The Witch Movie Project Ep. 6 - 'Kiki's Delivery Service' (1989) vs 'Howl's Moving Castle' (2004) + A Nod to 'Spirited Away' (2001)

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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
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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.

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I.

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T.

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C.

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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.

340
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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

343
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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.

353
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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.

357
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What's that?

358
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So you, you can interpret dreams.

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So what would that, what would
that dream interpretation be?

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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

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

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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.

378
00:16:52,913 --> 00:16:53,773
Pregnant, right?

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00:16:54,683 --> 00:16:54,803
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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00:17:01,923 --> 00:17:02,733
Love this.

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Love everything about this.

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00:17:05,393 --> 00:17:13,403
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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00:17:18,703 --> 00:17:20,053
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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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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It's different positions.

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00:17:52,388 --> 00:17:55,298
They've got the art in and it's

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00:17:56,008 --> 00:17:57,688
Yeah, it could be perceived that way.

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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.

399
00:18:07,988 --> 00:18:11,598
I mean, so we'll forgive him
for that, but in the beginning

400
00:18:11,758 --> 00:18:13,568
he's a little pushy, right?

401
00:18:13,838 --> 00:18:15,068
He's trying to talk to her.

402
00:18:15,068 --> 00:18:18,338
I think he's just really excited
that she's a and she can fly.

403
00:18:18,398 --> 00:18:21,548
And he is a, um, aviation

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00:18:22,378 --> 00:18:23,148
obsessed.

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00:18:23,288 --> 00:18:23,878
obsessed.

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00:18:23,888 --> 00:18:24,288
Yeah.

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00:18:24,368 --> 00:18:24,548
Yeah.

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00:18:25,248 --> 00:18:25,638
person.

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00:18:25,638 --> 00:18:28,698
So yeah, he's, he's like,
Oh, hi, my name is Tombo.

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00:18:28,698 --> 00:18:29,588
Well, like, what's your name?

411
00:18:29,588 --> 00:18:31,968
And like, and she's like,
please leave me alone.

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00:18:32,078 --> 00:18:32,768
I'm busy.

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00:18:32,938 --> 00:18:35,018
And he's like, well, I
just want to talk to you.

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00:18:35,028 --> 00:18:35,928
What's wrong with talking to you?

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00:18:35,928 --> 00:18:38,558
I mean, he kind of like, he's like
that little dog in the cartoons.

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00:18:38,558 --> 00:18:43,728
This is like jumping around her and like,
kind of like, Hey, just like, and I, I

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00:18:43,758 --> 00:18:45,468
have to, I have to just point this out.

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00:18:45,498 --> 00:18:49,908
Um, the first time we watched this movie,
I watched with my all my boys are young.

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00:18:49,918 --> 00:18:53,698
And I said, Hey, I just
want you guys to know that.

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00:18:54,163 --> 00:18:57,453
If a girl says, leave me alone, you do it

421
00:18:57,608 --> 00:18:57,888
Yeah.

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00:18:58,188 --> 00:18:58,783
right away.

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00:18:59,483 --> 00:18:59,883
Okay.

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00:19:00,333 --> 00:19:01,443
Consent, right?

425
00:19:01,543 --> 00:19:03,243
I'm teaching consent to my boys.

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00:19:03,418 --> 00:19:06,333
We don't keep bothering people when
they say, please leave me alone.

427
00:19:06,953 --> 00:19:09,203
They're setting a boundary
and you need to respect it.

428
00:19:09,353 --> 00:19:13,423
And, um, so he kind of like wears on her.

429
00:19:13,433 --> 00:19:16,153
I mean, eventually throughout
the movie, he shows up as I'm

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00:19:16,153 --> 00:19:17,923
really just a friend here to help.

431
00:19:17,983 --> 00:19:22,853
I, I, you know, I just want to
connect with you about flying.

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00:19:23,453 --> 00:19:27,013
That's something we're both interested
in and it turns out he's a really

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00:19:27,013 --> 00:19:28,103
good friend and that's great.

434
00:19:28,408 --> 00:19:32,338
Yeah, it's basically like Kiki,
she's starting to settle into her new

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

436
00:19:38,373 --> 00:19:42,333
Yeah, this boy that keeps
showing up and, but I mean, she's

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00:19:42,423 --> 00:19:45,533
building these connections while
she's trying to do her training.

438
00:19:45,533 --> 00:19:47,893
So she doesn't know what her
specialty is going to be.

439
00:19:48,133 --> 00:19:51,043
She realizes flying is kind of the
only thing she knows how to do.

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00:19:51,633 --> 00:19:55,953
So she creates, so she becomes
the delivery service and she,

441
00:19:56,013 --> 00:19:59,390
people pay her to deliver things
around town or into other towns.

442
00:19:59,868 --> 00:20:03,495
And, um, and also delivering bread
for the bakery while she gets

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to have room and board there.

444
00:20:04,898 --> 00:20:08,438
I mean, she's really making
her way little by little.

445
00:20:08,978 --> 00:20:13,601
Um, as we were talking about earlier off
camera, off recording, we were saying

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business is made by relationships.

447
00:20:16,208 --> 00:20:17,618
And that's what Kiki's doing.

448
00:20:17,707 --> 00:20:21,518
She's like, I'll do this for
you if you'll help me out here.

449
00:20:21,708 --> 00:20:27,013
And She meets the little old
ladies who help her out with a job.

450
00:20:27,133 --> 00:20:31,133
Later, she, yeah, she's building
these little relationships.

451
00:20:32,218 --> 00:20:33,948
And let me just throw this out there.

452
00:20:33,948 --> 00:20:38,048
When, when, um, when Tombow's
introduced, there's, there's a cameo.

453
00:20:40,858 --> 00:20:44,048
Hayao Miyazaki himself is
in the movie right there.

454
00:20:44,503 --> 00:20:45,228
Oh, I didn't know that!

455
00:20:45,528 --> 00:20:46,068
Oh yeah.

456
00:20:46,158 --> 00:20:46,468
Oh yeah,

457
00:20:46,643 --> 00:20:47,743
I need to watch it again now.

458
00:20:47,743 --> 00:20:49,273
Yeah,

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00:20:49,278 --> 00:20:50,048
to go watch that.

460
00:20:51,408 --> 00:20:54,728
So Kiki hits some, some rough
patches and then she works to,

461
00:20:54,728 --> 00:20:56,808
you know, get her confidence back.

462
00:20:58,953 --> 00:21:03,193
she's basically, she's one
witch on a mission, all the

463
00:21:03,193 --> 00:21:05,513
way to the climactic rescue of

464
00:21:07,533 --> 00:21:13,653
Tombo, uh, her friend, her poor
little goofy, weird little friend.

465
00:21:15,443 --> 00:21:18,833
Um, she's, she believes she's
lost her powers at that point.

466
00:21:18,843 --> 00:21:21,093
So she's, you know, kind
of in a depressed state.

467
00:21:21,103 --> 00:21:22,693
She's stays in bed.

468
00:21:22,693 --> 00:21:25,063
She's sick for, for one of the scenes.

469
00:21:25,073 --> 00:21:28,383
And then she just kind of doesn't,
she loses confidence in herself

470
00:21:28,753 --> 00:21:30,223
as we all do from time to time.

471
00:21:30,953 --> 00:21:32,043
And, um, yeah.

472
00:21:32,843 --> 00:21:35,933
And yeah, ends up having to
rescue him because he's hanging

473
00:21:35,933 --> 00:21:37,403
from the, what do they call it?

474
00:21:37,403 --> 00:21:39,573
It's a blimp, but they use
a different word for it.

475
00:21:39,773 --> 00:21:40,983
the airship, I think, or something

476
00:21:41,283 --> 00:21:42,203
Airship, something like that.

477
00:21:42,203 --> 00:21:42,523
Yeah.

478
00:21:42,923 --> 00:21:45,273
Uh, yeah, uh,

479
00:21:45,403 --> 00:21:48,813
So here she is bouncing off of
like buildings on her broom.

480
00:21:48,903 --> 00:21:51,583
She has to like grab a broom
from someone because hers broke.

