In October 2022, it is rumored that Hayao Miyazaki 's classic animated film " Sky City " will be re-screened in mainland China. At the same time, some netizens on
discovered that the official WeChat account of the film was also quietly opened, which aroused more reverie and expectations from the audience.
But as of now, the news about "City in the Sky" has disappeared again, and there is no real hammer for the re-screening rumors.
This animation is the first work after Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Takahata Isao independently created Studio Ghibli . The
film was released in Japan, Europe and the United States in 1986, and the data records that China was also released once in 1992.
The film's story and characters are based on Miyazaki's directorial debut " Future Boy Conan " (Future Boy Conan) during his tenure at Japanese animation.
and "Future Conan" is adapted from American science fiction writer Alexander Key's doomsday science fiction novel "The Incredible Tide" (The Incredible Tide).
means that the original work of "Future Boy Conan" is "The Incredible Tide", and "City in the Sky" is based on "Future Boy Conan", so this novel is the source of the story.
"Future Conan"
"Castle in the Sky" The source of the story "The Incredible Tide"
"The Incredible Tide" tells the apocalyptic story of a boy living on the only remaining island on Earth. In the book
, people and nature should live in harmony, sustainable development, and the criticism of human greed destroying nature, which later permeated many of Miyazaki's works.
, such as " Nausicaa " before "Castle in the Sky", as well as "Princess Mononoke", "Ponyo on the Cliff " and so on.
"City in the Sky" stitches a lot of elements on the basis of "The Incredible Tide" and "Future Boy Conan", and even one image has multiple sources of inspiration, like a hodgepodge of diverse Eastern and Western cultures.
For example, the floating city Laputa in the film comes from "Gulliver's Travels", and the appearance of this floating island and the cuneiform characters and murals on the tombstone are also derived from Babylonian civilization and Assyrian civilization, the garden on the island The building also references a colonial site in Australia.
The ground town where the boy Pazu lives is created by Hayao Miyazaki based on a Welsh mining town. He came back after visiting the UK and started to create "City in the Sky".
And the army's clothing and equipment in the film is also mixed, the colors are Japanese, the helmets are German, and the weapons are British.
It can be seen from this that the entire "City in the Sky" has a large amount of mixed information and rich imagination.
From the connotation point of view, "City in the Sky" is very typical in all Miyazaki's works. It and "Nausicaa" are early works that established Hayao Miyazaki's creative language.
The protagonists of teenagers and girls, the legendary paradise, the greed and desire of human beings, the thinking of development methods, as well as a large number of complex and delicate aircraft and mechanical devices.
These have become Miyazaki's unique creative language symbols.
In addition, the use of a large number of retro-futuristic styles such as steampunk, diesel punk , etc. in this film also greatly influenced other later animations, movies, and game works.
After the Second World War, there have been many contemporary art trends in the Western world. Of course, these trends have little influence on our country.
so that we see that Miyazaki's oriental stories that integrate Western expressions are even more mysterious.
If this movie was re-released, would you go to the cinema?
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