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Facts About MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (1999)
The film is based on the manga Nono-chan by Hisaichi Ishii, which was originally just several four-panel comic strips. Because of this, My Neighbors the Yamadas does not follow one single storyline, but rather is made up of 5-15 minute vingettes.
The movie is was the third in Studio Ghibli’s lineup to be directed by Isao Takahata, his works before this being Grave of the Fireflies (1988) & Only Yesterday (1991).
Different from other Ghibli works with done with traditional oil paint-on-cel animation, the film is done in watercolor, giving it an almost unfinished look. In order to achieve this look, the production team had to draw all of the frames on computers, making this the first Studio Ghibli movie to be fully digitally animated.
David Ogden Stiers plays the Narrator in the English dub of the film. You may also recognize Stiers from his performance as Governor Ratcliff in Disney’s Pocahontas.
The film won an Excellence Award for Animation at the 1999 Japanese Media Arts Festival
Korg, played by director Taika Waititi himself, introduces himself to Thor with a rock, paper, scissors joke.
Later, he accidentally crushes his blade-armed alien friend, Miek, by sitting on him.
Rock quite literally beat scissors.
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Korg explains to Thor that his revolution never got off the ground because he didn’t print enough pamphlets.
Paper literally beat rock.
Taika Waititi, what a man.
InX-Men, the ways that Patrick Stewart’s Xavier and Ian McKellen’s Magneto play chess mirrors their overall strategies. Magneto (clear pieces) is willing to sacrifice his pawns for the sake of victory, while Xavier (frosted pieces) uses and protects them as much as possible.
InX-Men The Last Stand, Magneto even says to Pyro “in chess the pawns go first” as he directs the less powerful mutants in the first wave of attack against the humans and X-Men
InMr. & Mrs. Smith,Brad Pitt’s John closes his left eye to take aim, but opens it again before shooting to retain peripheral vision.
This is what snipers do, foreshadowing his proficiency with weapons
