Princess Mononoke - Teaching Environmentalism to Children | Renegade Cut
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- Does the anime of Hayao Miyazaki help teach children environmentalism? Is Princess Mononoke required viewing in the age of climate change? Support Renegade Cut Media through Patreon: / renegadecut
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"For some, science isn't enough. Only stories will do." An excellent sentiment to finish with. It's such a shame our world will be ruined by a myopic focus on next quarter's profits instead of on sustainable activity and growth.
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Great Video. Although I read the forest god's silence differently.
The forest god is supposed to have dominion over life and death and he distributes them seemingly at random. The same way that nature is an uncaring and seemingly random cycle of life and death. The forest god has no need to explain himself or speak to other beings in the same way that nature has no need for it. Neither of them are good or evil or benevolent they just are.
"You just can't win against fools."
-Jigo
This was the most violent, yet thought-provoking film I saw as a child. It’s a beautiful classic
I can’t get over how cool that snow scooping machine is at 1:16 is. Those swingy arms in the front are really neat
There's this phrase, which I think came from the ecologist Aldo Leopold, which says that to know the environment is to "live alone in a world of wounds" . As someone studying and involved in environmental science, I love this movie and really appreciate how it makes what can oft be abstract ideas emotionally tangible for the audience.
Yeah but how do you combat apathy. Like I saw this movie and have taken Environmental Science classes and still not that concerned about it. Yeah Climate Change is real but I cannot do anything substantial to change that nor do I care to. Furthermore how do you combat the mindset that one will not be present for the worst of it. Additionally people are usually selfish and short-sighted only caring about the pressing concerns. Dammit it is just not that easy at the end of the day.
@@titanicww2345
Certainly no one can force you (or anyone) to have empathy or care for other people and beings; ultimately you must decide for yourself what kind of person you want to be and what sort of world you want to live in. all we can really do is educate everyone about the consequences of inaction and empower those who are working to create change, and hope it will be enough. And yes, much of the time it feels like tilting at windmills, but I'd rather die knowing I tried than did nothing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@titanicww2345 Are you vegan? Are you making videos to spread awareness? do you educate yourself and talk about it with people? There is tons of groups and individual things you can do to help. These efforts are only gaining more and more traction. Get involved and help it grow. Animal agriculture is the number one cause of deforestation and species extinction. Eat plant based and find some like minded people to help spread the message. Make youtube videos even if they arent high effort everyones input counts. Millions of people are waking up to the issues and every effort is needed. IF you dont try at all then whats the point of living? trust me i know how it is be downtrodden and hopeless. Just gotta use the moments of clear vision wisely
One of the best pieces of Japanese film and animated film respectively I have ever seen, I searched "renegade cut princess mononoke" like last week so this is very welcomed.
Good shit man
One of my favorite films, and you covered it so well! This warms my heart. Happily subbing.
Welcome.
I would love to see your take on the enigmatic 1985 anime film Angel's Egg. Abstracted religious tones, some less subtle imagery, and a world so bizarrely interesting it inspired one of gaming's more interesting worlds in Dark Souls. I feel like your theological and broader analytical strengths, you could make maybe the best take on a film that isn't well known.
I love this movie so much. Thanks for covering it
Teaching environmentalism to children. Savage dude.
"Children" also includes adults who are complete morons.
It blows my mind when people deny global warming with phrases like "we still have snow so.."
I think the forest God chooses to speak in a way that words arent needed, because they're aware that it only causes apathy in gods and people and their refusal to understand. Much like the nature of life and death with its silent teachings. Although even without the God talking, most are confused unless they've respectfully lived alongside the forest like the Princess, her mother, and now Ashitaka
I think this especially in the scene before their death. The rifle is being decorated with foliage and begins to look her in the eyes. I feel like this is a final peace offering along with the God trying to communicate that all of the resources shes taken and used to create a tool for death are because of the forest and everything the Gods have done for the world. That along with the irony that a tool man created was because of the forest as well.
