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Starting Point

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"Even if the world depicted is a lie, the trick is to make it seems as real as possible."

I'm reading Hayao Miyazaki's Memoir "Starting Point 1979-1996", the first book of his memoir series.

I like the dichotomy of his statement:

Even if the world depicted is a lie, the trick is to make it seems as real as possible. Stated another way the animator must fabricate a lie that seems so real viewers will think the world depicted might possibly exist.

And he continues:

For example, say one makes an animated film depicting the world as a bug from the viewpoint of the bug. Such a film shouldn't show the world from the perspective of a human using a magnifying glass, but a world where each blade of grass becomes a giant tree, where the ground is not flat, but bumpy, and rough, and where water—whether in the form of rain or droplets—has a completely different character than we humans normally think of it as having. It's in depicting the world this way that the story becomes interesting and starts to seem real.

The irony that lies in the fact that a lie must have a sense of realism. It's silly, but also fascinating.