Howl's Moving Castle | Book Versus Movie
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Howl's Moving Castle is one of my absolute favorite stories and I have such a huge appreciation for both the book and the movie despite their differences. I had so much fun revisiting both for this video! Do you have a favorite version? Let me know your thoughts down below!
Howl's Moving Castle Book:
© 1986 Diana Wynne Jones / Greenwillow Books (US)
Cover Art © 2008 John Rocco
Howl's Moving Castle Movie:
© 2004 Studio Ghibli / Walt Disney
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Howls moving castle has always been my favorite studio ghibli movie so I def had to give the book a try, and I was not disappointed. The book, imo, was even BETTER than the movie and to this day its still my favorite book ever! I still love the movie. You can tell that it's made by a Japanese staff because the characters are more calm and humble compared to the book. Howl in the movie is charming and just mysterious, but in the book he's an eccentric, very VERY overly dramatic, emotional, and boy is he just the funniest character I have ever come across from. I was surprised to see how different the plot was from the movie but that's what made reading the book even better, because aside from the beginning, the plot was completely new to me and I didn't feel like I was reading a story I already knew the ending to, it was a whole new experinece. A favorite quote is where Howl tells Sophie "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy? Make toast!" lool
I feel like this is one of the most rewarding instances of watching the movie first and following up with the book. They're both lovely in their own right but fundamentally SUCH different stories. Whiney Howl is one of my absolute FAVORITE characters in literature! He really appeals to my inner drama queen lol
Better than Spirited Away?! 'O.o
can i know where did you buy the book?
I must be hella confused, but isn't Howl also a bit overly dramatic (the hair shampoo scene) and emotional in the movie? (at some scenes) xD
@TheOneOfSeven only shampoo scene in a movie and then he is back to being his mysterious wise self
I actually like both versions. They're really special in their own way. 📘
Agreed!
Can't agree more, I think the movie is just howls version of the story and the book is Sophie's version. I love it
This book has always been my Pride and Prejudice, my safe haven, the book I read over and over again. It's dark, it's moody and it's gutwrenching and beautiful. I loved your description 💖
WHERE DID YOU GET IT?
Sammme such a comfort read ☹️❤️❤️❤️
The fact that in the book it’s Howl who was hitting on Sophie and called her a mouse is so freaking funny to me😭😭😭😂😂😂
Sophie in the book was more interesting because we got to see her progress from someone who was afraid to express her own mind and instead allows herself to be influenced by others, to someone who knows her own mind and thinks for herself. Book Howl, too, is more complex and interesting because of his curse to always find love that will betray him. He hides behind clothes and beauty treatments to get someone to love him then fears betrayal when the girl loves him back so he betrays that love first. At the end of the book, he changes from someone who hides from commitment to someone who is willing to sacrifice for the good of others. When Sophie is willing to give him up even though she loves him, he realizes that this is one woman who will not betray him. Sophie’s relationship with her sisters and stepmother is more complex and interesting in the book as well. She learns to see them as they are, not who others say they are and finds they all love and care about her, even though they aren’t perfect. She is able to give them love in return. The movie trivializes the importance of these relationships to Sophie’s growth. I like the book and the movie, but the movie misses the point of the book completely. I really found the transformation from a young woman into an old one absolutely fascinating. The villain of the book wants to be forever young and the protagonist wanted to be old. Jones used an ingenious plot twist there, why would a young person want to be old?
In the book I love that Sophie's world has these weird superstitious beliefs like "eldest children never amount to anything much", which Sophie believes and is resigned to, until the spell happens and she is now not only the eldest but elderly!
I like how the book shows the characters fighting against life's expectations for them, Sophie of course when she is old and feels more empowered, but also both her sisters Lettie and Martha scheming and identity-swapping to live their best life. :) Every main character gets a transformation.
I think Sophie has magic in the movie too, but it wasn't as in the face with it as in the book.
It shows most with her ability to manage/talk up Calucifer and at the very end when she gave the heart back to howl and also wished for both of them to live.