481
00:21:52,093 --> 00:21:56,083
Which, when you talk about sexualizing,
um, witches a little bit, I do, I

482
00:21:56,083 --> 00:22:02,203
will just point out that the idea of
bisms, which is the broom, uh, they,

483
00:22:02,263 --> 00:22:04,453
the broom itself was called bisms.

484
00:22:05,093 --> 00:22:11,263
And, um, broom is a, um, a type of herb
or grass that you use to make a bism with.

485
00:22:11,443 --> 00:22:13,053
So we all just call them brooms.

486
00:22:13,623 --> 00:22:19,373
Um, I actually just got together for
the fall equinox with some of my, um,

487
00:22:19,753 --> 00:22:22,683
I don't know if they would use the
term witchy friends, but they are,

488
00:22:22,763 --> 00:22:24,053
they're a little bit my witchy friends.

489
00:22:24,113 --> 00:22:26,683
And we made bisms for the fall equinox.

490
00:22:26,693 --> 00:22:31,353
So we burn the bisms from last year and
we create new ones for the new year.

491
00:22:31,403 --> 00:22:36,453
And they, they were used by
witches to clean their house.

492
00:22:37,163 --> 00:22:44,753
Um, literally clean the house, but also
cleanse the house of energies and, you

493
00:22:44,753 --> 00:22:49,443
know, anything negative, just hanging
out, but there is some correlation

494
00:22:49,443 --> 00:22:52,893
possibly with bismuth and, um, perhaps.

495
00:22:54,598 --> 00:23:00,738
Uh, a kind of sexual connotation to
brooms and what they might represent.

496
00:23:00,798 --> 00:23:03,918
So I'll leave you with the
imagination of what that might be.

497
00:23:04,303 --> 00:23:05,153
I see what you're saying.

498
00:23:05,163 --> 00:23:12,513
Now, Bezums, these aren't, these ones
that you, you, you packaged up or whatever

499
00:23:12,513 --> 00:23:15,443
you said back for the fall equinox.

500
00:23:15,833 --> 00:23:18,343
These, this is not stuff that you
bought down at the Hobby Lobby.

501
00:23:18,353 --> 00:23:21,298
Like, is this what you were
out forging in the forest

502
00:23:21,598 --> 00:23:22,018
Yeah.

503
00:23:22,078 --> 00:23:25,828
Well, I was, I was using those to make
witches torches, but yeah, we, we just

504
00:23:25,828 --> 00:23:29,428
go out, we get some grasses and some
leaves and some flowers and different

505
00:23:29,428 --> 00:23:30,748
things we wanna decorate it with.

506
00:23:31,398 --> 00:23:34,038
We have a, you know, a
stick and then we wrap it.

507
00:23:34,253 --> 00:23:37,383
And you can wrap charms and whatever
kinds of things you want in it.

508
00:23:37,448 --> 00:23:41,703
And it's just, whatever intention you
put into it, just like anything else.

509
00:23:41,813 --> 00:23:43,033
I mean, it can mean nothing.

510
00:23:43,073 --> 00:23:47,213
It can be a stick with a bunch of
leaves on it, or it can be, this is

511
00:23:47,233 --> 00:23:51,493
me putting my intention of what I
want for the new year and wrapping it

512
00:23:51,493 --> 00:23:53,913
up and like protection for my home.

513
00:23:54,653 --> 00:23:55,993
Whatever you intend for it to be.

514
00:23:57,443 --> 00:23:57,823
Love that.

515
00:23:57,823 --> 00:23:58,843
Let's go back to Kiki.

516
00:23:59,503 --> 00:24:01,633
gotta ask you about when
she loses those powers.

517
00:24:01,633 --> 00:24:03,403
Did you think she
actually lost the powers?

518
00:24:03,613 --> 00:24:04,643
Or was it just in her head?

519
00:24:06,043 --> 00:24:07,663
She can't even talk to the cat anymore.

520
00:24:07,693 --> 00:24:08,673
Like, GG.

521
00:24:09,838 --> 00:24:13,363
So did she actually lose them or was it a

522
00:24:15,713 --> 00:24:16,803
in her head type thing?

523
00:24:16,863 --> 00:24:18,723
Like, like you said, did she
just have to get over it?

524
00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:24,673
Well, this is where her friendship with,
um, Ursula, who is the sort of artist

525
00:24:24,683 --> 00:24:27,883
that lives out in the cabin in the
woods, which by the way, I mean, we never

526
00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:29,573
point out that she's a witch as well.

527
00:24:29,873 --> 00:24:30,233
Yeah.

528
00:24:30,853 --> 00:24:33,233
She would never, she would
not name herself a witch.

529
00:24:33,618 --> 00:24:35,848
But, I mean, how is Ursula not a witch?

530
00:24:35,858 --> 00:24:40,898
She's out in the woods
creating magic with her art.

531
00:24:40,968 --> 00:24:46,908
I mean, and this is where, again, the
visual artistry of these movies comes

532
00:24:46,908 --> 00:24:51,979
into play because when Kiki walks into
that cabin and sees that Ursula's been

533
00:24:52,028 --> 00:24:57,718
working on a portrait of her in the sky
with like a pegasus and it's just, I

534
00:24:57,718 --> 00:25:03,743
mean, it took my breath away and it's
just like, I'm just like, she's making

535
00:25:03,753 --> 00:25:09,673
magic in the woods, sketching out this
art and making art with, you know,

536
00:25:09,673 --> 00:25:15,023
with her skills and, and she explains
to Kiki like, hey, you know, when I

537
00:25:15,043 --> 00:25:20,018
started, when I started doing art when
I was little, It's all I could do.

538
00:25:20,048 --> 00:25:21,138
It was all I wanted to do.

539
00:25:21,148 --> 00:25:23,318
It's all I thought about all day long.

540
00:25:24,198 --> 00:25:27,578
But then she reached a point at some
point where she started to doubt

541
00:25:27,588 --> 00:25:31,708
herself or she started to think too hard
about whether her art was good or not.

542
00:25:33,238 --> 00:25:36,228
And it, she lost confidence and
she didn't want to do it anymore.

543
00:25:36,278 --> 00:25:39,298
And she felt like everything
she drawed was, you know, Crap,

544
00:25:39,308 --> 00:25:40,648
like it just wasn't working.

545
00:25:40,788 --> 00:25:46,968
And the, and relating to how Kiki has lost
her powers, I think you're right in saying

546
00:25:46,968 --> 00:25:49,568
it's in her head, and it's also real.

547
00:25:49,638 --> 00:25:53,018
Like she lost those powers
because it's in her head, right?

548
00:25:54,783 --> 00:25:55,573
She got them back.

549
00:25:55,793 --> 00:25:59,223
She fully integrates into the
community, got confidence back.

550
00:26:00,308 --> 00:26:04,470
She's one successful delivery service,
one broomstick, one talking cat,

551
00:26:04,470 --> 00:26:06,849
one happy witch, roll the credits.

552
00:26:06,849 --> 00:26:07,246
Right.

553
00:26:07,246 --> 00:26:08,039
That's it.

554
00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:08,833
And then.

555
00:26:10,898 --> 00:26:11,458
That's it.

556
00:26:11,935 --> 00:26:12,598
a

557
00:26:12,718 --> 00:26:13,638
there you have it.

558
00:26:14,178 --> 00:26:14,878
Love it.

559
00:26:16,983 --> 00:26:18,003
a beautiful movie though.

560
00:26:18,043 --> 00:26:21,038
And then you got Howl's Moving
Castle to me in the same realm.

561
00:26:21,693 --> 00:26:28,363
Same director, um, different premise,
but you still got wit, you got witches

562
00:26:28,693 --> 00:26:29,363
Mm hmm.

563
00:26:29,513 --> 00:26:30,003
and

564
00:26:30,303 --> 00:26:31,743
Magicians, magical people.

565
00:26:32,973 --> 00:26:33,783
turnip heads,

566
00:26:34,533 --> 00:26:34,833
Yeah.

567
00:26:35,323 --> 00:26:36,013
turnip heads.

568
00:26:37,063 --> 00:26:40,623
Okay, so I already kind of teased it
because I accidentally said the wrong,

569
00:26:40,963 --> 00:26:45,933
the wrong movie, but Josh Hutchison
in the cast in Howl's Moving Castle

570
00:26:45,963 --> 00:26:50,233
of the little boy Markle, which was
supposed to be Michael, but I think

571
00:26:50,363 --> 00:26:54,513
in the translation of how to say
Michael, um, it didn't work out.

