Yesterday's Whisper

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Renata, half Brazilian. Writer, translator, Art History MA. In love with the 20's, 30's, 40's. Passionate about photography, cats, travelling and poetry. And making friends. Among other things. My other blogs: robertdonats-stage.tumblr.com purrfectwhiskers.tumblr.com

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir. Frank Capra

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“In an interview in 2002, Roger Ebert told Miyazaki that he loves the “gratuitous motion” in his films — the sighs, the walks, the background and foreground elements — the “extra.” Ebert says : Instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

To which Miyazaki replies : We have a word for that in Japanese. It’s called ma. (間) Emptiness. It’s there intentionally. [claps his hands] The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness. but if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.” (reposted)

SPIRITED AWAY / 千と千尋の神隠し 2001 — dir. Hayao Miyazaki / 宮崎駿