautiful looking set design, really creative shots, Emma Stone is brilliant, and it's a really great movie but be warned: there is some dark subject matter in this one.

The Boy and the Heron - Ghibli movies will generally always make my list. I'm a simple penguin: I let Hayao Miyazaki take me on another whimiscal, heartfelt, uplifting, and beautifully animated adventure and I will simply recommend it to anyone and everyone I see

Cobweb - Criminally underrated horror movie. An absolutely WILD performance from Lizzy Caplan and just a really fun horror movie to watch on a dark night. It's not an "elevated horror" film (whatever that means 🙄) but just a really fun, spooky experience

Killers of the Flower Moon - One of Scorsese's best movies, full stop. Really harrowing subject matter. Really upsetting at times. Never treated trivially and never feels exploitative. These are the types of stories of America's shameful past that absolutely need to be told and this is told with the respect that the subject matter deserves. Lily Gladstone is AMAZING.

Tagging: @katiemcgrathisdaddyaf @appropriatelystupid @pinkjover @thatgaypenguin @eh-justanaveragefan @fazedlight @ostropest @goldrushgold @valdier and anyone else who sees this post and wants to! Moots and non-moots my beloveds 🐧❤🐧

#thanks for tagging me!#this was fun!#movies #good good movies #my posts! 💪🏼🐧

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chwedout · 4 months

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✨films i watched for the first time in 2023 that i think everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime✨

favourites are listed in bold

20th Century Girl (2022, dir. Bang Woo-ri)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, dir. Edward Berger)

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

Audition (1999, dir. Takashi Miike)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, dir. Martin McDonagh)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Beau Is Afraid (2023, dir. Ari Aster)

Better Days (2019, dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Canola (2016, dir. Chang)

Columbus (2017, dir. Kogonada)

The Darjeeling Limited (2007, dir. Wes Anderson)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, dir. Wes Anderson)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988, dir. Isao Takahata)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The House (2022, dir. Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels)

House of Hummingbird (2018, dir. Kim Bora)

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020, dir. Charlie Kaufman)

In Bruges (2008, dir. Martin McDonagh)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Isle of Dogs (2018, dir. Wes Anderson)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, dir. Martin Scorsese)

Memories of Murder (2003, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

Lady Vengeance (2005, dir. Park Chan-wook)

May December (2023, dir. Todd Haynes)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

Next Sohee (2022, dir. July Jung)

No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Oldboy (2003, dir Park Chan-wook)

Past Lives (2023, dir. Celine Song)

Paprika (2006, dir. Satoshi Kon)

Perfect Blue (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma)

Priscilla (2023, dir. Sofia Coppola)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022, Joel Crawford)

The Quiet Girl (2022, dir. Colm Bairéad)

Ramen Shop (2018, dir. Eric Khoo)

Saltburn (2023, dir. Emerald Fennell)

Shiva Baby (2020, Emma Seligman)

Sing Street (2016, dir. John Carney)

Sound of Metal (2019, dir. Darius Marder)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, dir. Park Chan-wook)

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013, dir. Isao Takahata)

TÁR (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman)

The Truman Show (1998, dir. Peter Weir)

Weathering with You (2019, dir. Makoto Shinkai)

Women Talking (2022, dir. Sarah Polley)

2021 | 2022

#annual list is out <3 #cant believe ive been doing this for 3 years now .#as always if anyone watches anything on this list bc of me pls tell me bc i would like to know ur thoughts <3 #marys annual film list #chwedout

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01sentencereviews · 4 months

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2023

Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)

Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)

The Curse, "Land of Enchantment" [S01.E01] (Nathan Fielder)

Gush (Fox Maxy) @ New Directors/New Films 2023

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)

I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker) @ Persistent Visions Program 1: Always and Only Place, MoMI

Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) [+ its teaser trailer]

Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan)

May December (Todd Haynes) @ Opening Night, NYFF61

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie) in IMAX

My Own Private Final Destination (Alexandra McVicker & Zach Donovan) @ KGB Red Room (09/13/2023)

Oppenhemier (Christopher Nolan) in IMAX 70MM

Our Home Out West (Drew Tobia)

The Outwaters (Robbie Banfitch) [+ Card Zero & File VL-624 (Robbie Banfitch)]

Passages (Ira Sachs)

Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)

Renaissance World Tour (Beyoncé) @ SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA (09/01/2023)

Saint Omer (Alice Diop)

Stop Making Sense - IMAX (Jonathan Demme)

Succession, “With Open Eyes” (Mark Mylod & Jesse Armstrong)

Sunset Boulevard (Jamie Lloyd), West End Production (10/17/2023)

The Swan (Wes Anderson) [+ Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)]

Vanderpump Rules, “#Scandoval” [S10.E15]

The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

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Birth/Rebirth (Laura Moss)

Creed III (Michael B. Jordan)

The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)

the crash sequences in Ferrari (Michael Mann)

The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)

John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)

The Killer (David Fincher)

Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)

Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

PARADISE LOST (Richard Hines) @ Daniel Cooney Fine Art

Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Reality (Tina Satter)

Rotting in the Sun (Sebastián Silva)

Smoking Causes Coughing (Quentin Dupieux)

SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2023

Suzume (Makoto Shinkai)

Teen Art Salon - A Protospective @ MoMA PS1

Thanksgiving (Eli Roth)

To Catch a Killer (Damián Szifron)

“Very Delta #65 "Are You A Forever Eye-Con Like Me?” (w/ Raja)”

the 3D sequences in A Woman Escapes (Blake Williams, Sofia Bohdanowicz, & Burak Çevik)

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Performances, 2023:

Dave Bautista - Knock at the Cabin

Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon

Cole Escola - Our Home Out West

Mia Goth - Infinity Pool

Elle Graham - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall & The Zone of Interest

