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This morning I was reminded that Princess Mononoke is in my top three favorite movies, I just get so excited that this film exists
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IT’S SO GOOD
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I remember my family would have Anime Nights on like Fridays where we would order pizza and all watch anime because my parents were nerds and recognized that they could bond with us kids by also watching the shit we were into
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God we watched like, all of Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, Fullmetal Alchemist (my soft and delicate dad had to dip in the first arc but my Mom and I finished the series together), even a couple of like super-depressing artsy ones a friend recommended that had us all like, “Why did we watch this??”
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And one evening my mom put on Princess Mononoke because someone had suggested it to her. I specifically remember being 13 years old because there’s a scene in the movie where someone’s arm gets severed from their body at like, the elbow
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It’s not super-gory but is fully onecreen and startling, and my mom shrieked and said, “That’s not PG-13!!”
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She was pretty adamant about us watching stuff that was age-appropriate and my brother was three-years younger than me so it made her Very Nervous
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I’m so glad she never turned off the movie though, because my 13-year-old brain was just like
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This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen
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I’m gonna imprint every second of this visual storytelling experience into my psyche for the rest of my life
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It’s such a good movie, it’s so scary and so magical
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I love the complex antagonism, and how magic exists but it’s largely unconcerned with humans
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Magic in that movie is just a neutral force of nature
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And there are soooo many animated movements and scenes in that movie that have stuck with me for my entire life and I’ve reused in writing and D&D like a million times
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It’s just really good, EVEN THE DUB IS AMAZING
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I hear they got Neil Gaiman to help consult on the English dub script
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Fuckin’... Gillian Anderson as a terrifying giant wolf
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Everything Minnie Driver is doing as Lady Eboshi
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What good female characters in this movie
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This movie is an incredible example of not having a central antagonist but instead having several groups, none of which are technically in the wrong, all working at cross-purposes and slowly escalating from there.
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Serves the very clear narrative that "evil" happens when people stop caring about their impact on one another and the world around them.
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I haven't seen it in a long time, I should rewatch
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I think it's definitely worth a rewatch, especially if you haven't watched it as like, a seasoned adult.
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I definitely got the gist of it when I was a teen but there's a lot, especially with Lady Eboshi, that's like... Oh I understand this much more complexly as an adult that's lived through like, politics and shit.
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SO GOOD
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Honestly why don't I have any Mononoke emotes
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Love this one too. Absolutely fabulous movie
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: I was gonna say I bet u love this movie
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It’s got big Senri energy
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oh you bet i do
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the bloodworm things were like formatively terrifying for me
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Same same same
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So good, so nasty.
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i haven't watched in yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaars
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the scene of Ashitaka getting shot had me so stunned in my youth lmao
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I'm rewatching right now
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YO THAT SHIT IS SO RAW
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everyone in the crowd suddenly deadass quiet
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it's such a good scene 
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watching ashitaka pushing that door open and slipping in a pool of his own blood 
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iconic
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also loved the scene of San feeding him chewed meat
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the chewed meat thing is so great
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I want to know if the design of the Great Forest Spirit is based off of anything or if that came straight from someone's dome because it's top tier Not Sure If Cute or Creepy
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that slightly wall-eyed look used to great effect
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man and actually this movie is way bloodier than even I remember, they really go hard with it sometimes.
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Also also the part of the soundtrack that plays when the Forest Spirit first loses its head will live forever in my mind as one of the single most unsettling tracks in history
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though honestly this soundtrack has a couple of fuckin' good ones
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the drums when the awful bloodworm monster first attacks at the beginning of the movie, v good
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yeah we def need to rewatch
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and we can do ANOTHER rewatch with Sushiflop if we dont see you before then
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we have a copy, yeah?
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that'd be fun 
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I think i have a copy
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somewhere
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of course we have a copy
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I was ready to fight my own blood brother for our family's copy