Exploring Kiki's Delivery Service & Howl's Moving Castle

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Oh my gosh.

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I still can't get used to
that Courtney, that violin.

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A witch going, man, it's just still,
still scaring me a little bit.

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I actually have nightmares about that now.

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Like I hear that in my sleep.

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might just be

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Well,

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on loop.

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I don't know.

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What were you going to say?

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it's attention grabbing, you know?

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You're sitting in a doctor's
office, that comes on.

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It's gonna, it's gonna get the whole
room excited for what you're watching.

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it is, it is.

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And what you're watching is
The Witch Movie Project right

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here on Ride the Wave Media.

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I am Just Blane.

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This is Courtney Pearl,
host of Practically Magic.

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witch expert here, right?

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That's

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Yep.

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you're here for?

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She dances over there?

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I always get a little bit worried
when you start doing that, because

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I'm like, is she having a good time,
or is she hexing something right now?

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either way it works.

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I'm, now I'm kind of scared
I even questioned it.

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I'm, I don't even know.

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I don't even know.

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It's powerful stuff, dancing is.

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Yeah.

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I do know is that this witch movie project
is leading up to an incredible event.

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October 26th at Novel by Daybreak
by Crescent Communities at Novel

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Daybreak by Crescent Communities.

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Yes.

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more, Courtney.

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Tell me more.

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We got

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Oh, so excited.

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Land of a Thousand Hills has
agreed to donate some prizes, so

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we are having a costume contest.

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So dress up if you like dressing up
as witches or anything from the witch

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movies that we've reviewed so far.

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love that.

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And if you want to see your movie that you
so much love and favor, you better vote.

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The polls are out there.

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We've got all the past weeks up.

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Midsommar got a lot of votes.

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Suspiria got a lot of votes.

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No surprise there.

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It was, yeah, no surprise, because it
was Suspiria versus Suspiria, right?

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So,

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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about?

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The event, Live Cake Parties.

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We'll be decorating the event.

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This thing went from us just kind of be
showing a movie out in the parking lot,

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We're like, come watch a movie with us.

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and now we've gotten this, it's turned
into this, to an actual whole event.

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Like, Live Cake Parties is going to
decorate, it's going to be a haunted house

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looking thing, with probably witch, I
don't even know what's going to happen.

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Yeah, Carla's amazing.

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She's going to make it look real.

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She's going to set the mood for us.

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She's going to, she's amazing
at getting like a whole vibe

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going for an event, right?

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Like the decorations, the, it's a journey.

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It's not just a party.

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It's, it's a journey.

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is that her tagline?

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Or did you just

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I just made that up.

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We got to send that over to Carla.

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She should hire me to
come up with taglines.

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Carla, if you're watching, uh, Courtney
needs some, uh, money on that right there.

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It's a trademark.

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Um,

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Hey, I'm just happy to, to, to
promote Carla and her amazing skills.

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She's amazing.

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exactly.

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Let's get to today's

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right.

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slash three, maybe bonus.

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Yeah, we're gonna kind of
add in that bonus movie.

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'cause I just feel like we can't
talk about these two movies without

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that third movie being mentioned.

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No, not at all.

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And I just got to say here that I kind of,
not really looking forward to this week.

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I was not.

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know.

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Mm-Hmm?

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it's.

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It's anime.

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I've never been a big fan of anime.

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It's not one of those I'm anti anime.

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I just, I

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Yeah.

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I'm the stereotype of either
you love it or you hate it.

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And I just never really gave it a chance.

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Honestly, I did watch a lot of anime years
ago with a bunch of my buddies, Dylan, and

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uh, he's, his name is Old Toddylocks now.

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Um,

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Nice.

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I, I got some, yeah, there's some
characters I've been, I've had in my life.

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That's, he's one of my favorites though.

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But I'm

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thinking about that time, those times
now, I'm like, all right, I'm reminiscing.

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You got transported?

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Transported to another time.

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I did.

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But I put this off for, for far
too long and I gotta say that

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one reason was it was anime.

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Another reason was, let me
tell you how this happened

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because it was really messed up.

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I was in Hollywood for a red carpet event.

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Yes, I'm tooting my own horn, but as
I was there, I was trying to prepare

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for, for watching these movies.

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And this was on my, on my schedule.

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Now, I don't know if you've been into
the hotel rooms lately, Courtney,

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but let me hit a little rant here
because I got, I left the red carpet,

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red carpet event in Hollywood.

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I didn't go to the after parties.

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I went back to the hotel room to watch.

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Our first movie, Kiki's Delivery Service.

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I put this off.

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Now, hotel rooms now, they, they think
they've made this easy, but they haven't.

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There's, there's no more of this
cable in the room and all that.

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And there's no more free HBO.

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Yeah.

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It's.

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Log into your own service.

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Okay, cool.

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I can do

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Yeah.

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phone.

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30 minutes of me trying
to log into my account.

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Oh, I know

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I can't get in and what's even
matter, what's even make, what even

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makes me matter is I'm looking at
the building of the streaming service

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of my choice across the street.

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I could have walked over there and said,
Hey, I just want to watch this movie.

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I kind of logged in at the building.

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So I gave up.

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Fast forward a little bit.

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I finally gave this movie a chance and.

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Oh my gosh, I had seen this a long
time ago and realized when looking

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at the animation, there's the same
director from Princess Mononoke.

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Mm.

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that was a huge movie for me and
my buddies back 20 years ago.

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Um,

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yeah, Hayao Miyazaki.

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And let me tell you, let me preface
this before we go any further.

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know I have an accent.

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I promise you right now when I try
to pronounce these Japanese names.

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I am not poking fun.

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I'm not making fun.

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It's the way it's coming out.

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Yeah.

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I got

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We're doing our best.

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Mm-Hmm?

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I got to put that out front.

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Hayao Miyazaki, the director of this
movie and Princess Mononoke and our

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other movie, Howl's Moving Castle, which

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Yes.

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as well.

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Now, when I started Kiki's,
and this is with the plot, not

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even talking about anything.

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It's Not long.

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It's 30 seconds in when,
when you basically, you don't

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even think anime anymore.

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Yeah, yeah, not the way
I had experienced anime.

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And I'm with you.

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I feel like, you know, we're not
two, like, hardcore anime fans

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coming in here talking about
anime, movies, and like, all this.

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I think it's important to
note that we are two people.

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Me, and you.

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Same.

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I, my experience with anime
was kind of the cheesy cartoons

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we grew up with in the 80s.

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There was that like, racer show,
or um, even later on when like,

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the Pokemon cartoons came out.

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I was not a fan.

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I was not somebody that was like,
Yeah, I thought it was a little cheesy.

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I felt like the storylines
were a little cheesy.

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I felt like, you know, you get
the like, um, the giant wide mouth

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when they're yelling and like, the
background is just like some blurred

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lines while they're like, Bah!

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You know?

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And I just never got into it.

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I was a Disney girl, okay?

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I'm all about like, Little
Mermaid, Cinderella.

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That's what I watched 24 7.

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So I, with you, I had to actually like,
Jump that hump to be like, I'm going

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to watch this movie and see what it's
all about and see what people, but

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these movies have held up for 20 years.

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People love these movies.

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And now I get why.

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What did you think about just,
I mean, how long did it take

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you to get past the anime part?

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Oh, like you said, within the first
couple seconds, the artistry and, and

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the director being an artist himself
and having his artwork from these movies

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in, in galleries, like that's no joke.

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These movies transport you visually.

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And I'm just like, Every time I
watched them and I had to re watch

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them to get ready for this, to like
research it and really dive into it.

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And I was like, I love it even more.

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The, the, the next time I watch it,
I'm like, just blown away at the

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visual, you know, Kiki on the Hill.

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It's kind of a, um, you know, it's never
specific about what the setting is,

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but a lot of them are kind of Northern
European, um, inspired places or setting,

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even though them being Japanese movies.

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Yeah,

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Yeah.

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Which makes it, uh, you're
not really sure where it is.

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And it's a part of your imagination.

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Like you said, if this thing
transports you, it transports your

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imagination and really you become
immersed and not just this film, but

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pretty much any film he does, that's

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For sure.

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the town Corrico where it starts.

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That's where we got a teenage witch.

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One talking black cat, one broomstick,
leaves her, she basically leaves her

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house to find her place in the world
and Carrico was, fun fact for you, was

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based off of Stockholm and Visby, towns.

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So good call there on the

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Yeah.

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But still not knowing where
they're actually placed.

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Yeah.

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It's sort of vague.

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It's like generic, you know,
um, even in like, uh, Howl's

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Moving Castle, you're never quite
sure what time period we're in.

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Cause things are a little like, they
have like these steam locomotive trolleys

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that are going around the town and stuff.

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So it's like, I'm not really sure.

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It's just, it does, it
exists beyond time and space.

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I love that.

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And how else you don't even really
know where you are when you jump

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inside of the moving castle, because
to me, and I had surround sound.

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So there's, there's bass going, there's
all this, and there's lots of noise and

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the castle's and I'm like, man, this

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Oh,

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They go inside, they close
the door, it all stops.

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Movement and everything.

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I was like, that

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still.

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cool experience right there.

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Incredible.

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Back to Kiki.

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Kiki and Gigi.

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That's the, that's the cat's name, Gigi.

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Yes, who is voice the English
voice, um, Phil Hartman,

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Yes, yes,

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and I, this just caused me to
go into a deep dive because we

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know Phil's passing was tragic.

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And, um, And I don't know what caused
me to do it, but I started just

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going on a deep dive and I ended up
following his daughter on Instagram.

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Nice.

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Like, oh, she's doing some
amazing things over here.

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And I'm like, how sad and tragic for
her to lose her parents so young.

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But then I'm like, Wow,
she's doing some cool stuff.

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So I would just start
following her and I'm like,

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What's she up to?

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she has this whole Instagram.

