![]() The film's popularity among Western fans was enhanced by an English-language version with well-known actors voicing the lead roles, including Christian Bale, Billy Crystal and Lauren Bacall. Now, Howl in the film is so plain stunning and sexy that I think I have joined them. Diana Wynne Jones commented: I had grown used to young ladies regularly writing to me to say that they wanted to marry Howl. ![]() The film keeps Calcifer and the Howl/Sophie romance while significantly changing Howl's character to make him nobler (not to mention prettier). The adaptation centres around a war plot only mentioned in passing in Wynne Jones' novel Miyazaki adds steampunk elements and his trademark flying machines. The first novel, Howl's Moving Castle, was loosely adapted into a popular anime film by Hayao Miyazaki. The sequels follow various other characters in the universe, while including Howl and Sophie's later life together. There's plot by the bucketload, but most fans are in it for the slow-burning Howl/Sophie rom com. ![]() After taking shelter in a magical moving castle and making a bargain with its fire demon, Calcifer, she enters the service of his master, the Not-So-Much-Evil-As-Adolescent wizard, Howl Pendragon, and finds that being old has paradoxically set her free. In Howl's Moving Castle, Sophie Hatter, a timid young hat-maker, falls foul of a malevolent witch and is turned into an elderly woman. Howl's Moving Castle is a small fandom based on the Howl trilogy of young adult fantasy novels by British author, Diana Wynne Jones:Īs well as an anime film adaptation by Hayao Miyazaki, Howl no Ugoku Shiro (2004).
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