{"id":12484,"date":"2018-02-18T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2018-02-18T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:32:22","slug":"mary-and-the-witchs-flower-2017-hiromasa-yonebayashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12484","title":{"rendered":"Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017, Hiromasa Yonebayashi)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first film by Studio Ponoc is also Yonebayashi’s third<\/a> feature based on British<\/a> children’s lit, with much of the familiar visual style and same crew members as Ghibli, so it’s more a continuation than anything bold and new. We’d also just watched Castle in the Sky<\/a><\/em>, another movie where a girl with unexplained powers is chased from a floating castle. We played spot-the-reference as Mary finds a flower that turns her into a super-powerful witch, rides to witch school, then gets pursued by the schoolmasters who want to harness the flower’s power to crossbreed animals, or do some Captain America<\/em> kinda thing, I dunno. It’s all very attractive, and impressive on the big screen, but like its witchy predecessor<\/a>, it started to feel like we were just watching a kids movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first film by Studio Ponoc is also Yonebayashi’s third feature based on British children’s lit, with much of the familiar visual style and same crew members as Ghibli, so it’s more a continuation than anything bold and new. We’d also just watched Castle in the Sky, another movie where a girl with unexplained powers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,2374,216,2375,320],"class_list":["post-12484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-hiromasa-yonebayashi","tag-magic","tag-ponoc","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12484\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}