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Old 2012-10-15, 13:41   Link #1188
Warm Mist
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She is clearly not condoning "expressive" directors, but what made me post that was her comment about how a director colouring the work with their ideas "destroys the illusion". It reminded me of the arguments Western animation enthusiasts use to criticize anime and its animation, claiming it doesn't respect the "illusion of life" paradigm of Disney and that there is too much individuality in the works (as if it were something bad).

I agree that if you want to preserve the source material's feeling, it is better to not be intrusive in your direction and let the characters carry themselves on their own merit. But that in itself is not an easy task to do; as you said above, it's not that hard to identify Yamada's direction and means of expression and while it doesn't "break the illusion" in her words, it's also not as seamlessly integrated as she probably would wish.
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