But she refuses to respect that or understand, and can only say "you will die"
my interpretation of why the forest spirit doesnt speak is more so because it is a greater spirit. It is above speaking to lesser things.
Same as Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who from A Wrinkle in Time, two ancient celestial beings who have trouble verbalizing. The youngest one, Mrs. Whatsit, is fully capable of normal speech.
And yet 'lesser things' killed it. Maybe it should have gone down from its high horse, eh?
@@Ares99999 A mosquito can kill you
I collect Ukiyo-e prints and I think Princess Mononoke is the most Ukiyo-e of all Miyazaki films. Many of the scenes in Princess Mononoke clearly incorporate the compositional style of the Meiji period woodblock printmakers. For instance, San's assault on Iron Town and her fight with Lady Eboshi look remarkably like fight scenes from Yoshitoshi prints like The Fight on Gojo Bridge. San's mask and the forest spirit look like kabuki masks from Kunichika. The mountain roads look like Hokusai and Hiroshige prints of the Tokaido Road. The big battle scenes are reminiscent of Chikanobu and Kiyochika war prints. If Miyazaki had lived in 1860 he would have had his own school and rivaled the Ukiyo-e masters.
I love this series and anything concerning my favorite Ghibli movie means I must drop everything, and pay attention to it.
Especially given the subject matter and the fact I have nothing better to do on a 3 degree icy night in New York City....
To answer the question in your description: It's not just required viewing in the era of climate change, it is required viewing period. It is one of the best movies of all time.
There are two major groups of climate change deniers. The first category are those that know climate change is real and deny it due to some motivation - these are most often businesses that don't want to make changes to how they operate because it will cost money and those that are paid to ignore climate change because of their influence. (Do you really think Trump doesn't believe in climate change when he built a retaining wall against rising tides at his golf course in Scotland?) The second group are those that listen to the politicians and businessmen instead of the 99% of scientists that actually have education and experience with the climate.
André Brynkus it's funny and sad how a lot of the people that deny climate change science overlap with those that claim superiority of men/whites and LGBT hate because of science.
If only there was a Princess Mononoke for 50 year olds too.
In theory, there is. Game of Thrones has an environmental message I don't see people talk about. You got a lot of people squabbling with each other. Most people in the show are backstabbing each other, trying to gain more power or mostly enriching themselves for their selfish, petty needs. But there's a force coming that is life-threatening to anything in the world. A force that you cannot reason with, that won't stop no matter what you do. Everyone had a chance to do something about it, but were too concerned for themselves and their image, until it was too late.
@@jarnevanvooren2984 unfortunately the ending of the TV show COMPLETELY ignores this allegory, and solves "climate change" literally overnight, and makes the squabbling the ultimate conflict
There is. It's called Princess Mononoke.
Anime isn't just for kids
@@moon-lo8ic I totally agree with you, and I may add that Princess Mononoke Isn't really made for young children as some apparently think.
This movie is the single most important thing I watched as a kid in terms of ideas and messaging. I will love it until I die.
Princess Mononoke - Teaching Environmentalism to Children...
... and also decapitation and dismemberment
Wonderfully put!
Godzilla is the most famous series of environmental films ever... fact.
If Donald Trump watches this movie he will probably interpret it as a celebration to boar hunting. Just look how he interpreted Citizen Kane.
Lol
He just removed environmental protections even more then he already has -.- we need to take action!
The funny thing is that climate change is underway and the only thing we can do is mitigate the damage. It is too late. Furthermore if you create the most simplest, beautiful and legendary pro-climate change movie those in power will disregard. Come on man it is just more profitable to let the earth die.
Not true. Just read the latest IPCC report.
Realky worried about snow cause we have a lot of cracks in our ceiling wortied about a collapse
sad, but wonderful as usual.
Is it childish that i recognized two shots of snow in DC where I live and thought, "OOOH i live there" (i'm assuming yes)?
Great video
For children?
Princess Mononoke is an awesome movie, but dude, would you really play it for a child?