My take on howles singular movie meltdown was more or less "the straw that broke the camels back". My reasoning is because of just how stressed he seems given his and the world's situation of chaos and war. With howl in the middle of all of it. Stopping entire bomb brigades, being stalked by, and constantly afraid of sulamin, his heart has belonged to a fire demon since childhood, and he takes all the hardship with a smile on his face. He doesn't even indulge in his on goings during his trips out. He comes in from one said trip, takes a bath and dyes his hair only to find its now red. The horrible things he endured all come playing in his mind and has an out of character moment as we all can be known to do during times of high stress. I think his one and only bratty moment in the film adaptation was to emphasize just HOW much pressure he was under.
Most Dianna Wynne Jones books have a multi-dimensional/magical many-worlds setup. I read a lot of her books when I was young and Howl being from Wales registered as "oh, THERE'S the multiverse" to me when I read it 😆
I love when she called him a 'slither-outer'. That is my favorite thing in the whole book.
Oh my God, I've been obsessed with the book for so long and no one around me has read it so I can't talk about it, or the differences between the book and the movie. I LOVED listening to you talking about it, you literally made my day. I'm so glad to have found your channel!!! Thank you so much! It was fun.
It's crazy that so few people know there's a book when the movie is so popular!! Thank you for watching! 🥰
@@lexieslibrary right??? It's so much fun reading the book, I convinced a friend to read the book so I'm super excited about it. I wish tons of people would enjoy this book as much as we did. It's so good. Also, I make them curious about hinting that there's a few differences (for those who say well I've already spoiled myself with the movie). I'll definitely recommend your channel to them 😚
@@ejderhaz thank you so much!! They're SO different! Even rereading it i was so delighted by all the additional information the book provides about the world. And Book Howl is superior 😌 love the Miyazaki version but cutting out his brattiness removed so much humor from the story
@@lexieslibrary I have to agree, book howl is superior 🤭 I mean, I do like both but book howl seems much more human and he's so much funnier. Knowing Miyazaki's love for quirky characters I wish he'd kept more of Howl's dramatic tantrums lol.
I already read it twice.
@@ejderhaz o0oo after reading ur opinion, I think Imma buy the book😚 I really love the movie, so I wanna give the book a chance 🥰
The book's finale is so incredible! I thought everything and everyone came together really well in the end compared to the movie, especially in regards to the scarecrow
This is easily my alltime favorite book and it's so fun watching someone talk about it because it feels like almost nobody has actually read it, people only know about the movie which is a bit of a shame because they're both so wonderful in their own very different way.
My biggest takeaway here though is that there's 2 more books and this is a series?! I think I'm gonna have to read these :D
Have you read them? They're not direct sequels but I love them, too.
loved this, and i totally would sit through an hour long video about the differences haha.
Lol thank you!
Sophie's complex character and personality is fetching and charming.
I loved the book and movie both! The one thing I noticed that wasn't mentioned in this video though, is that in the movie, Wizard Sullivan is DEFINITELY also Mrs. Pentstemmon! She was Howl's teacher, looks exactly the way Pentstemmon is described in the book, and has a similar conversation with Sophie about being concerned for Howl. With so many characters in the story, I thought it was cool how they combined those two.
The one thing I wasn't so hot on, was how out of nowhere the romance was between Sophie and Howl in the book. I'd like to see them START to develop feelings toward the end of the book, and begin to explore that in the sequels, rather than jumping to "happily every after," as Howl says on the last page. That being said, I've seen that jump to romance in a few books, and maybe the slow courtship is just my own modern preference haha
agreed, i'm not a fan of the very common happy romantic ending with so little build up. but i see it as a sort of confirmation that the author intends them to be together even if the book is ending so that theres no unanswered questions. so it often feels rushed but as long as it seems like the eventual direction the story would have headed anyway it's forgivable to me. i would enjoy more platonic endings tho ;)
Such a good recap! I love your thoughts!
One thing you might have forgotten about the book is that Howl was hired by the king to find a way to move his armies quickly, and Howl kept trying to slither out of the responsibility because he didn’t want anything to do with the looming war. He ended up making Seven League Boots as a result, and that’s what got him nearly appointed as royal wizard.