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Uh, she's got some amazing photography
and yeah, well, I'll, I'll tag that later.

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We'll, we'll,

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we did it.

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go on that tangent.

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have to invite her out to the
Witch Movie Project screening.

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Yeah.

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It would be amazing.

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Right.

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To be like, Hey, in honor of your dad.

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I mean, I love Phil Hartman loves.

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Everything he did.

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So anyway, that's a whole, that's
a whole side thing, but he voices

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the cat is amazing job there.

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Um, he did some voiceover work
for cartoons and different,

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different animated features.

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Yes,

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Um, in his career.

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Um, but what's interesting to know about
the cast here, the English cast, right?

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Like, it was dubbed in English, um, by
English actors, which is what I focused

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on, because that's what I watched.

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But, uh, a young Josh Hutcherson as Markle
as a, uh, was in Howl's Moving Castle.

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Sorry, that was a different
list of cast list.

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But it's all right.

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This

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I was excited.

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Josh Hutcherson.

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Sorry.

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Sorry.

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I was excited.

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Oh, hey, you can, you can fangirl
out, but it's okay because to me

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these are the same It's the same.

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It's almost like, sure, it's
different movies, but you're

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in the same, you're in the same

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Oh, but there's so much
crossover here, right?

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And I was gonna say, um, Kirsten
Dunst, young Kirsten Dunst was,

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uh, a little kinky and, yeah,

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Speaking of Kiki, that's you.

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You're Kiki

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trying to be kinky today.

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love that.

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I just saw that.

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I just noticed that.

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Maybe did I just look at you?

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I don't even know.

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No, I did.

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So I, I pushed you a little bit
out of your comfort zone today,

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because we have been focusing quite
a bit, and I love Horror movies.

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Love the genre.

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But I thought, if we're gonna do a
witch movie project, we've got to at

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least acknowledge that there are role
models for witches, and the director

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of this movie, uh, these movies,
specifically does a great job of female

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role models that are really worth
putting out onto the front center stage.

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Like Kiki is 13.

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Yeah,

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And in this, in this make believe world,
13 is when young witches go out into

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the world and start their training,
which in a real life world, that's

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I'm not sure any place on earth where
that would be safe or encouraged for

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a 13 year old to be like, I'm going
out to make it in the world on my own.

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And this is why I love this movie, and
I have to say some of the movies I've

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picked for this project have been more
along the lines of, let's highlight

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what a witch really is, and that's
a woman in total control of herself.

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W. I. T. C. H.

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I

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Woman in total control of herself.

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That's Kiki, right?

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She's like, I'm 13, I'm
ready, put me out there.

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She gets on her broom, she's
like, packed her bags, she's

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flying into trees a little bit.

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Yeah, I love that part.

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Not quite confident on the broom.

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And then she does the little dip off

339
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Yeah.

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Oh, there she

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Yeah.

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And at one point in the movie, um,
cause we're going to skip around a

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little bit here today, but, um, she kind
of loses her powers when she kind of

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loses some, some confidence in herself.

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She realizes that she can't fly or
she's lost that, um, the natural

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ability to just take off on the broom.

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And, um, there's a scene where she's
like running down the hill and she keeps

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leaping into the air and then she falls.

349
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And I said, is this kind of
like dreams you have of flying?

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I don't know about anybody else, but
for me, when I have dreams of flying,

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sometimes I'm like, I know I'm supposed
to be able to fly, and I'm just like

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running and falling and like jumping.

353
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What's that?

354
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So you, you can interpret dreams.

355
00:15:37,274 --> 00:15:39,534
So what would that, what would
that dream interpretation be?

356
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Well, I think as far as how it plays a
part in the movie for Kiki, It really

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feels like it connects like that to me.

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Maybe it's like a message of my
subconscious saying you don't

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totally believe in yourself.

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You're thinking too hard trying
to make something happen when you

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really just need to let go of any
expectation or any, um, forcing it

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to happen and let it flow naturally.

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And that's when it will actually happen,
which is how Kiki remembers how to fly is

364
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she's like, I've been in my head too much.

365
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I've wanted it too much.

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And I need to remember what
it was that allowed me to be

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able to fly in the first place.

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Tap into those powers.

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Now she uses those powers
earlier in the movie.

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After almost a near traffic accident, and
they end up in the bustling seaside town

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there, they've got Kiki meeting Asono,

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Yes.

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baker's wife, I believe.

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00:16:41,669 --> 00:16:42,529
Pregnant, right?

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00:16:43,439 --> 00:16:43,559
Yes.

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Another independent woman
in charge of herself making

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success happen with a bakery.

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Love this.

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Love everything about this.

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Yeah, now did we know if Miyazaki, did
he make this with undertones of that?

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Of the building at the women, and

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He has been noted.

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00:17:07,459 --> 00:17:08,809
I've, I've seen a lot of reviews.

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It, it is noticeable that a lot of the
themes that he is chosen and, you know,

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not that he wrote the script or anything,
but he's chosen for his portrayal

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of women and girls and empowerment.

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in their characters as
the heroine of the story.

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00:17:25,309 --> 00:17:32,504
yeah, so, because I might cross the
line here, but There's a little bit

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of the animation and stuff in there
that feels a little bit sexualized.

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00:17:39,994 --> 00:17:41,144
It's different positions.

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00:17:41,144 --> 00:17:44,054
They've got the art in and it's

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00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:46,444
Yeah, it could be perceived that way.

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00:17:46,484 --> 00:17:49,694
And I, well, and I have to note
that, you know, when we first meet

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Tombo, um, the, the young boy who
ends up being a good friend to Kiki.

395
00:17:56,744 --> 00:18:00,354
I mean, so we'll forgive him
for that, but in the beginning

396
00:18:00,514 --> 00:18:02,324
he's a little pushy, right?

397
00:18:02,594 --> 00:18:03,824
He's trying to talk to her.

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00:18:03,824 --> 00:18:07,094
I think he's just really excited
that she's a and she can fly.

399
00:18:07,154 --> 00:18:10,304
And he is a, um, aviation

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00:18:11,134 --> 00:18:11,904
obsessed.

401
00:18:12,044 --> 00:18:12,634
obsessed.

402
00:18:12,644 --> 00:18:13,044
Yeah.

403
00:18:13,124 --> 00:18:13,304
Yeah.

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00:18:14,004 --> 00:18:14,394
person.

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00:18:14,394 --> 00:18:17,454
So yeah, he's, he's like,
Oh, hi, my name is Tombo.

406
00:18:17,454 --> 00:18:18,344
Well, like, what's your name?

407
00:18:18,344 --> 00:18:20,724
And like, and she's like,
please leave me alone.

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00:18:20,834 --> 00:18:21,524
I'm busy.

409
00:18:21,694 --> 00:18:23,774
And he's like, well, I
just want to talk to you.

410
00:18:23,784 --> 00:18:24,684
What's wrong with talking to you?

411
00:18:24,684 --> 00:18:27,314
I mean, he kind of like, he's like
that little dog in the cartoons.

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00:18:27,314 --> 00:18:32,484
This is like jumping around her and like,
kind of like, Hey, just like, and I, I

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00:18:32,514 --> 00:18:34,224
have to, I have to just point this out.

414
00:18:34,254 --> 00:18:38,664
Um, the first time we watched this movie,
I watched with my all my boys are young.

415
00:18:38,674 --> 00:18:42,454
And I said, Hey, I just
want you guys to know that.

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If a girl says, leave me alone, you do it

417
00:18:46,364 --> 00:18:46,644
Yeah.

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00:18:46,944 --> 00:18:47,539
right away.

419
00:18:48,239 --> 00:18:48,639
Okay.

420
00:18:49,089 --> 00:18:50,199
Consent, right?

421
00:18:50,299 --> 00:18:51,999
I'm teaching consent to my boys.

422
00:18:52,174 --> 00:18:55,089
We don't keep bothering people when
they say, please leave me alone.

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00:18:55,709 --> 00:18:57,959
They're setting a boundary
and you need to respect it.

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00:18:58,109 --> 00:19:02,179
And, um, so he kind of like wears on her.

425
00:19:02,189 --> 00:19:04,909
I mean, eventually throughout
the movie, he shows up as I'm

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really just a friend here to help.

427
00:19:06,739 --> 00:19:11,609
I, I, you know, I just want to
connect with you about flying.

428
00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:15,769
That's something we're both interested
in and it turns out he's a really

429
00:19:15,769 --> 00:19:16,859
good friend and that's great.

430
00:19:17,164 --> 00:19:21,094
Yeah, it's basically like Kiki,
she's starting to settle into her new

431
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life, basically of normalcy, and then
she's got this awkward friendship.

432
00:19:27,129 --> 00:19:31,089
Yeah, this boy that keeps
showing up and, but I mean, she's

433
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building these connections while
she's trying to do her training.

434
00:19:34,289 --> 00:19:36,649
So she doesn't know what her
specialty is going to be.

435
00:19:36,889 --> 00:19:39,799
She realizes flying is kind of the
only thing she knows how to do.

436
00:19:40,389 --> 00:19:44,709
So she creates, so she becomes
the delivery service and she,

437
00:19:44,769 --> 00:19:48,146
people pay her to deliver things
around town or into other towns.

438
00:19:48,624 --> 00:19:52,251
And, um, and also delivering bread
for the bakery while she gets

439
00:19:52,374 --> 00:19:53,644
to have room and board there.

440
00:19:53,654 --> 00:19:57,194
I mean, she's really making
her way little by little.

441
00:19:57,734 --> 00:20:02,357
Um, as we were talking about earlier off
camera, off recording, we were saying

442
00:20:02,474 --> 00:20:04,754
business is made by relationships.

443
00:20:04,964 --> 00:20:06,374
And that's what Kiki's doing.

444
00:20:06,463 --> 00:20:10,274
She's like, I'll do this for
you if you'll help me out here.

445
00:20:10,464 --> 00:20:15,769
And She meets the little old
ladies who help her out with a job.

