Kay’s grandmother tells the children a story about the Snow Queen, and Kay jests that he would defeat her by melting In the narrative of The Snow Queen, a girl (Gerda) and boy (Kay) are best friends and love one another. Will reveal much in common with Miyazaki’s oeuvre, and Mononoke An extensive lookĪt the plot and stylistic components of The Snow Queen However, this character is only a framing device, and does not appear very often. Troll character who narrates the film’s tale and invokes children to be respectful, brave and obedient, lest they ‘sleep However, The Snow Queen is primarily meant for children, as witnessed by a grandfather-like Unlike the rather violent and adult-themed Princess Mononoke, Snow Queen – a film beloved by many generations of schoolchildren in the former USSR – which is still rarelyīetween Snow Queen and Princess Mononoke : A Comparative AnalysisĮven a cursory look at Atamanov’s The Snow Queen,ĭerived loosely from the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name, reveals many similarities to Princess Mononoke. However, before delving into these characteristics, we must examine The Was struck by the singular animating style of Atamanov’s animation, as well as the emotional response produced by these This style to create distance between his own animation aesthetic and that of Disney productions. As we will see, the JapaneseĪnimator praised the Soviet work’s ambitious quasi-realist – but fundamentally aesthetic – style he used Unearth the Soviet roots of Princess Mononoke, I will first analyse the similaritiesīetween the two films, then discuss the reception of The Snow Queen in Japan in the 1960s įinally, I will analyse the aspects of the Soviet film which Miyazaki found most groundbreaking. Hunting ( Yadosagashi, Hayao Miyazaki, 2006), to which we will later return. Snow Queen also influenced other films by Ghibli, notably the short masterpiece House Mononoke can be interpreted as an homage to the Soviet film. Indeed, the two films are so similar that Princess The deeply affecting Mononokehime ( Princess Mononoke, Such as the highly praised The Snow Queen, no film makes this connection clearer than Although all of Miyazaki’s animated films are indebted to Soviet animation, Which highlights strong female characters, empathetic social relations and environmentalism, is capable of great emotionalĭepth as well as brilliant technical prowess. ( Castle in the Sky, 1986) would have been created. Is doubtful that works as profound as Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi ( Spirited Away, 2001), Kaze no tani no Naushika ( Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984) or Tenkū no shiro Lapyuta So important was the Soviet film for the budding animator that it became the impetusįor his continued presence in the field of animation. Had I not one day seen Snedronningen ( The Snow Queen) during a film screening hosted by the company labor union, I honestly doubt that I would I felt ill at ease every day – I couldn’t understand the works we were producing, or even I started working as a new animator for Toei Animation in 1963, but I frankly didn’tĮnjoy my job at all.
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