Soya Kurokawa - Monster

Guslagie Malanda - Saint Omer

Rachel McAdams - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Julianne Moore - May December

Natalie Portman - May December

Addison Rae - Thanksgiving

Judy Reyes - Birth/Rebirth

Margot Robbie - Barbie

Franz Rogowski - Passages

Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

Kamiki Ryunosuke - Godzilla Minus One

Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers

Nicole Scherzinger - Sunset Boulevard

Cailee Spaeny - Priscilla

Emma Stone - The Curse

Alyssa Sutherland - Evil Dead Rise

Sigourney Weaver - Master Gardner

Sophie Wilde – Talk to Me

Teo Yoo - Past Lives

#best of 2023 #lists #personal #best of #renaissance #anatomy of a fall #Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.#knock at the cabin #may december #my own private final destination #the outwaters #priscilla #stop making sense #sunset boulevard

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pacingmusings · 3 months

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As another January stumbles along, it's time for another list of favorite films from the previous year, as always entirely subjective in its composition and quasi-arbitrary in its rankings. That said, though, my number one choice has been sitting at the top of my list ever since I saw it in June and nothing has come close to replacing it. Well, one festival film might've, but, it's not being released until later this year, so . . .

1. Past Lives (Celine Song)

yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie

2. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)

3. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki)

4. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)

5. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)

6. May December (Todd Haynes)

7. A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell)

8. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)

9. Bottoms (Emma Seligman)

10. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)

11. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)

12. The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)

13. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)

14. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)

15. American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)

16. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin Thompson)

17. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)

18. Afire (Christian Petzold)

19. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)

20. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson)

Honorable Mention: Will-O’-the-Wisp (Joao Pedro Rodrigues): not everything in this film works for me (which at this point, I've just accepted is my general reaction to Rodrigues's cinema), but, it definitely makes an impression and leaves one with much to ponder about our obligations to society . . .

Cheers

#films #movies #stills #favorites #lists #best of #2023 #Past Lives #Fallen Leaves #Celine Song #women directors #Aki Kaurismaki #Greta Lee #Alma Poysti #Jussi Vatanen #music #lyrics #Leonard Cohen #Hey that's No Way to Say Goodbye

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cristalconnors · 2 months

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BEST FILMS of 2023, pt. 1

Honorable Mentions: Asteroid City, dir. Wes Anderson / Evil Dead Rise, dir. Lee Cronin / Kokomo City, dir. D. Smith / M3GAN, dir. Gerard Johnstone / Monica, dir. Andrea Pallaoro / Queens of the Qing Dynasty, dir. Ashley McKenzie / R.M.N., dir. Cristian Mungiu / Rye Lane, dir. Raine Allen-Miller / Showing Up, dir. Kelly Reichardt / War Pony, dir. Gina Gammell and Riley Keough

Also: pt. 2 / pt. 3 / pt. 4

30. A THOUSAND AND ONE, dir. A.V. Rockwell

29. THE BOY AND THE HERON, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

28. ALL OF US STRANGERS, dir. Andrew Haigh

27. ALCARRÁS, dir. Carla Simón

26. INFINITY POOL, dir. Brandon Cronenberg

25. PAST LIVES, dir. Celine Song

24. OCCUPIED CITY, dir. Steve McQueen

23. FULL TIME, dir. Éric Gravel

22. 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, dir. Mstyslav Chernov

21. STONEWALLING, dir. Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka

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frankbelloriley · 4 months

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Here's some of the best things I've watched in 2023.

New releases (an incomplete list because I'm gonna catch up on more stuff in January, so I'm only going to put seven):

Godzilla Minus One - An absolute hoot of a time at the movies. A human melodrama interrupted by a giant city destroying lizard. A fascinating deviation from Shin Godzilla which is more of "what if the bureaucracy of In The Loop had to deal with a radioactive monster" satire, while this goes for pure thrills and audience pleasing moments. Between this and last year's RRR, how are other countries better at pure audience pleasers than us?

The Boy and the Heron - I walked out of The Wind Rises in 2013 thinking, "Yeah, that perfectly caps Hayao Miyazaki's career. After telling the story of how a man's imagination ran away from him and questioning the impact of his life's work, what else does he need to say?" I walked out of The Boy and the Heron thinking, "So that's what."

Barbie/Asteroid City - I'm putting both together because Greta Gerwig has joined Wes Anderson in making movies with one singular moment that seem genetically engineered to wreck me (I will not say what they are here because chill bro, I don't know you like that.). That and both telling their stories through production design. I would hope that the lesson from Barbie making a billion dollars would be, "maybe shoot things on actual sets instead of green screen studios," but it's going to be, "find me another doll to make a movie from." As for Wes Anderson, it's so weird that the criticism he gets is, "it's too Wes Anderson-y." You want him to dilute his voice and make it...what exactly? Look, you like what you like, but why do some people want Wes Anderson to make less what he likes? Anyway, I thought this movie was Wes's clever way to be introspective about his storytelling process, and it's one I'm going to revisit soon.

Killers of the Flower Moon - I've seen this twice, and while I never thought the three and a half hours dragged the first time, it flew by the second time. I also never thought The Irishman dragged on either, almost as if Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese know what they're doing, but then again I don't have a two second attention span (some of y'all need to get off the damn TikTok and quit making me feel older than seeing the startling amount of grays I see on my head and in my facial hair in the mirror when I say that). The criticism that it should have been centered on Mollie instead of Ernest almost willfully misunderstands what Scorsese's artistic choice to focus on one of his most unsympathetic protagonists in his career. Scorsese is placing you in Leonardo DiCaprio's shoes because you in the audience are more likely to be Ernest than you will ever be to Mollie, and he wants you to sit with that uncomfort. That and Martin Scorsese knows the limits of empathy in that while he can understand Mollie's pain and the trauma endured by the Osage nation still felt today, he cannot truly know it to tell their side of the story. That should be clear from the start if people knew what empathy actually was, but some of y'all think empathy is binging a season of Ted Lasso in a weekend (wow, 2023 really left me cranky).

