{"id":3737,"date":"2006-11-25T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/11\/25\/3737.html"},"modified":"2006-11-25T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T18:55:51","slug":"howls-moving-castle-inventiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/11\/25\/howls-moving-castle-inventiven\/","title":{"rendered":"Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle inventiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One quick note about the commentary on <cite>Howl's Moving Castle<\/cite>: A bunch of people in the supplemental materials on the DVD say things like \"Wow, the idea of a girl being turned into an old woman--that Miyazaki guy is amazingly inventive!\"  Or \"Wow, the idea of a door opening in different places--only Miyazaki could have come up with something like that.\"<\/p>\n<p>The problem with these comments, of course, is that at least half the things people are commenting on came from the original book.<\/p>\n<p>More generally, I was a little surprised that nobody mentioned the book in any of that making-of material.  I wouldn't expect them to spend a lot of time discussing it, but I would've thought someone might say, even in passing, \"It's based on this book by Diana Wynne Jones.\"  (It's possible that someone said this and I just missed it, though.)<\/p>\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. In case anyone's curious, here's a <cite>Telegraph<\/cite> article that gives a little information (near the end of the article) about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml?xml=\/arts\/2005\/09\/23\/bfwynne23.xml\">DWJ's thoughts about the movie<\/a> (and indicates indirectly that she wasn't involved in making it at all, beyond signing over the rights).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One quick note about the commentary on Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle: A bunch of people in the supplemental materials on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}