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<blockquote data-quote="LeafByNiggle" data-source="post: 76775229" data-attributes="member: 436315"><p>Another Ghibli movie that has not been mentioned is <em>Whisper of the Heart</em>. Let me say right off the <em>Whisper of the Heart</em> is <strong>not</strong> a great overall movie. It is a somewhat ordinary coming-of-age drama with nothing fantastical or supernatural and where nothing special happens. But I still think it is worth watching for what it does well, which is to illustrate the struggles of trying to be a writer and dealing with self-esteem issues and writer's block at the same time. The title of the movie is also the title of the story that the main character, Shizuku, ends up writing. In one pivotal scene Shizuku sings the alternate words that she wrote for the John Denver song, <em>Country Roads</em>. The words probably flowed better in Japanese, but here are the English words:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">I dreamed of living alone but fearless, Secret longing to be courageous,</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">Loneliness kept bottled up inside, just reveal your brave face they’ll never know you lied.</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000"></span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">Country road may lead me home, know I belong there all on my own</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">Destiny calls, motionless I stall, no I can’t go, Country road.</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000"></span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">No matter how dark the world’s inside me I’ll never stop to show a tears that I’ve shed,</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">but now I have to walk so fast, running, sprinting to forget what is lodged in my head.</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000"></span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">Country Road, may lead me home, know I belong there all on my own.</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000">Destiny calls, motionless I stall no I can’t go country roads.</span></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="color: #b30000"></span></em></p><p>It is worth watching as a character study of Shizuku alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LeafByNiggle, post: 76775229, member: 436315"] Another Ghibli movie that has not been mentioned is [I]Whisper of the Heart[/I]. Let me say right off the [I]Whisper of the Heart[/I] is [B]not[/B] a great overall movie. It is a somewhat ordinary coming-of-age drama with nothing fantastical or supernatural and where nothing special happens. But I still think it is worth watching for what it does well, which is to illustrate the struggles of trying to be a writer and dealing with self-esteem issues and writer's block at the same time. The title of the movie is also the title of the story that the main character, Shizuku, ends up writing. In one pivotal scene Shizuku sings the alternate words that she wrote for the John Denver song, [I]Country Roads[/I]. The words probably flowed better in Japanese, but here are the English words: [INDENT][I][COLOR=#b30000]I dreamed of living alone but fearless, Secret longing to be courageous, Loneliness kept bottled up inside, just reveal your brave face they’ll never know you lied. Country road may lead me home, know I belong there all on my own Destiny calls, motionless I stall, no I can’t go, Country road. No matter how dark the world’s inside me I’ll never stop to show a tears that I’ve shed, but now I have to walk so fast, running, sprinting to forget what is lodged in my head. Country Road, may lead me home, know I belong there all on my own. Destiny calls, motionless I stall no I can’t go country roads. [/COLOR][/I][/INDENT] It is worth watching as a character study of Shizuku alone. [/QUOTE]
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