![]() ![]() Still, the more people reading (especially young children), the better. Not everyone enjoys stories about young boys being transformed into various animals or even stories about knights and adventure, and that's okay. The Once and Future King is truthfully not for everybody. A story about a wizard who lives in a moving castle with a magic fireplace is movie magic that could only be captured through animation. Howl's Moving Castle is the prime example of this. Although there is also a history of live-action doing the same (often to a more financially successful degree), such as Harry Potter, animation is still the perfect medium to capture the fantastical elements of The Once and Future King. ![]() Take Howl's Moving Castle or When Marnie was There as examples of this. Related: We Almost Got a King Arthur Trilogy Starring Kit Harrington, Here's Why We Didn'tĪnimation studios like Studio Ghibli have a history of adapting their animated movies from books. Despite this stigma, though, it doesn't change the fact that animation is still the perfect medium in which to introduce children to a new story. Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, and Illumination all market their major films to children. However, the stigma does have an iota of truth in that most animation known in the mainstream is targeted toward children. The stigma that it exists solely as a children's medium is harmful to those who work hard on these projects, just for them to be written off. This is a point often used to disparage animation. ![]()
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