Though he wasn’t the peace-loving nobleman of the anime, he did want to avoid the war (more out of avoidance), and there definitely was a war subtext to most of the book (though nowhere near what we see in the movie).
I wish Sophie’s sisters had gotten some justice in the movie!
I just finished listening to the audio book for the second time. And honestly, I love both versions soo much. Yeah, they are extreeeemely different 😂 they changed so much about the characters and plot, that the movie ends up seeming more inspired by than based off of the book. But I actually love that they took these loveable, interesting characters and gave them new adventures and challenges! Also, I didn't know there were two more books! For that same reason I'm definitely going to have to look into those 🥰
I love both versions, but I like the book better. I do wish the plot had stayed closer to the book. I felt the plot in the movie was a statement on war, and the plot in the book was moreso a out Howl and Calcifer trying to break their contract before they turned. I also thought that the witch of the waste's fire demon was an amazing character that would have been a welcome addition to the movie. Concerning Howl coming from Wales, that makes him more magical in my opinion. How did someone from our world find or make a portal to another world? Why are we robbed of seeing Sophie freak out in a car?
I always loved that Howl comes from Wales because, for me, it's the whole "why" for his behaviour and attitude. He feels like an imposter and a charlatan and is deeply insecure about his outsider status in Ingary-because he's really a shabby academic nobody from a tiny country of no significance (from his perspective). Part of him is jealous of Sophie being innately magical and from a magical land and it annoys him that she thinks so little of herself.
I think the bird thing is to visually show that fighting causes him to lose a little bit of his humanity and become more beastial. And I think it shows that Howl is a demon in the movie; not just that Calcifer is a demon. I've always assumed that movie Howl was a witch AND a demon.
It has been so long since I've read the book, this is such a nice recap
It's been like 10 years since I last read it! It was delightful to reread! I was very glad it still held up lol
i just recently read the book and i thought it was super interesting how michael was kind of replaced in the movie. don’t get me wrong markl is cute and all, but i kinda wish we could’ve seen him adapted as michael instead🤧
Agreed! The subplot of him being worried Howl is stealing his girl is so funny, I would have loved to have seen it!
I just saw the movie finally and re-read the book (which I adore). You do a marvelous job of relating both. Thank you. I hope it gets more people to read the book. Do you ever imagine the book as a live action movie? I think Domhnall Gleeson could pull it off, and Dame Helen Mirren + Florence Pugh as Sophy would be so fun.
You know, I have never even thought about a live action cast before but your picks sound delightful! I would watch that movie in a heartbeat lol
19:04 Wouldn’t the idea be that Howl wasn’t heartless until he literally gave his heart to Calcifer? Great video, regardless! I personally prefer the book, which isn’t to say that the movie’s remotely “bad”, but the book is just so very comforting and earnest.
the movie in it's own right is definitely an amazing piece of art, that rightfully is loved by so many but man people are missing out on the book. it's just such a fun read and all the characters are so much more enjoyable, i also personally prefer the story. but i'm glad we have both.
Loved you going over both
I love the steampunk look of the castle in the book.
Don’t you mean the movie? Excluding that one copy’s cover, the style of the book’s castle is fixedly medieval.
i just read the book and i am in desperate need to talk with someone about it, and this felt just like as if i were! great video :)
and i think you putted perfectly the ghibli version is not an amazing or really accurate adaptation, but is a great movie for it self!
Aw, thank you!! It's definitely weird because I'm the first person to complain when a movie makes major changes adapting a book, but Howl's Moving Castle is an exception. I genuinely love them both!
@@lexieslibrary absolutely, hayao miyazaki really makes the movie his one, but still bringing a lot of the things i loved in the book! unlike a certain ᵖᵉʳᶜʸ ʲᵃᶜᵏˢᵒⁿ adaptation that changes things for no reason and doesn’t give anything new that makes the story fit better in the different format
(sorry for the rant, i recently watched the movies and it just made me really mad lol)
@@doineedanid I haven't seen the Percy Jackson movies in YEARS and they still make me mad lol. Fingers crossed that the new adaptation will be better!! 🤞
@@lexieslibrary 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Just recently watched the movie for the first time because so many people love it... I was so confused, disappointed and weirded out. I watched some theory videos and gave the film another try, and it makes more sense now. Thank you for making this video, it's awesome 💖! I was curious about the differences in the actual book, and now it's even more demystified 🙌!
