Lady Eboshi and Prince Ashitaka
Princess Mononoke is an animated Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki and the most popular film in Japan. Throughout the film Miyazaki introduces several reasons on who the protagonist and antagonist and why. First he shows his protagonist as a young kid, his name is Prince Ashitaka, and he’s shown to have courage and the ability to do well instead of being evil. On the other hand Miyazaki confuses his audience on the antagonist which is Lady Eboshi, because when Ashitaka first meets Eboshi she tells him how she started her beloved Iron Town, but then he learns she’s out to destroy the forest and anyone who gets in her way. According to Miyazaki he will show us why Ashitaka is the protagonist and why Lady Eboshi is the antagonist.
To Start Off, Prince Ashitaka is the protagonist. But how? Well Miyazaki breaks it down into three ways. The first is in the beginning of the film when Ashitaka is shown in a close up shot and a tracking shot of him leading an enraged boar away from his village (Miyazaki). After a few minutes of trying to lead the boar away he starts to shoot it with arrows and he gets caught by one of the tentacles coming from the boar after another minute he finally takes the boar down and discovers and iron ball coming out of its mouth and Ashitaka sees some kind of strange scar on his arm. Miyazaki uses this to introduce what Ashitaka is about and who he is, later he discovers that the scar is a curse and everyone who has been marked by it will die eventually. Miyazaki shows that Ashitaka isn’t just a regular boy, he’s a kid that has the courage to defeat an enraged boar to save his home and family, and accepts the fact that he must find the so called sprit god to reverse the curse and sav...
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...ady Eboshi’s iron town destroy and turn into nothing but a hill with grass. This is showing the audience that everything has reset and the sprit god and the forest is important to the world. Later eboshi has an epiphany and realizes that Ashitaka was right about the forest should have been left alone and decided that she will rebuild her home with a more positive aspect. Miyazaki also uses color and close up shots of the people, once the spirit god got his head back everything was clear and filled with a sunny blue day showing that everything is okay and positive.
In conclusion, Miyazaki shows Prince Ashitaka and Lady Eboshi not just as characters, but the personalities of good and bad. By using the colors in the film, the different ways people react, using ancient Japanese ritual and beliefs, and how believing and staying positive will help someone in the long run.
What I see in this piece is peacefulness. Stokes of the paintbrush are perfect to make it look whole. With the sun shinning down making the colors pop out even more. The olive trees glowing in the suns light with the mountains behind it. It is a piece I could look at for a long time with out getting bored. The colors of the piece just make it look so complete. With the lines of the
From across the room I could see the bright yellow, pink and red flowers. Taking some steps forward there was even more to like. The overall appearance is a depiction of everyday life. The setting is outside in a grassy area. The sky looks grey but is turning brighter. There is a house in the country whose owner is in the front milking a cow. There is a dead tree that stands bear in the center. The objects that appear closest are a broken fence and the intensely bright colored flowers. All of the objects seem animated and do not seem realistic. The clouds are grey and sharp. Making the viewer feel that something is wrong. It looks like a storm was just taking place. The wind blew the clouds away and is still blowing the grass to the right.
Princess Mononoke is the tale of a young prince, Ashitaka, who battles a demon bore, only to become possessed with its evil spirit. Ashitaka then travels to Irontown, seeking to find the reason for the bore’s anger and thus, a cure for himself. When he arrives, he finds that the citizens of the town, under the rule of Lady Eboshi, have been mining iron from nearby mountains and, in turn, disturbing the animal Gods of the forest. The animals and the humans have been in a constant battle over who has the right to the land and both have been lead to believe that the other species is purely evil. Ashitaka believes that the humans and the animals can get along peacefully through compromise and finds himself in the middle of their conflict. From each side’s perspective, the other seems inherently evil, but from Ashitaka’s perspective, and the perspective of the audience, neither side is truly corrupt and they are both just feeding off of each other’s anger. Although the animals seem evil and barbaric to the humans, they are just being protective over their land and are acting off of their fear of the humans. On the other hand, the humans are seen as evil by the animals because of their selfish use of resources, but they are just trying to financially support their community. For example, Lady Eboshi, the leader of Irontown, is seen as evil for orchestrating this exploitation of resources from the animals, but the humans see her as a compassionate, God-like figure. She does many positive and kind things for the human community, such as taking in women from the streets and brothels and giving them a place to live and work. Even though she is, in essence, destroying the animal’s habitats, she is saving the lives of many humans while doing it. The animal characters are also portrayed as compassionate in many respects. For example, when the leader of the wolves finds an abandoned baby, she takes her in and raises her as if she were her own daughter.
