Spirited away vs. Disney

OZAN KURT

Studio Ghibli The studio was founded after the success of the 1984 film

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Miyazaki for Top craft and distributed by Tōei. The origins of the film lie in the first two volumes of a serialized manga written by

Miyazaki for publication in Animage as a way of generating interest in an anime version. Suzuki was part of the production

team on the film and founded Studio Ghibli with Miyazaki, who also invited Takahata to join the new studio.

The studio has mainly produced films by Miyazaki, with the second most prolific director being Takahata (most notably with Grave of the Fireflies). Other directors who have worked with Studio Ghibli include Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita and

Gorō Miyazaki. Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtrack for all of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films.

Many of Ghibli's works are distributed in Japan by Toho. Internationally, The Walt Disney Company has rights to all of

Ghibli's output that did not have previous international distribution, including the global, non-Japan distribution rights to

Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. citation needed] As of September 7, they currently share North American theatrical rights

with GKids while domestic right remain with Disney.

Disney

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), commonly referred to as Disney, is an American multinational diversified mass media company headquartered in Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, California, United States. It is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, music, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

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LION KING

A lion prince, Simba, is born in Africa and the animals of the Pride Lands pay tribute. Later Simba is told by his father, King Mufasa, that when Mufasa dies, Simba will become King of the Pride Lands. Simba's Uncle Scar would have been king after Musafa had Mufasa not had a child. Fuelled by rage, Scar plots to kill Mufasa and Simba so he is able to take over the throne. He uses the hyenas to cause a stampede through the canyon where Mufasa and Simba are, and personally ensures Mufasa falls to his death. Simba survives so Scar implies that the stampede was Simba's fault and that the pride will blame him. Simba flees the Pride Lands meaning never to return home. Simba is found, collapsed with exhaustion, by Timone the Meerkat, and Pummba the Warthog, and the trio become fast friends. Simba stays with them well into adulthood until his childhood friend, Nala, hunting beyond the Pride Lands that herds had deserted under Scar's mismanagement stumbles upon Simba's new home. Astonished to find him alive, she begs him to return to the Pride Lands, where Scar has reigned as King for years, and ruined everything. All of the animals will starve if Simba does not return. Simba eventually agrees to fight for his kingdom. Simba battles Scar, and learns his father's death was Scar's fault, not his own. Simba prevails and, in time, has his own son, mirroring "The Circle of Life.

Spirited away

The story begins as Chihiro and her parents take a wrong turn down a dirt path while traveling to their new home in the country side. They discover a tunnel at the bottom of the path which leads them into an old abandoned theme park. While Chihiro and her parents explore the place they come across a place full of restraunts filled with all different kinds of delicious foods. Chihiro's parents then start helping themselves to some food. As Chihiro leaves her parents and starts exploring the place herself she comes upon a bridge only to be found by a boy named Haku. The boy then tells Chihiro that she must leave before nightfall. She then runs off to find her parents only to find them as pigs. Chihiro gets scared and runs off to the river only to find it full of water. She then runs off and hides, Haku then comes looking for Chihiro promising her that he will help her save her parents but the only way was for Chihiro to get a job in the bathhouse for the Gods and spirits of Japan.

This film was directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki, this film straight from the beginning had an imaginative feeling to it. The director had made previous similar films which were Nausicaa, Laputa and many more. The main character of this film was Chiriro who was a 10 year old child, where the audience was aimed for young ones but acceded all the way to all age groups. The Spirited away was very similar the Disney film Lion King, the reason I say this is because they both get into a lot of trouble where they see their parents get hurt and that they need to put things right. This film was more dangerous than the Lion |King because the Spirited away contains a world of magic and gods where in Disney films they only make the bady be evil a little bit and this is because they make everyone feel sympathy to them where in the Studio ghibli the audience wants something bad to happen to the gods and witches. When chihiro finally gets the job of Yubaba she is sent to the owner of the store which is a witch. She makes the little girl sign a contract where if she fails to do any work they will eat her parents, also her named changed to Sin. This is comparable with the Lion King because Simba has to get his pride back and he gets put in to challenges which he must face and he has to find his uncle Scar and beat him. The Spirited away is very different from Disney because from the beginning to the end its all adventure and mystery this means that the film is unpredictable where in Disney films everyone can predict and expect the same thing to happen all the time. The film has a different feel to it than the Disney films because in Disney uses modern structures in their films where the other one uses and feels like a traditional Japanese film, this is because they make the characters look Japanese with their eyes. Also the film uses Japanese animators which helps as they look more Asian. Another way is that they use Japanese music and graphics, with mystery songs when gods walk in or when the entertainment gets more interesting.

Overall in my opinion I think that the Disney is a better choice because it contains more ranges of films, Disney land Paris, where Studio ghibli only has a website people can look at. Most people will enjoy Disney films more because they grew up watching these films where most people don’t even know about the Spirited away.