The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► Kiki's flagging on broomstick and she [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► has a cat now she's over a town which is [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► a place where people live she's [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► encountering problems with weather and a [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► there which is here come some sea gulls [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► watch out for the boot keep it a bit [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► uncomfortable number 194 my 24-team [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► welcome back to the uncomfortable [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► podcast I'm your host Jason Snelling [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► we're back to talk about another one of [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► the movies of hayao miyazaki the great [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► japanese animation writer director [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► producer everything we did a whole [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► episode about him that was just the only [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► two person episode ever of the cover was [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► just me and John talking about miyazaki [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► movies and then we did the whole episode [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► about my neighbor totoro with this very [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► panel and I wanted to get the band back [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► together because we had such a great [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► time to talk about my favorite miyazaki [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► movie [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► kiki's delivery service joining me to [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► talk about Kiki are John siracusa hi [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► John [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► I'm ready is I i have no doubt you're [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► ready we're not talking about Game of [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► Thrones you know that right away what we [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► know the scene where the cat murders [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► that guy is just wow it was surprising [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► gigi is coming that that's a steve lets [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► you heard there I Steve know it's so [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► good to be back in weird weird japan we [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► get is smitten [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► it's nice to be back here and and of [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► course are our fourth member of our [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► little of miyazaki movie club Marlon man [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► I hi guys how's it going good to have [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► you back [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► that's great to be here everybody watch [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► the movie has every seen the moving [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► going to watch the movie now seeing this [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► one couple three times [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► yeah yeah I watched it uh I watched it [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► today and i watched it with the Japanese [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► audio track on the subtitles for i think [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► only the second time although to be fair [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► it was the last two times I watched him [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► i watched it that way but i have it i [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► feel like i have the disney dub version [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► ingrained in my mind and that when we [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► talk about anime this is always the [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► issue is [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► no what's the real version and there [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► really isn't a real version unless you [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► speak Japanese because you're either [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► relying on the subtitles to tell you [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► things is what we had that moment where [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► my wife and I were watching it and [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► saying oh well that's different in the [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► in the in this version and we tried to [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► describe a certain level of authority to [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► the subtitles i'm not sure we can do [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► that either so you definitely cannot [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► because I don't know much Japanese but i [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► know enough Japanese to know when the [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► subtitles are incorrect very incorrect [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► often [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► yeah i was looking on i think i think [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► the wikipedia page even says like when I [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► was suspicious about the let's have some [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► hot chocolate and I was like that's [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► coffee that's because why is she putting [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► a lot of sugar in her hot chocolate is [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► the book that most coarse ground hot [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► chocolate I've ever seen in my life [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► it's actually oval teed is that the boys [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► in the town there's a disco right yeah [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► you don't catch that all this done [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► yeah well we can't have that would be [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► crazy and i have no idea what they [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► actually said but I even just minor [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► things where the subtitles always spell [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► things out where people are addressed by [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► name or title [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► okay dad I'll be right there and the [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► actual dialogue is ok I feel fortunate [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► in that apparently the there was quite a [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► bit of controversy over the original [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► disney dub of this although it [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► apparently was okayed by miyazaki and [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► dance studio ghibli is a good leader [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► jiggly jiggly [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► hey Benny you couldn't pronounce that [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► you can I just I just I was reading that [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► same thing today and it sounds like [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► before you fire off the Horn I guess [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► there was on there's 1i think pretty [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► important plot point that sounds like it [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► was completely different and yeah yeah [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► yeahs the cat a cat related blood point [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► captain yes exactly [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► that's a really important one that [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► changes the movie without what I had was [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► it turns out i guess the 2010 disney dub [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► where they actually yes scaled back some [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► of the bombass that they added in and [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► got rid of that particular messed up [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► plot point and it works a lot better now [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► i think and that's not the version i [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► have i've got the you know whatever the [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► previous DVD is what i have and this is [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► a movie also that has been released on [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► blu-ray in essentially every country in [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► the world except the United States so [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► far as i can tell [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► so that's really nice thanks a lot [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► disney disney yeah it kills me i will we [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► didn't do this for a while because I was [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► just waiting for that blu-ray to come [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► out and it's like no no sign of it don't [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► know what's going on [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► once you once you get the gospel from [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► siracusa and decided that it's time to [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► watch it in whatever version you watch [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► subtitled instead of dubbed it ain't [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► easy to do by conventional means in the [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► u.s. almost say about that yeah well you [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► can buy me the DVD you can't buy the [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► disney DVD and watching japanese with [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► english subtitles and Howard Howard the [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► subtitles they get well and get your own [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► ego to like open subtitles what's your [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► go-to for that job [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► yeah fansubs usually are almost always [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► better than the official subtitles [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► because you can choose when you're [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► picking your fansubs you can pick the [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► pedantic fansubs who were going to do [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► literal translations and then it's gonna [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► read kind of like I mean it doesn't make [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► sense to pass the time but you could be [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► talking like that car [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► this is exactly the literal translation [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► of what they're saying you have to [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► figure out exactly like it would be like [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► a translation of some French think it [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► would be like a lightning delivery mail [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► and be like I think they mean email you [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► know think that's you have to figure [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► that way or you can do the fan subs are [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► trying to catch the spirit of adore you [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► mean you can just pick your fansub crew [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► who you think does a good job I and get [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► the experience you want out of it but it [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► sounds like the subs on the disney [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► version are based on the script for the [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► the original dub that was only available [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► on a laserdisc and on like Japanese [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► airplane and so it's not based on the [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► actual like it its it's got like oh the [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► humanity which is not you notice that [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► was in the subs of mine and I think it's [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► yeah it's not in the dub it was enraged [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► out of a job that I saw although i guess [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► it was in the original one [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► let's see the thing with all these [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► movies is like movies that are are aimed [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► at children are good for children if you [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► have children you will find yourself [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► inevitably watching the doubles because [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► little children can't read yeah and even [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► though i've had my children watch many [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► subtitled movies where I pipe literally [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► sat on the couch and read them the [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► subtitles and just have them watch it [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► that way [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► most of the time to watch in English and [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► so at this point I've seen this movie [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► dubbed more times than I've seen it [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► subtitled by far because my kids used to [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► watch it over and over and over and over [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► again and i have to say as far as [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► dubs go this is a pretty good dub all [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► things considered I mean it's very [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► different from the original version and [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► in the beginning I resented it because [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► of that but like totoro there is a [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► certain charm to the dub to this movie [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► Matthew Lawrence notwithstanding I like [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► the fact that the second that this 2010 [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► DVD doesn't you know doesn't use the [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► disney disney pop songs that were [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► inserted at the beginning and the end [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► and goes back to the Japanese songs and [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► right because that kind of rubbed me the [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► wrong way there are a lot of there are a [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► lot of differences in this movie between [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► the the English dub and and just reading [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► with the subtitles i think the cat is [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► actually the biggest one right because [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► GG right is this high-pitched you know I [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► have a cat kind of voice and it's phil [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► hartman in English up and Gigi says so [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► much less to yeah he says a lot and he's [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► a wisecracker an animal sidekick and me [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► that's kind of a big deal really because [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► I mean isn't he effectively supposed to [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► be sort of the representation of kikis [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► childhood there are sort of immature [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► thoughts on court according to that fact [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► that we are apparently read on the [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► internet yes but I'm I don't entirely [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► like that that maybe have been our [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► intention when a tournament to phil [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► hartman like it it's totally different [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► and you can you can reject it and say [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► well that's not how this movie is [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► supposed to be but I still feel like [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► phil hartman works as phil hartman in [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► the context of the dub it works but it [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► is real different I mean we're watching [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► it in in the subtitled version uses a [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► lot less it has a much more feminine [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► voice I mean I guess I'm i don't i'm [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► guessing GG still of a gendered boy I [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► don't know [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► well I is he has children later Lily it [TS]

00:08:13 ◼   ► seems pretty clearly to be a girl [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► well be normative the money shot circuit [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► city is not feeling adoption service is [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► also part of her it was the fifties and [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► world war two hadn't happened was a [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► complicated time [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► but-but-but-but another sigh I don't [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► want you know go crazy here but there's [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► a lot that hinges on like what you [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► think's going on with that cat and she [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► told anybody says a lot less and GT [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► really reads less as a wiseacre than [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► english version and much more is like [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► kind of [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► overabundance of caution not a pessimist [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► exactly but almost like the kind of [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► nagging like what super-ego I guess you [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► know that's kind of like telling her you [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► will be careful what you're doing here [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► but he goes with the flow much more in [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► the original Phil Hartman does fill the [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► role of you know [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► c-3po oh my goodness should be going to [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► the asteroid field blah blah right but [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► there's almost no way that you can [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► construe him as sort of a part of her [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► subconscious and in that feeling away [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► anyways she does not have that sort of [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► wisecracker e-science and that's what [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► that's what he's offering seems to be in [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► a different movie because her reaction [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► him is not the appropriate reaction that [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► you would be you would expect to have 44 [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► you know for his character and in the [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► dubbed version you know he's great [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► though I i gotta say i absolutely love [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► his character in this even though he's [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► basically a feline Paul Lynde in fact I [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► didn't even recognize the magical [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► apartment [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► originally I was trying to place the [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► voices like a screw it i'm gonna go with [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► Poland and that worked out fine for me [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► because he gets all the best lines i [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► think this is his last voiceover [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► performance that he did I mean the last [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► performance it was was those last [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► episode of newsradio but i think this [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► was his last voiceover and you know yeah [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► there are moments where you can tell [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► like like there's the scene where at the [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► very beginning where keys mom wants her [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► to use use her broom once once Kiki use [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► her old broom and not this new broom the [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► key is made and kikis like it's old its [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► stupid you know it's very teenager kind [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► of thing to say and in the original the [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► least what the sub says is she turns to [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► G&G is like yeah you should use your [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► mom's room and in the enemy in the dub [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► it's like I don't know i think your [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► broom is kind of crappy you should you [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► you know let's take let's take the old [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► one right it's just your broom is nice [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► use your moms so intent yeah yeah yeah [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► so it's a different it's just very [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► different where he's he's acting as a [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► character whereas in the original it [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► does read sort of like this is the you [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► know I know you're rebelling but you [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► should just take it from your mother go [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► ahead it's just different very different [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► we could probably talk in large broad [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► strokes about the story the story's [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► pretty terrible without ruining the [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► whole thing anything [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► yeah let's let's little not much as [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► usual after two not [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► much not much happened that's what I [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► said on our first miyazaki podcast I [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► said that this is one of those movies [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► where there is no real antagonist it's [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► just sort of things happen and as I said [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► at the time sort of like the weather the [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► weather is an antagonist here and [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► circumstance only very briefly I mean at [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► any any given thing that would probably [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► be like a horrible you know a time for [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► something awful to happen in a regular [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► disney movie or some other animated film [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► is more or less resolved in a couple of [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► seconds like his propeller takes off and [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► you're expecting like something horrible [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► to happen and you know next scene it [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► cuts to the next scene is just sitting [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► there with a propeller it's always [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► realistic in a way that we said this in [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► total episode that in the way the total [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► was realistic not so much and that is [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► magical flying things or that they're [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► witches or anything like that but the [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► characters behavior a little evil ways [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► and the things that happened or sort of [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► the mundane things that happen in life [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► sometimes your mother gets sick [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► sometimes people travel from place to [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► place and pick vegetables and move into [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► an old house sometimes you move to a new [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► town you meet people you make friends [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► you get your feelings hurt like but [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► nothing it with the exception of the [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► very end of the movie nothing out of the [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► ordinary that might not happen in real [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► life happens in this movie and you're [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► always expecting it to be like well this [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► has to be heightened drama or [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► exaggerated action or surely something [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► terrible or amazing or fantastic is [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► going to happen and again until the very [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► end which is still vaguely plausible [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► kind of disaster type scenario it is [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► very sort of run-of-the-mill and that I [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► think is what draws me so much to this [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► movie is that it feels it feels more [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► like real life in a relaxed sort of way [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► that lets you connect with the things [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► that are happening you're just saying [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► all these things could have or have [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► happened to me with again with the [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► possible exception of the end even [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► though I'm not a witch or whatever i'm [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► just not accustomed to these these [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► gentle movements minutes every time I [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► see something like we see key lighting [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► the fire from the point of view inside [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► the oven and the grandmother is looking [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► on behind her sort of benevolently and I [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► I keep finding myself thinking look at [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► she's gonna push you in [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► yeah that all of you are so they can [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► burn the wig not not that kind of movie [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► I know but it's it's that kind of stuff [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► has been so ingrained for all the [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► animated features i watched my entire [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► life like something terrible is going to [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► happen to parents gonna die [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► you know she's gonna lean too far off [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► over the side of the bike and shred her [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► ear off on the road to heaven watching [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► watching these movies with my kids when [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► they were little and we we all watched [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► it as a family today with the subtitles [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► on which is fun because again they're [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► all they all can do it now but watching [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► when they were little you know my both [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► of my kids my son especially but both of [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► them when they were like really scary [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► moments are there were really bad people [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► they