| (Sorry for my poor English, I'm French) (Also, everything I'm talking about in this post has no matter in the plot of Kanashimi no Belladonna) Recently I've watched Kanashimi no Belladonna, directed by Yamamoto Eiichi in 1973. It is the last anime produced by Osamu Tezuka's Studio before it ends producing animation by itself, and it is strongly influenced by the psychedelic and hippie movement from the 70s. In this movie, there are two type of scenes, the ones with a slow pace where the narration keeps going, and others with a very fast pace where everything is constantly transforming and moving just like hallucinations. So if I'm talking about this movie in the forum dedicated to Tenshi no Tamago, it's because I've found in this movie, produced more than 10 years before, what seems to be some great influences on Mamoru Oshi's and Amano Yoshitaka's work. In a specific scene of the movie that depicts the devastation and the pain caused by a wave of plague spreading in the city, the style changes a bit. First of all, despite all the movie is very colorfoul, the pictures becomes animated in black and white in this part, the same way as in Tenshi no Tamago. The plague is then a mysterious and invisible force that melts everything on its path, as it goes through the city that is shown melting thanks to a long traveling of the camera. The way buildings were melting really made me think of the way fishes are moving like shadows in Tenshi no Tamago and deforms everything like hallucinations.     But the influence becomes very obvious at the instant where the city is discovered to be located on a huge Noah's Ark, shown with a very large viewing angle, floating in the nothingness. This is of course the same scene that concludes Tenshi no Tamago, with a last biblical reference to finalize the purpose of the story.   Then it clearly takes another dimension. The way shadows are moving in this two movies, how the cities, both very similar, are beeing deformed and also the fact that by melting, the city becomes a real flood in Kanashimi no Belladonna, make them very similar.  I've also seen the way their hair are floating and I think there may be some influences here too.    I think it's interesting so I've shared this with you, if you have any anecdotes about these movies I would be very glad to hear them. I also wonder if some members of staff in the two movies knew each other, because I know that they had the same political ideologies in the 60s/70s, and they were very engaged and influenced by the political climat of that time. |
TMTR_MathiasApr 6, 2022 8:55 AM
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