Ferrari - My joke to a friend coming out of this movie was, "you will believe Adam Driver is Italian," but Michael Mann's latest has hung around in my head ever since. Some call Driver's performance stilted or stiff as if that isn't a creative choice of needing to seem still while anxiety and peril go on behind his eyes in the face of very real peril and danger in 1950s motosports. Almost as if Mann has history of exploring themes of masculinity as a mask that both helps and hurts depending on the context. Penelope Cruz is also incredible here, adding life to a role that, played wrongly, makes the movie fall apart, but ties the whole thing together emotionally. I haven't seen two actors play off this well against each other since James Gandolfini and Edie Falco when I finished The Sopranos earlier this year.

Oppenheimer - Like this year's Miyazaki and Scorsese's works, feels like a culmination of all of Nolan's previous films. Great stuff, in addition to being a movie you can say, "hey, it's that guy" literally five minutes. I've written too much on all these already, so I will say is: Christopher Nolan is never going to work for Warner Brothers ever again.

Some new to me watches in 2023 I really loved:

Written On The Wind - This by Douglas Sirk was a revelation to me. I had no idea white people were emotionally capable of making Telenovelas.

Rio Bravo - Every time I've watched a Howard Hawks picture, I come away thinking they're among the most entertaining things I've watched. A Western that is less about the codes of honor than it is just hanging out.

The Heroic Trio/Magnificent Warriors/Royal Warriors - all of these were part of Criterion Channel's Michelle Yeoh collection, and they're all great with fantastic action set pieces. Michelle Yeoh stars in, respectively, a comic book movie, a period serial kind of like Indiana Jones, and a cop action drama that starts with her foiling an airplane hijacking.

Mississippi Masala - American independent movies used to be "find two hot and talent actors that have chemistry and build a movie around it." We used to be a proper country.

Decision To Leave - Probably would've been my favorite movie of 2022 if I had gotten around to seeing it then.

The Yakuza - In recent years, Robert Mitchum has become one of my all time favorite actors. We used to have guys with lines on their faces that would tell a story without saying anything (RIP director Sydney Pollack's Michael Clayton castmate Tom Wilkinson while I'm at it). The story of friendship and duty between Mitchum and Ken Takakura is the stuff of Dudes Rock (Melancholy Edition).

Strange Days - Incredibly prescient in how we would use phone cameras and how social media would rot our brains back in the 1990s. Doubles as the origin of a Fatboy Slim song. Worth a watch for Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett's chemistry alone.

Going to throw in a rewatch that blew me away this year, and that was Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure. I hadn't seen it since a Horror In Film class in undergrad, and it is an utter clinic in how film editing can make a viewer feel dread at any moment. The final shot is incredible.

#i wrote this post on here in my drafts so i could post to facebook and figured 'why don't i post it on here?'#the facebook post also has my 2023 reading but since i already posted about that kinda didn't see the point

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cletusthurstonbeauregard · 5 months

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Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ opens to record-breaking $12.8 million

“The Boy and the Heron,” a fantastical coming-of-age story from animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki, earned $12.8 million in its opening weekend, becoming the first original anime production to top the domestic box office. The GKids release is showing in Imax and other premium large format auditoriums, which bolstered its record-breaking revenues and helped secure its first place finish. It also benefitted from a lack of big-screen offerings, with holiday blockbusters such as “Wonka” and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” still waiting to make their debuts in the coming weeks.

“The Boy and the Heron” marks Miyazaki’s unexpected return to screens after being absent for more than a decade — the filmmaker behind classics like “Spirited Away” and “Princess Mononoke” announced he was retiring in 2013 when his previous film, “The Wind Rises,” was released. “The Boy and the Heron” has slowly been rolling out internationally, earning $84 million, with $56 million of that coming from Miyazaki’s native Japan.

Last weekend’s champ, “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” tumbled in its second weekend, earning $5 million for a fifth place finish. That’s a precipitous 77% drop, signaling that the music icon’s concert film may not have the staying power of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” which has grossed nearly $180 million. “Renaissance” has earned roughly $28 million domestically. Like Swift, Queen Bey has bypassed a traditional studio in order to release her film, enlisting AMC Theatres to oversee its distribution. That allows her to keep a larger share of the ticket sales.

As “Renaissance” faltered, Lionsgate’s “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” took second place, picking up $9.4 million to push its domestic haul to $135.6 million. That’s a solid number, particularly considering that the “Hunger Games” prequel carries a $100 million production budget, a modest figure for a film of that size and scope.

Toho International’s “Godzilla Minus One” continued its hot streak, stomping to $8.3 million in its second weekend. The monster movie’s domestic haul stands at $25.3 million, making it the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film to be released in North America.

Universal and DreamsWorks Animation’s “Trolls Band Together” will take fourth place, earning $6.2 million. That brings the family film’s total to $83.1 million. One of the weekend’s other new offerings, Bleecker Street’s “Waitress: The Musical,” earned $3.2 million.

In limited release, Searchlight’s “Poor Things” earned a sterling $644,000 from just nine theaters. Its per-theater average of $72,000 is also the best of the fall awards season — it falls slightly behind the per-theater bows of “Beau Is Afraid” ($80,000) and “Asteroid City” ($142,000), which came out in the spring and summer. The off-beat comedy from Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of “The Favourite,” stars Emma Stone and has been generating plenty of Oscar buzz since it debuted at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Golden Lion.