446
00:20:15,889 --> 00:20:19,889
Later, she, yeah, she's building
these little relationships.

447
00:20:20,974 --> 00:20:22,704
And let me just throw this out there.

448
00:20:22,704 --> 00:20:26,804
When, when, um, when Tombow's
introduced, there's, there's a cameo.

449
00:20:29,614 --> 00:20:32,804
Hayao Miyazaki himself is
in the movie right there.

450
00:20:33,259 --> 00:20:33,984
Oh, I didn't know that!

451
00:20:34,284 --> 00:20:34,824
Oh yeah.

452
00:20:34,914 --> 00:20:35,224
Oh yeah,

453
00:20:35,399 --> 00:20:36,499
I need to watch it again now.

454
00:20:36,499 --> 00:20:38,029
Yeah,

455
00:20:38,034 --> 00:20:38,804
to go watch that.

456
00:20:40,164 --> 00:20:43,484
So Kiki hits some, some rough
patches and then she works to,

457
00:20:43,484 --> 00:20:45,564
you know, get her confidence back.

458
00:20:47,709 --> 00:20:51,949
she's basically, she's one
witch on a mission, all the

459
00:20:51,949 --> 00:20:54,269
way to the climactic rescue of

460
00:20:56,289 --> 00:21:02,409
Tombo, uh, her friend, her poor
little goofy, weird little friend.

461
00:21:04,199 --> 00:21:07,589
Um, she's, she believes she's
lost her powers at that point.

462
00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:09,849
So she's, you know, kind
of in a depressed state.

463
00:21:09,859 --> 00:21:11,449
She's stays in bed.

464
00:21:11,449 --> 00:21:13,819
She's sick for, for one of the scenes.

465
00:21:13,829 --> 00:21:17,139
And then she just kind of doesn't,
she loses confidence in herself

466
00:21:17,509 --> 00:21:18,979
as we all do from time to time.

467
00:21:19,709 --> 00:21:20,799
And, um, yeah.

468
00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:24,689
And yeah, ends up having to
rescue him because he's hanging

469
00:21:24,689 --> 00:21:26,159
from the, what do they call it?

470
00:21:26,159 --> 00:21:28,329
It's a blimp, but they use
a different word for it.

471
00:21:28,529 --> 00:21:29,739
the airship, I think, or something

472
00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:30,959
Airship, something like that.

473
00:21:30,959 --> 00:21:31,279
Yeah.

474
00:21:31,679 --> 00:21:34,029
Uh, yeah, uh,

475
00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:37,569
So here she is bouncing off of
like buildings on her broom.

476
00:21:37,659 --> 00:21:40,339
She has to like grab a broom
from someone because hers broke.

477
00:21:40,849 --> 00:21:44,839
Which, when you talk about sexualizing,
um, witches a little bit, I do, I

478
00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:50,959
will just point out that the idea of
bisms, which is the broom, uh, they,

479
00:21:51,019 --> 00:21:53,209
the broom itself was called bisms.

480
00:21:53,849 --> 00:22:00,019
And, um, broom is a, um, a type of herb
or grass that you use to make a bism with.

481
00:22:00,199 --> 00:22:01,809
So we all just call them brooms.

482
00:22:02,379 --> 00:22:08,129
Um, I actually just got together for
the fall equinox with some of my, um,

483
00:22:08,509 --> 00:22:11,439
I don't know if they would use the
term witchy friends, but they are,

484
00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:12,809
they're a little bit my witchy friends.

485
00:22:12,869 --> 00:22:15,439
And we made bisms for the fall equinox.

486
00:22:15,449 --> 00:22:20,109
So we burn the bisms from last year and
we create new ones for the new year.

487
00:22:20,159 --> 00:22:25,209
And they, they were used by
witches to clean their house.

488
00:22:25,919 --> 00:22:33,509
Um, literally clean the house, but also
cleanse the house of energies and, you

489
00:22:33,509 --> 00:22:38,199
know, anything negative, just hanging
out, but there is some correlation

490
00:22:38,199 --> 00:22:41,649
possibly with bismuth and, um, perhaps.

491
00:22:43,354 --> 00:22:49,494
Uh, a kind of sexual connotation to
brooms and what they might represent.

492
00:22:49,554 --> 00:22:52,674
So I'll leave you with the
imagination of what that might be.

493
00:22:53,059 --> 00:22:53,909
I see what you're saying.

494
00:22:53,919 --> 00:23:01,269
Now, Bezums, these aren't, these ones
that you, you, you packaged up or whatever

495
00:23:01,269 --> 00:23:04,199
you said back for the fall equinox.

496
00:23:04,589 --> 00:23:07,099
These, this is not stuff that you
bought down at the Hobby Lobby.

497
00:23:07,109 --> 00:23:10,054
Like, is this what you were
out forging in the forest

498
00:23:10,354 --> 00:23:10,774
Yeah.

499
00:23:10,834 --> 00:23:14,584
Well, I was, I was using those to make
witches torches, but yeah, we, we just

500
00:23:14,584 --> 00:23:18,184
go out, we get some grasses and some
leaves and some flowers and different

501
00:23:18,184 --> 00:23:19,504
things we wanna decorate it with.

502
00:23:20,154 --> 00:23:22,794
We have a, you know, a
stick and then we wrap it.

503
00:23:23,009 --> 00:23:26,139
And you can wrap charms and whatever
kinds of things you want in it.

504
00:23:26,204 --> 00:23:30,459
And it's just, whatever intention you
put into it, just like anything else.

505
00:23:30,569 --> 00:23:31,789
I mean, it can mean nothing.

506
00:23:31,829 --> 00:23:35,969
It can be a stick with a bunch of
leaves on it, or it can be, this is

507
00:23:35,989 --> 00:23:40,249
me putting my intention of what I
want for the new year and wrapping it

508
00:23:40,249 --> 00:23:42,669
up and like protection for my home.

509
00:23:43,409 --> 00:23:44,749
Whatever you intend for it to be.

510
00:23:46,199 --> 00:23:46,579
Love that.

511
00:23:46,579 --> 00:23:47,599
Let's go back to Kiki.

512
00:23:48,259 --> 00:23:50,389
gotta ask you about when
she loses those powers.

513
00:23:50,389 --> 00:23:52,159
Did you think she
actually lost the powers?

514
00:23:52,369 --> 00:23:53,399
Or was it just in her head?

515
00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:56,419
She can't even talk to the cat anymore.

516
00:23:56,449 --> 00:23:57,429
Like, GG.

517
00:23:58,594 --> 00:24:02,119
So did she actually lose them or was it a

518
00:24:04,469 --> 00:24:05,559
in her head type thing?

519
00:24:05,619 --> 00:24:07,479
Like, like you said, did she
just have to get over it?

520
00:24:08,589 --> 00:24:13,429
Well, this is where her friendship with,
um, Ursula, who is the sort of artist

521
00:24:13,439 --> 00:24:16,639
that lives out in the cabin in the
woods, which by the way, I mean, we never

522
00:24:16,639 --> 00:24:18,329
point out that she's a witch as well.

523
00:24:18,629 --> 00:24:18,989
Yeah.

524
00:24:19,609 --> 00:24:21,989
She would never, she would
not name herself a witch.

525
00:24:22,374 --> 00:24:24,604
But, I mean, how is Ursula not a witch?

526
00:24:24,614 --> 00:24:29,654
She's out in the woods
creating magic with her art.

527
00:24:29,724 --> 00:24:35,664
I mean, and this is where, again, the
visual artistry of these movies comes

528
00:24:35,664 --> 00:24:40,735
into play because when Kiki walks into
that cabin and sees that Ursula's been

529
00:24:40,784 --> 00:24:46,474
working on a portrait of her in the sky
with like a pegasus and it's just, I

530
00:24:46,474 --> 00:24:52,499
mean, it took my breath away and it's
just like, I'm just like, she's making

531
00:24:52,509 --> 00:24:58,429
magic in the woods, sketching out this
art and making art with, you know,

532
00:24:58,429 --> 00:25:03,779
with her skills and, and she explains
to Kiki like, hey, you know, when I

533
00:25:03,799 --> 00:25:08,774
started, when I started doing art when
I was little, It's all I could do.

534
00:25:08,804 --> 00:25:09,894
It was all I wanted to do.

535
00:25:09,904 --> 00:25:12,074
It's all I thought about all day long.

536
00:25:12,954 --> 00:25:16,334
But then she reached a point at some
point where she started to doubt

537
00:25:16,344 --> 00:25:20,464
herself or she started to think too hard
about whether her art was good or not.

538
00:25:21,994 --> 00:25:24,984
And it, she lost confidence and
she didn't want to do it anymore.

539
00:25:25,034 --> 00:25:28,054
And she felt like everything
she drawed was, you know, Crap,

540
00:25:28,064 --> 00:25:29,404
like it just wasn't working.

541
00:25:29,544 --> 00:25:35,724
And the, and relating to how Kiki has lost
her powers, I think you're right in saying

542
00:25:35,724 --> 00:25:38,324
it's in her head, and it's also real.

543
00:25:38,394 --> 00:25:41,774
Like she lost those powers
because it's in her head, right?

544
00:25:43,539 --> 00:25:44,329
She got them back.

545
00:25:44,549 --> 00:25:47,979
She fully integrates into the
community, got confidence back.

546
00:25:49,064 --> 00:25:53,226
She's one successful delivery service,
one broomstick, one talking cat,

547
00:25:53,226 --> 00:25:55,605
one happy witch, roll the credits.

548
00:25:55,605 --> 00:25:56,002
Right.

549
00:25:56,002 --> 00:25:56,795
That's it.

550
00:25:56,795 --> 00:25:57,589
And then.

551
00:25:59,654 --> 00:26:00,214
That's it.

552
00:26:00,691 --> 00:26:01,354
a

553
00:26:01,474 --> 00:26:02,394
there you have it.