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They are characters that the audience can empathize with because a single human is born with nothing but as they walk life they will be neither purely evil nor good but a mix of both. These characters are timeless for if you want to label them as purely evil or purely good it’s impossible because they aren’t. These characters touch upon issues that society are conflicted about and allow the audience to work out these issues for their self throughout the story or play letting us decided the truth within these stories. Like how Mary Shelley had force the reader to see within the heart of the creature and the society viewpoint for us to decide for their self who we thought were the real monsters within the story of Frankenstein. These characters are also seen as more realistic because even if they are the most pure characters the audience may had read about with the purest intentions they may still fallen to their darkness in the end showing that the world isn’t filled with demons or angels that like humans these characters can feel, they can wary and fall to their temptation, that they can still hope, get hurt, cry, feel guilt, depression, happiness, and paranoia. Because like in reality the audiences are living in a morally ambiguous world where most of the world 's solutions to their problem aren’t clear and may be difficulties in choosing what the right thing to do. This makes the story more engaging, realist, and makes it easier
Chainani is one of few who has re-envisioned a world of gender equality amidst a fairy tale. The possible reason behind this success is Chainani is not recreating an original story; he has created something almost completely original, a “Hogwarts of Fairy Tales.” The heritage behind classic tales like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty has been engrained in society
When the film begins on the farm in Kansas, the scene is shot in black and white, creating a sepia tone of colour to represent the country dust in the air adding to the effect of the ordinary unsaturated colour of the Kansas landscape. In contrast to the Kansas setting, lighting is profoundly used by the director to enhance the overall emotions of the film. Fleming uses a combination of the set, lighting techniques, and colour to create a magical place with very bright colours and deep focus lens to bring the land of Oz to life. In the scene where Dorothy enters Oz, the lighting is positioned between Dorothy and the foreground plants. The director uses the three point lighting technique so both Dorothy and the colour plants are highlighted but no shadows visible. This shot was done with a background of the black and white house behind Dorothy. The Land of Oz is filled with beautiful colours to create the illusion of a happy world that enhances the feel of fantasy. The allusion of contrasts between the real world and the land of Oz support the central theme there’s no place like home. In this way, the director enhances the picture of the film by the use of colour to reflect a mood experienced by the character in the different places. This colour transition used by the director, incorporates two completely different Mise en scene
Hi Nicole, thank you for your sharing. You picked a good one to analyze, and it is one of my childhood favorite stories. I agree with your opinion that "[...] this is an example of Archetypes of all Princess Fairy Tale movies and cartoons". Traditionally, the princess of the Fairy Tales is usually beautiful and gentle. However, they have to face challenges or be harmed by the bad witches. In this story, the Princess is cursed by the Tormentilla witch, and she falls asleep for one hundred years. I also agree with your that "the other archetype [we can] notice in these Fairy tales are how there is always the handsome prince". The prince is a hero because he wakes up the princess and the castle. The meaning of the story is love and true love with
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... all to itself. The care and detail that went into the hills that are closer to the stable is breathtaking. It almost has a sense of life. The way the lights and the shadows are hitting the grass gives it life. The artist again shows his mastery of atmospheric perspective by slowly fading the hills that are meant to be further from the viewer to blue. He does so until all the viewer sees all the way in the back of the painting are blue suggestions of hills.