Porco is essentially a benevolent force in the film, a sort of begrudgingly kind grouch, like Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious – he respects Fio’s engineering work even though she’s a young girl he refuses to shoot a fellow pilot, even when that pilot is the worst guy ever – but he doesn’t believe in himself. The second thing that this movie made me think about is how badly we need each other. 2013's The Wind Rises, a biopic about a Japanese WW2 warplane designer, works as a pleasant – but more serious and sad – companion piece to this pig romp. This is an unpretentious film made by a confident director. But in Porco Rosso, it’s the first film where Miyazaki really gets to show his love of this world – with its great sweeping horizons, planes darting down and playing in the sky, and intricate mechanics of planes.īy this point in his career, he is firmly established as a genius. Across all his movies, you'll see traces of this passion. His father, Katsuji, ran a company called Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured tail fins for Japanese fighter planes during the Second World War and Hayao is known to have most likely named his animation studio after a type of Italian plane of this Porco period. HE: Also, Hayao Miyazaki is a man in love with planes. I mean the pig, he drinks wine? It’s an adult-leaning turn isn’t it? I think with this film he wanted to deviate from his more spiritual stuff and make something a bit more adult. RB: Miyazaki, the king, directed this one. 5) WHO’S THE DIRECTOR? WHAT DID THEY DO HERE?
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