572
00:26:54,513 --> 00:26:56,313
So his name ended up being Markle.

573
00:26:57,683 --> 00:26:58,933
So that's how that came about.

574
00:26:59,033 --> 00:27:01,293
But, um, but Christian Bale.

575
00:27:02,948 --> 00:27:07,008
This is the second Batman to do
voiceover work for the studios.

576
00:27:07,178 --> 00:27:14,048
Michael Keaton was in another, um,
movie of, um, the same studios.

577
00:27:14,893 --> 00:27:15,563
There's a million

578
00:27:15,588 --> 00:27:16,118
Ghibli.

579
00:27:16,233 --> 00:27:16,443
this

580
00:27:16,658 --> 00:27:17,018
Yeah.

581
00:27:17,023 --> 00:27:17,363
seen.

582
00:27:17,453 --> 00:27:17,783
Yeah.

583
00:27:18,108 --> 00:27:20,308
I, I think I say Ghibli, but
I'm not sure if that's right.

584
00:27:20,308 --> 00:27:25,978
Because again, we're not like super huge
fan, like, so the fandom of the studios

585
00:27:25,998 --> 00:27:27,808
can, can forgive us maybe a little bit.

586
00:27:28,838 --> 00:27:29,238
Yeah.

587
00:27:29,308 --> 00:27:32,628
Um, Emily Mortimer
playing the young Sophie

588
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:33,593
Yeah.

589
00:27:33,928 --> 00:27:34,448
in this.

590
00:27:34,498 --> 00:27:34,873
And

591
00:27:35,378 --> 00:27:36,643
Christian Bale's Hal.

592
00:27:36,643 --> 00:27:36,963
He is

593
00:27:37,068 --> 00:27:37,988
yes, is how.

594
00:27:38,148 --> 00:27:38,598
Correct.

595
00:27:38,618 --> 00:27:39,008
Yeah.

596
00:27:39,218 --> 00:27:39,558
Ugh.

597
00:27:39,953 --> 00:27:46,023
And I mean, for all of those, uh,
romanticy readers out there, Howl's

598
00:27:46,083 --> 00:27:53,763
Moving Castle is, like, right in there
with, like, um, you know, fantasy romance

599
00:27:54,093 --> 00:27:57,753
genre of, like, heroes with wings,

600
00:27:58,193 --> 00:27:58,553
Yeah.

601
00:27:59,063 --> 00:28:05,763
you know, strapping handsome men
with fey magical powers who can turn

602
00:28:05,763 --> 00:28:07,513
themselves into a bird or whatever.

603
00:28:08,303 --> 00:28:11,218
Like, It's all right up
our alley, so we love it.

604
00:28:11,793 --> 00:28:15,423
Go through the rest of those
people that are voices in this.

605
00:28:15,513 --> 00:28:17,318
Also,

606
00:28:17,618 --> 00:28:19,148
we have Gene, uh, let's see.

607
00:28:19,168 --> 00:28:20,798
Gene Simmons, Old Sophie.

608
00:28:22,223 --> 00:28:27,393
In the Japanese version, the same
actress does Young Sophie and Old Sophie.

609
00:28:27,453 --> 00:28:30,843
But in the English dubbed version,
they have two different actresses.

610
00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:37,883
the same voice actress that played
Kiki did Ursula in the first movie.

611
00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:39,773
She did the same, she did both voices.

612
00:28:40,073 --> 00:28:40,663
Oh, wow.

613
00:28:41,343 --> 00:28:44,063
I was also saying Billy
Crystal played Calcifer in

614
00:28:44,113 --> 00:28:44,363
Yeah!

615
00:28:44,523 --> 00:28:46,203
Oh, yeah.

616
00:28:46,503 --> 00:28:47,613
up his voice instantly.

617
00:28:47,613 --> 00:28:48,183
I was like, Oh my gosh.

618
00:28:48,703 --> 00:28:50,303
That's one of those that, like, yeah.

619
00:28:50,373 --> 00:28:53,843
And, and, and I was just watching
the, um, our third bonus movie,

620
00:28:53,843 --> 00:28:56,153
Spirited Away, last night.

621
00:28:56,603 --> 00:29:03,038
Um, the cast was not quite as well
known to me, but, um, But, the, the

622
00:29:03,048 --> 00:29:08,488
voice of the guy that does the dragon,
and I was like, oh, that voice!

623
00:29:09,398 --> 00:29:11,938
So like, before I looked it up,
I was just listening to it going,

624
00:29:12,363 --> 00:29:14,388
that's so familiar, who is that?

625
00:29:14,528 --> 00:29:15,968
Oh, that's, I, yeah.

626
00:29:16,528 --> 00:29:20,198
So, Billy Crystal, that's definitely
one that you listen to when

627
00:29:20,198 --> 00:29:21,538
you're like, oh, I know that one!

628
00:29:21,623 --> 00:29:21,793
that.

629
00:29:21,838 --> 00:29:22,903
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

630
00:29:22,988 --> 00:29:23,318
sure.

631
00:29:24,553 --> 00:29:27,313
you got anything else on the cast
there before we get into the movie?

632
00:29:27,948 --> 00:29:31,958
No, I think we'll get into Howl's
Moving Castle, we'll focus, focus!

633
00:29:33,988 --> 00:29:34,758
We got this.

634
00:29:35,018 --> 00:29:37,398
Howl's Moving Castle is incredible.

635
00:29:37,768 --> 00:29:41,638
I mean, I really like, I forgot how much
I liked it and then I watched it again

636
00:29:41,638 --> 00:29:44,778
and I was like, Oh, this movie is amazing.

637
00:29:45,898 --> 00:29:46,188
Uh,

638
00:29:47,353 --> 00:29:50,173
animation right off
the jump is incredible.

639
00:29:50,733 --> 00:29:52,293
Hooks you, brings you in.

640
00:29:53,498 --> 00:29:57,648
We got basically in the first
little bit of the movie, you've

641
00:29:57,668 --> 00:30:02,038
got Sophie, Sophie's a witch or not

642
00:30:02,048 --> 00:30:02,448
yes.

643
00:30:02,718 --> 00:30:03,118
Okay.

644
00:30:03,368 --> 00:30:06,708
So that's, that's up for debate.

645
00:30:06,855 --> 00:30:10,488
However, I will say that this,
Howl's Moving Castle was, um,

646
00:30:11,408 --> 00:30:13,318
it was inspired by a book.

647
00:30:13,328 --> 00:30:19,168
Howl's Moving Castle was a novel by Diana
Wynne Jones, um, who wrote the book.

648
00:30:19,198 --> 00:30:21,568
And in the book, Sophie has powers.

649
00:30:22,998 --> 00:30:24,498
And she has a fire demon.

650
00:30:25,998 --> 00:30:29,008
I don't know if it's Calcifer,
but she has her own fire demon.

651
00:30:29,098 --> 00:30:31,248
So, I haven't read the novel, I
don't know how that works, but

652
00:30:31,618 --> 00:30:33,408
she does have powers of her own.

653
00:30:33,808 --> 00:30:37,588
And they decided when making the movie,
they adapted it, they changed some things.

654
00:30:37,648 --> 00:30:41,828
Um, the author was still really incredibly
happy with how everything turned out.

655
00:30:41,838 --> 00:30:44,948
She was very, like, supportive
of them making changes.

656
00:30:45,838 --> 00:30:47,443
But that was one thing that
was a little bit different.

657
00:30:48,968 --> 00:30:53,368
When you watch the movie, it feels
like Sophie doesn't have powers.

658
00:30:53,528 --> 00:30:59,448
However, I would dare say that
definitely she has powers.

659
00:30:59,778 --> 00:31:00,168
Okay.

660
00:31:00,508 --> 00:31:00,958
Okay.

661
00:31:01,358 --> 00:31:02,698
But it's not concrete.

662
00:31:02,708 --> 00:31:04,668
Like this is up for debate.

663
00:31:04,838 --> 00:31:07,388
May not look like the
way that Howl has powers.