would hide or they wouldn't like it [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► and one of the great things about these [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► miyazaki movies and especially about [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► Kiki is there's nothing like that in [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► here it's a great it's a really great [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► fun movie but there that that is not [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► there isn't a villain who is doing [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► villainous things it's just it's it's [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► very different and it ended you know the [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► whole movie feels different because of [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► it she has no enemy that she's bad right [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► at any point right yeah i don't know i [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► don't have enough to if it's an anime [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► thing but it definitely is like miyazaki [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► thing that they're very spacious about [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► making this story I mean one other way [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► that it's like totoro to me at least in [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► my own head is that you know childhood [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► growing up really your whole life but [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► especially up through your teen years [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► you're just constantly confronted with [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► things that just kind of makes sense and [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► you know and whether there's all kinds [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► of stuff especially intro we're like we [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► said before like did that really happen [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► or not know maybe it doesn't matter in [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► some ways in the movie it's just that [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► for a kid [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► there's so much mystery to stuff that [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► happens there's so many things that you [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► can't understand you try to base on a [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► previous experience and that [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► spaciousness of not having somebody [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► tried to poison you with an apple or not [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► trying to throw you into an oven [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► there's a lot of space for this to be [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► about the kind of personal terminally he [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► says as much i need i read one of the [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► things an introduction to the maybe the [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► manga of this where he said you know [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► that this is it's it's not difficult to [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► go out and be on your own and make money [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► it's difficult to have like [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► self-realization until I grow up that's [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► the hard part and I think that's that [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► spaciousness really works in these [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► movies once you once you get past [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► expecting an anvil to fall on somebody [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► you know things like in the pacing of [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► this movie and most of his movies like [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► most anime it has a focus on kind of [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► sensory experiences as several many many [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► scenes in movies involved but even if [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► you just look at the pacing of like he [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► just showed three shots and that didn't [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► include the main character that had no [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► I'll our music going over them just as [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► sort of a way to transition you from one [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► day they weren't establishing shots or [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► whatever it's like so many scenes in [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► this movie if you tear it apart you're [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► like wait a second that like someone had [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► to sit there and draw that scene that [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► scene in that scene and between this 60 [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► seconds there's no dialogue and like not [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► like why is that even in the movies like [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► we got to make it fast you gotta cut you [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► have tighter it's got to be action [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► action we got a dialogue scene right you [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► know and this movie is not like that and [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► and i think the lingering on those [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► things it's not it's not like a Malik [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► film like he's not lingering on you like [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► a tree growing out from an acorn [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► something like it's not it's not that [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► level but it is very much influences the [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► pace and experience of watching this [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► movie maybe not for kids maybe only for [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► adults but i watch it and you know if I [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► haven't seen a movie in a long time i'm [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► just always amazed that sort of how it [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► how just unwind and just sort of rolls [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► out in front of you and it had its own [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► pace sort of at the pace of life instead [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► about the pace of like narrative there's [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► a particular scene in that in that vein [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► that really stood out for me which is [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► when there's very deliberate long seen [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► if Kiki at the bakery counter just [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► staring out the window sort of your [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► flight and reflections of people walking [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► by and see if it's there it's its total [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► silence and she's watching you know that [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► the boy on the bike pulls up and the [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► girl gets on the bike and drives on and [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► it's just it but that's it that's their [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► version of an action scene like we're [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► getting married of things like because [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► now it's like what happens [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► she's bored she's inside she has to work [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► the girl that the boy comes up in the [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► scooter the girl who's better dressed [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► than she is gets on the bike gets on the [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► bike sidesaddle and they go off together [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► and she remains inside like that and yes [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► there are many scenes in here that have [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► no dollar but that's like an action [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► scene is like oh we are developing the [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► character we're showing we are showing [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► how she feels [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► by showing what she sees even though she [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► has a slight expression the entire time [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► sort of like bringing bringing you into [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► the inner life of this girl without [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► giving you a voiceover even as an action [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► scene though I mean it's just so many [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► frames where there's just nothing [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► happening nothing's moving thats quiet [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► there's silence and you would never see [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► that many frames go by without something [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► happening in a an american animated film [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► and I love that about it i think it's [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► great i wrote that particular bit down [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► because it just struck me you know this [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► is so so different from what I'm used to [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► you know growing up watching handlebar [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► Berra cartoons & you think of the [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► running joke about how you keep running [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► past the same window over and over and [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► there's so much like unnecessary [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► I mean a positive way unnecessary luxury [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► to the pacing of the scenes but also the [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► incredible amount of detail and the [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► glistening water and stuff but I mean [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► how many cartoons have you watched where [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► it's just people eating for a few [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► seconds or like Kiki waking up and you [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► hear you when she wakes up in a room and [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► she hears i just noticed this time [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► watching it like I think it's that she [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► had like a boat going by and she rolls [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► over and look at the sheet uncovers GG [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► and she kind of stirs a little bit and [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► then crawls back under the sheet [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► it's just a delightful little little [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► tone not necessary to anything about [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► pushing the plot forward but you know in [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► the same way it's like you're saying [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► Steve the earlier Steve I think it's [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► hard for somebody like me to readjust [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► when you're expecting that ridiculous [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► amount of pacing but you know the the [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► scenery and the background and the [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► activity and that most mundane to you i [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► guess you could say is is really as I [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► want a character in the movie it's so [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► important that this not be pasted that [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► way and then when it does happen you get [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► to that amazing you know third act and [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► suddenly it's like an explosion of [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► activity it's like the end of totoro [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► you're like wow this is like a whole [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► different movie now there's stuff [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► happening really underscores that even [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► even in the middle of a the actual [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► action scenes they have for example when [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► they decide to do action even if it's [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► just like oh she's leaving home and [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► she's going along and she's like you [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► know floating on her broom and then it [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► starts to rain and that tiny sequence of [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► it starts to rain zoom along the top of [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► the thing going it's a couple seconds [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► long or whatever but they do a good job [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► again with going down the hill on the [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► bike leaning into the turns that is a [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► very well done exciting action scene [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► it's like boy where it's as if the [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► camera is like still and lingering in [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► common with the action scenes come the [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► camera knows exactly what to do to make [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► the action scenes exciting in short [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► bursts building up to the big finale on [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► but even in the middle like when they [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► when they need to do that they do it [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► very very well and you know and go back [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► to real life and it its it's like her [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► life where it's mostly just the mundane [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► part of living your life punctuated by [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► these significant events it's great that [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► they can they can do something that sort [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► of