554
00:26:02,934 --> 00:26:03,634
Love it.

555
00:26:05,739 --> 00:26:06,759
a beautiful movie though.

556
00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:09,794
And then you got Howl's Moving
Castle to me in the same realm.

557
00:26:10,449 --> 00:26:17,119
Same director, um, different premise,
but you still got wit, you got witches

558
00:26:17,449 --> 00:26:18,119
Mm hmm.

559
00:26:18,269 --> 00:26:18,759
and

560
00:26:19,059 --> 00:26:20,499
Magicians, magical people.

561
00:26:21,729 --> 00:26:22,539
turnip heads,

562
00:26:23,289 --> 00:26:23,589
Yeah.

563
00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:24,769
turnip heads.

564
00:26:25,819 --> 00:26:29,379
Okay, so I already kind of teased it
because I accidentally said the wrong,

565
00:26:29,719 --> 00:26:34,689
the wrong movie, but Josh Hutchison
in the cast in Howl's Moving Castle

566
00:26:34,719 --> 00:26:38,989
of the little boy Markle, which was
supposed to be Michael, but I think

567
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,269
in the translation of how to say
Michael, um, it didn't work out.

568
00:26:43,269 --> 00:26:45,069
So his name ended up being Markle.

569
00:26:46,439 --> 00:26:47,689
So that's how that came about.

570
00:26:47,789 --> 00:26:50,049
But, um, but Christian Bale.

571
00:26:51,704 --> 00:26:55,764
This is the second Batman to do
voiceover work for the studios.

572
00:26:55,934 --> 00:27:02,804
Michael Keaton was in another, um,
movie of, um, the same studios.

573
00:27:03,649 --> 00:27:04,319
There's a million

574
00:27:04,344 --> 00:27:04,874
Ghibli.

575
00:27:04,989 --> 00:27:05,199
this

576
00:27:05,414 --> 00:27:05,774
Yeah.

577
00:27:05,779 --> 00:27:06,119
seen.

578
00:27:06,209 --> 00:27:06,539
Yeah.

579
00:27:06,864 --> 00:27:09,064
I, I think I say Ghibli, but
I'm not sure if that's right.

580
00:27:09,064 --> 00:27:14,734
Because again, we're not like super huge
fan, like, so the fandom of the studios

581
00:27:14,754 --> 00:27:16,564
can, can forgive us maybe a little bit.

582
00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:17,994
Yeah.

583
00:27:18,064 --> 00:27:21,384
Um, Emily Mortimer
playing the young Sophie

584
00:27:21,949 --> 00:27:22,349
Yeah.

585
00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:23,204
in this.

586
00:27:23,254 --> 00:27:23,629
And

587
00:27:24,134 --> 00:27:25,399
Christian Bale's Hal.

588
00:27:25,399 --> 00:27:25,719
He is

589
00:27:25,824 --> 00:27:26,744
yes, is how.

590
00:27:26,904 --> 00:27:27,354
Correct.

591
00:27:27,374 --> 00:27:27,764
Yeah.

592
00:27:27,974 --> 00:27:28,314
Ugh.

593
00:27:28,709 --> 00:27:34,779
And I mean, for all of those, uh,
romanticy readers out there, Howl's

594
00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:42,519
Moving Castle is, like, right in there
with, like, um, you know, fantasy romance

595
00:27:42,849 --> 00:27:46,509
genre of, like, heroes with wings,

596
00:27:46,949 --> 00:27:47,309
Yeah.

597
00:27:47,819 --> 00:27:54,519
you know, strapping handsome men
with fey magical powers who can turn

598
00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,269
themselves into a bird or whatever.

599
00:27:57,059 --> 00:27:59,974
Like, It's all right up
our alley, so we love it.

600
00:28:00,549 --> 00:28:04,179
Go through the rest of those
people that are voices in this.

601
00:28:04,269 --> 00:28:06,074
Also,

602
00:28:06,374 --> 00:28:07,904
we have Gene, uh, let's see.

603
00:28:07,924 --> 00:28:09,554
Gene Simmons, Old Sophie.

604
00:28:10,979 --> 00:28:16,149
In the Japanese version, the same
actress does Young Sophie and Old Sophie.

605
00:28:16,209 --> 00:28:19,599
But in the English dubbed version,
they have two different actresses.

606
00:28:21,099 --> 00:28:26,639
the same voice actress that played
Kiki did Ursula in the first movie.

607
00:28:26,989 --> 00:28:28,529
She did the same, she did both voices.

608
00:28:28,829 --> 00:28:29,419
Oh, wow.

609
00:28:30,099 --> 00:28:32,819
I was also saying Billy
Crystal played Calcifer in

610
00:28:32,869 --> 00:28:33,119
Yeah!

611
00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:34,959
Oh, yeah.

612
00:28:35,259 --> 00:28:36,369
up his voice instantly.

613
00:28:36,369 --> 00:28:36,939
I was like, Oh my gosh.

614
00:28:37,459 --> 00:28:39,059
That's one of those that, like, yeah.

615
00:28:39,129 --> 00:28:42,599
And, and, and I was just watching
the, um, our third bonus movie,

616
00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:44,909
Spirited Away, last night.

617
00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:51,794
Um, the cast was not quite as well
known to me, but, um, But, the, the

618
00:28:51,804 --> 00:28:57,244
voice of the guy that does the dragon,
and I was like, oh, that voice!

619
00:28:58,154 --> 00:29:00,694
So like, before I looked it up,
I was just listening to it going,

620
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:03,144
that's so familiar, who is that?

621
00:29:03,284 --> 00:29:04,724
Oh, that's, I, yeah.

622
00:29:05,284 --> 00:29:08,954
So, Billy Crystal, that's definitely
one that you listen to when

623
00:29:08,954 --> 00:29:10,294
you're like, oh, I know that one!

624
00:29:10,379 --> 00:29:10,549
that.

625
00:29:10,594 --> 00:29:11,659
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

626
00:29:11,744 --> 00:29:12,074
sure.

627
00:29:13,309 --> 00:29:16,069
you got anything else on the cast
there before we get into the movie?

628
00:29:16,704 --> 00:29:20,714
No, I think we'll get into Howl's
Moving Castle, we'll focus, focus!

629
00:29:22,744 --> 00:29:23,514
We got this.

630
00:29:23,774 --> 00:29:26,154
Howl's Moving Castle is incredible.

631
00:29:26,524 --> 00:29:30,394
I mean, I really like, I forgot how much
I liked it and then I watched it again

632
00:29:30,394 --> 00:29:33,534
and I was like, Oh, this movie is amazing.

633
00:29:34,654 --> 00:29:34,944
Uh,

634
00:29:36,109 --> 00:29:38,929
animation right off
the jump is incredible.

635
00:29:39,489 --> 00:29:41,049
Hooks you, brings you in.

636
00:29:42,254 --> 00:29:46,404
We got basically in the first
little bit of the movie, you've

637
00:29:46,424 --> 00:29:50,794
got Sophie, Sophie's a witch or not

638
00:29:50,804 --> 00:29:51,204
yes.

639
00:29:51,474 --> 00:29:51,874
Okay.

640
00:29:52,124 --> 00:29:55,464
So that's, that's up for debate.

641
00:29:55,611 --> 00:29:59,244
However, I will say that this,
Howl's Moving Castle was, um,

642
00:30:00,164 --> 00:30:02,074
it was inspired by a book.

643
00:30:02,084 --> 00:30:07,924
Howl's Moving Castle was a novel by Diana
Wynne Jones, um, who wrote the book.

644
00:30:07,954 --> 00:30:10,324
And in the book, Sophie has powers.

645
00:30:11,754 --> 00:30:13,254
And she has a fire demon.

646
00:30:14,754 --> 00:30:17,764
I don't know if it's Calcifer,
but she has her own fire demon.

647
00:30:17,854 --> 00:30:20,004
So, I haven't read the novel, I
don't know how that works, but

648
00:30:20,374 --> 00:30:22,164
she does have powers of her own.

649
00:30:22,564 --> 00:30:26,344
And they decided when making the movie,
they adapted it, they changed some things.

650
00:30:26,404 --> 00:30:30,584
Um, the author was still really incredibly
happy with how everything turned out.

651
00:30:30,594 --> 00:30:33,704
She was very, like, supportive
of them making changes.

652
00:30:34,594 --> 00:30:36,199
But that was one thing that
was a little bit different.

653
00:30:37,724 --> 00:30:42,124
When you watch the movie, it feels
like Sophie doesn't have powers.

654
00:30:42,284 --> 00:30:48,204
However, I would dare say that
definitely she has powers.

655
00:30:48,534 --> 00:30:48,924
Okay.

656
00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:49,714
Okay.

657
00:30:50,114 --> 00:30:51,454
But it's not concrete.

658
00:30:51,464 --> 00:30:53,424
Like this is up for debate.

659
00:30:53,594 --> 00:30:56,144
May not look like the
way that Howl has powers.

660
00:30:56,174 --> 00:30:59,254
It may not look like the way that
the Witch of the Waste has powers,

661
00:30:59,264 --> 00:31:06,194
but she has influence in a certain
way that is undeniable, right?

662
00:31:06,364 --> 00:31:10,849
And several times they say things
like, She comes right in and she

663
00:31:11,029 --> 00:31:14,969
starts like, um, I don't know,
kind of bossing Calcifier around.

664
00:31:14,979 --> 00:31:18,859
She's like, do this, do this, and
you know, here, move there, do this.

665
00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:25,229
And she shakes up the castle,
Markle, Calcifier, Howl that lived

666
00:31:25,229 --> 00:31:26,499
together there in the castle.

667
00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:30,049
Like, she shakes things up, and
they're like, wow, Calcifier doesn't

668
00:31:30,059 --> 00:31:31,334
usually listen to anybody else.

669
00:31:31,634 --> 00:31:31,984
Yeah.