“Origin,” another critical favorite, opened in limited release with $117,063 from two theaters. That’s a per-screen average of $58,532. The Neon release is written and directed by Ava DuVernay and adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” a historical examination of hatred and racism.

Next weekend brings the release of “Wonka,” a look at the early days of the candy maker that stars Timothée Chalamet. That should sweeten the box office, but theater owners and analysts believe this holiday season will be more muted than the prior two years, when the mega-grossing “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” debuted

#hayao miyazaki #the boy and the heron #animated films

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brielledoesastrology · 2 years

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Brielledoesastrology's masterlist 🌲

(this masterlist is still not completed yet, i am still working on it)

Gif by : @sleepingcorpsebody

About me :

My favorite singers are Lana Del Rey, lorde and taylor swift

I am a moderate asteroid user in astrology, but i respect both conservative asteroids users and liberal asteroids users in astrology too. 🙏

My hobbies : asking people their astrological big three ✨, editing ✨ and reading ✨

My fav color is black

Exchange reading game :

Exchange reading game #1

Vedic astrology observations :

Asteroids in astrology that i've researched on :

KARMA/JUSTICE asteroids in astrology - ⚖️👩‍⚖️

asteroid Jane Austen (39415) in your astrology natal chart - 📙💕✨

PRIDE BEFORE DOWNFALL asteroids in astrology - 😬✨

asteroid Makoto Shinkai (55222) in your astrology natal chart - 👨‍🎨🎨🌲🏡

asteroid Hayao Miyazaki (8883) in your astrology natal chart - Studio ghibli ✨🎨👨‍🎨

asteroid Oppenheimer (67085) in your astrology natal chart - J robert oppenheimer

asteroid Wabi-Sabi (10585) in your astrology natal chart - "beauty of imperfections"

Repeating patterns of asteroid hestia (64) or vesta (4) prominent people

Asteroid Nobel (6032) in your astrology natal chart (updated/refixed version) - 🏆🪙🧑‍🔬

Asteroid Anna Pavlova (3055) in your astrology natal chart - ballerina 🩰

Royalty Asteroids that is prominent in my astrology natal chart 🤴👑👸 - #selfappreciation

asteroid Hannibal (2152) in your astrology natal chart - 🧔

asteroid Volodia (1380) in your astrology natal chart - universal ruler 🌍👸

asteroid Kazuyuki (7293) in your astrology natal chart - calm [Soon will be refixed / corrected !!]

asteroid Sabrina (2264) in your astrology natal chart ~ having the power that your not ready for

asteroid Zlata Koruna (4408) in your astrology natal chart ~ the golden crown

asteroid Hatshepsut (2436) in your astrology natal chart ~ the greatest female pharoah

asteroid Vipera (7464) and asteroid Serpe (9968) in your astrology natal chart ~ are you a snake?

asteroid Lobachevskij (1858) in your astrology natal chart ~ did you just plagiarize my original work sir?!

asteroid Somnium (3258) in your astrology natal chart ~ Are you a dreamer?

asteroid Hestia (46) and asteroid Vesta (4) in your astrology natal chart ~ "like a virgin, touched for the very first time" - Maddona

asteroid Michiko (6499) in your astrology natal chart ~ being a fashion trend [Soon will be refixed / corrected !!]

asteroid 1999 HR11 (129772) in your astrology natal chart - "why does every time in my best moments in life always end up failing???" [Soon will be refixed / corrected !!]

asteroid Varuna (20000) in your astrology natal chart - 👑💸📸👸

asteroid Humpty-Dumpty (17627) in your astrology natal - "I CAN'T FIX IT, I AM SORRY"

asteroid Ötzi (5803) in your astrology natal chart - "STOP BEING SO CURIOUS ABOUT ME!!!"

asteroid Irma (177) in your astrology natal chart - "the whole world is watching you" 🌍

Egyptians queens asteroids to check in your astrology natal chart 👑👸

Asteroids placements in an astrology natal chart that indicate being loved and worshipped by people

asteroid Cleopatra (216) in your astrology natal chart - "you are so smart and beautiful"

asteroid Viridis (8774) in your astrology natal chart - ☘️🌲🌱 [Soon will be refixed / corrected !!]

asteroid Audrey (4238) in your astrology natal chart - 🤵‍♀️ [Soon will be refixed / corrected !!]

Kings, Queens, Princess, Prince asteroids in your astrology natal chart 🤴👸👑

asteroid Kamil (14124) in your astrology natal chart - "u are just so... perfect..."

asteroid Karma (3811) in your astrology natal chart - "karma is a cat, purring in my lap because it loves me" - Taylor Swift

Flower asteroids to check in your astrology natal chart - 🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🏵️🪷

asteroid Luda (1158) in your astrology natal chart - "everyone loves me" 💙

Placements in your astrology natal chart that indicates ........ :

Being bullied at school

Being a bully

Having a alot of haters

Some rants... :

Astrology community rants that I have to say

This.

Fame indicators in astrology :

How to check if you are going to be famous in that year using asteroids in your solar return chart

Astrology observations :

Astrology observation #1

Astrology observation #2

Astrology observation #3

Astrology observation #4

Astrology observation #5

Pop culture predictions or assumptions :

Pop culture predictions or assumptions #1

Planets and Asteroids persona chart observations and notes :

asteroid Nemesis (128) in your asteroid Industria (389) persona chart - where to find your enemies in the industry you work in????

