Howl's Moving Castle - What's the Difference?

When Hayao Miyazaki made Howl's Moving Castle, he set out to make an anti-war film. The story of Sophie Hatter and the Wizard Howl and their adventures in a castle powered by a fire demon is just that, a film about the pointless and destructive nature of war. But the 1986 young adult, fantasy romance novel, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones mentions the looming specter of war exactly one time in more than 400 pages.

So how and why did the anime master adapt an otherwise peaceful fantasy YA novel into pacifist declaration? As an adaptation, making a war movie out of a romantic, YA love story is difficult enough, but Miyazaki and co managed to make one of the best anime of all time in the translation from page to screen.

With an english dub voice cast that includes Christian Bale, Emily Mortimer, Billy Crystal, Josh Hutcherson and even Lauren Bacall, you can revisit the Studio Ghibli classic on HBO Max to see for yourself. In the meantime, beware of spoilers and the Witch of the Waste because, it’s time to ask, What’s the Difference?

This episode was written and edited by Clint Gage, with animation by Casey Redmon

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