670
00:31:33,429 --> 00:31:37,359
So how can you deny that she doesn't have
some influence on how this all plays out?

671
00:31:38,064 --> 00:31:39,584
And calcifer is a fire demon.

672
00:31:39,584 --> 00:31:44,564
So if he's listening, then
she's probably got some sort of

673
00:31:45,524 --> 00:31:47,424
supernatural control or something.

674
00:31:47,424 --> 00:31:47,724
Right.

675
00:31:48,129 --> 00:31:50,589
She has some authority, for sure.

676
00:31:51,209 --> 00:31:54,799
And I want to point out, so as we're
going through the movie, we start out,

677
00:31:55,029 --> 00:32:01,299
so we have, again, Sophie as a young,
in the beginning, she's a young girl,

678
00:32:01,539 --> 00:32:06,854
she makes hats in her father's hat
shop, and Um, and she's moving through

679
00:32:06,854 --> 00:32:11,584
the city, she gets cornered by some
soldiers, and they're harassing her.

680
00:32:12,034 --> 00:32:15,744
So we have kind of a similar situation
in what was going on with Kiki, where

681
00:32:15,754 --> 00:32:19,184
she's getting kind of bombarded by
Tombo and she's like, leave me alone.

682
00:32:20,154 --> 00:32:21,764
But Sophie's not strong enough.

683
00:32:22,449 --> 00:32:24,079
in herself yet to say something.

684
00:32:24,079 --> 00:32:25,179
She's very meek.

685
00:32:25,269 --> 00:32:27,919
You can see her kind of being
scared and they're like, Ooh,

686
00:32:27,929 --> 00:32:29,709
what's the little mouse afraid of?

687
00:32:29,729 --> 00:32:31,619
Oh, she's even cuter when she's scared.

688
00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:36,494
And again, I had to point out,
I'm like, Hey, this is not okay.

689
00:32:36,794 --> 00:32:37,154
Yeah.

690
00:32:37,264 --> 00:32:37,644
Yeah.

691
00:32:37,944 --> 00:32:39,729
We don't act like this to people.

692
00:32:39,779 --> 00:32:41,959
Uh, you know, it's a good rule.

693
00:32:42,054 --> 00:32:44,249
those are grown men to a little girl too.

694
00:32:44,549 --> 00:32:45,039
Yeah.

695
00:32:45,179 --> 00:32:47,619
It's borderline uncomfortable
to watch that part,

696
00:32:47,979 --> 00:32:52,259
Yeah, and I mean it being a family
movie it's like, this is interesting

697
00:32:52,269 --> 00:32:56,469
that we're showing this kind of side of
things where it can be like, this is how

698
00:32:56,479 --> 00:33:03,669
women feel all the time, as opposed to
how Kiki feels, confident, 13 years old.

699
00:33:04,144 --> 00:33:06,284
Going out into the world
to make her fortune.

700
00:33:06,294 --> 00:33:07,894
Go out and do her thing.

701
00:33:07,894 --> 00:33:08,914
She's not scared at all.

702
00:33:09,614 --> 00:33:12,124
But, I mean, Sophie has
reason to be scared.

703
00:33:12,124 --> 00:33:14,214
She's like, there's soldiers everywhere.

704
00:33:15,169 --> 00:33:17,159
There's a war, there's a war going on

705
00:33:17,504 --> 00:33:17,814
Yeah.

706
00:33:17,814 --> 00:33:20,354
And the war plays a pretty,
pretty big part of the movie too.

707
00:33:20,474 --> 00:33:20,754
Yeah.

708
00:33:21,169 --> 00:33:24,109
and right here though, Sophie
goes into the hat shop.

709
00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:27,789
We gotta mention this, it's at the
very beginning of the movie, early on.

710
00:33:28,949 --> 00:33:32,999
Soul lady walks in, tells her
she's tacky, tells her she's

711
00:33:33,009 --> 00:33:34,209
the tackiest thing in there.

712
00:33:35,039 --> 00:33:37,569
She tells her to leave, and
then she does this thing and

713
00:33:37,699 --> 00:33:40,929
basically whooshes through Sophie.

714
00:33:41,629 --> 00:33:45,109
And It puts a spell on her.

715
00:33:45,169 --> 00:33:47,079
And we find out that this
is the witch of the waste.

716
00:33:48,209 --> 00:33:53,979
this spell turns her into an old
It basically, she looks like a

717
00:33:53,979 --> 00:33:55,589
witch that you think would be

718
00:33:56,354 --> 00:33:56,704
Yeah.

719
00:33:57,004 --> 00:33:57,694
witch, really.

720
00:33:57,994 --> 00:33:58,224
Yeah.

721
00:33:58,474 --> 00:34:02,244
And she looks similar to
the witch in Spirited Away.

722
00:34:02,629 --> 00:34:08,029
There's a witch with like, I mean, kind
of exaggerated wrinkles, really large

723
00:34:08,049 --> 00:34:14,209
nose, like, that kind of look, um, which
I love about the animation too, I just

724
00:34:14,209 --> 00:34:16,589
have to point out, I love the detail.

725
00:34:17,319 --> 00:34:22,059
I mean, just take a moment, free stream
any part of this movie, any, these

726
00:34:22,059 --> 00:34:23,999
movies, and look at the background.

727
00:34:24,299 --> 00:34:24,639
Yeah.

728
00:34:24,794 --> 00:34:29,024
Like the setting, the carpet, the
rugs, the molding on the, on the

729
00:34:29,234 --> 00:34:32,724
walls, just everything is so detailed.

730
00:34:33,264 --> 00:34:37,984
Before, you know, CGI was used
probably, it was, it's, it's real art.

731
00:34:38,119 --> 00:34:40,239
I don't, did we even mention Miyazaki?

732
00:34:40,249 --> 00:34:41,399
He's an artist as well.

733
00:34:41,609 --> 00:34:43,369
He's not just the director.

734
00:34:43,369 --> 00:34:47,681
Like he's, you know, that's an
incredible talent to be able to put

735
00:34:47,769 --> 00:34:51,269
all that together and bring these
worlds, this universe together.

736
00:34:51,749 --> 00:34:53,719
together, which is, that's
what a lot of anime is.

737
00:34:53,729 --> 00:34:56,259
You mentioned earlier, Pokemon and
all that, which you're going to

738
00:34:57,009 --> 00:34:58,309
make a lot of people mad there.

739
00:34:58,309 --> 00:35:00,334
We're going to have some hate mail you

740
00:35:00,379 --> 00:35:01,009
That's okay.

741
00:35:01,069 --> 00:35:01,969
You go right ahead.

742
00:35:02,149 --> 00:35:04,159
My son already gives it to me every day.

743
00:35:04,399 --> 00:35:06,169
He's like, Mom, I love Pokemon so much.

744
00:35:06,179 --> 00:35:07,849
And I'm like, yeah, this is great.

745
00:35:08,549 --> 00:35:09,399
You know what though?

746
00:35:09,439 --> 00:35:13,319
I started thinking about this and I was
like, me saying, Oh, I don't like anime.

747
00:35:13,319 --> 00:35:16,059
I'm a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda.

748
00:35:16,119 --> 00:35:17,159
I like, I've played those games.

749
00:35:17,169 --> 00:35:17,819
That's anime.

750
00:35:17,919 --> 00:35:18,099
That's

751
00:35:18,219 --> 00:35:18,589
Yeah.

752
00:35:18,699 --> 00:35:18,839
I

753
00:35:19,079 --> 00:35:21,289
I've been playing that
stuff for 20 plus years.

754
00:35:21,729 --> 00:35:23,279
think we're bigger fans
than we think we are.

755
00:35:23,849 --> 00:35:26,799
we are, and I think it's, I think
it really got, I don't want to

756
00:35:26,799 --> 00:35:30,039
go off on a tangent, but it got a
bad rap somewhere along the way.

757
00:35:30,989 --> 00:35:32,489
it either, it was polarizing.

758
00:35:32,529 --> 00:35:36,579
Maybe it's the same type of situation
that certain fan bases have of

759
00:35:36,579 --> 00:35:39,789
stuff that it almost turns other
people off to what they're doing.

760
00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:40,479
Yeah.

761
00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:40,759
know.

762
00:35:41,249 --> 00:35:44,751
Well, I think what I'm trying
to say is I'm happy to be wrong.

763
00:35:45,339 --> 00:35:50,239
I'm completely letting my bias out there.

764
00:35:50,269 --> 00:35:53,479
I'm admitting that I had bias
against it and it wasn't fair

765
00:35:53,839 --> 00:35:55,119
and that was wrong of me.

766
00:35:55,399 --> 00:36:02,469
And I apologize to all the anime and,
and fans of anime forever and ever,

767
00:36:02,469 --> 00:36:04,789
because I'm a, I, like, I'm, I'm in now.

768
00:36:05,129 --> 00:36:05,479
Same

769
00:36:05,639 --> 00:36:08,599
I've been transformed by these movies.

770
00:36:08,749 --> 00:36:09,169
Same here.

771
00:36:09,169 --> 00:36:10,629
She speaks for me out there.

772
00:36:10,629 --> 00:36:11,469
She speaks for me.

773
00:36:11,469 --> 00:36:15,969
And thank you to Max, HBO Max, for, for
recommending me nothing but anime now,

774
00:36:15,999 --> 00:36:17,129
because that's what it is across the,

775
00:36:17,569 --> 00:36:20,659
It's all the, like, you
liked that, watch this next.

776
00:36:20,689 --> 00:36:22,309
I'm like, okay, I will.

777
00:36:22,659 --> 00:36:23,829
And you better believe I will.

778
00:36:24,234 --> 00:36:26,059
Yeah, the detail.

779
00:36:26,359 --> 00:36:26,659
back to

780
00:36:26,764 --> 00:36:32,174
So we have like, the wrinkles in her
face, the details, and like, just,

781
00:36:32,214 --> 00:36:37,814
and, um, and I will point out then, you
see old Sophie start this adventure.

