Module:CMN4200 Lecturer :Jude Alshahwan Creative Industries Presentation Individual presentations Safa’a Abudoush Animation

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A brief description of the movie ر Chihiro is a spoiled girl about ten years old moved with her parents from their town to another town, the father drifts away from the road to reach his destination faster, then finds himself ahead of a subway, he leaves his car along with Chihiro and her mother Yuuko Exploring the place to reach to a restaurant with a tasteful odor without the existence of the waiter, and the parents start to eat while Chihiro fears and refuses to eat that food, and moves away for a while and meets Haku He informs her that she must leave the place before sunset, and when she returns she feels terrified seeing her parents transformed into two pigs, then she tries to return where she came from so she finds out that the area is transformed into a sea, and there is a ship where spectrums and ghosts are coming out of it, then she gets astonished and here comes Haku Again to tell her that she`s in the bathing area of spirits according to the Japanese beliefs and there was a witch Yu-Baaba She was responsible for the transformation of her parents and that she will face the same destiny if she did not request from the witch Yu-Baaba to work for her in serving her guests Chihiro went to Yu-Baaba and asked her to work for her, Yu-Baaba agreed hardly, but she changed her name to Sen to be able to control her and put her in more than one dilemma

Drama, Animation, Kids & Family,Science Fiction & Fantasy Director, Story and Screenplay Hayao Miyazaki Executive Producer (US) John Lesseter  The Walt Disney Company Music by Joe Hisaishi Production company Studio Ghibli Release dates in japan 20 July 2001 Release dates in Us 7 September 2002 Running time 1.24 minutes two hours Country Japan Language Japanese (2001) English (2002) Budget ¥1.9 billion (US$19 million) Box office $449,839 (USA) (22 September 2002) (26 Screens) £152,504 (UK) (14 September 2003) (51 Screens) ARS 69,897 (Argentina) (22 July 2003) (34 Screens) €285,193 (Italy) (21 April 2003) (170 Screens) $8,898,000 (Japan) (29 July 2002) (318 Screens) €225,259 (Spain) (27 October 2002) (129 Screens) Totally (US$289.1 million)

Best Animated Feature Film; 75th Annual Academy Awards Winner of Best Film; 2002 Japanese Academy Awards Golden Bear (tied); 2002 Berlin International Film Festival Best Animated Feature; 2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Characters Haku Chihiro Ogino (Sen) The hero of the movie, she`s a ten years old girl, with a frown face, complainant, with a noisy voice, fearful, spoiled, and shows no respect towards her parents at the beginning When she became with the name of Sen she started to search for her inner self, fearing to lose her identity, internally free, brave to free herself and her parents, and at the end of the movie when she retrieves her name Chihiro her features became more mature and her voice calmed down, she became more gentle feeling of others and more compassionate with them, sincere throughout the movie, and Hard working Haku He seems a sixteen years old boy, but he`s in fact the soul of the sea, and also transformed into a white dragon that looks strong. But in reality he`s weak, forgotten his name, due to the domination of magic onto him, that means he`s kept in the world of spirits. Internally he loves to help others, like when he saved Chihiro a lot from drowning in her childhood and when she entered the world of spirits.

Yubaba Kaonashi (No-Face) The witch who resembles the evilness, but strangely she does not change the honesty, accurate in her commercial dealings, and says in one of her statements that each person must acquire a career to feel that he`s useful, and has dignity, she loves her son and afraid from the outside world at him, she does not trust anyone and believes that everyone is greed and malicious. Kaonashi (No-Face) Sad with long coat, has no voice, he pertains to Chihiro just because she cares for him, and he tries to pay back the favor, when in anger he nourishes from the souls of others.

Analysis Technically We can see that the movie depends on the manual painting a lot. And we can notice that Miyazaki concentrates on the distinct details in the movie, and focuses in more than one angle in the same scene while keeping their details As for the characters he does not repeat the motion, but knows the behaviors', emotions, and the features of each character to animate it, here we can see the massiveness of the work by the enormous number of characters in it which exceed the twenty characters, he relies on the manual method but uses the digital method for visual richness, and in many motions like the dragon`s motion he forces the painters to monitor the animals in their movements and their resemblance to human emotions. It is quite good to mention that Miyazaki does not write the story till the end, but makes the story while its progress writes its conclusions, for he says: But he personally draws thousands of frames by hand. "We take handmade cell animation and digitize it in order to enrich the visual look," he told me in 2002, "but everything starts with the human hand drawing.“ The voice had a great influence, elevation, and the harmony of the tunes in it especially at the stages of silence, and then elevated in three scenes which stimulated the enthusiasm of the audience.

Keeping some Japanese values, and increase the Japanese confidence, and direct them to the modern generation, like the idea of the bathhouse, and the traditional outfit of Haku The dignity of Japan, by the scene of stealing the name, and Haku`s mentioning of the full name. Reviving some languages in the movie, like in the saying of Haku: he does not use the more colloquial "boku" but the more formal "watashi. Reviving some ancient buildings and areas which he is inspired by, like the idea of the bathhouse and caring for its cleanness when visiting it like (Shrine Shinto) Socially

Psychologically The movie covered some of the psychological values in the society by using his weird characters and the events of the movie Not only purifying the places but a symbol to purify the soul It is possible to get rid of the hardest characteristics to be transformed to giving and the love of others like Chihiro`s character when placing her in an imaginary strange frame where she challenges silently. How much the human can see the beauty around him and does not see it unless he looses the absolute positivity. A character with no face resembles a symbol of a negative person who advance not out of love but tries to astonish us with what he has, and in case we refused he is transformed to a surly person, for he has no face but that doesn`t mean that he`s evil but seeking for good by direction like what happened at the end of the movie. There`s no infinite evil, and that`s what we can see in the character of the witch which makes the movie unique

Criticism As for the negativity Artful but not arty, Spirited Away is a handcrafted cartoon, as personal as an Utamaro painting, yet its breadth and heart give it an appeal that should touch American viewers of all ages. (Richard Corliss was an American film critic and magazine editor ) Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, who previously made the impressive Princess Mononoke, has created a wonderfully bizarre world filled with a gallery of creepy, and some not so-creepy, characters. David Stratton( is an English-Australian film critic and television personality.)  As for the negativity It does not suit the children with young ages for the great numbers of weird imaginary characters in it, so it is not considered as a cartoon movie.

At the end I say that Miyazaki did not influence the Japanese society only but the whole world by the beauty of the picture, the power of expression, the accuracy of details, and the enormous imagination.

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