I'm intrigued by your final comment, but I'll leave it at that.
Once reason I watched Nausicaa next after Porco Rosso is because various people said that Fio was very similar to Nausicaa both visually and in character. I can see that.
And I agree that the ecological theme in Nausicaa gets a bit heavy-handed, even though I liked the linking of decay to renewal. Made me think of my compost bin, full of fungus and insects. But even though the bad guys suffer as well from being a little too obvious (which is usually not true in Miyazaki), the bad guy who is second to the bad princess has a charming fatalism about his own badness. The bad princess maybe suffered the most from being too one-note.
Anyway, Rain City Video was having a two-fer yesterday, so I picked up Mononoke as well. I'll watch it over the weekend, I hope.
I'm also going to rewatch My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service as soon as possible. Much commentary seems to think that Porco Rosso and Totoro are his most personal films, with the former drawing on his own middle-age attitudes and the fact that he likes to draw himself as a pig, and the latter drawing on the fact that his mother was very sick with TB when he was a child. Aside from that, I really liked both Totoro and Kiki on a first viewing a couple of years ago.
I really like Castle in the Sky, too, which I have probably watched more than any other Miyazaki.
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Once reason I watched Nausicaa next after Porco Rosso is because various people said that Fio was very similar to Nausicaa both visually and in character. I can see that.
And I agree that the ecological theme in Nausicaa gets a bit heavy-handed, even though I liked the linking of decay to renewal. Made me think of my compost bin, full of fungus and insects. But even though the bad guys suffer as well from being a little too obvious (which is usually not true in Miyazaki), the bad guy who is second to the bad princess has a charming fatalism about his own badness. The bad princess maybe suffered the most from being too one-note.
Anyway, Rain City Video was having a two-fer yesterday, so I picked up Mononoke as well. I'll watch it over the weekend, I hope.
I'm also going to rewatch My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service as soon as possible. Much commentary seems to think that Porco Rosso and Totoro are his most personal films, with the former drawing on his own middle-age attitudes and the fact that he likes to draw himself as a pig, and the latter drawing on the fact that his mother was very sick with TB when he was a child. Aside from that, I really liked both Totoro and Kiki on a first viewing a couple of years ago.
I really like Castle in the Sky, too, which I have probably watched more than any other Miyazaki.