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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoaww this looked so much funnier when I thought the flap over the face was a beak, the face was a malformed turket wattle, and the ear a mostly lidded eye. Looks like such a derpy bird that way, but nooo it has to be a human face!
tux7350@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That is the Forest Spirit from the movie Promcess Mononoke. Wonderful movie if you haven’t seen it! Watches more like a Disney movie than an anime.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh daaamn, I didn’t know it was such a prestigious source. Probably explains the one downvote. lol
Definitely agreed with other commenter that in modern times, comparing things to Disney is more of a back handed complement.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Imo comparing it to a Disney movie is even a bit disrespectful to that masterpiece of animated cinema. I do get what you mean. But it just has so much more heart.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tangent: Who is the protagonist in that film?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Nobody. The film is about balance. Ashitaka spends the entire time trying to get better perspective and ask everyone to calm down.
San is stuck between worlds. Ashitaka is dragged into conflict.
Even Lady Eboshi is highly nuances, caring for people and defending her clan, but she comes to a different belief about naturein the end.
The only baddie in my eyes was the emissary to the daimyo (or Lord, can’t recall), and he was just serving his master.
Justdaveisfine@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I think Eboshi is actually evil, but she’s charismatically evil so it comes off different.
She allows her own people to be bombed, she abandons the wounded from her caravan, and she’s effectively tricked the lepers into working to death for her. She could have given up on the forest spirit many times, but left irontown under siege so she could have a chance at killing a god.
She only cares about her people so long as they’re empowering her. She listened to Ashitaka talk balance but the minute he went to enforce it, she tried to kill him.
Every time she apologizes and says she will do better, and people forgive her, but she doesn’t actually change her ways.
I think this is why Ashitaka ultimately stays in the town - To basically keep her on the path and to her word. (I don’t recall if he literally says that)
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well done!