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30 Day Book Challenge: 24
Mar. 13th, 2012 01:13 pmDay 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Howl’s Moving Castle. Most people don’t even know it’s a book, much less one that’s really clever and totally different from the movie. I enjoyed the movie, but it's very distinctly Studio Ghibli with regards to the way the characters interact and their eventual fates: the villains, rather than being defeated, are made harmless and incorporated into the Moving Castle Family. Calcifer is this cute little blobby thing, and the romance between Sophie and Howl is developed ... um ... very differently, as is Sophie's curse. And that's not even touching the whole 'war in steampunkland' thing they did. I loathed the movie the first time I saw it because I'd read the book first, everyone told me it was really awesome, and none of them appreciated that I thought the characterizations of my beloved characters were really bizarre. (Except for the temper-tantrum-goo scene. That was the best part of the movie.) While I have learned to appreciate the movie for its own merits, I really wish that more people read the book: it has a totally different, Diana Wynne Jones feel to it, not a Studio Ghibli feel.
Howl’s Moving Castle. Most people don’t even know it’s a book, much less one that’s really clever and totally different from the movie. I enjoyed the movie, but it's very distinctly Studio Ghibli with regards to the way the characters interact and their eventual fates: the villains, rather than being defeated, are made harmless and incorporated into the Moving Castle Family. Calcifer is this cute little blobby thing, and the romance between Sophie and Howl is developed ... um ... very differently, as is Sophie's curse. And that's not even touching the whole 'war in steampunkland' thing they did. I loathed the movie the first time I saw it because I'd read the book first, everyone told me it was really awesome, and none of them appreciated that I thought the characterizations of my beloved characters were really bizarre. (Except for the temper-tantrum-goo scene. That was the best part of the movie.) While I have learned to appreciate the movie for its own merits, I really wish that more people read the book: it has a totally different, Diana Wynne Jones feel to it, not a Studio Ghibli feel.