782
00:36:38,894 --> 00:36:39,854
Old Sophie!

783
00:36:39,884 --> 00:36:45,474
She's, she wakes up, she's like 90 years
old in her body, she can't even stand up

784
00:36:45,474 --> 00:36:51,344
straight, she's so old, and, and crooked,
and bent, and, and she's, you hear her

785
00:36:51,344 --> 00:36:53,414
pain, she's like, oh, this old body.

786
00:36:53,414 --> 00:36:53,784
Old Sophie!

787
00:36:54,144 --> 00:36:57,474
And I'm actually, I'm so impressed
that she looks in the mirror

788
00:36:59,674 --> 00:37:01,414
that first day and she's like,

789
00:37:02,809 --> 00:37:03,109
Yeah.

790
00:37:03,114 --> 00:37:04,224
we can work with this.

791
00:37:04,684 --> 00:37:06,404
I was like, really?

792
00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:07,499
Yeah.

793
00:37:07,554 --> 00:37:09,464
I woke up and I was 90 the next day.

794
00:37:09,514 --> 00:37:12,784
I'd be like, Oh my gosh,
what am I going to do?

795
00:37:13,834 --> 00:37:15,194
I mean, I'm a little bit vain.

796
00:37:15,234 --> 00:37:16,594
I'll just, I'll be honest.

797
00:37:16,664 --> 00:37:18,944
I want to look young forever, but.

798
00:37:20,579 --> 00:37:21,539
I love this.

799
00:37:21,659 --> 00:37:24,549
I love that she loves herself old.

800
00:37:25,689 --> 00:37:28,409
And you see a different Sophie
from when she was the scared

801
00:37:28,409 --> 00:37:29,564
little mouse in the beginning.

802
00:37:29,899 --> 00:37:31,599
She becomes brave.

803
00:37:32,069 --> 00:37:34,689
She goes out and she
starts this adventure.

804
00:37:34,759 --> 00:37:38,189
She is not even afraid to
jump on Howl's moving castle.

805
00:37:38,729 --> 00:37:42,679
Which she thought was someone,
um, the rumors are that Howl

806
00:37:42,729 --> 00:37:45,219
eats the hearts of young girls.

807
00:37:45,499 --> 00:37:49,244
Like, She eats their hearts and
she's like, well, now that I'm old,

808
00:37:49,244 --> 00:37:50,404
I guess I have nothing to fear.

809
00:37:50,474 --> 00:37:53,684
And she just hops right in and I love it.

810
00:37:54,629 --> 00:38:00,549
And not only that, but she moves in to
the castle and just gets comfortable.

811
00:38:03,274 --> 00:38:03,459
Things

812
00:38:03,574 --> 00:38:04,414
But she's not,

813
00:38:04,714 --> 00:38:09,959
earlier, people start to listen to her
and you have, you even have the witch

814
00:38:09,959 --> 00:38:11,819
of the waste moving in with her, right?

815
00:38:12,119 --> 00:38:14,924
oh gosh, that part of the movie.

816
00:38:14,974 --> 00:38:21,054
Oh, she kept saying, if I ever see that
witch of the wastes, I'm gonna, and

817
00:38:21,054 --> 00:38:23,124
she's like mad at her for cursing her.

818
00:38:23,724 --> 00:38:27,334
But by the end, when all the things
have happened and we were, you know,

819
00:38:27,684 --> 00:38:29,404
lots of, lots of things have happened.

820
00:38:29,684 --> 00:38:31,134
But, eventually.

821
00:38:31,424 --> 00:38:38,394
This poor witch of the waste, who is
like, I don't know, senile by this point.

822
00:38:38,454 --> 00:38:41,724
And just like, I mean, then
Sophie has such a good heart.

823
00:38:41,734 --> 00:38:44,534
She's like, well, I mean,
she's not threatening anymore.

824
00:38:44,534 --> 00:38:45,954
She has no powers anymore.

825
00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:50,174
Um, I'm going to, there's the scene
where she's spoon feeding her.

826
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:50,769
Yeah,

827
00:38:51,184 --> 00:38:51,704
Did you see that?

828
00:38:51,854 --> 00:38:52,304
Oh,

829
00:38:53,049 --> 00:39:01,929
you talking about she's helping a
another witch that took 70, 80 years

830
00:39:01,929 --> 00:39:06,589
off her life and even a question helping

831
00:39:06,664 --> 00:39:08,584
just helping her and enjoying.

832
00:39:08,594 --> 00:39:08,914
Yeah.

833
00:39:08,974 --> 00:39:11,554
They welcome her into Howl's
castle and there she is.

834
00:39:11,554 --> 00:39:17,464
Um, at one point Howl even
says, I'm having dinner.

835
00:39:17,934 --> 00:39:22,574
with my sworn enemy, the witch of
the waste and you know, everybody

836
00:39:22,574 --> 00:39:28,514
who's at that table and he's like,
all right, he's like, I guess.

837
00:39:29,519 --> 00:39:30,524
the, and

838
00:39:30,689 --> 00:39:31,899
brings me to this point.

839
00:39:31,929 --> 00:39:34,259
So this is Sophie's powers.

840
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:36,799
Okay, so we're talking
about is she a witch?

841
00:39:36,799 --> 00:39:37,389
Is she not?

842
00:39:38,539 --> 00:39:41,859
Howell, even though he is kind
of the hero of the story, he's

843
00:39:41,869 --> 00:39:43,829
against the war that's happening.

844
00:39:44,659 --> 00:39:47,939
There's been a, um, a kidnapping
of a prince in the neighboring

845
00:39:47,959 --> 00:39:49,639
kingdom and now they're at war.

846
00:39:49,709 --> 00:39:50,499
War is happening.

847
00:39:50,499 --> 00:39:56,029
This is very anti war, um, novel or
message and Howell's against the war,

848
00:39:56,029 --> 00:39:57,749
so he's kind of fighting against it.

849
00:39:57,994 --> 00:40:02,044
But he admits he's scared
and he's been running.

850
00:40:02,234 --> 00:40:05,874
And the reason why he plays these
different aliases and he has a

851
00:40:06,111 --> 00:40:09,464
moving castle is because he's
scared and he's not really willing

852
00:40:09,464 --> 00:40:15,224
to face, face up to responsibility
for where he needs to do that.

853
00:40:16,224 --> 00:40:22,584
And he says, because Sophie goes in for
him to see the king, And he shows up and

854
00:40:22,584 --> 00:40:24,584
she's like, well, why did you make me go?

855
00:40:24,584 --> 00:40:26,044
If you were going to show up anyway?

856
00:40:26,044 --> 00:40:28,694
And he's like, you gave
me this confidence.

857
00:40:28,694 --> 00:40:33,184
You gave me the strength I needed
to face my fears and come and face

858
00:40:35,364 --> 00:40:37,654
this, you know, and not avoid it anymore.

859
00:40:38,699 --> 00:40:42,749
and that's an incredible thing
for, for to happen be said.

860
00:40:42,929 --> 00:40:44,699
It's a huge theme of the movie.

861
00:40:44,699 --> 00:40:44,979
Really.

862
00:40:45,424 --> 00:40:45,824
Yeah.

863
00:40:45,934 --> 00:40:48,324
Facing your fears, not being scared.

864
00:40:48,544 --> 00:40:48,834
And.

865
00:40:50,549 --> 00:40:52,979
Yeah, it's an incredible theme.

866
00:40:53,919 --> 00:40:58,629
another theme of underlying theme is the
fact that Sophie does take care of the

867
00:40:58,629 --> 00:41:01,469
witch of the waste and there's calcifer.

868
00:41:02,649 --> 00:41:03,649
It's to me.

869
00:41:04,399 --> 00:41:07,179
that when you're in high
school, it's that outcast group.

870
00:41:07,789 --> 00:41:08,279
Mm hmm.

871
00:41:08,574 --> 00:41:09,244
it's the clique.

872
00:41:09,284 --> 00:41:12,034
It's the people who are like, Oh,
that's the skater kids or the,

873
00:41:12,044 --> 00:41:17,494
you know, the goth kids, but they
kind of take on that themselves.

874
00:41:17,574 --> 00:41:19,754
And that maybe that's why Sophie
helped out the Witch of the Waves.

875
00:41:19,754 --> 00:41:23,344
She's like, she's just
as bad off as I am now.

876
00:41:23,354 --> 00:41:24,714
It doesn't matter that she did it to me.

877
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:29,524
If I don't help her, no one will.

878
00:41:29,714 --> 00:41:31,944
And at the same time, it's a bonus

879
00:41:32,039 --> 00:41:32,409
Yeah.

880
00:41:32,734 --> 00:41:33,584
you know, so.

881
00:41:33,584 --> 00:41:35,064
Oh,

882
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:39,779
this already in when they meet up at
the castle to meet up with the king.

883
00:41:41,169 --> 00:41:45,269
The Witch of the Waste is there and
she's not, still not very kind to Sophie.

884
00:41:45,489 --> 00:41:51,069
She's, you know, talking to her and
then they have to climb that staircase.

885
00:41:51,564 --> 00:41:52,889
The staircase scene is pretty amazing.

886
00:41:53,579 --> 00:41:58,679
One of my favorites in the whole movie,
watching Sophie, this old woman, just, you

887
00:41:58,679 --> 00:42:02,919
know, ooh, bones creaking and she's just
huffing and puffing, and then she carries,

888
00:42:02,959 --> 00:42:04,764
she goes back down and grabs the dog,

889
00:42:05,064 --> 00:42:05,584
Yeah.

890
00:42:05,884 --> 00:42:09,769
carrying the dog with her up the
stairs, and then the Witch of the

891
00:42:09,769 --> 00:42:14,509
Waste is just sweating bullets.