I don't feel that the bird transformation has anything to do specifically with Calcifur. It seems to represent how he turns himself into a monster to protect Sophie and other people. Just like how the other wizards turned themselves into monsters to fight for the kings. The only reason he doesn't completely transform seems to be because of Sophie and her help.
I've always thought that a more "faithful" adaptation of the book would have had a tone similar to the movie/book Stardust. Lots of similar themes, similar fantastic settings, similar convoluted/circuitous plotting... The vibes are a lot more similar, honestly.
I saw the movie first, but love the book more! I like that Sofie has more agency in the book 😍 Don't always understand why she falls for Howl though... Other than his dashing good looks 😂
Thank you for this! I'm reading the book and finding it difficult to follow the story and characters, in many ways. This is after having already listened to the audiobook multiple times. I enjoyed the story in many ways despite all my confusion, so I finally picked up a physical copy to take it all in more effectively, and it's still been quite a challenge to experience it in a fully coherent way. I found that the movie, though also confusing at times, was much more accessible and I could at least make my own sense of it. This video helped me to pick up on some things in the book that I somehow missed, like how the black door leads to Wales in the "real world". (That also explains Howl's nephew's computer game, which seemed out of place in a magical world.)
I loved the movie so I'm going to give the book a go. Loved how passionate you were when talking haha
Bro, like HOW am I so dumb? This video is the first time I realized that the portal that led to Howls home led to OUR world.
I even took note of the fact that Wales is a real place and when they mentioned "computer games" I thought "wait, isn't this story set before that stuff?" but I guess I just immediately forgot about it?
I didn't even notice the vehicle that was scaring Sophie was a car?
What is wrong with me? LOL
Great video btw
Honestly, Howl's Moving Castle used to be one of my fav Ghibli when I was young but now that I rewatched it, I found that there were a lot of plot holes and messy story lines, making the movie a bit "indigestible" imo. I agree that the movie's "hair dye" scene was a bit "tone deaf" and out of character for movie-Howl. I think that Miyazaki tried to stick with some of the OG story lines a bit too much, which is a shame, because he's really great at creating something new from a pre-established story (Kiki's Delivery Service being a great exemple of that talent)
I can totally relate to that because i watched howl's moving castle twice. The first one (2020) hell, i have no idea what was the plot was because i was mesmerized by the physical art (music, sceneries, architecture, characters). The second time was just last week and let me tell you I was still confused. Howl turning into half-human, half-bird doesnt makes any sense to me. So i was glad that i read the book .
This is my favourite studio Ghibli movie and I just listened to the audiobook for howls moving castle and I can say I love both and surprised by the changes in the movie like howl being from are world from Wales in England
Also I swear in the book they mention that Sophie has powerful magic on multiple occasions when other witches talk about her.
The film is actually Hayao Miyazaki's despair and crushed dreams.
Howl's backstory in the film.
1. Nona (Howl)'s grandfather gets assassinated by the apple county because he tried to convert the magic by words. (He tried to publish the book)
Nona holds grudge against the enemy county because of this.
2. Suliman took Nona under her wing and trained him.
3. Nona met The lost star, while they were sealing the contract, Sophie from the different time came in, and got involved in the contract, gained the magic of word, she named two, Howl, and Calucifer. And cursed their fates tied with her. unknowingly.
(But she couldn't seal the contract with a kiss then)
4. With the new gained power, Howl escaped Saliman, battled her and injured her legs.
5. Howl flirted with the witch of waste, lived with her for a while, invested a newborn star and sets it free, and then eventually left the witch.
6. Time has passed, and Howl found Sophie at last, and this is where the film begins.
Btw, when Howl found Sophie, he forgot about the woman who interpreted the contract and he didn't know that Sophie was his destiny, And if you look at that scene closely, his ring was shining red.
(This is why Hayao Miyazaki is the true romantist imo)
Also the ending scene shows us a few decades later where Sophie literally trapped everyone she liked in the castle, and there's a new massive war going on down below because the scarecrow came back to the moving castle.
