From Up On Poppy Hill
May. 4th, 2014 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraFrom Up On Poppy Hill is a 2011 Studio Ghibli film (Miyazaki senior worked on the script and Miyazaki junior directed). I liked it a lot - charming teen romance, a lot of fun minor characters and background dialogue, fascinating little details of life in Japan in 1963. (I mean, I assume it's about as romanticised as, like, a John Hughes movie, but that doesn't mean "entirely false".) I didn't know much about it in advance but the plot turned out to be basically identical to Dira Sudis' The Shadow That You're Standing On, which meant that I was pretty sure how it was going to work out (which otherwise I might not have been, not wanting to assume that American genre conventions would apply). Recommended!
(Actually, a question for anyone who writes Japanese (or other character language?) - in the film we see the printing of a student newspaper by what looks like a very simple process: someone "cuts a stencil", which looks more or less like writing with a knife, and then paint is applied over it like silk screening. Is written Japanese in fact such that you can just do that? I mean, you can't do that with English characters, because of the holes. They were not particularly trying to show the details of this process and may have greatly simplified it or skipped steps, I just think there is something awesome about a language where you can do that, if it's true. Looking on wikipedia, it does look like there are still characters with holes, so, hm, maybe not. So, haha, I guess my next question is whether there is *any* written script in which no elements have holes. (Is it clear what I mean by holes? A, O, R, B etc have them, W, E, F, T don't.)
(Actually, a question for anyone who writes Japanese (or other character language?) - in the film we see the printing of a student newspaper by what looks like a very simple process: someone "cuts a stencil", which looks more or less like writing with a knife, and then paint is applied over it like silk screening. Is written Japanese in fact such that you can just do that? I mean, you can't do that with English characters, because of the holes. They were not particularly trying to show the details of this process and may have greatly simplified it or skipped steps, I just think there is something awesome about a language where you can do that, if it's true. Looking on wikipedia, it does look like there are still characters with holes, so, hm, maybe not. So, haha, I guess my next question is whether there is *any* written script in which no elements have holes. (Is it clear what I mean by holes? A, O, R, B etc have them, W, E, F, T don't.)
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Date: 2014-05-05 03:04 am (UTC)