Miyazaki presentation successful!

I'd just like to thank everyone that helped me with the various suggestions on what scenes to use and what to talk about in my films presentation of why people whould watch Miyazaki movies. The whole thing went over great, I think I may have even gotten an A.


-Respect, to the fakku people-

Congratulations. Can you upload it and show us?

Congrats. Keep up the A work.

i agree, id rather like to see it. what kinda speech did you give?

I would love to show you guys, but it was more of a verbal thing, and as such I cant really give it to you. I can go over what I did, though.

Basically, because of severe technical difficulties, I couldn't show spirited away. So I went scrounging in my collection and pulled out howl's moving castle instead, because its the only other miyazaki film I own.

To start off, I just kinda gave a background on Miyazaki. His current age, when he was born, etc. Then I went into some examples of the movies he's made, (howl's moving castle, ponyo, nausicaa, princess mononoke) and digressed into how princess mononoke was his breakthrough film for america.

First thing I showed was the bus scene from totoro. I gave the basic scene setup on how it was the first time that the older sister encountered totoro, while waiting to give her father his umbrella. While it was playing I pointed out the attention to detail in his animation style and made note of the open shots that showcased a lot of trees and nature in general, and said that was a common theme in miyazaki movies. I ended the movie when totoro got on the catbus and left, because after catbus, there's really nothing to say.

Next I showed the scene in howl's moving castle where Howl has to rescue sophie from his old teacher in the capital city. I decided to go with that one because I believe it showed off a lot of the prominent aspects within most Miyazaki films. I.E. the surreal feel, actiony moments, and a tone of comedic character interaction to bring life into all of the story. The scene went over pretty well, I ended that when hols and sophie got seperated on the flying thing.

Lastly, and my personal favorite, I showed the scene in princess mononoke where Prince ashitaka gets in the middle of the fight between san and lady iboshi (i dont remember how to spell her name.) I pretty much just let the scene play, it kinda spoke for itself. Worked out well for me, everyone enjoyed it.

After I showed all three, I just kinda wrapped up in conclusion going over some more basic details about Miyazaki himself, and told everyone to go watch his movies because they are amazing.

I got applause, and thats that.

I felt extra good about my presentation afterwards though, because the person who went after me did Dreamworks and showed Shrek, Shark tales, and how to train your dragon.

I think I made the better choice...