The witch of waste was forced to stay watching Howl and Sophie for a thousand years.
everything was the way Sophie wanted to be.
It's not a happy ending for everyone, it was only a happy ending for the Wicked Sophie.
For everyone else, not so much.
But Hahyao Miyazaki made it hard to see the actual storyline. Because he was told to make this film for children and young women.
It's an old man's tragedy disguised as young girl's romance story.
Uh no this was an adaptation of a book that diverged quite a bit.
Source?
Interesting.
Wonderful video. I like both versions, and fwiw, I encountered both as an adult. It seems to me the moment of ma/breathing in HMC is when Sophie and Marco stop to do laundry in the wilderness.
Thank you for this. Honestly, I did watch the movie before the book and I only just read the book after years of the book. I noticed it was different but I can say as a fan of ghilbi films it did capture me more but because of his style so it is slightly biased. But I do not think the book was bad at all. I found it quite interesting how they turned certain things around. And you are right that certain things through movie adaptations will be quite different. Thanks so much for your insight on it though. ❤
I really love the movie so much that I consider it to be one of my favorites. I’ve had been wanting to read the book for a while after watching it because I heard that it was kind of different from the movie but I never ended up getting it. Instead I decided to listen to the audiobook version of the book here on TH-cam and I really enjoyed it so much. Sophie was very funny at times especially when she would talk to Howl. The book has also become one of my favorites that I have read and I will definitely get a physical copy of it. They are both amazing and magical in their own way. 😊
You say at 2:38 the witch of the waste visits with no warning but in the movie we know it's because howl was seen with Sophie... why did you say that was the same in the movie?
I CAN'T with the movie. I've tried to explain how awesome the book is to my brother and nephews...but they're all over the movie.
Both are good, just in very different ways! I'm personally more of a fan of the book so I do wish more people would read it!
Oh my gosh-- I loved your video! I recently re-read Howl's Moving Castle and was so tickled by the scenes of Sophie in Howl's world-- I had forgotten that he's actually from our world! That was a fun re-discovery. I really love both versions so much-- differences and all. The way Studio Ghibli imagined all the scenes visually looks so magical. We are truly truly blessed that we got a movie of this story :)
This is my favorite Ghibli studio movie
I love it ❤❤
This is such a great review! So fair and thoughtful, thank you! I'm definitely going to read the book now.
Thank you! It's definitely worth it. Diana Wynne Jones' writing is really charming!
hii before telling you my opinion of the two versions. I'd love to comment on your attitude which is soo loveable.
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I watched the movie years ago and I found it confusing. It was aesthetically beautiful but the story didn't honestly appeal to me. But then I discovered there was a novel so I read it and things made much more sense.
what I didn't like much in the movie was making the witch of the waste a sort of their friend which quite happened suddenly. but other than that I don't find the other changes annoying: the charming walk in the air is a masterpiece for real.
I watched the movie again after reading the book and I like it more now.
it's funny how the movie made me love the book as I imagined everything like the movie using it as a mould.
and also the book made me love the movie more as the missing pieces are no longer missing.
Listening to you compare how movie Howl was more charming (being so nobel and gentleman n everything) compared to the Howl in the book, I noticed how interestingly my mind is wired, since I actually started liking Howl's character only after reading the book (I saw the movie first)... at first I hated Howl in the book even more than the movie one, but slowly I began to realize that I'm warming up to him as it kept becoming more clear that he is so human, not perfect, not as distant, and is actually a tsundere. His ~perfect young man~ character in the movie was so not relatable that I couldn't really like him
i loved listening to you talking about this since it kinda explained the parts of the book i just didnt pick up on and its just very relaxing so thank you for sharing :D
Thank you so much!
I can agree with most people that the book is worth reading. But personally, I think the film adaptation from studio Ghibli is a lot better, and more memorable. I love it so much!😊
Both versions are great!! But to me, I just love the movie it has my whole heart and I was able to relate to it so much. I'm more in love with the movie howl than the book howl as well. Weirdly all the changes in the movie I honestly liked. Though some I was shocked by.
