EPISODE 1. PONYO IS HERE

Intro: straps a video recorder on his card seat to film him driving (pre go-pro days) - why? because good stuff comes from the everyday ordinary things.

Vexed and frustrating creative process

see Mason Curry's blog on Miyazaki's creativity process

https://subtlemaneuvers.substack.com/p/hayao-miyazaki-creativity-selfishness

quotes

he works "in a constant cloud of doubt and anxiety." - while working on Ponyo (2006)

"Talent gets worn out from everyday use."

Message to his staffs" "we must be idealistic realists."

"I can feel the limit of my ability everyday."

26mins:

Returning to elemental style

Takes out an old set of pastel colors - He has never worked with pastels before - excited - (DC: to break from the usual rut cycle) - he decides to "gamble on elemental images" - simple technique is hard. means that he has to create the technique from scratch - to the documenter, Miyazaki seems liberated.

DC: seems like an oblique strategy by changing means (pastel). see also #107.Oblique Strategies in dealing with clients' problems and resolutions #261. Oblique Strategies Brian Eno MusicThoughts

32 mins:

ABSENTEE FATHER

Hayao walks out of his son's film premiere. Tales from the Earths
Father felt too similar to his own (he shouldn't make a film based on his emotions)
Someone walks to his and said, "he's made quite a philosophical film..." but Hayao walks away.
you have to change the world with film... otherwise, what's the point? (about his son's film)

36mins

ISOLATION

towards the end of film prep, he got into isolation (Seto sea)
treasures his solitude

quotes

To make a film, does one need period of solitude? "How would I know? Everyone's different."

I want to stay grumpy... and lost in my own thoughts. I plaster a smile cos it's socially acceptable."

~~~ 45mins 11 months on, a SINGLE FRAME for ponyo the movie emerges

~~~ 46mins Interview w Goro his son: - Totoro was such a huge success - Totoro become his enemy.

EPISODE 2: DRAWING WHAT"S REAL

fuki is ponyo - 1.5yr old daughter of one of his animators —- repressed need: “if i can entertain people, then maybe i deserve to live.” - mom ill since he was 6 from spinal TB - he tried not to show it that he craved for mom’s attention - asked her for a piggy back ride and she broke down and cried

—- ideas of totoro and howls moving castle was considered by others as “outdated”

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EPISODE 3. "GO AHEAD —THREATEN ME."

Goro under the shadow of his father absent father during his youth son experienced him thoruh his films. big fan

2nd film: Upon Poppy Hill directed by Goro.

earthquake in East Japan - producer and team convened and decided to take a 3 day haitus - Hayao heard about this. got angry and overruled

Up on Poppy Hill finally debut - interviewer asked Hayao what he thought. "Tell ahead—threaten me." - son told the interviewer, "Yeah, don't die."

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DC note: How come the absence of any of Hayao's wife being mentioned?

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EPISODE 4

producer suzuki trying to jolt miyazaki; producer wasnt too impressed w Ponyo. - felt like "be there don't that." - give miyazaki an idea about making a film about the airplaner designer... planes used in world war one

disaster struck in North East Japan
"miyazaki "something shook inside of me."

Details of crowds in animation: - mus5 be detailed - animators generally avoid it - 4 sec clip of crowds post-earthquake took 1.5 yr to make

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