Over the years, Miyazaki’s political stance about America’s involvement in global conflicts as well as the country’s contribution towards the globalisation of American culture has been unwavering. “Anti-jeans, Anti-bourbon, Anti-burgers, Anti-fried chicken, Anti-cola, Anti-American coffee, Anti-New York, Anti-West Coast,” Miyazaki once said while describing his beliefs.
According to excerpts from multiple interviews, Miyazaki’s dislike for all things American also extends to the realm of cinema.
“Americans shoot things and they blow up and the like, so as you’d expect, they make movies like that,” Miyazaki stated. “If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them. Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage.”
Miyazaki compared the visual politics of large-scale Hollywood productions such as the Lord of the Rings to the country’s international policies. Attacking America’s actions in Afghanistan, Miyazaki claimed that such projects are a dangerous addition to public discourse because they diminish the value of human life by weaponising the audience through cinematic violence.
I find it odd that after listing several things that are pretty synonymous with America as a whole, he kinda suddenly switches to saying he only dislikes certain areas of it at the end. I have a hunch based on all the lead-up that what he really wanted to say is that he's Anti-America in general, but even he knows flat-out saying that might be a bridge too far and get him in trouble, so he toned it down at the end to only disliking fairly small and specific areas of it lol.
I think he's just listing a bunch of things that are American, not that he has some great love for the heartland
Miyazaki: Confirmed Beautiful Boater?
If he releases a film about the coastal elites we'll know for sure
I think that's the plot of Ponyo.
As a non US person, if you go by what reach us culturally New York and the West coast are what the US is. Everybody in the tv lives in an apartment in New York. Everybody in the songs is from California
as a non West Coast / non NYC American, the cultural reach of America™ is absolutely as you say. it's their country. the rest of us are just here, extracting their food, materials, and energy before filling big holes with their garbage, waiting to be enlightened enough to be called to the metropolis.
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nothing says "homegrown culture" like homogenized, industrial food treat warming stations and stockpiles appearing along the federal interstate system like a web of slop troughs to facilitate the dislocated, transient labor necessary to support rapid resource extraction.
I mean, those are the culturally hegemonic areas. Even the areas outside those in the US that do have their values exported across the globe, like Christian nationalism, do so through the media and economic centres based in those places: radio, internet/social media, finance capital, etc.
He also hates Tokyo, so maybe he sees them as like America's Tokyo(s) too in regards to social power/influence.
Edit: Although I guess he shoulda' add Washington D.C./Georgia though if my analysis is correct.
It's harder to know shit about the hinterland because every media takes place in new york or cali (filmed in vancouver).
I think he was just listing the most culturally relevant parts of the US to non-Americans. By and large, someone in another country with some exposure to US culture is gonna be familiar with NYC and California. But Missouri and North Carolina and Utah are entirely irrelevant. If you said you hated British culture, you might say "I hate London and I hate the English countryside" because that's where 98% of their films and shows take place. You wouldn't say "and I hate Bristol and Sunderland".
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He does live about as far from Ohio as you can get, so this checks out.
i think he means that he hates America from coast to coast
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