that whole scene where howl is telling Sophie that she’s beautiful in the meadow is fucking hilarious when you compare that against book!howl and the consistent comments about what a horrid and nosy woman she is
AND the book scene where she’s like “what the fuck you could TELL that I was cursed?? Why didn’t you do anything about it?” and he’s like “idk I thought you just liked being an old lady, that’s your business”