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movies u excited for that havent been released yet?

films that interest me on 2023 slate, as of 12/15/22:

the killers of the flower moon (martin scorsese)

how do you live? (hayao miyazaki)

megalopolis (francis ford coppola)

ferrari (michael mann)

the way of wind (terrence malick)

eureka (lisandro alonso)

oppenheimer (christopher nolan)

the zone of interest (jonathan glazer)

the killer (david fincher)

the red sky (christian petzold)

the perfumed hill (abderrahmmane sissako)

I saw the tv glow (jane schoenbrun)

knock at the cabin (m. night shyamalan)

shin kamen rider (hideaki anno)

nekrocosm (panos cosmatos)

the end (joshua oppenheimer)

asteroid city (wes anderson)

how to blow up a pipeline (daniel goldhaber)

la chimera (alice rohrwacher)

silent night (john woo)

cobweb (kim jee-woon)

??? dont know if they’ll be out, but in pre-production

our apprenticeship - ryusuke hamaguchi

untitled - paul thomas anderson

untitled - joshua safdie, benny safdie

neck - takeshi kitano

untitled - bi gan

liarmouth - john waters

#anonymous #i got sent this few weeks back forgot to answer #oops!

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The 2024 Rosscars

Welcome, dear reader, to the live coverage of the most exciting event of the season - the Rosscars! Reporting is brought to you by our bozo on the scene, Ross. Readers who question his ability as a journalist are fair to wonder, since last year he totally missed covering Chris Pine getting payback for Harry Styles and the spit-gate incident at Cannes. According to eyewitness testimony, Pine dropped an anvil on young Styles’ head, causing his neck to fold and expand like an accordion and a small flock of birds to encircle his noggin. We’re taking this bit of hot gossip with a grain of salt since the source, Daffy Duck, has a propensity toward exaggeration, but we’re not letting it stop Ross from paying extra close attention for any headline-grabbing events like that from this year.

The red carpet is abuzz with all sorts of designer looks and canned responses approved by publicists. The artists who have shown up are flattered, yet baffled. It seems that, yet again, their agents have confused this hallowed program with another awards show that shares its name a certain grouch who lives on Sesame Street.

After a massive bidding war for the broadcast rights, this year’s Rosscars are streaming exclusively on the hottest new service: those weird little screens on gas pumps.

It seems rare that a year is this dense with entries from major filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Mann, Greta Gerwig, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt, Wes Anderson, Alexander Payne, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Christian Petzold, Todd Haynes, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Paul Schrader, M Night Shyamalan, Steven Soderbergh, William Friedkin, Ridley Scott, Sofia Coppola, Ari Aster, Nicole Holofcener, Hideaki Ano, - as well as the announcement of a few new potential masters like Celine Song.

A few caveats and guidelines: The rules and categories are a little different around here. In keeping with the Academy standard, there are five nominees in each category, except for Best Picture, Best Non-Fiction/Documentary Feature, Best International Film, and Best Ensemble which have up to ten. Every category except for those with 10 entries will have honorable mentions. I want to highlight some things that just barely missed the cut. The narrowing down of a lot of these categories is always tough, but I’m nothing if not a martyr for my medium *hold for rapturous applause*

Distribution continues to be more fractured and odd, so there’s only really one criterion for eligibility, and it seems self-evident: the nominees must have come out/become available between last year’s Rosscars and this year’s Oscar award nominations.

Nominees are listed alphabetically, and the winners are boldened.

Also, it’s important to keep in mind that I couldn’t see everything, and that these are just the opinions of one (self-described) “bozo on the internet.” If you’re a reader and have different picks, feel free to share!

Before we get underway with the official categories, Ross would like to give special shout-outs to craftsmen he feels are worthy of recognition. The production design of Barbie, Asteroid City, The Holdovers, Beau is Afraid, Poor Things were exceptional. Similarly the costumes of Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Killer are worth highlighting. A huge bow in admiration for Jennifer Lame’s editing of Oppenheimer - the engine of the film, and perhaps its greatest asset.

Some superlatives upfront - The Bullet Train Award for a movie that’s packed to gills with enough stars to be liked people you dislike, the award goes to Argylle. The Great Performance in a Movie that Doesn’t Totally Work Award goes to Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario. The Superior Sequel Award, for a sequel that’s better than the original, goes to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Nah, I’m just kidding. It goes to Extraction 2. The “Where Did This Comes From?” Award goes to a movie that’s pretty great from a filmmaker that’s not. This year’s winner is Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. His eligibility was in question after 2021’s Wrath of Man also won this award, but here’s hoping the tides have turned and this is trend showing that Guy is through making movies that are truly stinky. Best Performance From an Animal goes to Messi the dog for Anatomy of a Fall, but the pigeon from Showing Up was waiting in the wings for the victory.

And with that terrible pun, let’s get the show underway.

Category fraud becomes especially tempting when trying to make each candidate fit, but know that each of these spots was thought over for quite a while and the emphasis on honorable mentions is well deserved.

The first category is Best Supporting Actor. Should the acting awards be gendered or is that a thing of the past? Take it up with the Academy!

After a last minute cancellation by Andrew Dice Clay, tonight's hosting duties have fallen to... Ross.

Best Supporting Actor

David Krumholtz for Oppenheimer

Nathan Lane for Beau is Afraid

John Magaro for Past Lives

Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things

Cory Michael Smith from May December

Honorable Mentions:

Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon

Josh Hamilton for Reality

Jason Isbell for Killers of the Flower Moon

John Ortiz for American Fiction

Antoine Reinartz for Anatomy of a Fall

Best Supporting Actress

Paula Beer for Afire

Penelope Cruz for Ferrari

Mia Goth for Infinity Pool

Yūko Tanaka for Monster

Maura Tierney for The Iron Claw

Honorable Mentions:

Hong Chau for Showing Up

Rachel McAdams for Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers

Tilda Swinton for The Killer

Alyssa Sutherland for Evil Dead Rise

In an era where film critics and fans are bemoaning the lack of true movie stars, it makes a certain sense that this was an insanely good year for supporting performances. These two winners have very different approaches to playing characters that are holding back information and maintaining a sense of unknowability.

