Take Me Out
29/05/2006
I had a movie weekend
savouring the movies we bought while on vacation. My favourite of the lot (for now) has got to be Howl’s Moving Castle. It’s a typical Studio Ghibli film – more along the lines of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke than My Neighbour Totoro. But it’s all good.
Cos how often do you get a movie set in the Europe of The Sound of Music, but have characters hotter than Orlando Bloom’s Legolas? I mean, if an Asian-eyed blonde dude defends me from a bunch of sloshy oil men and then sweeps me off my feet literally while being all perfect and pretty and polite, damn, who isn’t going to fall for that?
And so it’s right there. This is why the ABC is always going to be that much more attractive than my local brothers. They’re the Asian-eyed boys complete with the manners of a Western culture. It’s the two-in-one deal, what Asian girl doesn’t dig it?
They walk different, talk different, laugh different, smell different, look different, think different. They’re not too shocking that you can’t bring home to mom and dad, but they’re that much different than my local brothers.
Yeah, on the inside, they’re just as flawed as any other average joe. But hey, average joe didn’t learn to flash his toothy grin when he’s getting cornered. Of course, there’s also the “dude” factor – when all else fails, they say dude and it’s funny again.
Anyway. Howl’s Moving Castle is a good movie. And in the English version, Christian Bale voices Howl (or How-ru, in Japanese). Now how cool is that?
Next on my Studio Ghibli list – My Neighbours, the Yamadas. Let me know when you see that in the stores.