664
00:31:07,418 --> 00:31:10,498
It may not look like the way that
the Witch of the Waste has powers,

665
00:31:10,508 --> 00:31:17,438
but she has influence in a certain
way that is undeniable, right?

666
00:31:17,608 --> 00:31:22,093
And several times they say things
like, She comes right in and she

667
00:31:22,273 --> 00:31:26,213
starts like, um, I don't know,
kind of bossing Calcifier around.

668
00:31:26,223 --> 00:31:30,103
She's like, do this, do this, and
you know, here, move there, do this.

669
00:31:31,003 --> 00:31:36,473
And she shakes up the castle,
Markle, Calcifier, Howl that lived

670
00:31:36,473 --> 00:31:37,743
together there in the castle.

671
00:31:37,753 --> 00:31:41,293
Like, she shakes things up, and
they're like, wow, Calcifier doesn't

672
00:31:41,303 --> 00:31:42,578
usually listen to anybody else.

673
00:31:42,878 --> 00:31:43,228
Yeah.

674
00:31:44,673 --> 00:31:48,603
So how can you deny that she doesn't have
some influence on how this all plays out?

675
00:31:49,308 --> 00:31:50,828
And calcifer is a fire demon.

676
00:31:50,828 --> 00:31:55,808
So if he's listening, then
she's probably got some sort of

677
00:31:56,768 --> 00:31:58,668
supernatural control or something.

678
00:31:58,668 --> 00:31:58,968
Right.

679
00:31:59,373 --> 00:32:01,833
She has some authority, for sure.

680
00:32:02,453 --> 00:32:06,043
And I want to point out, so as we're
going through the movie, we start out,

681
00:32:06,273 --> 00:32:12,543
so we have, again, Sophie as a young,
in the beginning, she's a young girl,

682
00:32:12,783 --> 00:32:18,098
she makes hats in her father's hat
shop, and Um, and she's moving through

683
00:32:18,098 --> 00:32:22,828
the city, she gets cornered by some
soldiers, and they're harassing her.

684
00:32:23,278 --> 00:32:26,988
So we have kind of a similar situation
in what was going on with Kiki, where

685
00:32:26,998 --> 00:32:30,428
she's getting kind of bombarded by
Tombo and she's like, leave me alone.

686
00:32:31,398 --> 00:32:33,008
But Sophie's not strong enough.

687
00:32:33,693 --> 00:32:35,323
in herself yet to say something.

688
00:32:35,323 --> 00:32:36,423
She's very meek.

689
00:32:36,513 --> 00:32:39,163
You can see her kind of being
scared and they're like, Ooh,

690
00:32:39,173 --> 00:32:40,953
what's the little mouse afraid of?

691
00:32:40,973 --> 00:32:42,863
Oh, she's even cuter when she's scared.

692
00:32:43,603 --> 00:32:47,738
And again, I had to point out,
I'm like, Hey, this is not okay.

693
00:32:48,038 --> 00:32:48,398
Yeah.

694
00:32:48,508 --> 00:32:48,888
Yeah.

695
00:32:49,188 --> 00:32:50,973
We don't act like this to people.

696
00:32:51,023 --> 00:32:53,203
Uh, you know, it's a good rule.

697
00:32:53,298 --> 00:32:55,493
those are grown men to a little girl too.

698
00:32:55,793 --> 00:32:56,283
Yeah.

699
00:32:56,423 --> 00:32:58,863
It's borderline uncomfortable
to watch that part,

700
00:32:59,223 --> 00:33:03,503
Yeah, and I mean it being a family
movie it's like, this is interesting

701
00:33:03,513 --> 00:33:07,713
that we're showing this kind of side of
things where it can be like, this is how

702
00:33:07,723 --> 00:33:14,913
women feel all the time, as opposed to
how Kiki feels, confident, 13 years old.

703
00:33:15,388 --> 00:33:17,528
Going out into the world
to make her fortune.

704
00:33:17,538 --> 00:33:19,138
Go out and do her thing.

705
00:33:19,138 --> 00:33:20,158
She's not scared at all.

706
00:33:20,858 --> 00:33:23,368
But, I mean, Sophie has
reason to be scared.

707
00:33:23,368 --> 00:33:25,458
She's like, there's soldiers everywhere.

708
00:33:26,413 --> 00:33:28,403
There's a war, there's a war going on

709
00:33:28,748 --> 00:33:29,058
Yeah.

710
00:33:29,058 --> 00:33:31,598
And the war plays a pretty,
pretty big part of the movie too.

711
00:33:31,718 --> 00:33:31,998
Yeah.

712
00:33:32,413 --> 00:33:35,353
and right here though, Sophie
goes into the hat shop.

713
00:33:36,283 --> 00:33:39,033
We gotta mention this, it's at the
very beginning of the movie, early on.

714
00:33:40,193 --> 00:33:44,243
Soul lady walks in, tells her
she's tacky, tells her she's

715
00:33:44,253 --> 00:33:45,453
the tackiest thing in there.

716
00:33:46,283 --> 00:33:48,813
She tells her to leave, and
then she does this thing and

717
00:33:48,943 --> 00:33:52,173
basically whooshes through Sophie.

718
00:33:52,873 --> 00:33:56,353
And It puts a spell on her.

719
00:33:56,413 --> 00:33:58,323
And we find out that this
is the witch of the waste.

720
00:33:59,453 --> 00:34:05,223
this spell turns her into an old
It basically, she looks like a

721
00:34:05,223 --> 00:34:06,833
witch that you think would be

722
00:34:07,598 --> 00:34:07,948
Yeah.

723
00:34:08,248 --> 00:34:08,938
witch, really.

724
00:34:09,238 --> 00:34:09,468
Yeah.

725
00:34:09,718 --> 00:34:13,488
And she looks similar to
the witch in Spirited Away.

726
00:34:13,873 --> 00:34:19,273
There's a witch with like, I mean, kind
of exaggerated wrinkles, really large

727
00:34:19,293 --> 00:34:25,453
nose, like, that kind of look, um, which
I love about the animation too, I just

728
00:34:25,453 --> 00:34:27,833
have to point out, I love the detail.

729
00:34:28,563 --> 00:34:33,303
I mean, just take a moment, free stream
any part of this movie, any, these

730
00:34:33,303 --> 00:34:35,243
movies, and look at the background.

731
00:34:35,543 --> 00:34:35,883
Yeah.

732
00:34:36,038 --> 00:34:40,268
Like the setting, the carpet, the
rugs, the molding on the, on the

733
00:34:40,478 --> 00:34:43,968
walls, just everything is so detailed.

734
00:34:44,508 --> 00:34:49,228
Before, you know, CGI was used
probably, it was, it's, it's real art.

735
00:34:49,363 --> 00:34:51,483
I don't, did we even mention Miyazaki?

736
00:34:51,493 --> 00:34:52,643
He's an artist as well.

737
00:34:52,853 --> 00:34:54,613
He's not just the director.

738
00:34:54,613 --> 00:34:58,925
Like he's, you know, that's an
incredible talent to be able to put

739
00:34:59,013 --> 00:35:02,513
all that together and bring these
worlds, this universe together.

740
00:35:02,993 --> 00:35:04,963
together, which is, that's
what a lot of anime is.

741
00:35:04,973 --> 00:35:07,503
You mentioned earlier, Pokemon and
all that, which you're going to

742
00:35:08,253 --> 00:35:09,553
make a lot of people mad there.

743
00:35:09,553 --> 00:35:11,578
We're going to have some hate mail you

744
00:35:11,623 --> 00:35:12,253
That's okay.

745
00:35:12,313 --> 00:35:13,213
You go right ahead.

746
00:35:13,393 --> 00:35:15,403
My son already gives it to me every day.

747
00:35:15,643 --> 00:35:17,413
He's like, Mom, I love Pokemon so much.

748
00:35:17,423 --> 00:35:19,093
And I'm like, yeah, this is great.

749
00:35:19,793 --> 00:35:20,643
You know what though?

750
00:35:20,683 --> 00:35:24,563
I started thinking about this and I was
like, me saying, Oh, I don't like anime.

751
00:35:24,563 --> 00:35:27,303
I'm a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda.

752
00:35:27,363 --> 00:35:28,403
I like, I've played those games.

753
00:35:28,413 --> 00:35:29,063
That's anime.

