{"id":173,"date":"2006-05-04T05:59:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=173"},"modified":"2006-05-18T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T05:09:32","slug":"dianne-wynne-jones-howls-moving-castle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Dianne Wynne Jones &#8211; Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"howl.jpg\" id=\"image172\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/wp-content\/howl.jpg\" \/> If some of the battling nerds on the movie&#8217;s IMDB page are to be believed, Miyazaki&#8217;s adaptation of this beloved children&#8217;s classic was a disgrace. I read the book (the existence of neither it nor its author I suspected until I checked said IMDB page) with that criticism in mind, and have to say: balderdash. While it is true that the two stories diverge in minute details, and that Miyazaki added elements typical for his work, and created visuals not prescribed in Jones&#8217; book, the two are remarkably congruent. The story does make a bit more sense in the book, but then I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s necessarily a good thing in a book about demons falling from the sky and stealing hearts. I was smitten with the strangeness of Miyazaki&#8217;s take, and the straightforward resolution left me a bit underenchanted. On the other hand, the character&#8217;s behaviour makes more sense in the book, making them both more likeable and more interesting than the somewhat randomly bouncing anime folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If some of the battling nerds on the movie&#8217;s IMDB page are to be believed, Miyazaki&#8217;s adaptation of this beloved children&#8217;s classic was a disgrace. I read the book (the existence of neither it nor its author I suspected until I checked said IMDB page) with that criticism in mind, and have to say: balderdash. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,26,22,36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-englisch","category-fantasy","category-good","category-japan","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}