{"id":2508,"date":"2010-07-20T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2021-01-27T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:14:57","slug":"forest-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/forest-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first half of Osamu Tezuka’s Legend of the Forest<\/em><\/strong> is a history of animation. It begins with static sketches of a forest, with squirrels, birds, trees with faces, and a brute with a chainsaw. After a glimpse of a zoetrope, the detailed drawings are succeeded by very primitive animation. Gradually, the art becomes more sophisticated, wth homages to Winsor McCay and Walt Disney. At about the half-way point the film goes from black-and-white to color, and soon thereafter it completes its evolution to Tezuka-style art and animation.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the man-versus-nature story is not as interesting as the art history. Tezuka has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. I’m not going to bother summarizing it \u2014 you can glean the essentials from the screen captures below. The soundtrack is Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphony. It was not an ideal choice; sometimes it works with the animation, sometimes against it (and I’m not much of a Tchaikovsky fan anyway). Legend of the Forest<\/em><\/strong> is from 1987, 25 years after Tales of the Street Corner<\/em><\/strong>, but the earlier film was more deft.<\/p>\n

Heavy-handed though Legend of the Forest<\/em><\/strong> is, it is still worth seeing for the art. However, the pieces on The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu<\/em><\/strong> that I am likely to rewatch are the satirical and whimsical cartoons, such as “Memory,” “The Genesis” and “Jumping.” The 6:22 of the last are sufficient reason to recommend the DVD to anyone interested in the history of anime.<\/p>\n

More on Tezuka here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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