754
00:35:29,163 --> 00:35:29,343
That's

755
00:35:29,463 --> 00:35:29,833
Yeah.

756
00:35:29,943 --> 00:35:30,083
I

757
00:35:30,323 --> 00:35:32,533
I've been playing that
stuff for 20 plus years.

758
00:35:32,973 --> 00:35:34,523
think we're bigger fans
than we think we are.

759
00:35:35,093 --> 00:35:38,043
we are, and I think it's, I think
it really got, I don't want to

760
00:35:38,043 --> 00:35:41,283
go off on a tangent, but it got a
bad rap somewhere along the way.

761
00:35:42,233 --> 00:35:43,733
it either, it was polarizing.

762
00:35:43,773 --> 00:35:47,823
Maybe it's the same type of situation
that certain fan bases have of

763
00:35:47,823 --> 00:35:51,033
stuff that it almost turns other
people off to what they're doing.

764
00:35:51,363 --> 00:35:51,723
Yeah.

765
00:35:51,883 --> 00:35:52,003
know.

766
00:35:52,493 --> 00:35:55,995
Well, I think what I'm trying
to say is I'm happy to be wrong.

767
00:35:56,583 --> 00:36:01,483
I'm completely letting my bias out there.

768
00:36:01,513 --> 00:36:04,723
I'm admitting that I had bias
against it and it wasn't fair

769
00:36:05,083 --> 00:36:06,363
and that was wrong of me.

770
00:36:06,643 --> 00:36:13,713
And I apologize to all the anime and,
and fans of anime forever and ever,

771
00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:16,033
because I'm a, I, like, I'm, I'm in now.

772
00:36:16,373 --> 00:36:16,723
Same

773
00:36:16,883 --> 00:36:19,843
I've been transformed by these movies.

774
00:36:19,993 --> 00:36:20,413
Same here.

775
00:36:20,413 --> 00:36:21,873
She speaks for me out there.

776
00:36:21,873 --> 00:36:22,713
She speaks for me.

777
00:36:22,713 --> 00:36:27,213
And thank you to Max, HBO Max, for, for
recommending me nothing but anime now,

778
00:36:27,243 --> 00:36:28,373
because that's what it is across the,

779
00:36:28,813 --> 00:36:31,903
It's all the, like, you
liked that, watch this next.

780
00:36:31,933 --> 00:36:33,553
I'm like, okay, I will.

781
00:36:33,903 --> 00:36:35,073
And you better believe I will.

782
00:36:35,478 --> 00:36:37,303
Yeah, the detail.

783
00:36:37,603 --> 00:36:37,903
back to

784
00:36:38,008 --> 00:36:43,418
So we have like, the wrinkles in her
face, the details, and like, just,

785
00:36:43,458 --> 00:36:49,058
and, um, and I will point out then, you
see old Sophie start this adventure.

786
00:36:50,138 --> 00:36:51,098
Old Sophie!

787
00:36:51,128 --> 00:36:56,718
She's, she wakes up, she's like 90 years
old in her body, she can't even stand up

788
00:36:56,718 --> 00:37:02,588
straight, she's so old, and, and crooked,
and bent, and, and she's, you hear her

789
00:37:02,588 --> 00:37:04,658
pain, she's like, oh, this old body.

790
00:37:04,658 --> 00:37:05,028
Old Sophie!

791
00:37:05,388 --> 00:37:08,718
And I'm actually, I'm so impressed
that she looks in the mirror

792
00:37:10,918 --> 00:37:12,658
that first day and she's like,

793
00:37:14,053 --> 00:37:14,353
Yeah.

794
00:37:14,358 --> 00:37:15,468
we can work with this.

795
00:37:15,928 --> 00:37:17,648
I was like, really?

796
00:37:18,323 --> 00:37:18,743
Yeah.

797
00:37:18,798 --> 00:37:20,708
I woke up and I was 90 the next day.

798
00:37:20,758 --> 00:37:24,028
I'd be like, Oh my gosh,
what am I going to do?

799
00:37:25,078 --> 00:37:26,438
I mean, I'm a little bit vain.

800
00:37:26,478 --> 00:37:27,838
I'll just, I'll be honest.

801
00:37:27,908 --> 00:37:30,188
I want to look young forever, but.

802
00:37:31,823 --> 00:37:32,783
I love this.

803
00:37:32,903 --> 00:37:35,793
I love that she loves herself old.

804
00:37:36,933 --> 00:37:39,653
And you see a different Sophie
from when she was the scared

805
00:37:39,653 --> 00:37:40,808
little mouse in the beginning.

806
00:37:41,143 --> 00:37:42,843
She becomes brave.

807
00:37:43,313 --> 00:37:45,933
She goes out and she
starts this adventure.

808
00:37:46,003 --> 00:37:49,433
She is not even afraid to
jump on Howl's moving castle.

809
00:37:49,973 --> 00:37:53,923
Which she thought was someone,
um, the rumors are that Howl

810
00:37:53,973 --> 00:37:56,463
eats the hearts of young girls.

811
00:37:56,743 --> 00:38:00,488
Like, She eats their hearts and
she's like, well, now that I'm old,

812
00:38:00,488 --> 00:38:01,648
I guess I have nothing to fear.

813
00:38:01,718 --> 00:38:04,928
And she just hops right in and I love it.

814
00:38:05,873 --> 00:38:11,793
And not only that, but she moves in to
the castle and just gets comfortable.

815
00:38:14,518 --> 00:38:14,703
Things

816
00:38:14,818 --> 00:38:15,658
But she's not,

817
00:38:15,958 --> 00:38:21,203
earlier, people start to listen to her
and you have, you even have the witch

818
00:38:21,203 --> 00:38:23,063
of the waste moving in with her, right?

819
00:38:23,363 --> 00:38:26,168
oh gosh, that part of the movie.

820
00:38:26,218 --> 00:38:32,298
Oh, she kept saying, if I ever see that
witch of the wastes, I'm gonna, and

821
00:38:32,298 --> 00:38:34,368
she's like mad at her for cursing her.

822
00:38:34,968 --> 00:38:38,578
But by the end, when all the things
have happened and we were, you know,

823
00:38:38,928 --> 00:38:40,648
lots of, lots of things have happened.

824
00:38:40,928 --> 00:38:42,378
But, eventually.

825
00:38:42,668 --> 00:38:49,638
This poor witch of the waste, who is
like, I don't know, senile by this point.

826
00:38:49,698 --> 00:38:52,968
And just like, I mean, then
Sophie has such a good heart.

827
00:38:52,978 --> 00:38:55,778
She's like, well, I mean,
she's not threatening anymore.

828
00:38:55,778 --> 00:38:57,198
She has no powers anymore.

829
00:38:57,568 --> 00:39:01,418
Um, I'm going to, there's the scene
where she's spoon feeding her.

830
00:39:01,483 --> 00:39:02,013
Yeah,

831
00:39:02,428 --> 00:39:02,948
Did you see that?

832
00:39:03,098 --> 00:39:03,548
Oh,

833
00:39:04,293 --> 00:39:13,173
you talking about she's helping a
another witch that took 70, 80 years

834
00:39:13,173 --> 00:39:17,833
off her life and even a question helping

835
00:39:17,908 --> 00:39:19,828
just helping her and enjoying.

836
00:39:19,838 --> 00:39:20,158
Yeah.

837
00:39:20,218 --> 00:39:22,798
They welcome her into Howl's
castle and there she is.

838
00:39:22,798 --> 00:39:28,708
Um, at one point Howl even
says, I'm having dinner.

839
00:39:29,178 --> 00:39:33,818
with my sworn enemy, the witch of
the waste and you know, everybody

840
00:39:33,818 --> 00:39:39,758
who's at that table and he's like,
all right, he's like, I guess.

841
00:39:40,763 --> 00:39:41,768
the, and

842
00:39:41,933 --> 00:39:43,143
brings me to this point.

843
00:39:43,173 --> 00:39:45,503
So this is Sophie's powers.

844
00:39:45,763 --> 00:39:48,043
Okay, so we're talking
about is she a witch?

845
00:39:48,043 --> 00:39:48,633
Is she not?

846
00:39:49,783 --> 00:39:53,103
Howell, even though he is kind
of the hero of the story, he's

847
00:39:53,113 --> 00:39:55,073
against the war that's happening.