Best Score

Gavin Brivik for How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Jerskin Fendrix for Poor Things

Ludwig Goransson for Oppenheimer

Laura Karpman for American Fiction

Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon

Honorable Mentions:

Bobby Krlic for Beau is Afraid

Jay McCarrol for BlackBerry

Daniel Pemberton for Across the Spider-Verse

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross for The Killer

Ethan Rose for Showing Up

Ryuichi Sakamoto for Monster

Notable Needle Drops

"Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey in Beau is Afraid

"Everything In Its Right Place" by Radiohead in The Creator

"Girlfriend in a Coma” by The Smiths in The Killer

"Connection" by Elastica in BlackBerry

"Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

The song’s use in the movie was a massive surprise, but its win here was inevitable. Baffling, juvenile, and ultimately kind of lovely, there are few uses of music in movies from any recent year that land with such a hilarious and memorable needle drop.

People in the audience are still surprised to hear the name of the 7th Transformers movie in any category, but the show must go on. Ross takes the stage and has a sheet of paper in front of him. Uh oh, looks like he’s got a speech coming.

“Cameras! Sometimes they use old technology I don’t really understand, and sometimes they use cutting edge technology I don’t really understand. It’s not just about a pretty shot, it’s about capturing blocking and visual composition to show a relation between characters and their environment. It’s about balancing light and casting shadows. Without a camera, these nominees would just be expensive podcasts. Here are your nominees…”

Best Cinematography

Eigil Bryld for The Holdovers

Erik Messerschmidt for Ferrari

Robbie Ryan for Poor Things

Hoyte van Hoytema for Oppenheimer

Robert Yeoman for Asteroid City

Honorable Mentions:

Christopher Blauvelt for Showing Up

Erik Messerschmidt for The Killer

Rodrigo Prieto for Killers of the Flower Moon

Philippe Le Sourd for Priscilla

The In Memoriam montage starts to play as black and white photos of beloved artists start to fade in and fade out. The audience sighs with a somber recognition of the gratitude we all collectively have for their work. Richard Lewis, Paul Reubens, Tina Turner, William Friedkin, Piper Laurie… but suddenly audience members are surprised by the inclusion of the new addition to the In Memoriam portion of the show - the screen reads, “RIP to the Careers of…” before flashing to Jonathan Majors, Colleen Ballinger, Diddy, David Choe, Lizzo. Then, a stamp slams down and reads "CANCELLED."

The room is in a collective daze, and the seemingly rudderless show is in dire need of being steered back in the right direction. Too bad the figurative captain is your host… Ross.

Best Original Screenplay

Ari Aster for Beau is Afraid

Wes Anderson for Asteroid City

Sammy Burch for May December

Yuji Sakamoto for Monster

Celine Song for Past Lives

Honorable Mentions:

David Hemingson for The Holdovers

Nicole Holofcener for You Hurt My Feelings

Justine Triet & Arthur Harai for Anatomy of a Fall

Mauricio Zacharias, Ira Sachs, and Arlette Langmann for Passages

Best Adapted Screenplay

Ariela Barer, Jordan Sjol, and Daniel Goldhaber for How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller for BlackBerry

Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer

Danny Philippou & Bill Hinzman for Talk to Me

Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon

Honorable Mentions:

Kelly Fremon Craig for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Cord Jefferson for American Fiction

Tony McNamara for Poor Things

M. Night Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock, & Ashwin Rajan for Knock at the Cabin

Andrew Kevin Walker for The Killer

Best Ensemble

Asteroid City

The Caine Mutiny Court Martial

Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The Iron Claw

Killers of the Flower Moon

Monster

Oppenheimer

There actually was supposed to be a promotional event for the Rosscars where the cast of Iron Claw wrestled against Gael Garcià Bernal in character as the titular Cassandro, but then the promotional team actually watched Iron Claw and realized it was a "bad fit" for such an event. When reached out to for further comment, the team said, "Iron Claw is a story about destiny, expectations, and the pressure applied to make those two concepts meet. It's a good old-fashioned melodrama rendered with sensitivity and empathy that is most evident in the film's spectacular performances. Director Sean Durkin takes a few huge swings in the final stretch that connect for home runs, releasing the coiled emotions that, up to that point, were building." The team was surprised by the length of the comment.

The host, Ross, has taken the stage again, this time wearing a giant mascot costume of a globe. This act of debasement was the latest attempt at drawing the audience in with a laugh. It's clear that he's here to present the award to best international feature, but the humiliation he feels is palpable, and the audience is just getting sad. Stanley Tucci is noticeably shifting in his seat from secondhand embarrassment.

Best International Film

Afire, dir. Christian Petzold

Anatomy of a Fall, dir. Justine Triet

The Boy and the Heron, dir Hayao Miyazaki

Godzilla Minus One, dir. Takashi Yamazaki

Monster, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

Passages, dir. Ira Sachs

Perfect Days, dir. Wim Wenders

The Zone of Interest, dir. Jonathan Glazer

Ross takes the stage, this time, with a solemn acceptance that the show is petering out. Unlike Golden Globes host Jo Koy, Ross blames his jokes falling flat on no one but himself. "I suppose that, like Oppenheimer, the responsibility for the bombing is on me."

A single chortle breaks the silence. It's none other than Timmy Chocolates, Lisan al-gaib, "I ate the bones" Tim - an actor who worked with Woody Allen AND Armie Hammer just before the public turned on them - Timothée Chalamet.