Can I ask how is the romance between Howl and Sophie in the book? It weired me out me how in the movie Sophie fell in love without knowing that much of him and how Howl never says he has the same feelings, is that different in the original source? :)
The romance is completely different in the book, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily overtly sweet and romantic lol. They bicker A LOT, but in a pretty funny way. The romantic feelings are more between the lines until the very end.
@@lexieslibrary thank you so much! Both for replying and for the video :)
Love this analysis. I don’t think I’ve seen other TH-camrs make an analysis on the book with spoilers and after watching and loving the movie I was curious enough to learn about it.
Love the book version more especially the battle by the sea
Love love love!
Wonderful comparison. I did something similar in my Goodreads review but you do it very much better 😊👍
What does sophies gray hair mean at the end? Its the only thing that does not change back
The next book in the series is Castle in the Air which is a castle that floats in the air. She definitely imagined the castle as a flying one.
I've always enjoyed the movie but just found & finished the book recently and loved it so much!!!! Could you make another video about the sequal books? Would love to hear your thoughts on that 2 books too. Thank you!!
Have you heard about the concept where the book is from her (Sophie) perspective and the movies from his (Howl) respective?
I think Studio Ghibli adopted many GREAT stories, could you review them? Spirited Away and Princess mononoke and Grave of the fireflies which I really really love! and what's your favorite Anime movie of all times?!
I've just finished the book but I haven't watched the movie yet. I've seen a lot of clips and memes of the movie so I kinda had an idea of what it was like and that's why I read the book. I was super confused when I was reading the book because it was nothing like the movie. I will watch the movie this weekend and hopefully I enjoy it.
I recently came across the Audio book narrated by Jennie Sterlin, and I love it.
I’ve seen the movie really liked it 😊
thank you
19:55 that scene where they run in the sky does happen in the book, it's when they run away from the waste.
9:13 they kept describing howl as cowardly and bad mannered in the book, but in the end sophie reveals that, the entire time he has actually been very noble and kind.
They didn't change his character that much. He comes across rude when he insults her by calling her old, but that's recontextualised when you find out he knows that's not actually what she looks like.
He's also not a coward, he just believes himself to be because he has fear. In the same way Sophie thinks she is an old soul just because she is the eldest. At the end of the day he fights his own battles, and she is a young woman.
In the book and the movie, his issue is his detachment to things. In the book he doesn't reveal too much in effort to keep a distance, in the movie it's the same with the additional idea that he throws himself into other people's battles due to poor self worth.
I watched the movie first and really enjoyed it. Then I heard the book and loved it so much. I went to rewatch the movie and couldn't believe the changes they made especially because there really was no need to. You already had a great story. They removed the fight between the witch, why? And the ending of the money was lazy as hell. Ugh, just read the book.
no
I really wanted some more insight to the time travel stuff. Does the book go into the closed loop nature of Sophie and Howls relationship?
Nice video thank you! :) I really enjoyed the movie and book as well but the end of the book I missed some romantic scences like in the movie😅 it was a little bit confeusing for me that a lot of thing happend a same time.
ok now i’m convinced i need to read the book
Thanks
Good job Lexie!! Dear God, lol you are “Sheer” Greatness
so book howl is isekai? That's a new info for me
i think the whole bird thing is abot ptsd and other veteran issues, maybe a lost idea, that Howl WAS a soldier and that new war brings up the worst depths of his soul.