action-packed without necessarily [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► having a whole bunch of craziness going [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► on [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► like during that sequence where she [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► leaves home that you're talking about i [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► just made a note this flying sequence [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► actually feels dangerous and it really [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► does because they do such a good job of [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► making her seem like she's unsure on her [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► broom and she's clearly unbelievably [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► high up in the air and it just you watch [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► that and there's not that much going on [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► relatively on screen but yet you know i [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► was getting vertigo watching the thing I [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► liked to seen the the in terms of a [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► hanna-barbera style animation the thing [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► that i noticed i mean when she goes and [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► visits her friend painter in the [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► countryside I had that moment its like a [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► this is Miyazaki's like finally the [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► countryside I could do my all my totoro [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► stuff like a big trees and water [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► glistening and and you know that's nice [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► and and you know field stretching out to [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► heels in the background but early on [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► there's the scene where she's the first [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► person she encounters when she's on her [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► broom is this other witch who's who's [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► bitchy right she's like a nice night [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► isn't it well it was this terrible but [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► uh there's kiki is learning to fly and [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► at one point the the witch asked her to [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► turn off a radio and she reaches Davis [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► exact noted she reaches down to turn off [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► the radio and the broom Bob's down and [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► she has to compensate and get it back to [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► come back up because just the act of [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► leaning forward like that it's like [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► taking your hands off the steering wheel [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► it you know she's not an expert at [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► keeping level and then she bobs back up [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► and it's a little moment but it you know [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► that that's a lot of animation work to [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► do that and yet it feels so much more [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► real because then you realize she is [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► struggling to keep it together and you [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► know it's not easy for her but you know [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► again if you're coming quarters and as [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► an animator you would never show [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► something like that because it gives you [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► hints about the physics of flying broom [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► and you know and it's not in a straight [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► line and and yet we see it in in this [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► movie and and i love that i absolutely [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► love that that's the luxury of miyazaki [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► movies is that you know like so that [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► first of the miyazaki movies on is the [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► traditional ones they have beautifully [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► painted background which are more or [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► less static they may pan across them or [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► like zoom in on me [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► whatever right and those are beautiful [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► like paintings in and of themselves and [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► you have the character animation / and [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► you know no matter how minor the scene [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► in a feature-length miyazaki movie [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► that's no matter what the scene is some [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► person put their entire life and being [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► into that scene so I'm not the note that [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► i have in this is the but you have to [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► which is flying alongside each other and [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► then in a lesser movie any lesser [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► animated movie the two people will be [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► flying alongside each other and talking [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► and they would never be that Bob and [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► then if you watch it with the daily note [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► that has it she bobs when she adjusts [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► the radio when she comes back up she [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► really just her dress because she wants [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► to regain her composure so that you can [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► continue having a conversation and some [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► guy had to animate those you know 200 [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► frames of animation or whatever it is [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► and like eat he or she poured their [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► heart and soul into that animation and [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► thought about I mean occupy key frame to [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► do whatever and that like there are no [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► like oh and this is just a scene where [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► this dialogue so don't worry about it or [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► this isn't a big same route are going [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► better or in this scene bridge in this [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► scene we're just worried about the [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► background so don't worry about like [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► every single moment you know and that's [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► the luxury of these movies like you know [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► they just poured every ounce of time and [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► money and effort into it it's like the [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► you know this able to get apple hardware [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► whatever someone sweats over every [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► little detail in a future like miyazaki [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► someone supposed to every little detail [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► kids are not going to notice this but it [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► allows adults to rewatch these things [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► again and again and pick out new things [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► every time I saw that cumulative effect [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► what you're describing and you know it [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► when you're saying that i'm thinking [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► like in any other movie the two broom [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► sticks with literally be parallel and [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► equidistant the entire time the two [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► characters are talking and you know it [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► now I'm thinking about that more now and [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► I'm realizing like from through the [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► entire movie there's one thing that's [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► always sustained that adds to her [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► character something you don't see a lot [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► which is that she really has to [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► concentrate to fly you know usually [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► which hop and she's going on a chopper [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► and taking off and in this case where [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► you can really tell that it's taken [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► especially at the end when she's [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► actually like my favorite scene in the [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► movie where she's sweating because [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► you're spiring to try and be able to fly [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► which is going to mojo back [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► but that whole sense all the way through [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► that you know what a weird balance it is [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► though that we could see this 13 year [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► old girl who has trouble flying or never [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► liked that worried that she's gonna like [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► you know flying door [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► heller blade or something there's not [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► that constant sense of danger I'm kind [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► of worried when when she in the credits [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► when she's right in front of pacing [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► tambo and his little bicycle airplane i [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► have a little worried about hurting [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► people that someone actually yes [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► somebody's very enthusiastic kind of [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► just like just don't take your eyes off [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► the ball here to here you get chopped up [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► is a very enthusiastic young man that's [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► what I worry about it but not until that [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► point I think my biggest moment of [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► concern is in that end sequence where [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► she's getting along maybe a foot above [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► the ground [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► oh yeah that there's sort of a star wars [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► trench sequence that goes on really [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► really just like she's on a skateboard [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► at that moment right she's like she [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► doesn't land on the ground but she's [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► she's flying inches off the ground and [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► the camera is low downright the [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► perspective there is work where we're [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► low at ground level and we're watching [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► her just kind of skitter across the the [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► the street to get to that to the airship [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► she's got that stance of like those [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► knobs that drive there [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► suzuki motorcycles down the freeway with [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► their bare feet up on the back of the [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► tail [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► also she's um I early on talking about [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► how she flies in the way it works when [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► she first takes off she you know she [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► kind of goes sideways and she hits a [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► tree and then she hits another tree and [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► and in the ne in the subtitle version [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► you see the she you see you go over one [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► tree right and and uh and then another [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► tree shake so there's an implied [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► collision and then the father says oh [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► she's you know now she's over the lake [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► she'll be fine but you don't see you [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► don't you don't see her take off into [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► the horizon flying straight like any [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► other movie would write like she's [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► writing herself now and she's figured [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► out how to fly [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► no she was nowhere in sight she's not [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► going straight she's going sideways she [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► doesn't have it together and then and [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► it's funny because then you see your go [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► past the one tree and you're like well [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► now what and the other tree shakes and [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► you're like no she's got again but in [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► its much played much broad much more [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► broadly in the Disney dub version where [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► the whole way you can actually hear i [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► think GG and there's a little bit of [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► Kiki