I thought the same thing when I first saw it (isn’t it rated R?), but now I’m not so sure. Maybe it depends on the kid? As in, some are more mature than others?
Violence in movies scared me as a kid when the person being hurt was screaming in pain (like the scene in Jaws where the shark is dragging the dude off the boat), or when the danger presented felt like a real thing that could actually harm me (again, Jaws with actual sharks). This movie doesn’t really have either of those, and most of the violence against the human characters is pretty unrealistic and cartoonish. It’s more like what a child might imagine dismemberment to look like, rather than what it actually looks like. Kids are aware that things like violence and death exist, right? That people can be decapitated or have limbs chopped off?
I feel like this movie, along with most other Ghibli movies, resonates with young kids more than it does with adults, even if some of them might not want to watch it because of the gore.
@@TyGuy2462 personally i think its fine for children. Just make sure they are educated and you arent scaring them completely lol. some kids are more mature when it comes to this stuff. I know that spirited away is completely burned in my memory from watching it when i was like 4-5. It was so scary yet i was hypnotized by it. When i rediscovered when i was older i was so happy and it felt like a completely different movie. I was like "oh so thats what the movie was!".
I love this movie but I see it as one of Miyazaki's more depressing films.
Well Grave of the Fireflies would like to have a talk with you. A thoroughly depressing one. Also Princess Mononoke is not that depressing, sure a bunch of animals die but the Forest spirit is saved in the end.
I watched it as a small kid and it honestly scarred me for life. That dying boar at the beginning of the movie still haunts my nightmares lol
@titanicww2345 Grave of the Fireflies was written and directed by Isao Takahata. Not Miyazaki.
This is the only Miyazaki movie not made for children
@@ciriknockoff5738 Same. It actually all came rushing back after seeing the clips used in the video.
The way energy is represented with tendrils enveloping and swallowing everything really did a number on my little kid brain.
It amazes me that climate change deniers still exist and have such influence... because surely some must imagine they could be wrong, even if it were the faintest of possibilities, and what possible gains could they extract that would counterbalance the earth no longer being able to support human life? Indeed, the extinction of the human race, whether slow or quick WILL happen if we don't change our ways immediately, it may already be too late...
Their influence is growing rather than shrinking, sadly.
Actually in the manga Nausicaa its the human who created the sea of decay
having just finished the manga... how? shes 1000 years later.
While I love this film, Princess Monoke id not a film for children.
What Nausicaa of the valley of the wind got wrong is what Princess Mononoke got right
Where can I get to see the film I tries to see the film but I don't manage to find the film
This might be the saddest video you have ever made.
Climate change? Not in my apartment.
+1 for IASIP!
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Take into account that I agree wholeheartedly with the assessment of the video, but I think that the only change in the world comes from the bastards with all the money figuring out how they can make more money from a situation. Until then, we're buggered. A bit pessimistic maybe but . . .
Uhhh, I sure hope people aren't showing children this film. It's kinda violent and gorey....
It's rated PG-13. Children can (and do) watch movies with violence. It's not senseless violence, though. Parents undoubtedly have shown this to their kids. This isn't a horror movie, and the colorful animation softens the blow of the blood.
@@renegadecut9875 I mean, *legally* 13 years are considered children, but I don't believe that 6 year olds should be viewing the same content as 13 year olds. They're not remotely the same, maturity-wise. I think most children (5, 6, 7 year olds) would find this film frightening and disturbing.
I saw this movie when I was 8 and thought it was bad-ass LOL
PG-13 in Sweden is 7 years (we have kids movies, from 7, from 15 and 18+ (never shown in cinemas, 99% movies that get that are porn)).
Monoke was shown on national TV with the disclaimer that it may not be for very small children as some scenes appear scary. And they are very particular about which movies are shown on TV during the hours kids are awake (Darkwing Duck was removed from TV as being too violent for kids).
I loved this movie when I was a kid (still do)
what a joke ...