Sahara's hot wind and adventure

Rhoda 2021-11-14 08:01:24

What I still often think of today is the silly dream when I was a child: I

believe that although I am ordinary, I have enough kindness, courage and potential, and I have been looking forward to adventures that will happen inadvertently-just like "Sky City" In "Bath, an orphan living in a small mine town, one day, he met the girl Hida who descended from the sky, and found that Hida’s ancestral flying stone necklace contained an amazing secret she didn’t know. The prying eyes of the thieves are advancing side by side, and the children are surrounded by dangers...

So the adventure begins. The teenagers and girls arrive at the lost civilization that has been sleeping in the depths of the sea of ​​clouds and storms for hundreds of years-full of treasures and high-tech, but now it is only What remains is the sky city laputa (from "Gulliver's Travels") with huge robots that were once used as weapons and trees, flowers and birds. Finally, with wisdom and courage, they defeated the ambition of the villain BOSS and watched the Laputa rock collapse. , Only the big tree in the city, with the flying stone in his arms, carrying Mr. Robot and the animals and plants that accompanied it, flew higher and higher and drifted farther and farther... and at the moment when he flees with the treasures in the city, since then Live a happy and happy life.

The most classic adventure animation should look like this. Adventures, flying, treasures, traps, conspiracy, love, it is better to have a lost civilization that is extremely beautiful, whether it is brilliant or gloomy, and so beautiful that people can’t help but reflect on, and an unimaginable landscape beyond imagination.

From these elements and their wide variety of variants, countless outstanding stories can be derived, as magnificent as the legend of the Tsing Yi saint in "Nausicaa", as intimate as "My Neighbor Totoro" to Xiaomei and May's cat bus fantasies or "Ponyo on the Cliff" and Zongsuke's hand-in-hand undersea exploration is as deep as the forest of mountain beasts where Asan lives in "Princess Mononoke", and as romantic as the 90-year-old girl Sophie and the wayward magician in the moving castle The love between... For a long time, what Ghibli has dedicated to us is the most orthodox animation film: bright and full, narrative is smooth and easy to understand, the story is suitable for all ages; never hunt for novels, never follow the trend, and do not make any excuses. .

"Orthodox" can be said to be a norm and a principle. From another perspective, it is undoubtedly a shackle and a mountain. However, the heavier the burden and the more restrictions, the imaginary wings will be swung harder and harder. Sincere heart and simple emotions are the lasting and eternal theme, and you can always move your eyes slightly sore, scalp numb, and goose bumps—just in the red. Out of the sea of ​​clouds, rushing out of the forest, rushing out of the city, rushing out of everyday life, and seeing the unknown and beautiful world that I dream of day and night—

yes, you have always understood vaguely that you want to go to such a place, It's just that it's hard to describe everything, or I don't dare to think about it for fear of indulging in it. But at that moment, at that moment, its unmistakable existence made you hear your inner voice, and you can't avoid knowing that there is a bigger world, more exciting, and more adventures waiting.

——This is why, in the thunder and lightning of the sea of ​​storms, Buzz’s father will risk his death to take pictures of the city in the sky. The spirit of adventure, which is more scorching than the hot wind blowing through the Sahara Desert, is passed on from generation to generation, passing through the wilderness, through the forest, through the sea of ​​clouds, through the seemingly silent forest of the rotting sea, the giant trees of laputa, and the noisy oil house. The bathhouse, the Adriatic Sea flying the red plane, the cliff huts of Sosuke and Lisa, and the submarine of Papa Fujimoto... Enjoy the long road and vowed never to stop.
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PS: There shouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t know what "Saharan hot air" means?

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  • Aurore 2021-11-14 08:01:24

    The short-lived airship era in human history has produced such a magnificent story. Although the early style of painting is a bit naive, the imagination is breathtaking. What I admire most is the ancestors who decided to leave Sky City, because that requires too much courage!

  • Lindsay 2022-03-22 09:01:35

    Anti-war is really Miyazaki's favorite theme, and because of this, his works are always shrouded in humanistic concerns.

Castle in the Sky quotes

  • Dola: [escorting Sheeta toward the galley] Gotta start talkin' like a real pirate!

    Sheeta: [nervously] I've been practicing! Um... Harrrrr, matey! Shiver me timbers!

    Dola: [not impressed] Keep practicing...

  • [Louie and Pazu are in Tiger Moth's engine room]

    Louis: Hey, Pop! I've finally found ya an assistant!

    Papa: [disgruntled] Stop yelling at me! I can hear you. Believe me, sometimes I wish I couldn't.

    Papa: [to Pazu]

    Papa: Come on, assistant! Let's see what you can do!

    Louis: [whispering in Pazu's ear] Uh, hurry up. He is even tougher than my mother.

    Papa: I need someone who's *mechanically* minded, not some half-baked, swashbuckling Casanova wannabe!