He also threatened to kill Harvey Weinstein is any cuts were made to the western theatrical release of Princess Mononoke. Literally mailed the man a sword with a note that just said "no cuts".
Hayao Miyazaki began his career at Studio Toei, and quickly found himself involved in the union struggles occurring at the time, efforts which eventually saw he, Isao Takahata, and others virtually forced out of the studio. Rising to prominence in this milieu, Miyazaki spent his early life as a self-proclaimed Marxist, and the artistic priorities set by those politics survive even into his present work. In the 80s he declared that he wanted to, “always be aware of the dangers of being too wishy-washy, to be aware of the relationships between media creators and consumers, capital and labor.” Yet, within a decade, this belief in Marxism totally crumbled. With the fall of the USSR and the writing of Nausicaa, Miyazaki’s faith in historical materialism—which centers class struggle and the relations of economic production in its analysis—collapsed, and he declared that the kind of thinking where, “if things like the distribution of wealth and the means of production were properly taken care of, everything would get better”, was something he could no longer accept. Indeed, in 1994 he claimed that, “Leaving decisions up to the collective wisdom of the masses just results in collective foolishness”, as well as saying, outright, that “Marxism was a mistake,” and from here, the ecological tones already present in his work became even more central.
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I think he is more of a real proper anarchist. Maybe some Japanese nationalism in there. Not like the people we see on Twitter, instead with actually well thought out ideas.
Indiana Jones is so shit. I wrote a spec script once where he ends up in Cuba just after the revolution trying to fix something horrible that Columbus did and it was at least half an excuse to have a Marxist anthropologist dress him down and yell at him for being an imperialist shithead.
And yes, I'm mad bc I used to love the movies until I was educated enough and had the perspective to critically analyze what was happening. He's still cool for beating up Nazis.
I'm not great at critical analysis, but my takeaway from those movies was 'wait, don't those archaeological finds belong to the countries they're from?'
he also hates Indiana jones and LotR because of colonialism and also American jingoism
I didn't realize he had so many good takes.
there was a year where he didn't show up to the oscar because he said the war on terror is illegal
He also threatened to kill Harvey Weinstein is any cuts were made to the western theatrical release of Princess Mononoke. Literally mailed the man a sword with a note that just said "no cuts".
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The fall of the USSR really caused a lot of people to turn towards Liberalism.
:deeper-sadness: victims of the end of history
Even if he's a lib now, I still cannot help but have respect for him.
I think he is more of a real proper anarchist. Maybe some Japanese nationalism in there. Not like the people we see on Twitter, instead with actually well thought out ideas.
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Indiana Jones is so shit. I wrote a spec script once where he ends up in Cuba just after the revolution trying to fix something horrible that Columbus did and it was at least half an excuse to have a Marxist anthropologist dress him down and yell at him for being an imperialist shithead.
And yes, I'm mad bc I used to love the movies until I was educated enough and had the perspective to critically analyze what was happening. He's still cool for beating up Nazis.
I'm not great at critical analysis, but my takeaway from those movies was 'wait, don't those archaeological finds belong to the countries they're from?'