I can't count how many times he "retired".
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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I don't think there's an age you retire from telling stories.
Hmm, I originally posted a joke about his perpetually retired cause his dead. I deleted it now after confirming in wiki his still alive. I thought the guy died from a heart attack or something? That is why his son had to takeover the company.
I mean this in the best way possible but I'm glad you're wrong.
Funny post but that's not really the difference between both studios. One makes movies because they love them while the other (re)makes movies to monetize them. Miyazaki's style and ideas are iconic but that's aslo true of a lot of Disney's movies. It's just corpo greed as always.
Yes, thank you. That is the joke.
It didn't read like this was the joke to me. Disney isn't in a creative rut, they're purposefully not trying new stuff.
I don't even know if they're necessarily in a creative slump on purpose either. They made "Elemental" not too long ago that was fairly original. They just know for a proven fact that if they reach behind their back and grab some random IP from 'The Vault', change one of the characters from white to OTHER, maybe make one of them nebulously gay, and change up the animation style, all of the parents who have nothing bigger to look forward to everyday then what's on their DVR at home, will 100% buy movie tickets to go see Will Smith shit all over the memory of Robin Williams.
Yeah that's pretty much what I meant.
Well - as long as new fancy movies come out from Ghibli, who am I to judge :)
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Catherine Tinker, @catherinetinker
disney: we're in a creative rut, i guess
ghibli: we cannot restrain this old man from directing another beautiful film about grief featuring the freakiest little guys
And raking in record profit with no investment in marketing at all (the boy and the heron).
Just announce the movie and people show up.
I mean Walt is dead to be fair
When did this happen???
I think Disney is too big to fail, so they can't really take risks with their story telling. They should probably just buy out Studio Ghibli at this point. That last part was only a joke!!!!!