848
00:39:55,903 --> 00:39:59,183
There's been a, um, a kidnapping
of a prince in the neighboring

849
00:39:59,203 --> 00:40:00,883
kingdom and now they're at war.

850
00:40:00,953 --> 00:40:01,743
War is happening.

851
00:40:01,743 --> 00:40:07,273
This is very anti war, um, novel or
message and Howell's against the war,

852
00:40:07,273 --> 00:40:08,993
so he's kind of fighting against it.

853
00:40:09,238 --> 00:40:13,288
But he admits he's scared
and he's been running.

854
00:40:13,478 --> 00:40:17,118
And the reason why he plays these
different aliases and he has a

855
00:40:17,355 --> 00:40:20,708
moving castle is because he's
scared and he's not really willing

856
00:40:20,708 --> 00:40:26,468
to face, face up to responsibility
for where he needs to do that.

857
00:40:27,468 --> 00:40:33,828
And he says, because Sophie goes in for
him to see the king, And he shows up and

858
00:40:33,828 --> 00:40:35,828
she's like, well, why did you make me go?

859
00:40:35,828 --> 00:40:37,288
If you were going to show up anyway?

860
00:40:37,288 --> 00:40:39,938
And he's like, you gave
me this confidence.

861
00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:44,428
You gave me the strength I needed
to face my fears and come and face

862
00:40:46,608 --> 00:40:48,898
this, you know, and not avoid it anymore.

863
00:40:49,943 --> 00:40:53,993
and that's an incredible thing
for, for to happen be said.

864
00:40:54,173 --> 00:40:55,943
It's a huge theme of the movie.

865
00:40:55,943 --> 00:40:56,223
Really.

866
00:40:56,668 --> 00:40:57,068
Yeah.

867
00:40:57,178 --> 00:40:59,568
Facing your fears, not being scared.

868
00:40:59,788 --> 00:41:00,078
And.

869
00:41:01,793 --> 00:41:04,223
Yeah, it's an incredible theme.

870
00:41:05,163 --> 00:41:09,873
another theme of underlying theme is the
fact that Sophie does take care of the

871
00:41:09,873 --> 00:41:12,713
witch of the waste and there's calcifer.

872
00:41:13,893 --> 00:41:14,893
It's to me.

873
00:41:15,643 --> 00:41:18,423
that when you're in high
school, it's that outcast group.

874
00:41:19,033 --> 00:41:19,523
Mm hmm.

875
00:41:19,818 --> 00:41:20,488
it's the clique.

876
00:41:20,528 --> 00:41:23,278
It's the people who are like, Oh,
that's the skater kids or the,

877
00:41:23,288 --> 00:41:28,738
you know, the goth kids, but they
kind of take on that themselves.

878
00:41:28,818 --> 00:41:30,998
And that maybe that's why Sophie
helped out the Witch of the Waves.

879
00:41:30,998 --> 00:41:34,588
She's like, she's just
as bad off as I am now.

880
00:41:34,598 --> 00:41:35,958
It doesn't matter that she did it to me.

881
00:41:37,978 --> 00:41:40,768
If I don't help her, no one will.

882
00:41:40,958 --> 00:41:43,188
And at the same time, it's a bonus

883
00:41:43,283 --> 00:41:43,653
Yeah.

884
00:41:43,978 --> 00:41:44,828
you know, so.

885
00:41:44,828 --> 00:41:46,308
Oh,

886
00:41:46,403 --> 00:41:51,023
this already in when they meet up at
the castle to meet up with the king.

887
00:41:52,413 --> 00:41:56,513
The Witch of the Waste is there and
she's not, still not very kind to Sophie.

888
00:41:56,733 --> 00:42:02,313
She's, you know, talking to her and
then they have to climb that staircase.

889
00:42:02,808 --> 00:42:04,133
The staircase scene is pretty amazing.

890
00:42:04,823 --> 00:42:09,923
One of my favorites in the whole movie,
watching Sophie, this old woman, just, you

891
00:42:09,923 --> 00:42:14,163
know, ooh, bones creaking and she's just
huffing and puffing, and then she carries,

892
00:42:14,203 --> 00:42:16,008
she goes back down and grabs the dog,

893
00:42:16,308 --> 00:42:16,828
Yeah.

894
00:42:17,128 --> 00:42:21,013
carrying the dog with her up the
stairs, and then the Witch of the

895
00:42:21,013 --> 00:42:25,753
Waste is just sweating bullets.

896
00:42:25,753 --> 00:42:29,143
I mean, the, again, the detail in
the animation here is phenomenal.

897
00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:29,993
Fantastic.

898
00:42:29,993 --> 00:42:35,653
She's just, you know, you see like
her neck is melting into her body.

899
00:42:37,378 --> 00:42:38,078
Intense.

900
00:42:38,423 --> 00:42:39,823
I loved this.

901
00:42:39,883 --> 00:42:41,083
I loved this whole scene.

902
00:42:41,093 --> 00:42:44,253
And then every scene after that showed
the Witch of the Waste after she had

903
00:42:44,253 --> 00:42:46,133
been, her powers were stripped of her.

904
00:42:46,133 --> 00:42:50,763
She looks completely different in
her face and every scene where you

905
00:42:50,763 --> 00:42:55,503
see her face and she's just sitting
there like, Oh, with her little nose.

906
00:42:55,893 --> 00:42:59,183
And I mean, this is where anybody
listening right now, who hasn't seen

907
00:42:59,183 --> 00:43:01,393
these movies, please go see these movies.

908
00:43:01,403 --> 00:43:01,833
It is.

909
00:43:02,463 --> 00:43:03,183
Incredible.

910
00:43:03,333 --> 00:43:05,123
It's just, I love it.

911
00:43:05,143 --> 00:43:05,353
of them.

912
00:43:05,513 --> 00:43:06,153
All three of them.

913
00:43:06,253 --> 00:43:06,653
All three.

914
00:43:06,703 --> 00:43:06,773
I

915
00:43:07,003 --> 00:43:07,433
All three.

916
00:43:07,563 --> 00:43:10,533
I haven't seen, what is it, Spirited Away?

917
00:43:10,833 --> 00:43:13,953
Spirited Away is our, like,
third we have to mention bonus.

918
00:43:14,333 --> 00:43:14,693
Yeah,

919
00:43:14,803 --> 00:43:19,753
There is a witch in Spirited Away
who owns a bathhouse for the spirits.

920
00:43:20,063 --> 00:43:20,533
Okay.

921
00:43:20,643 --> 00:43:24,738
the spirits come to relax and rejuvenate.

922
00:43:25,838 --> 00:43:28,018
And the movie is again
about a little girl.

923
00:43:28,248 --> 00:43:30,478
So we have this little
girl who's the heroine.

924
00:43:30,538 --> 00:43:36,298
She and her parents, um, walk
through a tunnel and it becomes

925
00:43:36,298 --> 00:43:37,898
a portal into another world.

926
00:43:37,918 --> 00:43:38,993
And it's a spirit world.

927
00:43:39,293 --> 00:43:39,593
Hmm.

928
00:43:39,893 --> 00:43:41,528
unfortunately the parents eat the food.

929
00:43:41,568 --> 00:43:45,248
And I guess you're not supposed to do
that to spirit food because they turn

930
00:43:45,248 --> 00:43:51,418
into pigs and they're kind of kidnapped
by the witch, um, in this movie.

931
00:43:52,108 --> 00:43:56,208
And I'll just briefly mention it
because All of these movies have

932
00:43:56,208 --> 00:44:00,158
this sort of theme of transporting
or, you know, going through some

933
00:44:00,158 --> 00:44:01,698
kind of portal into another world.

934
00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:07,793
Almost every culture that I've come
across In some way, shape, or form

935
00:44:07,873 --> 00:44:12,133
has a mythology about another world,

936
00:44:12,433 --> 00:44:12,743
Hmm.

937
00:44:12,743 --> 00:44:13,043
right?

938
00:44:13,183 --> 00:44:18,303
Like, Egypt has the underworld, um, in
Celtic folklore it's the other world, the

939
00:44:18,333 --> 00:44:22,398
Anuvan, um, or the fey world, if you will.

