{"id":14388,"date":"2021-08-29T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14388"},"modified":"2021-08-28T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T23:36:14","slug":"the-garden-of-words-2013-makoto-shinkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14388","title":{"rendered":"The Garden of Words (2013, Makoto Shinkai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: you&#8217;re an acclaimed animation director following up your <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12084\">sci-fantasy epic<\/a> with a smaller story, about an urban schoolboy who wishes to be a shoemaker, skipping class whenever it rains to draw sketches alongside a daydrinking woman under a city park gazebo.  You have uniquely lovely visual artistry, especially outdoors in the rain, with your photoreal animation of water and light.  The gazebo people don&#8217;t even know each other&#8217;s names, but gradually begin to encourage each other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/gardenwords.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Now, do you leave good enough alone, or pivot to a tantrummy third act where she&#8217;s revealed as a disgraced teacher from his school and he comes to her apartment and declares he&#8217;s in love with her?  Shinkai chose the latter.  The boy also voiced Haku in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12229\">Spirited Away<\/a><\/em>, and she voiced the lead in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12653\">Night Is Short, Walk on Girl<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: you&#8217;re an acclaimed animation director following up your sci-fantasy epic with a smaller story, about an urban schoolboy who wishes to be a shoemaker, skipping class whenever it rains to draw sketches alongside a daydrinking woman under a city park gazebo. You have uniquely lovely visual artistry, especially outdoors in the rain, with [&hellip;]<\/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":[1049,96,2268],"class_list":["post-14388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-makoto-shinkai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388","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=14388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14421,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14388\/revisions\/14421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}