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Moon Rabbit is a film analysis podcast at the intersection between modern mythology and the human psyche. Screenwriter and film analyst Adam Dobay brings in film industry creatives and researchers to explore the new mythologies behind films and TV series, from Studio Ghibli and cult anime classics to the new wave of progressive American animation. More episodes, videos and bonus resources on www.followthemoonrabbit.com
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Castle in the Sky: Pazu’s Quest & The Mystery of the Island
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The boy hero Pazu has his origins in ancient mythology, and in true Miyazaki fashion, it has to do with the wind. In the last of our 3-part mini-series on Castle in the Sky, we explore how the film connects the mythologies of wind, earth and sky, and then look at how Pazu’s story is the classic Father Quest that Hollywood has horribly overdone but …
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Castle in the Sky: Sheeta's Disney Princess Subversion
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Sheeta is Miyazaki princess who defies the common story tropes of what a princess normally is, especially in the classic Disney sense of the word. In the second of our three-episode Castle in the Sky mini-series, we unravel how this film’s Sheeta is partly based on Sita, the Hindu Goddess featured in the epic Ramayana, and we also take a look at ho…
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Castle in the Sky is often waved away by Western film critics as simplistic and not nearly as polished as later Miyazaki films - but that's a huge misconception. In the first of our three-episode look into this raw, early Ghibli masterpiece, we'll explore the origins of the film's story, how a scouting trip to Wales and the South of England influen…
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One nuanced thing that connects Studio Ghibli films is the attention that the Studio’s two main writers and directors pay to the actual physical spaces that the characters move around in -- making landscapes and architecture characters in their own right. In this episode, we'll be talking about Studio Ghibli landscapes, from the vanishing scenery o…
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, based on a 12th century Japanese folktale, is one of Hayao Miyazaki's most important films that a lot of people in the West haven't even heard about, including my guest, independent cinema expert Flick Beckett (who now loves it). In this episode we talk about how the the story flips the "prophecy" story trope it …
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Going into a dark space to watch moving images on the wall seems like a recent thing, but humans have been doing it for tens of thousands of years. In this first episode of the Moon Rabbit Podcast, I sat down with independent cinema expert Flick Beckett to discuss the mythological elements of the cinema-going ritual, and we talked extensively about…
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Moon Rabbit is a new film analysis podcast on the intersection between modern mythology and the human psyche. In this introductory episode, I talk about how a unique book of fairy tales I had when I was 5 started me off on a journey that led me to film research and to starting this podcast about what's beneath the surface of modern film storytellin…
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