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[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Moving Castle is not his own story, it comes from a novel.

The underlying theme of his movies is that tech is attractive and that good people use tech to do good but that it always ends badly anyway. That they would have been better off without going that road.

[-] blue_berry@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, you're starting to convince me. I still think some of his works are great solar punk even though maybe he didn't intented them to be ...

[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh certainly! But just like William Gibson hated the term "cyberpunk" despite being considered a main pillar of the genre, I think Miyazaki would reject the "solarpunk" term even though Laputa is pretty much spot on in that style!

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