940
00:44:22,843 --> 00:44:28,393
And it's, it can be the spirit world,
it can be, um, a fey or magical world.

941
00:44:28,808 --> 00:44:32,808
But in a lot of folklore, in a
lot of mythology, it's like, you

942
00:44:32,808 --> 00:44:34,753
can step into it at any time.

943
00:44:35,053 --> 00:44:35,413
Hmm.

944
00:44:35,713 --> 00:44:40,348
You may not have to go through a
portal, but you may be walking in the

945
00:44:40,348 --> 00:44:45,888
woods and suddenly find yourself in a
place where time and space don't exist.

946
00:44:46,618 --> 00:44:50,748
Like, you could be there for what
feels like a couple of days, and then

947
00:44:50,748 --> 00:44:52,738
come back, and it's been seven years.

948
00:44:53,768 --> 00:44:59,898
Or, you know, or you go and you feel
like you've been there for a decade

949
00:45:01,078 --> 00:45:05,158
or an entire generation and then you
come back out of it and only a few

950
00:45:05,158 --> 00:45:06,818
minutes have passed in the real world.

951
00:45:07,478 --> 00:45:09,358
This is a very common thing you see.

952
00:45:09,398 --> 00:45:13,638
You see it in like the Chronicles
of Narnia, in Stranger Things.

953
00:45:14,828 --> 00:45:16,358
We see this theme a lot, right?

954
00:45:16,518 --> 00:45:18,138
So these movies all have it.

955
00:45:18,613 --> 00:45:21,473
I've known some people that
experimented with some drugs that

956
00:45:22,193 --> 00:45:26,603
have done that to them where they,
some people, some people out there.

957
00:45:26,613 --> 00:45:26,693
I

958
00:45:26,808 --> 00:45:27,288
Some people.

959
00:45:27,353 --> 00:45:27,363
I

960
00:45:27,663 --> 00:45:27,843
Yeah.

961
00:45:27,893 --> 00:45:28,103
Yeah.

962
00:45:28,103 --> 00:45:28,313
No,

963
00:45:28,803 --> 00:45:29,453
won't say who,

964
00:45:29,753 --> 00:45:30,913
no, I won't say who

965
00:45:32,313 --> 00:45:33,393
but isn't it interesting?

966
00:45:33,603 --> 00:45:34,043
it is.

967
00:45:34,083 --> 00:45:37,093
I love, I love that, uh,
that take on Spirited Away.

968
00:45:37,493 --> 00:45:40,563
We gotta wrap up Howl's, for
anybody out there listening, we

969
00:45:40,563 --> 00:45:41,483
don't want to leave him hanging.

970
00:45:42,243 --> 00:45:42,723
Yeah.

971
00:45:42,733 --> 00:45:46,663
But basically, Howl has, well he has a
confrontation with his former mentor,

972
00:45:47,313 --> 00:45:52,683
some magical duels, the bombs are going
off, there's the, there's the, internal

973
00:45:52,683 --> 00:45:58,883
battle, basically with the demons,
uh, castle's attacked, Sophie saves

974
00:45:58,913 --> 00:45:59,953
Oh, yeah.

975
00:46:00,253 --> 00:46:00,743
castle.

976
00:46:01,863 --> 00:46:05,163
Animation on point here.

977
00:46:05,163 --> 00:46:05,783
It's wild.

978
00:46:06,573 --> 00:46:06,943
Yes.

979
00:46:07,363 --> 00:46:10,693
And all from the imagination of the
director, by the way, because in the

980
00:46:10,693 --> 00:46:15,663
novel, Howl's Moving Castle, it never
explains how it's a moving castle.

981
00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:17,673
She doesn't describe it.

982
00:46:17,963 --> 00:46:20,563
So, Um, that was all him.

983
00:46:20,573 --> 00:46:23,583
That was all him coming up
with the, like, the legs

984
00:46:23,883 --> 00:46:24,603
yeah,

985
00:46:24,733 --> 00:46:29,623
the whole thing moving like a
robot kind of, you know, bits and

986
00:46:29,663 --> 00:46:32,178
parts that all move independently.

987
00:46:32,873 --> 00:46:37,553
Um, the chicken legs is, uh, is
a throwback to Baba Yaga's house,

988
00:46:37,563 --> 00:46:38,913
the witch who lives in the woods.

989
00:46:39,023 --> 00:46:40,523
Her house is on chicken legs.

990
00:46:41,033 --> 00:46:42,453
I just thought that was
an interesting connection.

991
00:46:42,753 --> 00:46:43,053
that.

992
00:46:43,093 --> 00:46:43,903
I love that.

993
00:46:44,933 --> 00:46:46,823
Good Easter egg that you found there.

994
00:46:47,963 --> 00:46:48,223
Yeah,

995
00:46:48,523 --> 00:46:48,713
That's

996
00:46:48,803 --> 00:46:48,973
I

997
00:46:49,143 --> 00:46:49,163
for.

998
00:46:49,463 --> 00:46:50,863
love that Baba Yaga, you know.

999
00:46:51,003 --> 00:46:51,453
what you hear.

1000
00:46:53,633 --> 00:46:58,563
the war going on, I want to also
note that that was not in the novel.

1001
00:46:58,563 --> 00:47:03,893
That's, uh, Miyazaki added
it, added the war element So,

1002
00:47:06,013 --> 00:47:08,703
as the bombs and stuff are
blowing up, nobody dies.

1003
00:47:08,733 --> 00:47:09,453
There's no bodies.

1004
00:47:09,773 --> 00:47:10,103
It's like,

1005
00:47:10,153 --> 00:47:10,583
Yeah,

1006
00:47:11,043 --> 00:47:13,603
which is, you know, it's,
it's a family movie.

1007
00:47:13,603 --> 00:47:13,943
So,

1008
00:47:14,453 --> 00:47:19,033
you just get the, you get the,
the inference of this horrible

1009
00:47:19,033 --> 00:47:23,023
war going on and how many people
are dying and how, how hard it is.

1010
00:47:23,423 --> 00:47:26,553
you know, you got Sophie's
journey into the house past.

1011
00:47:28,808 --> 00:47:33,328
And basically what the curse
has lifted at this point.

1012
00:47:33,558 --> 00:47:34,098
Um,

1013
00:47:36,158 --> 00:47:37,528
anything big in there that I missed?

1014
00:47:37,528 --> 00:47:38,158
I mean, this is

1015
00:47:38,458 --> 00:47:41,978
Yeah, that's, that's, yeah.

1016
00:47:42,068 --> 00:47:45,828
Oh, just, I'm like, how, can I say enough?

1017
00:47:46,228 --> 00:47:50,517
But here's where I can kind
of, like, wrap it all up.

1018
00:47:50,948 --> 00:47:52,118
We'll tie it in a bow.

1019
00:47:52,818 --> 00:47:59,988
I want to point out that throughout the
movie, you see Sophie break the curse.

1020
00:48:00,678 --> 00:48:02,008
of being the old woman.

1021
00:48:02,018 --> 00:48:04,588
She's not 90 the whole time.

1022
00:48:04,638 --> 00:48:11,188
She, you see youth brought back little
by little and you see it kind of shift.

1023
00:48:11,428 --> 00:48:16,428
Sometimes when Howell sees her sleeping
she's young Sophie and sometimes when she

1024
00:48:16,428 --> 00:48:21,158
gets really passionate about something
or she's really involved somehow you

1025
00:48:21,158 --> 00:48:26,418
see her Like the wrinkles disappear and
she's young Sophie again for a moment,

1026
00:48:27,038 --> 00:48:28,598
and then she's back to old Sophie.

1027
00:48:28,868 --> 00:48:34,298
So you see throughout that whole movie
how she herself transforms, and how

1028
00:48:34,298 --> 00:48:37,938
she influences the transformation
of Howl and other people around her.

1029
00:48:39,543 --> 00:48:42,423
that she breaks his
curse as well as her own.

1030
00:48:43,923 --> 00:48:49,293
And in both Kiki and in Hell's Moving
Castle, these themes I think are really

1031
00:48:49,293 --> 00:48:54,493
important for me to bring forward in
this series we are doing, Witch Movie

1032
00:48:54,493 --> 00:48:57,833
Project, because yeah, we're going
to have a lot of fun with witches.

