That life-long fascination of his mirrors very well throughout his works, especially this movie. In fact, a good part of Miyazaki’s early life was spent drawing battleships and airplanes. Some of the flying sequences are especially enthralling- not in the eye-candy sense, but it’s just that they’ve been done so well that it feels like whoever did it must be in love with airplanes and flying in general. The airplane designs and all the flying sequences are really good.
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Characters in general have been done very well, with each of them lending to the comical aspect of the movie really well. Two of the funniest sequences of this comedy ride are his ‘encounters’ with porco in the skies. Speaking of arch-nemesis, this movie has a really good one in the form of Donald Curtis, a notorious womanizer, and an over-confident and pompous, yet funny and very likable American, who also happens to be Porco’s rival in lurrve. And the concept of a man-turned-pig ace pilot flying the skies of a fictional Europe dueling pirates and an arch-nemesis from America is not something you’ll find in every anime. The humor is in-your-face laugh-out-loud funny, filled with wise-cracks, puns and word-play.
For one, it has a lot more comedy in it, and this aspect is amplified by the comical and, sometimes, witty dialogue. ‘Porco Rosso’ is different from miyazaki’s other endeavors. Here, the message is subtler and yet strikes a stronger chord. There is a strong lesson to learn here, and thankfully it’s not force-fed into your head like Disney does with some of its movies. Eventually we get to the reason of his current predicament. For the most part, its a comedy drama with sprinkles of romance and slice-of-lifeĪs the movie progresses, we learn more about the scarlet pig and some of his background. The movie follows the scarlet pigs journey to reclaim his honor, after being 'shot down' by an American mercenary. Our ‘manly’ protagonist is a pig for a reason, but that reason has little to do with magic. Just knowing this much can give you a false impression that this movie, like most miyazaki movies, has a lot to do with the mystical or the supernatural, but nothing can be further from the truth. Has been afflicted by a curse which turned him into a pig. The movie, set in the 1930’s, starts on a deserted island which acts as a hideout for the famous war-veteran turned bounty hunter ace pilot known as porco rosso (scarlet pig) who, we soon learn, From the opening scene to ending, this movie is all about direction, direction and direction. Like Totoro, Porco Rosso falls in the latter category.
And then there are some where the direction almost completely overshadows the plot-line.
Miyazaki movies can broadly fall in 2 or 3 categories some of them are driven by their uncanny and bizarre plot (princess mononoke, spirited away etc). With Fio's improvements, Porco Rosso prepares to challenge Donald officially and regain his honor. is the 17-year-old Fio Piccolo, who hungers for a chance to prove herself. There, he is surprised to find that the chief engineer of Piccolo S.P.A. airplane company and takes out a massive loan in order to repair and improve his fighter plane. Not wanting to disappoint Gina, Porco Rosso flees to the famous Piccolo S.P.A. Thrilled at the possibility of fame, Donald boldly declares that the flying pig is dead. One day, while traveling to fix his faulty engine, Porco Rosso is gunned down by a young American hotshot named Donald Curtis. He whiles away his days on a secluded island, rarely leaving other than to collect bounties or to visit the beautiful Gina, a songstress and owner of the Hotel Adriano. After a curse turned him into a pig, World War I ace Marco Pagot becomes Porco Rosso, a mysterious bounty hunter who takes down sky pirates in the Adriatic Sea.
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