Movie 1: Only You is also overlooked. While I don't think the story is that interesting and it has pacing issues, the direction, and story boarding at times were top notch. Special shout out to the artists who made the alien world be actually alien.
This sequence of Lum at her lowest and breaking down is quite touching.
>>1381this scene was insane lmao
>>1409Negative space is associated with film amateurs and overly pretentious or minimalist film making to the point of wide mockery. However, it's just a standard for film making, and many films made after 2000 even highly popular films like Zootopia use it.
Oshii was a bit of a live action cinephile, especially european films, so his technqiues and style are traced to live action rather than animation.
A lot of the visual language of Oshii and by extension Beautiful Dreamer and some of the episodes he directed is Tarkovsky. His background and interest is mostly in live action films it seems and this translates into his direction style. So if your curious why Oshii's films have long segments of scenery with little dialogue that's why.
In fact, the book Oshii put out on his "50 Years 50 Films" only contains a scant few animated films.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564982534/
>>1964>>1964>>1409Examples from the show of Frame within a Frame. Here's another from The Graduate which uses a similar effect of a woman's legs to frame the image.
I suspect the specific reference might be the poster For Your Eyes Only.
>>1422These might not seem significant, but if it's not done it's rather noticeable and the absence is why a lot of modern productions (especially American) are very visually bland.
Adventure Time is used as an example, but I could have used endless examples. No negative space, every section seems filled, and nothing stands out visually.