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cruelsister-moved2 · 1 year

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howls moving castle the film is fine but I think i wouldve been so annoyed if I loved the book first and found out they were making a film and then it was that. sorry to bisexual women but I love cringe unemployed welsh howl

#like i was going to read it and then watch the film to compare but now I've finished it I feel like the film will piss me off actually...#I kind of feel like ghibli movies frequently have that thing where they're good but they're not good adaptations #and I don't mean good adaptation necessarily = faithful adaptation #but i mean like people who loves the original thing will be pissed off by it #like i LOVED the borrowers as a kid n i rmbr I felt the same when we saw the arietty film #like i would probably have liked it more if I had a blank slate #bc its kind of just like. im going to tell my own story vaguely inspired byur thing #I think if I was an author and studio ghibli approached me to adapt my book id be so apprehensive #bc id think they'd probably make a decent film but also like it wouldn't really be my book

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