Best Actor

Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer

Franz Rogowski for Passages

Paul Giammatti for The Holdovers

Ryan Gosling for Barbie

Charles Melton for May December

Honorable Mentions:

Glenn Howerton for BlackBerry

Joaquin Phoenix for Beau is Afraid

Jason Schwartzman for Asteroid City

Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall

Greta Lee for Past Lives

Julianne Moore for May December

Emma Stone for Poor Things

Honorable Mentions:

Hayley Atwell for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Adele Exarchoppulos for Passages

Natalie Portman for May December

Julia Louis Dreyfus for You Hurt My Feelings

Sophie Wilde for Talk to Me

Best Director

Ari Aster for Beau is Afraid

Wes Anderson for Asteroid City

Todd Haynes for May December

Christian Petzold for Afire

Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer

Pundits have speculated that the big award of the evening will be a surprise, awarded to a film that's not even nominated. Our reporter on the scene, Ross, has a source that Vegas has been flooded with high yield bets placed on Good Burger 2 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. These bets will not pay out.

Best Picture

Asteroid City

Afire

Anatomy of a Fall

Beau is Afraid

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

May December

Oppenheimer

Passages

Past Lives

There was no film in the past year that better wrestled with its material to create a complete experience. Its final scene is one that hasn't been far from my mind since seeing it, and, as is often the case with Scorsese's movies, it's the small moments that stick with you as much as the big strokes. Asteroid City sure was close, though.

There you have it, folks. The awards have been handed out, but keep in mind that they can reshuffled at will, so don't clear out too much space on the mantle Hoyte!

Feel free to share, to disagree, to boycott next year - all reactions are welcome.

For more thoughts on film, and a whole bunch of other junk, you can find me on Letterboxd here and on Twitter here. You can also find very sporadic pieces on this very same blog space: (that’s https://phantomofthepairofdice.tumblr.com/).

On behalf of the RAOGL (Rosscars Association of One Guy at a Laptop), thanks for reading. We’ll see you next year. Keep watching movies, and keep arbitrarily quantifying them in terms of subjective quality!

#movies #film #oscars #awards show

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My top ten* films for 2023

10.Return to Seoul- Davy Chou

10.Afire- Christian Petzold

9.Asteroid City- Wes Anderson

8.Anatomy of a Fall- Justine Triet

7.Past Lives- Celine Song

6.The Boy and the Heron- Miyazaki Hayao

5.Earth Mama- Savanah Leaf

4.Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell- Pham Thien An

3.Killers of the Flower Moon- Martin Scorsese

2.Close Your Eyes- Victor Erice

1.All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt- Raven Jackson

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Killers Of The Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese The Zone Of Interest - Jonathan Glazer Past Lives - Celine Song Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos Barbie - Greta Gerwig Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan Passages - Ira Sachs Anatomy Of A Fall - Justine Triet Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World - Radu Jude May December - Todd Haynes Close Your Eyes - Víctor Erice All Of Us Strangers - Andrew Haigh Asteroid City - Wes Anderson Tár - Todd Field Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismäki Saint Omer - Alice Diop How To Have Sex - Molly Manning Walker Last Summer - Catherine Breillat Tótem - Lila Avilés Afire - Christian Petzold La Chimera - Alice Rohrwacher Evil Does Not Exist - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Return To Seoul - Davy Chou The Boy And The Heron - Hayao Miyazaki Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell - Phạm Thiên Ân The Beast - Bertrand Bonello Beau Is Afraid - Ari Aster The Delinquents - Rodrigo Moreno The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg Rotting In The Sun - Sebastián Silva Hit Man - Richard Linklater Music - Angela Schanelec Talk To Me - Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou The Human Surge 3 - Eduardo Williams Infinity Pool - Brandon Cronenberg One Fine Morning - Mia Hansen-Løve The Taste Of Things - Trần Anh Hùng A Prince - Pierre Creton All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt - Raven Jackson Earth Mama - Savanah Leaf The Holdovers - Alexander Payne The Killer - David Fincher Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros - Frederick Wiseman Our Body - Claire Simon Priscilla - Sofia Coppola Reality - Tina Satter Rye Lane - Raine Allen-Miller Samsara - Lois Patiño Suzume - Makoto Shinkai Trenque Lauquen - Laura Citarella

#sight and sound #the 50 best films of 2023 #killers of the flower moon

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What Star Wars: Visions Has in Common With Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

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The beauty of the natural world and its spiritual elements have long been popular subjects for anime, and in the new short film anthology Star Wars: Visions that translates to rich forests and bringing life to once barren ground. With its emphasis on how characters affect the environments around them, Visions touches on both the history of anime and an idea that has been present but muted in most Star Wars stories: that the evil of the Empire goes hand-in-hand with resource exploitation and greed.

Naturally, anime is an art style — developed in Japan and with a wide range of inspirations behind it — not a single genre. You can find anime films and TV shows espousing and glorifying a wide range of philosophies, from the green of the trees to the virtues of guns. But some of the most successful examples have included the former.

Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, the director and studio behind perhaps the most well-known anime films in the west, make the association between the style and environmental messages clear. Princess Mononoke directly depicts a fight between the denizens of the forest and the humans who have been clearcutting it. My Neighbor Totoro romanticizes a countryside and forest filled with Shinto-inspired creatures as well as real-world shrines and practices. Other popular anime, like the Moribito series (based on the novels of the same name) or Mushishi, also focus on nature as a source of spirituality, if not always safety.

Star Wars, itself inspired in part by Japanese films, addresses this indirectly but thoroughly. While the heroes tend to be visually associated with earth tones, sacred places, and magical trees, the villains wear metal and stark colors. The heroes are the underdogs, after all: the villains have the technological upper hand, even if a well-placed missile can destroy a whole battle station.