also i think for this part we should „blame” all the pacification of Japan after ww2, that provides sometimes a bit confusing narratives of indistinction of defending and attacking :/
Great Job thank you
I really only now read the book. It was one of the funniest time for me😂
I’m studying Japanese and want to read it in Japanese, I wonder if the translation will be too off
I haven’t seen the film or read the book but it sounds so cute! I attempted a Diana Wynne Jones book earlier this year and didn’t love it, but this one sounds way better. Wikipedia says she’s English but her name sounds super Welsh to me 😂 Maybe that’s why Howl is Welsh? 🤷🏻♀️
I was under the impression she was Welsh, but I suppose I don't know for sure 😅 I definitely recommend both versions! The book is a bit more whimsical since there's no war plot but both are really magical
@@lexieslibrary I’ll have to figure out how to watch it 🥰
@@kellymcfarlane6120 I know in the US all of the Studio Ghibli films are on HBO Max! Not sure how it is in other places though
@@lexieslibrary oh we don’t have that here. Google says I can watch on Netflix so I’ll check that out if my children ever give me access to the tv remote 😂
@@kellymcfarlane6120 Awesome! 😊
Unpopular opinion time: the book suffers from the "love through dislike" trope. Sophie's only ever shown to berate and scoff at Howl, she never thanks him for the things he does for her or shows honest kindness towards him. I dunno, maybe I'm too autistic to see the nuances, but to me, it just looks like Sophie goes from being suspicious of him, to being possessively jealous, to dating him in the end after having done ONE big, good deed for him. Dating-wise, this is a red flag. Howl might be a dramatic brat, but that doesn't give Sophie the right to constantly put him down and destroy his things. Also worth noting is, that cutting up a partner's clothes is a legitimate abuse-technique, and after that part in the book, I just had a bad taste in my mouth about Sophie.
I honestly think Letty’s character was merged with Sophie since some of her characters seems to manifest her, the same way happened to Penstemon and Suliman I believe
What I ordered was the art of howl moving castle is it also nice???
Completely agree with all your opinions on the differences. Really didn't like the bird part and the hair tantrum was soooo out of character in the movie.
are you looking forward to read the other sequels? :)
There is more??
I love the movie. It's my favorite Studio Ghibli movie, even. But the book ruined the movie for me-it's SO much more in line with what I like, and Howl is so much more fun in the book that I can't see him any other way. My dramatic ass boyfriend and his magic tantrum over his hair turning pink LMAO
The fact her sisters are kind of important in the book also means a lot to me, it also gives more layers to Sophie… who is a lot more dynamic and like. Her own person in the book, to me
I love miyazaki's work, but unfortunately I couldn't really get into the movie. I read Howl's moving Castle when I was a kid and immediately began devouring her works. So much of what I loved about that story it was, well pretty much every exact detail of the world building, the complexity of the characters, the images it put into my mind. And that was mostly gone in the movie. Of course I know it's a good movie, it's just nothing like the book. Honestly though, as somebody who's a huge fan of Philip Pullman's work, I would have much rather see a book become a good movie albeit a very different story, then see it become an embarrassment.
hey girly i literally just finished reading the book and came across your video! i would love if you actually did the hour long video comparison between the movie and the book!
Aquí com mi ingles básico pero escuchando todo con mucha atención
Making him nobel in the film makes him giving up his heart completely a useless plot point. I really wish they hadn't changed that, or hadn't changed sophies powers. Those are like the two most important character strengths and flaws
I bought the book because I want to start reading in English, do you recommend it to start reading in English?
I think so! It's technically a middle grade novel so the language isn't super challenging
Read the book but couldn't finish it. Book Howl is so annoying that saying he is a brat is putting it lightly. I just couldn't.
Can I ask how many pages is Howl's Moving Castle? Because I'm going to use it for school and there's a minimum page 😅
My edition is 329 pages!
How many books does howls casle has ?
I believe there's 3 in the series, but I've only read the first one
@@lexieslibrary WHAAA, there are more books then one?!!😲😍😂😂
@@alexiascarlet7677 Yup! I think the second one has a different main character, but Howl and Sophie do show up
@@lexieslibrary Ahhh, it still sounds cool😙
there are three book total. howls moving castle, castle in the air (mc: abdullah), and house of wany ways (mc: charmain)
Oh the war according to Miyazaki is meant to be a metaphor/commentary for the Iraq War, having recently (at the time) refused to accept an Oscar for spirited away as a protest.
Where did you buy the book?
I don't remember where I bought this copy, but I'm pretty sure it's available at most major bookstores and on Amazon!
Now i wanna read the book soo bad😑😐
yes, READ THE BOOK! READ THE BOOK!
Please change your name in to "Lexicon"❤
Why's nobody talking about the age gaps?? 😭💀💀
I really like that they made this to a movie because I am not into reading.
Cowardly Howl. Not as good as being cowardly as Rincewind.