How the movie SHOULD have been made

[jferer]

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From: jferer
Subject: How the movie SHOULD have been made
Date: 8/20/00 10:17 pm  (ET)

If you accept the idea that there was bound to be a Harry Potter movie,
come hell or high water, then there is only one person to make it,
and he's an animator -- Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli.

Miyazaki is one of the world's greatest directors of any kind. He
his whole career has been one preparation for bringing Harry to the
screen. My case:

1. He has made an adventure set in beautifully rendered castles rich
with momets of suspense and fun [Castle of Cagliostro]

2. He has made a sensitive, perceptive movie about a thirteen year old
witch coming of age and learning about herself, with terrific scenes of
flying, which Miyazaki loves: [Kiki's Delivery Service].

3. He has made a movie about nature and love and natural magic, the most
decent movie ever made [My Neighbor Totoro]

4. He was producer with his partner Isao Takahata as director of the
most heartrending movie you have ever, ever seen (I seriously tell you
this movie may disturb you for a while) [The Grave of the Fireflies].

That's not all. He made Princess Mononoke, a rich, complex movie that
was the highest grossing movie made in Japan. (If you look, you will
see a homage to Princess Mononoke in Fantasia 2000)

Don't think it's odd for a Japanese to make Harry Potter. Cagliostro
and Kiki's are set in Europe.

I know this will never happen, but nobody else would have the sensitivity
and respect for the material Miyazaki would have. I recommend his work
very highly for its own sake. You can find out more about him in Helen
McCarthy's "Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation".

Alas, we will never know what might have been. What we're going to get
is from the folks that bring us "Home Alone" and Pokemon.