![]() The book describes it as a tall black castle made of coal bricks, but the film goes for a dirtier, steampunk-inspired design. Adaptational Ugliness: Applied to the castle itself.In the film, it is rather jolly and never more than just a bother. The Scarecrow in the book is a rather intimidating figure, even actively terrifying at times.His anti-war attitude is original to the movie, as book Howl had no problem supplying the King of Ingary with magical devices for his troops, although no war actually occurs in the book. Adaptational Nice Guy: Some of Howl's more prevalent flaws in the books such as his womanizing behavior and chronic irresponsibility are omitted or downplayed.Adaptational Nationality: The movie drops an entire subplot from the book about Howl's origins, and makes him a native of Ingary.The explanation of why Sophie shifts back and forth at points was left out, rendering it confusing as to why this happens to her in the film.Gaston/Percival is also functionally left out, though a dog does show up at one point.Pentstemmon are also totally left out, though aspects of both of them went into Madame Suleiman. Fairfax are totally left out, and Martha is combined with Lettie, by leaving out their deception. In the film, his natural hair color is apparently black. Howl constantly dyes his hair in the book, but is said to have "mud brown" colored hair.At the end, even after getting her youth back, she still has gray hair, though Howl describes it as looking like starlight. Adaptation Dye-Job: In the book, Sophie is described as having reddish blonde hair, but in the anime film she has brown hair.Jean Simmons provides the voice of elderly Sophie in the English dub. She stated that she enjoyed it, and found it a very different (but complementary) experience from her book. The writer of the original book, Dianne Wynne Jones, was granted a private viewing of the movie by Miyazaki. Meanwhile, Howl is playing the role of a rogue wizard, doing his best to try and halt both sides of the raging war in the background, but the spells he's using in order to fight are bringing him closer and closer to losing his humanity. She also meets Howl's apprentice, a young boy named Markl (Ryunosuke Kamiki). An animate scarecrow she calls "Turnip Head" leads her to Howl's eponymous castle, where she makes a deal with fire demon/Ifrit Calcifer (Tatsuya Gashuin) to break each other's curses under the guise of becoming Howl's cleaning lady. ![]() Though rather accepting of her new age, which Sophie finds to fit her personality better, she still sets out to find Howl and break the spell. After an encounter with the wizard Howl (Takuya Kimura), she attracts the attention of the petty Witch of the Waste (Akihiro Miwa), who lays a curse on Sophie, abruptly making her physically 90 years old. The story starts roughly the same way as the book During a fantasy equivalent version of World War I, a young woman by the name of Sophie (Chieko Baisho) works as a hatter and deals with massive insecurity problems. Now, instead of a Medieval European Fantasy, the land of Ingary is a Steampunk/ Gaslamp Fantasy world filled with both technology and magic. It was directed by Hayao Miyazaki and made at Studio Ghibli, which accounts for the many lovely visuals in the movie. ![]() Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) is a 2004 Animated Adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' novel Howl's Moving Castle.
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