kind of like you know not that dro [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► there we go again right there's there's [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► many ways but more dialogue in the [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► american version because the Japanese [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► versions of all these films they trust [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► the audience understand what's going on [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► about having characters you know what [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► having characters just you know spell [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► out what's going on or have the [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► reassuring line of dialogue to make sure [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► you know what's happening or that you [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► know what here comes with it [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► that's that seems to be the way they [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► take anime and bring it to America like [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► well obviously we need our characters to [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► talk more soon as characters aren't on [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► the screen and they can add lines to [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► them because the mouth what you want to [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► see the mouth moving like they're [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► off-screen it's like yeah start putting [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► a dialogue so the kids can follow along [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► and that the Japanese movies just trust [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► kids and adults and everyone to be able [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► to understand what's going without [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► saying anything and took to their credit [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► like they have like long sequences in [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► this movie where for example she [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► delivers the herring pine the rain and [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► it's wet and tombos waiting for her and [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► she comes back home and she has a couple [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► words with a sauna going up the stairs [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► but there's a long sequence where she [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► just kind of like silently returning and [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► walked into her room and then walks up [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► to her bed and then does the big flop on [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► the bed because again totally realistic [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► and that whole long sequence doesn't [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► have any words or even facial [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► expressions let you know what she's [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► thinking but they trusted like you will [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► understand her situation you know what [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► she's thinking when she flops headfirst [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► onto the bed it is not a shock because [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► that's exactly what we all expected to [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► do at that point because we are with her [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► emotionally through the entire sequence [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► and it's not because there was a [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► voiceover or there was yelling or [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► screaming back and forth or anything [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► like that [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► also i have a twelve-year-old daughter [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► and I've seen that happen in my house [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► narrow in fact my daughter was like oh I [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► do that Maggie [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► yup yup you do I honestly I think the [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► Japanese version is funnier when she [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► takes off and hits the trees [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► I think it's funny that it's absolutely [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► silent and everybody's tensely watching [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► if she's gonna be able to do this and [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► she has this chino she's got an audience [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► which is I mean talk about the worst [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► thing in the world it's nice that [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► everybody comes and says goodbye to her [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► but then they have to watch it she tries [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► to fly and then and then after all of [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► that and sheets the tree but she writes [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► herself and it's kinda like okay it's [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► gonna be okay and she goes over the [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► other trainer like all right she's on [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► her way and then the other tree shakes [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► and it's like oh no and it's subtle but [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► it's really really funny and it's more [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► sticky and me in the dubbed version i [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► mean i don't wanna make this all about [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► subs and dubs but i think it's funny [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► that it's a different kind of humor and [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► I i liked it in the good news is i think [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► they scale that back that broad comedy a [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► little bit in the 2010 version because i [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► don't recall there being a whole lot of [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► chatter [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► on during a sequence but just hitting [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► the trees and then the bells ringing [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► that's not hear the bells ringing she [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► hits that last tree but i don't remember [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► hearing GG say anything at all [TS]

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00:31:00 ◼   ► though the whole way that you're going [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► to get the audience to identify with [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► this character is it can't look easy [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► it's actually has to be vulnerable and [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► she has to not do well in many things so [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► like she's setting off on an adventure [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► and if you want the audience to feel [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► like this is an adventure because it's [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► not like going to save the kingdom or [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► you know anything like that she's just [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► going to first of all she's leaving home [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► with 13 you have to make that feel more [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► fraught that does like oh they used to [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► do this because seems crazy you leave [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► the moment 13 but she's a witch named [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► the special thing and she's like she's [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► on her broom on her own [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► destination unknown that has to feel [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► like an adventure and from the very [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► beginning it feels like an adventure [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► because just getting off the ground is [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► an adventure just leaving town [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► successfully adventure and then it and [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► rain is rain adventure rains an [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► adventure like what do you do when it [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► rains you don't have any place to go you [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► going to turn around and go back home [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► and you know go like your father [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► whispering here you can always come back [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► home if you want to you know like it you [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► have to identify with her vulnerability [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► right off the bat and so it does feel [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► like an adventure to if you were just to [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► write down the events what happens [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► that's not much of an adventure but it [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► really feels like it you know sleeping [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► with the cows waking up in a new place [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► on the train coming into the town across [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► the water with the gulls like that's not [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► much happening but you feel it through [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► her because you immediately identify [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► with her as in overhead yeah when she [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► gets to the city and and this is my ah [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► before i brag about it to talk about [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► setting here because this is this is a [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► fascinating thing and that this is a [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► movie when you watch totoro you're [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► watching a movie about Japanese people [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► in Japan when you watch kiki's delivery [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► service [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► you're watching japanese movie in [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► Japanese or originally at least maybe [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► dubbed in english about characters who [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► are in an undefined northern european [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► country where a lot of the writing is in [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► English or in a fake Germanic kind of [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► language in fact there's there's even [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► some english language [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► stuff happening in the background of the [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► japanese version to imply that this is [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► Europe or something Europe ish and the [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► look of it is according to wikipedia you [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► know it was a mostly based on stuff in [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► Sweden I've actually been the city looks [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► like Stockholm a lot of the stuff in the [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► countryside looks like this B which is [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► um on this in Scotland which is an [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► island in the baltic sea I've been to [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► both of those places there there's a [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► there's a scene where she's walking down [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► the street at one point that I i pointed [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► out of myself i have been on that street [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► like I can tell what the references are [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► but it's also fascinating because it's [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► like it there's some some cognitive [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► dissonance there it's like a weight i'm [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► used to seeing these japanese animated [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► movies about Japan and that's not what [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► this is this is this is I can't even [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► know that what's the name of the of the [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► bakery it's like this for you do keep on [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► just more good sport gooder right it [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► would yeah right [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► it's it's not it's not Japanese all the [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► writing is not it's sort of fascinating [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► how you you got to think about like how [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► this was was playing for a Japanese [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► audience that you know that's all of the [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► non-japanese writing and sending a [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► signal that this is happening in in [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► Europe so I thought that was I thought [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► that was really interesting to it makes [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► this feel very different in that way [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► from and it's storybook here up kind of [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► thanks to rebook mid century Europe but [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► it's definitely not like totoro where [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► you know you're in Japan and this is [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► about the Japanese countryside all [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► settings are realistic in that integral [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► like it's a house in the country and you [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► have right and rice fields and that's [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► what it looks like it here even though [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► this is an amalgam kind of its like a [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► composite character of Health European [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► cities but it is a real living City that [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► isn't