The film follows a view of Nausicaa the princess of Wind Valley. The movie Nausicaa in 1984, March 11 was the first 2D animation after Ghibri was established in Japan, in 1985, June 15. The quality of the animation and specific drawing style surprised the world. Ghibli was just a small group when making Nausicaa animation, but after making Nausicaa, the group of animators earned enough money to establish Studio Ghibli. In historic, Castle in the Sky is the first Ghibli animation. A funny story about the name of Studio Ghibli is Miyazaki Hayao was very interested in the military airforce. So Miyazaki took the idea of the name from an Italian military reconnaissance aircraft called Ghibli Ca.309. So Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind is the starting point and start of Ghibli’s history. Nausicaa animation is a fantasy and action genre, compared to other movies by Studio Ghibli, the story is made by Miyazaki Hayao. Some of Ghibli’s animation is based on different writers or directors. Nausicaa Of The Vally Of The Wind planned as 116 minutes of movie time, earned 8,853,968 dollars. Nausicaa Of The Vally Of The Wind has been awarded The Seiun Prize. this prize is a Japanese science fiction convention, which can be a literature award.
The Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind talks about in the far future, most of the ecosystem has been destroyed on earth and few survived humans living in a desert and poisoned forests. In poisonous forests, all plants spread the toxic gas when they completely grow up. Young princess Nausicaa has a strong personality and is shown as a perfect human in the movie. Her hobby is studying toxic flowers and plants. She is living in a Velly of the Wind as a daughter of King Jire, and the citizens of Wind Velly accept the poison forest because they know its functionality. Poison Forest’s function is to clean the contaminated air. Down of the poison forest is a gigantic space that can be focused on another world, but except for Wind Valley people, other humanity on earth doesn’t know the purpose of the existing poison forest, so they are trying to destroy the forest. In poison forests, there are huge different species of insects living. The insects are all bigger than humans and even the smallest one is bigger than adult human males. Sometimes the insects attack a human’s living area or someone traveling, but Nausicaa realizes that insects attack humans only when they humans attack first. King Jire and Princess Nausicaa listen to the oldest allusion from an elder grandmother that “someone wearing blue clothes comes down to the golden field, renews the connection with the lost land, and leads humanity back to the green land.” In this movie, Nausicca is the main character and sword master Mito Miralda, the teacher of Nausicaa, the Elder grandmother who had dreamed about the oldest allusion, King Jire of the Wind Valley, and the main male Nausicaa’s servant Mito.
In the movie, based on Nausicaa’s actions, she wanted to save the poisoned forest even if it hurt humans, poison gas and liquid make food and normal plants infected, so humans can not reinforce nutriment. Her actions are related to protecting the environment, living peacefully, and same respect for all creatures on Earth. The Miyazaki Hayao director’s vision is “no more war”, this main message is related to Japanese history. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Japan’s bubble economy continued until 1991. Because of the huge war, many sacrifices were happening and Miyazaki Hayao was influenced by this time. Between Nausicaa comic book and film, it’s a whole different work, cause the settings are related but different and new kingdom, religious kingdom, and different story. The reason why comic books and films are made as different stories but have the same title. The film’s situation was almost an economic crisis for the company, so they had to focus on people more like it. As a result, some of the main settings had to be quiet during the movie. As time passed after making the Nausicaa movie, Miyazaki Hayao wanted to use the settings that he could not use in the past. Miyazaki and his supporters decided to make a comic book with all the settings and published it in 1982.
I think after watching the movie and reading about the comic book it became my favorite movie. I like the comic books that have more ways of Miyazaki Hayao’s purpose in it. The film is also great because it’s a new way of creating animation and science fiction genre. These new tries were successful and compared to today’s 2D animation of Ghibli, I like the old way of drawing style of animation, I really like the technology that is used in this movie. After people watched the movie about Nausicaa’s journey, they didn’t realize what the film wanted to tell us about and what is message of the movie was. Some of the settings are out from the movie, so it gives confusion to people. Some of them are not like the movie because it is not a cute drawing style like the rest of the Ghibli animation, but that’s the part I like.
The Nausicaa Of the Valley Of the WInd is recognized as a new style of 2D animation that has been never used before old times. Nausicaa is a near-perfect human being in the movie, so the film doesn’t show the development of Nausicaa. The main character of the movie Nausicaa tries to protect the toxic jungle and respects all animals even insects. Other kingdoms in Nausicaa try to protect humans themselves, but the message of the movie is we can’t live alone only one species can not occupy everything on Earth. We should help each other even other species and live together on earth. The movie shows environments as toxic jungles and deserts, this can be our future show cause we are still hurting nature and animals for our own good. To stop this movie became a future, we should stop using too many resources on earth, and protection systems need to be upgraded.
By: Miyazaki Hayao
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