This is especially obvious in Return of the Jedi, which un-subtly pits the ultra-sterile trappings of the Empire against the raucous Ewoks. While the Empire destroys planets, the Ewoks live in trees and forage from the land. In The Clone Wars, destroying the environment is associated with disaster, like when the Separatists turn their Defoliator on their enemies’ planets or when a mixed Republic and Dug project disturbs the Zillo Beast from its underground lair. The Mandalorian makes this clear in the season two episode “The Jedi,” itself heavily inspired by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa; the Empire’s presence seems to be draining the planet, leaving churned-up mud and dying trees around the town.

The Visions episode that does the most with this theme is “The Village Bride,” which presents a planet where people have a home-grown understanding of the Force. “Magina,” or the Force, is connected directly to the planet: “You can’t change the river’s flow by casting a stone, but live in harmony with nature, and you’ll change together,” one Jedi says. The visuals focus on the forest, on how it can be both beautiful and inhospitable to humans. “We are the sky, we are the forest, we are the river,” goes the chant the titular bride and groom perform.

The actual destruction of the world is mostly hidden — an explosion here, a flashback there. Unlike many of the other shorts in the series, the villains are not even reminiscent of the Empire. Instead, they’re bandits using reprogrammed Separatist droids.

Perhaps the most subtle expression of this theme in the episode is the opening scene, where the wanderer Valco activates what appears to be a lightsaber, then proves to be a sensor of some kind. While he’s capable of fighting, he’s also fighting in his own way with research and science.

“T0-B1” also shows that being a hero can mean tending the planet, not necessarily swinging a lightsaber — although the hero certainly does also swing a lightsaber. Inspired by his mentor’s death, the little droid T0-B1 tries to grow plants on the inhospitable desert world. (T0-B1 is a visual echo of Astro Boy, the hero from the 1952 manga, which was later adapted into one of the most successful and familiar anime franchises of all time.) The science is presented as wondrous and soft, and learning how to make the planet green again is the triumph that leads him to gain his lightsaber and become a Jedi Knight.

Of course, the episode also presents him with a convenient villain — he needs to have a martial victory as well as a life-bringing one. Getting to what Yoda said — war not making a person great — is still not quite possible on screen in a franchise built in part on the spectacle of lightsaber battles. But “bringing life back to this planet” is T0-B1’s mission, and his resolution at the end of the episode is that “helping planets…that’s what Jedi do.”

“The Ninth Jedi” evokes some of the industrialization presented as the enemy in other episodes, but doesn’t do as much with it. Throughout the series, we see that kyber crystals, the power source of a lightsaber, are nearly as prized, valuable, and flashy as the laser swords themselves. The process of mining kyber from asteroids in “The Ninth Jedi” is visually arresting, with cords shot into space from machines resembling oil rigs and dragged down to the planet in violent crashes.

The episode doesn’t have much to say about this: the kyber crystals are as noble in good hands as they are sinister in evil ones, with lightsaber colors switching to match each person’s ethical standing. Even so, it’s a cool look at one way to get ahold of this essential piece of Star Wars technology.

One of the best episodes in the series, “Lop and Ochō,” also works the pro-environment theme, both visually and in dialogue. It presents a marked contrast between the industrial Imperial base and the verdant planet around it. Even the hero Lop, a bunny-like alien, is more animalistic than the people around her. But the real insight in this episode comes from the story of why her adopted sister Ochō decides to join the Empire. She explains in a straightforward manner that she’s doing it to help her family: the “Imperial industry” that has “stripped and exploited” the planet will bring “growth and prosperity,” she says.

Ochō’s arguments for how the benefits of the alliance will help the family — money, presumably, and an ever-increasing flow of it — make sense. That’s what’s so honest (and frightening) about them. She wants the same thing Lop does — to keep the family safe — but wants to go about it in a different way. To her — and to the Imperial officer who has been conspiring with her — the family’s “idealism” is just getting in the way. “How are feelings supposed to save our family?” Ochō asks.

I won’t spoil the ending of this one, so suffice it to say the sisters’ clashing opinions are both tested. By the end of the episode, the visuals show primarily the stark metal of the Imperial base, with decorative trees reminding the viewer that the natural world is also part of the conversation. By combining the visual tropes of Star Wars and anime, Visions creates a strong message from both.

Is Star Wars: Visions Canon? The Anime’s Timeline Explained

By John Saavedra

Star Wars Visions: Who Is Ronin?

By Megan Crouse

Star Wars: Visions executive producer James Waugh and producer Kanako Shirasaki spoke to Den of Geek about this connection in an interview, saying the “unique cultural perspective” lends itself to this theme.

“It comes down to the point of the anthology really, which was a unique cultural perspective and a unique art form expressing Star Wars,” Waugh says. “So much of that type of storytelling [about nature] feels so at home with anime because it permeates a lot of the fiction that comes out of Japanese culture in general.”

But the focus on the environments of Star Wars came naturally, according to Waugh. It wasn’t a mandate.

“There was never a conscious moment where we said we were really leaning into the idea of should we do these stories or not. It was these creators had a vision, each one had a point of view and a story they wanted to tell, and those were the themes they were gravitating towards. And that resonated with Star Wars in the sense that they were powerful, resonant themes that felt a little mythic, and then it was really a matter of getting characters rendered in a way that they had to react to the situation and we had to care for them. But it was totally the byproduct of working with creators who have a very specific point of view and something to say.”

Shirasaki adds, “The creators are heavily influenced from Star Wars at the same time as the rich history of Japanese animation, and Miyazaki and other Japanese storytelling talking about nature and development and all the conflict between these two. So maybe these topics might feel closer to them to tell, and also in a Star Wars setting.”

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Miyazaki is often quoted as one of the medium’s most powerful voices on environmentalism. In a 2009 interview, the legendary animator said that this idea needs to go beyond storytelling as well: “Whether we should do something about it or not is something that we need to think about in real life, rather than depicting it in a particular way in the stories on screen.”

Star Wars: Visions is streaming now on Disney+.

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