that is not the enemy nor is it [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► your friend it's just a city where [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► people work where people do the things [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► in there are people who were Kurt to you [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► and there's there are you know strangers [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► on the street and their people who are [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► nice to you and their friends and their [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► classes and there's like it is it like [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► it is an entire working city and after [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► watching this movie so many times like I [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► can't imagine any adult who wouldn't [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► want to live in that city because it is [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► ideal lot it is idealized to integrate [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► they have everything they have the [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► beautiful scenery that nice people they [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► have good bakeries you can live in the [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► woods and drink resetar birds [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► yeah right which is why would you [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► deliver stuff yeah yeah I'm not not not [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► that well that's and a part of Stockholm [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► but it's [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► modeled after is the old town in the [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► centre-right is there's the whole city [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► and then there's the part where the [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► tourists like me go and and say wow this [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► is so quaint and beautiful and that's [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► what this movie is showing right it's [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► the beautiful village ii old European [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► streets and things like that and then [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► and then beautiful countryside when we [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► get out to where the painter is going to [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► paint Kiki but definitely not naked in [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► the village definitely is it has it [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► vaguely Germanic feel although tombos [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► clothes are more flaming League a [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► Frenchman I think interesting well i [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► think you're going for Sweden or Denmark [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► but yeah sure it's yours is that is that [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► a Swedish look I don't know Europe [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► well I found at one point one of the [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► flags is like a yellow it's one of those [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► would cross is like you see in the [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► Scandinavian countries but it's like [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► yellow one purple and I'm like all going [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► up cot flags flags we don't recognize it [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► crazy flag is that well when I'm when I [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► would have been in Scandinavia it's like [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► okay is this the yellow one the blue or [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► is this the yellow on the red or is this [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► the white on the blue I don't know [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► because they're like I'm color blind to [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► see if the guys don't make everything in [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► X or even come on don't do that but but [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► purple yellow and purple like I'm [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► confident is not an actual country [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► that's the made-up country that Kiki [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► lives in apparently but so anyway when [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► they get to the once you get to the town [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► she causes a traffic jam and almost an [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► accident and and i noticed for the very [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► first time that a bus zooms by her that [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► is with the label simply to do is really [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► on it that made me laugh and then and [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► then and tombo basically gets her out of [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► trouble with the police by saying help [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► beef somebody stole my something and and [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► she runs the other way which I i like [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► that moment of you know she is here she [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► is a little desperate right i mean she [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► is trying to make it and and you get [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► that sense like when it later on when [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► it's evening you know she needs to find [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► a way she could tries to go to the hotel [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► and they're like you know what are you [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► talking about you don't have any [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► identification you're just a kid sitting [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► silently with the uneaten sandwich [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► yes well done until until the cat eats [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► as the Sun as the sun goes down you [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► don't need her to talk to the cat back [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► and forth for an entire scene of [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► dialogue oh what are we going to do you [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► I don't know [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► just a bum about you don't need to do [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► that you just need to have her sit there [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► with your arms at your side with food in [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► front of her not eating it and have the [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► Sun going down and then just maybe have [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► the cats a Kiki that's all you need you [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► don't need to spell out what's going on [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► so all that desperation and the feeling [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► when she when she has that moment where [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► the cop is so you stay right here and [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► she's like I'm gonna go this way it's [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► that it's like she's yes he should [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► probably stay right but she's like it's [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► going to be complicated it's gonna ruin [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► her chance and it's again it's it's not [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► a really nasty kind of she's desperate [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► and needs to find a way to survive but [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► that's what's happening here is she's [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► disobeying the police to do think she's [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► worried about most with the cop is that [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► he's going to tell her parents [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► yeah yeah yeah she wants to get on with [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► her life she wants with this new life [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► that she's dedicated herself to doing [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► yeah and also not have her parents find [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► out that she started a wreck also john [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► you talk about that the the beautiful [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► moments a little tiny details that some [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► animator somewhere spent the there's a [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► moment where tambo is in in that scene [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► where he reveals that he cleverly made a [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► diversion [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► he is looking at her and riding his bike [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► and almost runs into a garbage can [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► yeah and has to adjust and go around the [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► garbage can it's just like you don't [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► it's amazing detail that's like that is [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► detail of from a live-action world but [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► they animated the whole thing and you [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► can feel you again you can feel the [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► physics of it you can see that he has to [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► swerve many as to get back his bike back [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► to straight and the b-bumps the garbage [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► can and it and she wants the garbage can [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► but he doesn't like he doesn't like [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► Harpo Marx it into the garbage can know [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► that he's trying to is trying to keep [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► his composure you know I know it sounds [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► silly but it's like I'm still burning [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► off you know 40 years of of watching [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► american cartoons and you know I get a [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► little while and it's funny and it's [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► real and then the movie goes on and [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► tombos interest in her this is this is [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► the you know I more cliche is that we [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► this movie avoids that armors Atomos [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► interest in her is because she is flying [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► it's not while look at this gorgeous new [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► girl that's flown into tent like it [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► the in every other movie that the [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► females only worth is how is how nice [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► she looks and so that the first if you [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► if there's some sort of something that [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► happens at first sight it's like wow [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► look at her like it even something like [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► you know how to train your dragon where [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► what's your name comes walking slow [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► motion with explosion behind [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► I'd like the whole point is she's [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► beautiful and beautiful is is the way [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► women are valuable and therefore and I [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► mean that's fine for what it is but like [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► the in this movie [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► tambo is interested in her because she [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► can fly literally fly and he is obsessed [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► with flying and yes he's obviously you [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► know it [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► interested in our and kind of a [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► boyfriend-girlfriend kind of way as well [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► but that is not the plot of this movie [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► that's not how this movie's gonna be [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► resolved it's not important to this [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► movie and he has a legitimate interest [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► in her that is based on something that [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► she can do that he can't he's just so [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► flying around for pete's sake [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► yeah well there's gonna be a huge party [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► at the Flying Club the aviation club [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► yeah and I've tried at the first couple [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► times the movie I was lumping tambo in [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► with the rich kids but now if you want [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► to look closely like he is he's well off [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► but he's not like the giant house on the [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► cliff overlooking to see well off like [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► his he lives in the sort of middle-class [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► part of town and any place overlooking [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► to us buyers to they all live on the [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► cliff of what I'm talking like the one [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► where they bring the little toy cat [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► where that was like actually i own this [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► entire Peninsula ok for the fashion [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► designer woman who is like the fashion [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► designer woman is not his mother right [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► his mother just a regular person he's [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► got a propeller on his bike his friends [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► cars could piss like is probably the [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► rolls-royce but a beat-up rolls-royce [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► like you know that his friends going so [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► yeah there's this definitely class [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► structure going on here at this point of [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► the movie I i really like that they [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► don't make a big deal about the fact [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► that she's which I mean it's just [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► witches exist in this world and people [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► know about it seems like their influence [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► may be fading you know at least in the [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► big cities but you know the time frame [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► is modern it's like my grandmother told [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► me right at least they have like [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► electric ovens you know so it's not it's [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► not easy but we're not going wrong in [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► the past when which is in talking cat [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► still roamed the land sort of territory [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► key now there's airplanes and electric [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► ovens but they're also old ladies who [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► are suspicious of the electric ovens but [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► that's a good part in the beginning of [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► this movie like when this movie starts [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► you you know from the posters or [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► whatever that's gonna involve the witch [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► riding on a broomstick but if you like [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► my kids into the posters if you just [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► bring a little kid into this clean and [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► you see the mom making potions and stuff [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► like that [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► the movie has to eventually established [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► like the rules of the universe [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► and right up to the point where Kiki you [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► know straddle the broom to leave her [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► house and her hair starts ripping like [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► that you're not sure what's up you're [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► like well as witches and I guess they [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► have dresses it seems like a normal [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► family and they were gonna go camping [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► and yes the moms potions or it's not a [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► big deal but then it's like nope you can [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► actually fly and it's magic is dramatic [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► and it's beautifully animated and you [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► know that is an exciting moment I think [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► in the film for a little kid because [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► they don't know what the rule if you [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► don't show them the poster ahead of time [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► with you shouldn't they don't know what [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► the rules this world are up front and [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► the animation when she takes off is is [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► beautiful and and wonderful and not at [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► all mundane like the act of flight is [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► acknowledged for what it is like this is [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► amazing and everyone who sees you do it [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► to like she just flew did you see I mean [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► it's not like they shouldn't be not [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► falling over like they would be [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► realistically speaking but it is it is [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► given credit as as a important [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► impressive thing through the how long [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► they spend on it and how well it's [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► animated the I was I I'm gonna mention [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► the bakery now and I was trying to prep [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► by its duty upon yeah but it's [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► apparently pronounced gucci keep on [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► which okay ponyo location which is taken [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► from rock-scissors-paper fruit energy [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► balagia haagen-dazs Tanya's bakery what [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► they did in the dub they call the good [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► cooking pan bakery which I thought was [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► clever because they tried to try to get [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► the same sounds into an english we're [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► not the I like so there's all this all [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► connects because for some reason a lady [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► with a baby left the pacifier at the [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► bakery and what let's talk about the [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► first lady with the baby massively [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► pregnant Osan oh yes well that's what i [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► was going to say it so a giant huge [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► pregnant lady comes out of the stores [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► like a lady forgot your uh and so we [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► meet us on oh yeah so what we're in the [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► fifties I know they had two separate [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► beds like i was at Ozzie and Harriet [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► have the separate beds and they have the [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► beds together and I was someone had the [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► best I don't know the history of i [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► cannot tell anybody [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► listen Ricky yeah I seem to recall that [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► like saying the word pregnant on early [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► television was somewhat frowned upon and [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► like in general like acknowledgement of [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► the human reproductive process took a [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► long time to come into live-action [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► television for adults in our country can [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► you think of another car [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► tune that acknowledges human [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► reproduction is a great showing a [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► massively I mean maybe tom and jerry did [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► it because they did a lot of raunchy [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► stuff they're having and pretend to be [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► pregnant at some point I don't know but [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► like it she is it like an ad of the [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► people must move your style is right but [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► she's more or less the anatomically only [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► slightly exaggerated gigantic pregnant [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► moment in a cartoon for children and [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► that shouldn't be impressive because [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► that's how we all got here but so much [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► of it [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► cartoons for children or any program for [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► children does not acknowledge how people [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► come to be at all and this movie doesn't [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► shy away from it and there it is and [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► it's a very important part of the movie [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► because she is one in a long line of [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► potential role models for Kiki which we [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► should get to at some point listing [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► those out and I think that is an [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► important part of the movie that I'm at [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► sad that it's surprising or shocking but [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► this is one phase of one possible phase [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► of a woman's life [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► also let's not forget that in most [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► movies if you have a pregnant lady her [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► being pregnant is an important part of [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► the plot because the title character is [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► that why else would she be pregnant is [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► something is going to happen with her [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► pregnancy and you know what happens in [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► the pregnancy in this [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► nothing is worth over the reddit there's [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► you see that she's now had a baby [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► well it's something some respects it's [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► important because that's why she needs a [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► little help around the beach for sure [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► but I mean it's just not you [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► she could say hey I need some help [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► around the bakery I've been meaning to [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► hire somebody but instead she's a giant [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► presently when it's it's not emblematic [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► of some problem in her relationship or [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► or a big source of tension with no with [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► her mate for the child is not a prophecy [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► baby will have to hope they will bring [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► the end of the world that we know John [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► that we know right it's not it's not [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► going to be secretly that's the Kings [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► baby and there's nothing like that one [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► of the things i do notice is that what [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► only one of Gigi's cats kittens [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► yeah black kitten and that black kitten [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► comes with him to learn so that he can [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► be presumably a kitten or a black cattle [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► of the future which and I thought our [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► the baby will be the next gen and I [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► thought no this is not i gotta stop that [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► means gigi is a horrible racist [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► teammates with a white puffy cat needs a [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► black not puffy but he does it once it [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► when one kid got his [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► mastic jeans the other ones are nice and [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► composed and that one is this path [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► station after the thread and fallin also [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► in this universe the boy cats are all [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► black and not puffy and the girl cats [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► are all white and puffy [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► I think that's cool what we learned [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► small sample size [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► yeah those are the only cats we see [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► really so i could be wrong [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► there's another can actually on the the [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► other witches broom stick at the [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► beginning yeah used to be female [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► yes baby back at like stuck stuck up cat [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► stuck-up witch [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► yeah so I sano it was her role that the [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► the panoply of role models that are [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► presented to Kiki throughout this movie [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► she's kind of in the middle here and [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► she's showing the possibilities of [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► motherhood [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► this is one thing you can do is a woman [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► as you can you give birth [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► she's a business owner yes she's [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► assertive I she is is not like as you [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► mentioned not not sort of no pun [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► intended coward by her pregnancy and she [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► is pregnant she's pregnant but continues [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► to to do all the things that she does [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► she's also kind and charitable to Kiki [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► but also expects her to you know to to [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► work and earn her keep [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► you know she's not just sitting in a [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► rocking chair like standing herself and [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► exhaling right exactly and even even at [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► the end of the movie when she gives [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► birth she's