“The Aesthetics of Film and Television” under the Theory of Visual Metaphor: Taking Howl's Moving Castle as an Example

Abstract

Howl's Moving Castle is a film by the famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, depicting the story of Howl and Sophie's redemption of each other and their joint endeavour for peace against a backdrop of fighting. A large number of symbolic visual symbols are used in this film, which give visual impact on modelling through exaggeration and representation, and also better promote the characterisation and the development of the storyline. Taking Howl's Moving Castle as an example, this paper turns from the popular topic of characterisation explored at home and abroad to the visual representation technique, and explores the treatment of the film's visualisation by mining the symbolic meanings in different contexts. Vision is the most important form of the senses in cinema. This paper discusses how to perfect the visual expression effect and make reasonable use of symbolic metaphoric rhetoric, so as to enhance the meticulousness of the visual effect, enrich the amount of information in the scene, and improve the texture of the film.