1033
00:48:57,843 --> 00:49:00,023
We're going to have a lot of
fun with seeing how they can

1034
00:49:00,023 --> 00:49:02,393
show up in sort of evil ways.

1035
00:49:03,083 --> 00:49:09,513
But I want to highlight that the
true, true meaning of witch is every.

1036
00:49:10,033 --> 00:49:17,993
person, especially women, who empower
themselves to be independent, to take

1037
00:49:17,993 --> 00:49:24,733
care of themselves, and this is, where
these two movies really converge.

1038
00:49:24,893 --> 00:49:30,463
I mean, here's Kiki and Sophie, and like,
they're just women making it, right?

1039
00:49:30,463 --> 00:49:33,133
Like, they're making their destiny happen.

1040
00:49:35,303 --> 00:49:36,073
That's all it is.

1041
00:49:36,228 --> 00:49:36,388
You

1042
00:49:36,573 --> 00:49:37,433
all witches are.

1043
00:49:38,088 --> 00:49:39,568
You can't say it any better than that.

1044
00:49:40,288 --> 00:49:42,048
These movies are incredible.

1045
00:49:42,098 --> 00:49:45,148
They do, they do stand
up, uh, the test of time.

1046
00:49:45,358 --> 00:49:47,258
I mean, we didn't even
mention Kiki is 1989,

1047
00:49:48,283 --> 00:49:48,403
1989.

1048
00:49:49,873 --> 00:49:52,873
And the animation is still like,
oh, it totally holds a candle

1049
00:49:52,873 --> 00:49:54,563
to any, anything coming out.

1050
00:49:54,968 --> 00:50:00,798
not just the animation, but the message
itself is it's very clear today, all

1051
00:50:00,808 --> 00:50:03,748
across the world, political environments,
any kind of environment you want to

1052
00:50:03,748 --> 00:50:06,678
think of is still very, very relevant.

1053
00:50:07,958 --> 00:50:09,838
These two movies though, I loved them.

1054
00:50:11,038 --> 00:50:15,848
Once again, thanks for Max for,
uh, nothing but anime for me.

1055
00:50:15,868 --> 00:50:16,988
There's Ponyo out there.

1056
00:50:16,988 --> 00:50:17,828
There's all these other ones out

1057
00:50:17,913 --> 00:50:18,863
I love Ponyo.

1058
00:50:18,938 --> 00:50:20,388
Yeah, Princess Mononoke, though.

1059
00:50:20,618 --> 00:50:22,238
People gotta go watch Princess Mononoke.

1060
00:50:22,238 --> 00:50:23,548
That's, that's an all time

1061
00:50:23,553 --> 00:50:24,203
My next one.

1062
00:50:24,513 --> 00:50:25,353
Doing that one.

1063
00:50:25,483 --> 00:50:25,748
Yeah.

1064
00:50:26,048 --> 00:50:26,918
time classic there.

1065
00:50:29,518 --> 00:50:31,388
anything else before we

1066
00:50:31,543 --> 00:50:37,793
Thank you for indulging in my little
side quest here of some movies that

1067
00:50:38,228 --> 00:50:42,818
maybe present witches in a little bit
different light so that even people

1068
00:50:42,818 --> 00:50:47,718
who would never have called themselves
a witch or would never own that title,

1069
00:50:48,548 --> 00:50:49,968
I didn't think I ever would either.

1070
00:50:50,228 --> 00:50:56,388
But after seeing a portrayal of witches
in this light, Or in some of the movies we

1071
00:50:56,388 --> 00:50:58,868
have coming up in our next few episodes.

1072
00:50:59,588 --> 00:51:02,448
I'm proud to call myself a witch,
and I hope more people will be

1073
00:51:02,678 --> 00:51:04,328
proud to call yourself a witch.

1074
00:51:05,548 --> 00:51:06,318
We'll leave it at that.

1075
00:51:06,338 --> 00:51:12,588
Now, if you haven't seen, listened
to all the other episodes, check

1076
00:51:12,608 --> 00:51:15,338
out Ride the Wave Media on YouTube.

1077
00:51:15,788 --> 00:51:18,548
I believe it's at Ride
the Wave Media Podcast.

1078
00:51:18,923 --> 00:51:19,653
That's our channel.

1079
00:51:19,663 --> 00:51:21,963
You can see all of our videos only there.

1080
00:51:22,973 --> 00:51:26,743
You can listen to this thing on all the
major platforms, the Witch Movie Project.

1081
00:51:27,113 --> 00:51:32,383
Got a couple more episodes
coming up, leading up to the

1082
00:51:32,498 --> 00:51:35,448
Our abandoned novel, October 26th, 6 p.

1083
00:51:35,448 --> 00:51:35,838
m.

1084
00:51:36,078 --> 00:51:37,128
Get your tickets.

1085
00:51:37,718 --> 00:51:40,798
We're going to have to limit the
number of tickets, people, because it's

1086
00:51:40,818 --> 00:51:43,578
indoors, so get your tickets early.

1087
00:51:43,823 --> 00:51:45,273
They do have some windows
over there though.

1088
00:51:45,283 --> 00:51:47,573
This is novel Daybreak
by Crescent Communities.

1089
00:51:47,583 --> 00:51:49,463
They got some windows, so
we may have some people.

1090
00:51:49,903 --> 00:51:52,113
That we could put around
the pool area or something.

1091
00:51:52,123 --> 00:51:52,583
I don't know.

1092
00:51:53,028 --> 00:51:53,688
Oh, that would be fun.

1093
00:51:53,848 --> 00:51:54,198
Yeah.

1094
00:51:54,733 --> 00:51:55,558
We're going to pack it out.

1095
00:51:55,858 --> 00:51:56,628
VIP.

1096
00:51:58,533 --> 00:51:59,013
Cake Party.

1097
00:51:59,013 --> 00:52:00,713
Let's go ahead and name
off our sponsors here.

1098
00:52:00,713 --> 00:52:02,493
We got Live Cake Parties.

1099
00:52:03,253 --> 00:52:03,983
you so much.

1100
00:52:04,163 --> 00:52:07,963
It's going to be an incredible event over
at Novel Daybreak by Crescent Communities

1101
00:52:07,963 --> 00:52:09,513
who is sponsoring the event too.

1102
00:52:12,173 --> 00:52:14,893
Pure Sweat and Float Studio South Jordan.

1103
00:52:14,893 --> 00:52:15,853
Thank you so much for that.

1104
00:52:15,853 --> 00:52:19,273
And also Land of a Thousand Hills
Coffee Shop right here in Daybreak.

1105
00:52:19,878 --> 00:52:23,158
Yeah, they'll be serving food and
drinks when we have our event,

1106
00:52:23,178 --> 00:52:24,558
because they're right there at Novel.

1107
00:52:24,578 --> 00:52:27,330
They're right in the center,
their own little coffee shop.

1108
00:52:27,878 --> 00:52:31,218
And, um, and then, you know,
they're getting involved in this.

1109
00:52:31,228 --> 00:52:32,218
So that's going to be awesome.

1110
00:52:32,383 --> 00:52:33,623
For the costume contest.

1111
00:52:33,653 --> 00:52:33,818
Don't

1112
00:52:34,118 --> 00:52:34,138
Yeah.

1113
00:52:34,603 --> 00:52:35,968
forget to mention the costume

1114
00:52:36,268 --> 00:52:37,148
Gotta dress up.

1115
00:52:37,388 --> 00:52:41,228
These kinds of events are
just more fun if you dress up.

1116
00:52:41,703 --> 00:52:42,503
it's going to be incredible.

1117
00:52:42,503 --> 00:52:43,153
I can't wait.

1118
00:52:43,823 --> 00:52:44,893
See you guys there.

1119
00:52:44,893 --> 00:52:46,393
Once again, thanks to our sponsors.

1120
00:52:46,403 --> 00:52:49,733
Novel Daybreak by Crescent Communities,
Pure Sweat and Float Studios,

1121
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,323
South Jordan, Live Cake Parties,
and Land of a Thousand Hills.

1122
00:52:53,773 --> 00:52:54,433
Thank you guys so much.

1123
00:52:54,433 --> 00:52:55,073
We'll see you next week.