892
00:42:14,509 --> 00:42:17,899
I mean, the, again, the detail in
the animation here is phenomenal.

893
00:42:17,969 --> 00:42:18,749
Fantastic.

894
00:42:18,749 --> 00:42:24,409
She's just, you know, you see like
her neck is melting into her body.

895
00:42:26,134 --> 00:42:26,834
Intense.

896
00:42:27,179 --> 00:42:28,579
I loved this.

897
00:42:28,639 --> 00:42:29,839
I loved this whole scene.

898
00:42:29,849 --> 00:42:33,009
And then every scene after that showed
the Witch of the Waste after she had

899
00:42:33,009 --> 00:42:34,889
been, her powers were stripped of her.

900
00:42:34,889 --> 00:42:39,519
She looks completely different in
her face and every scene where you

901
00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:44,259
see her face and she's just sitting
there like, Oh, with her little nose.

902
00:42:44,649 --> 00:42:47,939
And I mean, this is where anybody
listening right now, who hasn't seen

903
00:42:47,939 --> 00:42:50,149
these movies, please go see these movies.

904
00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:50,589
It is.

905
00:42:51,219 --> 00:42:51,939
Incredible.

906
00:42:52,089 --> 00:42:53,879
It's just, I love it.

907
00:42:53,899 --> 00:42:54,109
of them.

908
00:42:54,269 --> 00:42:54,909
All three of them.

909
00:42:55,009 --> 00:42:55,409
All three.

910
00:42:55,459 --> 00:42:55,529
I

911
00:42:55,759 --> 00:42:56,189
All three.

912
00:42:56,319 --> 00:42:59,289
I haven't seen, what is it, Spirited Away?

913
00:42:59,589 --> 00:43:02,709
Spirited Away is our, like,
third we have to mention bonus.

914
00:43:03,089 --> 00:43:03,449
Yeah,

915
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:08,509
There is a witch in Spirited Away
who owns a bathhouse for the spirits.

916
00:43:08,819 --> 00:43:09,289
Okay.

917
00:43:09,399 --> 00:43:13,494
the spirits come to relax and rejuvenate.

918
00:43:14,594 --> 00:43:16,774
And the movie is again
about a little girl.

919
00:43:17,004 --> 00:43:19,234
So we have this little
girl who's the heroine.

920
00:43:19,294 --> 00:43:25,054
She and her parents, um, walk
through a tunnel and it becomes

921
00:43:25,054 --> 00:43:26,654
a portal into another world.

922
00:43:26,674 --> 00:43:27,749
And it's a spirit world.

923
00:43:28,049 --> 00:43:28,349
Hmm.

924
00:43:28,649 --> 00:43:30,284
unfortunately the parents eat the food.

925
00:43:30,324 --> 00:43:34,004
And I guess you're not supposed to do
that to spirit food because they turn

926
00:43:34,004 --> 00:43:40,174
into pigs and they're kind of kidnapped
by the witch, um, in this movie.

927
00:43:40,864 --> 00:43:44,964
And I'll just briefly mention it
because All of these movies have

928
00:43:44,964 --> 00:43:48,914
this sort of theme of transporting
or, you know, going through some

929
00:43:48,914 --> 00:43:50,454
kind of portal into another world.

930
00:43:50,854 --> 00:43:56,549
Almost every culture that I've come
across In some way, shape, or form

931
00:43:56,629 --> 00:44:00,889
has a mythology about another world,

932
00:44:01,189 --> 00:44:01,499
Hmm.

933
00:44:01,499 --> 00:44:01,799
right?

934
00:44:01,939 --> 00:44:07,059
Like, Egypt has the underworld, um, in
Celtic folklore it's the other world, the

935
00:44:07,089 --> 00:44:11,154
Anuvan, um, or the fey world, if you will.

936
00:44:11,599 --> 00:44:17,149
And it's, it can be the spirit world,
it can be, um, a fey or magical world.

937
00:44:17,564 --> 00:44:21,564
But in a lot of folklore, in a
lot of mythology, it's like, you

938
00:44:21,564 --> 00:44:23,509
can step into it at any time.

939
00:44:23,809 --> 00:44:24,169
Hmm.

940
00:44:24,469 --> 00:44:29,104
You may not have to go through a
portal, but you may be walking in the

941
00:44:29,104 --> 00:44:34,644
woods and suddenly find yourself in a
place where time and space don't exist.

942
00:44:35,374 --> 00:44:39,504
Like, you could be there for what
feels like a couple of days, and then

943
00:44:39,504 --> 00:44:41,494
come back, and it's been seven years.

944
00:44:42,524 --> 00:44:48,654
Or, you know, or you go and you feel
like you've been there for a decade

945
00:44:49,834 --> 00:44:53,914
or an entire generation and then you
come back out of it and only a few

946
00:44:53,914 --> 00:44:55,574
minutes have passed in the real world.

947
00:44:56,234 --> 00:44:58,114
This is a very common thing you see.

948
00:44:58,154 --> 00:45:02,394
You see it in like the Chronicles
of Narnia, in Stranger Things.

949
00:45:03,584 --> 00:45:05,114
We see this theme a lot, right?

950
00:45:05,274 --> 00:45:06,894
So these movies all have it.

951
00:45:07,369 --> 00:45:10,229
I've known some people that
experimented with some drugs that

952
00:45:10,949 --> 00:45:15,359
have done that to them where they,
some people, some people out there.

953
00:45:15,369 --> 00:45:15,449
I

954
00:45:15,564 --> 00:45:16,044
Some people.

955
00:45:16,109 --> 00:45:16,119
I

956
00:45:16,419 --> 00:45:16,599
Yeah.

957
00:45:16,649 --> 00:45:16,859
Yeah.

958
00:45:16,859 --> 00:45:17,069
No,

959
00:45:17,559 --> 00:45:18,209
won't say who,

960
00:45:18,509 --> 00:45:19,669
no, I won't say who

961
00:45:21,069 --> 00:45:22,149
but isn't it interesting?

962
00:45:22,359 --> 00:45:22,799
it is.

963
00:45:22,839 --> 00:45:25,849
I love, I love that, uh,
that take on Spirited Away.

964
00:45:26,249 --> 00:45:29,319
We gotta wrap up Howl's, for
anybody out there listening, we

965
00:45:29,319 --> 00:45:30,239
don't want to leave him hanging.

966
00:45:30,999 --> 00:45:31,479
Yeah.

967
00:45:31,489 --> 00:45:35,419
But basically, Howl has, well he has a
confrontation with his former mentor,

968
00:45:36,069 --> 00:45:41,439
some magical duels, the bombs are going
off, there's the, there's the, internal

969
00:45:41,439 --> 00:45:47,639
battle, basically with the demons,
uh, castle's attacked, Sophie saves

970
00:45:47,669 --> 00:45:48,709
Oh, yeah.

971
00:45:49,009 --> 00:45:49,499
castle.

972
00:45:50,619 --> 00:45:53,919
Animation on point here.

973
00:45:53,919 --> 00:45:54,539
It's wild.

974
00:45:55,329 --> 00:45:55,699
Yes.

975
00:45:56,119 --> 00:45:59,449
And all from the imagination of the
director, by the way, because in the

976
00:45:59,449 --> 00:46:04,419
novel, Howl's Moving Castle, it never
explains how it's a moving castle.

977
00:46:04,839 --> 00:46:06,429
She doesn't describe it.

978
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,319
So, Um, that was all him.

979
00:46:09,329 --> 00:46:12,339
That was all him coming up
with the, like, the legs

980
00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:13,359
yeah,

981
00:46:13,489 --> 00:46:18,379
the whole thing moving like a
robot kind of, you know, bits and

982
00:46:18,419 --> 00:46:20,934
parts that all move independently.

983
00:46:21,629 --> 00:46:26,309
Um, the chicken legs is, uh, is
a throwback to Baba Yaga's house,

984
00:46:26,319 --> 00:46:27,669
the witch who lives in the woods.

985
00:46:27,779 --> 00:46:29,279
Her house is on chicken legs.

986
00:46:29,789 --> 00:46:31,209
I just thought that was
an interesting connection.

987
00:46:31,509 --> 00:46:31,809
that.

988
00:46:31,849 --> 00:46:32,659
I love that.

989
00:46:33,689 --> 00:46:35,579
Good Easter egg that you found there.

990
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:36,979
Yeah,

991
00:46:37,279 --> 00:46:37,469
That's

992
00:46:37,559 --> 00:46:37,729
I

993
00:46:37,899 --> 00:46:37,919
for.

994
00:46:38,219 --> 00:46:39,619
love that Baba Yaga, you know.

995
00:46:39,759 --> 00:46:40,209
what you hear.

996
00:46:42,389 --> 00:46:47,319
the war going on, I want to also
note that that was not in the novel.

997
00:46:47,319 --> 00:46:52,649
That's, uh, Miyazaki added
it, added the war element So,

998
00:46:54,769 --> 00:46:57,459
as the bombs and stuff are
blowing up, nobody dies.

999
00:46:57,489 --> 00:46:58,209
There's no bodies.

1000
00:46:58,529 --> 00:46:58,859
It's like,

1001
00:46:58,909 --> 00:46:59,339
Yeah,

1002
00:46:59,799 --> 00:47:02,359
which is, you know, it's,
it's a family movie.

1003
00:47:02,359 --> 00:47:02,699
So,

1004
00:47:03,209 --> 00:47:07,789
you just get the, you get the,
the inference of this horrible

1005
00:47:07,789 --> 00:47:11,779
war going on and how many people
are dying and how, how hard it is.

1006
00:47:12,179 --> 00:47:15,309
you know, you got Sophie's
journey into the house past.

1007
00:47:17,564 --> 00:47:22,084
And basically what the curse
has lifted at this point.

1008
00:47:22,314 --> 00:47:22,854
Um,

1009
00:47:24,914 --> 00:47:26,284
anything big in there that I missed?

