#Sophie howls moving castle movie#
#Sophie howls moving castle series#

The ending itself is uplifting overall.He even returns the 'kiss' from Sophie in an adorable moment. Despite gaining his freedom after Sophie breaks the curse on him and Howl, Calcifer decides on his own will to stay with the others because of how much he cares about them all.Lauren Bacall, who voices the witch in the English dub, might have used this scene as an allusion to her varying romances with Frank Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart. Sophie asks her В“have you ever been in love?В” and the witch replies that she still is. Earlier while putting the Witch of the Waste to bed, the witch ship teases to Sophie that she is in love with Howl.

#Sophie howls moving castle movie#

Seeing how far they've come after a movie where the Witch was such a terrible person to Sophie to them now coming to a true understanding of each other is enough to bring happy tears. Not to mention Sophie giving the Witch a kiss on the cheek and telling her she has a big heart.The show of true love convinces the Witch to return it. The Witch tries to feign ignorance, and Sophie answers this with perfect understanding and earnestness, embracing the witch and pleading for the heart. When Howl has returned Sophie and Heen to the platform where the Witch of the Waste has Calcifer in her possession, she says that Howl needs his heart back.While the castle's expanded to include a few others, Howl's specifically calling out Sophie to show her around, and it's the first time he sounds genuinely excited both to hear her reactions and have her company. only to reveal its main center is in Sophie's hometown of Market Chipping, as well as remaking Sophie's old room. It preludes Howl leaving to fight in the war right as Sophie realizes he'll go mad if he stays that way too long, but Howl moving the castle's main entry points.A random man just standing there offers to help her. When Sophie first turns into an old lady she crosses a bridge, coughing from the train smoke.Crowning Soundtrack of Heartwarming: the first few bars of 'The Boy Who Drank Stars' doubles as this and a Tear Jerker.When she realizes he's there, she immediately dries her eyes and remarks on how kind he is.

Turnip Head shielding Sophie from the rain as she's crying her heart out due to Howl's selfishness.Howl is trying to do what the Witch will really not expect by starting up that garden again.

Howl picked up the garden a few months later, since it seemed like a good idea, and that's how Howl and the Witch first met and had their extremely bad idea of a relationship.

It didn't work though, and the Witch got rid of him because she didn't like his garden.

The flowers for the shop come from the garden at the edge of the Waste-Wizard Suliman first planted this garden a year ago to try and defeat the power of the Witch.

JENKINS FRESH FLOWERS DAILY' (17.39)-a flower shop, to replace the old hat shop.

Michael and Howl knock a hole in the wall to reach the broom closet, which is now 'H.

The next day Howl is being his usual drama queen self, flouncing around because Miss Angorian won't be nice to him.

Howl felt sorry for Calcifer and offered to find a way to keep him alive, so they made a contract on the spot even though neither of them knew what they were getting into.

Calcifer was terrified, because when a star falls, it knows it's going to die.

Since Sophie guesses first, Calcifer can confirm-yes, Howl caught him in the Porthaven Marshes using his seven-league boots.

That evening as Sophie looks at Calcifer she suddenly gets it: he was a falling star.

And the purple one leads to a garden right at the edge of the Waste.

The orange one leads to a mansion driveway (which doesn't happen to belong to Howl, of course).

Howl tests the door: the yellow blob now leads to Market Chipping.

Sophie can see the outlines of her family's house before the castle settles into its new location.

#Sophie howls moving castle series#

Howl walks through a series of chalk diagrams, the whole room seems to turn, and then Howl puts Calcifer back in the fireplace.While Calcifer is in the shovel, Sophie spots something among his logs: a small, black, dented lump.(This sounds kinda dumb in summary, but in the novel, it's very tense.) Then Howl gets a silver shovel and picks up Calcifer from the fireplace.Howl changes the colors of the blobs on the doorknob: blue for Porthaven becomes yellow green for Market Chipping becomes purple red for Kingsbury becomes orange.Howl and Michael race around preparing the castle to move.