standing on the hill [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► weatherhead up to her you know shielding [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► her brow looking at Kiki flying through [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► the air and the husband has the baby and [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► is feeding it right but this is one [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► possible future for Kiki I up until that [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► moment are we even sure that he's her [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► husband [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► yeah it took me a while i think is great [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► i didn't get that was another about on [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► the screen [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► baking is this is a strong silent type [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► clearly it was a particle he's working [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► there to like he's making sure that the [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► two of them have a business together [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► sure I guess what bun in the oven get it [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► went to bakers love each other very much [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► too so maybe he's just helping out at [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► the end but is that how it works is that [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► there's a man and a woman and there's a [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► baby is that I don't know this mayne [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► ever seen as an animated film before [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► interesting but you're right in a lesser [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► film the the thing at the end that it [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► allows Kiki to fly again would have been [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► you know the the emergency pregnancy as [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► as opposed to the Zeppelin you know [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► which of courses for college if it does [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► have a convenient timing was like they [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► have as the movies ending we need to get [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► her into labor she's like okay time to [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► go [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► you know right but I mean yeah it's [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► still totally incidental it just happens [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► to happen at that point it's it's not [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► the focus of the film although she is [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► still rather Zeppelin like come to think [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► of it [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► yeah I think she might have been a [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► second so the first the first throw [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► model the interstate his life is there [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► besides her parents when she leaves home [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► is the other girl in the broom who shows [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► like at the end of your year which [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► training this could be you you know [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► worldly-wise but also a little bit [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► stuck-up and full of herself and she [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► goes into a town that smaller than the [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► town to keep you will eventually end up [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► in there is a difference in the dialogue [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► between English and Japanese of as to [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► whether kinky like is this town big and [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► impressive to Kiki does the stuck-up you [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► only think it's big and Kiki doesn't [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► believe that or whatever but this is [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► she's seeing a potential of her future [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► self and deciding perhaps that she [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► doesn't want to end up like that whereas [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► when she sees asano this is another [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► possibility that she may not want to [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► look like that either but it is a a [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► nicer possibility yes but it's funny [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► it's like almost like you know what you [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► can have one which every town it's like [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► a mime or something it's like we can [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► have one of these in town it's not [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► really that like overwhelmingly weird [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► the thing that really differentiates [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► arisen that she's a witch is that she's [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► a pumpkin [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► you know what i mean and she doesn't [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► include provincial right yes I mean yeah [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► yeah she's a country mouse and the the [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► witch with a green eyed cat has clearly [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► she's figured out her trade and it's [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► very proud of having done that and again [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► key expires that again that's just a [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► little bit of pot pushing forward of [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► like how much she really wants to [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► succeed at this she wants she wants to [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► be a big kid she's been waiting for this [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► thing to happen and and i think that i [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► don't know i think that that they do a [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► nice job of not over doing that with her [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► character but it really well establishes [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► that she's very motivated to try and [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► make it in this place even she has no [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► reason to think that she would succeed [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► there she's not swept along by the plot [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► either every part of this movie she is [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► an active participant in making happen [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► she decides that she wants to leave even [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► though she had previously planned the [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► next night she decides it's going to be [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► clear night full moon I want to leave [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► now she tries to take her broom and like [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► her mother [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► search the last little bit of motherhood [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► before she leaves you know like she her [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► actions drive this plot forward her [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► decisions and her wanting to do things [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► she's not like suddenly caught up in an [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► adventure that she's swept along in or [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► what [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► she liked it you know compared to like [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► kind of billboard like has adventure [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► thrust upon him she makes all these [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► changes in her life happen but through [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► food deciding to do something if I were [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► that helicopter dad though I mean I [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► guess maybe the cats are familiar or [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► something but i would have really given [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► her driving skills I would have tried to [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► talk her out of driving with a cat on [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► the broom yeah you can get back the [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► vision on that how that goes once you [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► teach your daughter how to drive and how [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► and how accepting this issue of your [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► instruction well she did at least listen [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► to his admonition that she should make [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► the cat to in the radio while she yeah [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► that's right the cat is there is the [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► kind of that song that is such a great [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► pop song which wondering what the [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► Japanese Japanese only the Japanese one [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► yeah although I i'm curious about what [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► the theme song is saying but I it's got [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► to be something that's totally on the [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► nose it's a very fifty sock-hop gonna [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► know it's from it isn't it from I [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► thought I run the fact that essentially [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► is actually a pop song from the [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► seventies yeah but the style the Royal [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► is a a fifties saw cop yeah well I mean [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► it in the seventies and even Japan loves [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► to make their own invitation versions of [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► you know fifties American about a woman [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► who's going to tell her boyfriend's [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► mother about him and get him in trouble [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► and admonished I think it's the thrust [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► is what's called what's the song called [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► rogue group called i was on youtube you [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► can go and don't have a confront what's [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► the song like that the the song that [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► they replaced it with in the previous [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► one is it just puts it like the most in [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► most cases i don't like when they [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► replace the Japanese song with an [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► English with an entirely different songs [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► it's usually terrible but the songs this [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► one are not they're not super terrible [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► its jail [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► yeah it say that it's an incredibly [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► generic happy disney pop right around [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► the not but that insulting [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► yeah they're not insulting there not [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► knowing that that the lyrics are not [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► insulting Lee ridiculous right I'm [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► actually disappointed that those that's [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► it that's an actual pop song i was i was [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► totally thinking the lyrics were like [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► along the lines of kikis flagging not [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► broomstick engine has a cat could be [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► your actual silver a town which is a [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► place where people these encountering [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► problems with where they're a [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► the riches here come see girls watch out [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► for the boot keep it going to get you [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► can't turn the radio down because here's [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► another witch but yeah guess that's not [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► it they are light with the exposition [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► label I appreciate that [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► sorry I'm trying to imagine what the [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► bridge of that song is about crows in [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► some way by good and they can memorize [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► faces and pick us left in this year in [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► August has learned to deal with them [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► yeah in those scenes with the speaking [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► of the crows like this is another thing [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► in the in the grand tradition of totoro [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► where again that the faces in this movie [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► are miyazaki faces they're not realistic [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► human looking faces there you know kind [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► of in-between they're not they're not [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► taught entirely cartoonish but the [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► animals are frighteningly realistic like [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► they look like they're all like little [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► cow [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► yeah the cow the crows the goat who [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► wants the corner into a road just like [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► frighteningly dead on realistic has been [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► terrifying and again it's like that's [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► you know how it a little kid powered a [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► child see a bird squawking your face it [TS]