1010
00:47:26,284 --> 00:47:26,914
I mean, this is

1011
00:47:27,214 --> 00:47:30,734
Yeah, that's, that's, yeah.

1012
00:47:30,824 --> 00:47:34,584
Oh, just, I'm like, how, can I say enough?

1013
00:47:34,984 --> 00:47:39,273
But here's where I can kind
of, like, wrap it all up.

1014
00:47:39,704 --> 00:47:40,874
We'll tie it in a bow.

1015
00:47:41,574 --> 00:47:48,744
I want to point out that throughout the
movie, you see Sophie break the curse.

1016
00:47:49,434 --> 00:47:50,764
of being the old woman.

1017
00:47:50,774 --> 00:47:53,344
She's not 90 the whole time.

1018
00:47:53,394 --> 00:47:59,944
She, you see youth brought back little
by little and you see it kind of shift.

1019
00:48:00,184 --> 00:48:05,184
Sometimes when Howell sees her sleeping
she's young Sophie and sometimes when she

1020
00:48:05,184 --> 00:48:09,914
gets really passionate about something
or she's really involved somehow you

1021
00:48:09,914 --> 00:48:15,174
see her Like the wrinkles disappear and
she's young Sophie again for a moment,

1022
00:48:15,794 --> 00:48:17,354
and then she's back to old Sophie.

1023
00:48:17,624 --> 00:48:23,054
So you see throughout that whole movie
how she herself transforms, and how

1024
00:48:23,054 --> 00:48:26,694
she influences the transformation
of Howl and other people around her.

1025
00:48:28,299 --> 00:48:31,179
that she breaks his
curse as well as her own.

1026
00:48:32,679 --> 00:48:38,049
And in both Kiki and in Hell's Moving
Castle, these themes I think are really

1027
00:48:38,049 --> 00:48:43,249
important for me to bring forward in
this series we are doing, Witch Movie

1028
00:48:43,249 --> 00:48:46,589
Project, because yeah, we're going
to have a lot of fun with witches.

1029
00:48:46,599 --> 00:48:48,779
We're going to have a lot of
fun with seeing how they can

1030
00:48:48,779 --> 00:48:51,149
show up in sort of evil ways.

1031
00:48:51,839 --> 00:48:58,269
But I want to highlight that the
true, true meaning of witch is every.

1032
00:48:58,789 --> 00:49:06,749
person, especially women, who empower
themselves to be independent, to take

1033
00:49:06,749 --> 00:49:13,489
care of themselves, and this is, where
these two movies really converge.

1034
00:49:13,649 --> 00:49:19,219
I mean, here's Kiki and Sophie, and like,
they're just women making it, right?

1035
00:49:19,219 --> 00:49:21,889
Like, they're making their destiny happen.

1036
00:49:24,059 --> 00:49:24,829
That's all it is.

1037
00:49:24,984 --> 00:49:25,144
You

1038
00:49:25,329 --> 00:49:26,189
all witches are.

1039
00:49:26,844 --> 00:49:28,324
You can't say it any better than that.

1040
00:49:29,044 --> 00:49:30,804
These movies are incredible.

1041
00:49:30,854 --> 00:49:33,904
They do, they do stand
up, uh, the test of time.

1042
00:49:34,114 --> 00:49:36,014
I mean, we didn't even
mention Kiki is 1989,

1043
00:49:37,039 --> 00:49:41,349
1989. And the animation is still
like, oh, it totally holds a

1044
00:49:41,349 --> 00:49:43,319
candle to any, anything coming out.

1045
00:49:43,724 --> 00:49:49,554
not just the animation, but the message
itself is it's very clear today, all

1046
00:49:49,564 --> 00:49:52,504
across the world, political environments,
any kind of environment you want to

1047
00:49:52,504 --> 00:49:55,434
think of is still very, very relevant.

1048
00:49:56,714 --> 00:49:58,594
These two movies though, I loved them.

1049
00:49:59,794 --> 00:50:04,604
Once again, thanks for Max for,
uh, nothing but anime for me.

1050
00:50:04,624 --> 00:50:05,744
There's Ponyo out there.

1051
00:50:05,744 --> 00:50:06,584
There's all these other ones out

1052
00:50:06,669 --> 00:50:07,619
I love Ponyo.

1053
00:50:07,694 --> 00:50:09,144
Yeah, Princess Mononoke, though.

1054
00:50:09,374 --> 00:50:10,994
People gotta go watch Princess Mononoke.

1055
00:50:10,994 --> 00:50:12,304
That's, that's an all time

1056
00:50:12,309 --> 00:50:12,959
My next one.

1057
00:50:13,269 --> 00:50:14,109
Doing that one.

1058
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:14,504
Yeah.

1059
00:50:14,804 --> 00:50:15,674
time classic there.

1060
00:50:18,274 --> 00:50:20,144
anything else before we

1061
00:50:20,299 --> 00:50:26,549
Thank you for indulging in my little
side quest here of some movies that

1062
00:50:26,984 --> 00:50:31,574
maybe present witches in a little bit
different light so that even people

1063
00:50:31,574 --> 00:50:36,474
who would never have called themselves
a witch or would never own that title,

1064
00:50:37,304 --> 00:50:38,724
I didn't think I ever would either.

1065
00:50:38,984 --> 00:50:45,144
But after seeing a portrayal of witches
in this light, Or in some of the movies we

1066
00:50:45,144 --> 00:50:47,624
have coming up in our next few episodes.

1067
00:50:48,344 --> 00:50:51,204
I'm proud to call myself a witch,
and I hope more people will be

1068
00:50:51,434 --> 00:50:53,084
proud to call yourself a witch.

1069
00:50:54,304 --> 00:50:55,074
We'll leave it at that.

1070
00:50:55,094 --> 00:51:01,344
Now, if you haven't seen, listened
to all the other episodes, check

1071
00:51:01,364 --> 00:51:04,094
out Ride the Wave Media on YouTube.

1072
00:51:04,544 --> 00:51:07,304
I believe it's at Ride
the Wave Media Podcast.

1073
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:08,409
That's our channel.

1074
00:51:08,419 --> 00:51:10,719
You can see all of our videos only there.

1075
00:51:11,729 --> 00:51:15,499
You can listen to this thing on all the
major platforms, the Witch Movie Project.

1076
00:51:15,869 --> 00:51:21,139
Got a couple more episodes
coming up, leading up to the

1077
00:51:21,254 --> 00:51:25,884
Our abandoned novel, October
26th, 6 p. m. Get your tickets.

1078
00:51:26,474 --> 00:51:29,554
We're going to have to limit the
number of tickets, people, because it's

1079
00:51:29,574 --> 00:51:32,334
indoors, so get your tickets early.

1080
00:51:32,579 --> 00:51:34,029
They do have some windows
over there though.

1081
00:51:34,039 --> 00:51:36,329
This is novel Daybreak
by Crescent Communities.

1082
00:51:36,339 --> 00:51:38,219
They got some windows, so
we may have some people.

1083
00:51:38,659 --> 00:51:40,869
That we could put around
the pool area or something.

1084
00:51:40,879 --> 00:51:41,339
I don't know.

1085
00:51:41,784 --> 00:51:42,444
Oh, that would be fun.

1086
00:51:42,604 --> 00:51:42,954
Yeah.

1087
00:51:43,489 --> 00:51:44,314
We're going to pack it out.

1088
00:51:44,614 --> 00:51:45,384
VIP.

1089
00:51:47,289 --> 00:51:47,769
Cake Party.

1090
00:51:47,769 --> 00:51:49,469
Let's go ahead and name
off our sponsors here.

1091
00:51:49,469 --> 00:51:51,249
We got Live Cake Parties.

1092
00:51:52,009 --> 00:51:52,739
you so much.

1093
00:51:52,919 --> 00:51:56,719
It's going to be an incredible event over
at Novel Daybreak by Crescent Communities

1094
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,269
who is sponsoring the event too.

1095
00:52:00,929 --> 00:52:03,649
Pure Sweat and Float Studio South Jordan.

1096
00:52:03,649 --> 00:52:04,609
Thank you so much for that.

1097
00:52:04,609 --> 00:52:08,029
And also Land of a Thousand Hills
Coffee Shop right here in Daybreak.

1098
00:52:08,634 --> 00:52:11,914
Yeah, they'll be serving food and
drinks when we have our event,

1099
00:52:11,934 --> 00:52:13,314
because they're right there at Novel.

1100
00:52:13,334 --> 00:52:16,086
They're right in the center,
their own little coffee shop.

1101
00:52:16,634 --> 00:52:19,974
And, um, and then, you know,
they're getting involved in this.

1102
00:52:19,984 --> 00:52:20,974
So that's going to be awesome.

1103
00:52:21,139 --> 00:52:22,379
For the costume contest.

1104
00:52:22,409 --> 00:52:22,574
Don't

1105
00:52:22,874 --> 00:52:22,894
Yeah.

1106
00:52:23,359 --> 00:52:24,724
forget to mention the costume

1107
00:52:25,024 --> 00:52:25,904
Gotta dress up.

1108
00:52:26,144 --> 00:52:29,984
These kinds of events are
just more fun if you dress up.

1109
00:52:30,459 --> 00:52:31,259
it's going to be incredible.

1110
00:52:31,259 --> 00:52:31,909
I can't wait.

1111
00:52:32,579 --> 00:52:33,649
See you guys there.

1112
00:52:33,649 --> 00:52:35,149
Once again, thanks to our sponsors.

1113
00:52:35,159 --> 00:52:38,489
Novel Daybreak by Crescent Communities,
Pure Sweat and Float Studios,

1114
00:52:38,556 --> 00:52:42,079
South Jordan, Live Cake Parties,
and Land of a Thousand Hills.

1115
00:52:42,529 --> 00:52:43,189
Thank you guys so much.

1116
00:52:43,189 --> 00:52:43,829
We'll see you next week.