There's a lot of subtle messages hidden throughout the film
Porco Rosso, much like Hayao Miyazaki's other work (I'll have to get used to citing the works by full name now that I know Miyazaki-san's son is also directs for studio Ghibli). It's a fun movie to watch, and easy to get wrapped up in like
Spirited Away, though not quite as fanciful. A lot of the scenes demonstrate Hayao Miyazaki's passionoate interest in flight(I read that about him somewhere, can't remember where), and they are indeed a pleasure to watch.
The music fits well with the setting of the Adriatic, and continues to tell the story where no dialogue could fit. It has an airy lift to it, sort of like a person must feel in the cockpit of one of those older open planes (I've never flown myself, so I don't know how it feels to fly at all), hovering over the ocean.
I was impressed by the visual depth in a lot of scenes in
Porco Rosso, but mostly the one where you see a lot of ocean and islands with Porcos's plain a tiny red spot floating through the picture, very serene, and inspiring by my book.
Random Anime Quote Time:
"Don't kill us, kill each other!!!" - Unnamed Pirate,
Porco Rosso
Enough of my ramblings, now for the important stuff.
Comments:
Caprice:
I get that a lot in PMs, comments, e-mails, and message board posts, do I really write too much? Is there such thing as communicating too well? Since I haven't been following your posts very long, I'll take your word that we're that similar, and note that any time I run into someone like me online, I'm automatically freaked out beyond belief, but in a good way.
I explained a lot of where my passion for dragons comes from, but I forgot to mention that I don't really remember when it started for me, I can remember really being interested in dragons even before I read the C.S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia books, and long before my exposure to the Arthurian legends too. I'm still having difficulty drawing dragons even after checking out
whtdragon's excellent reference sheets on drawing them. I would appreciate any pointers you could provide me on the subject too, when you have the time. I repeat myself with this, but only to make the point clear. Every time I've tried to draw a dragon it came out all cute and cartoony like a Peter, Paul, and Mary song(I'm surprised no one has called me on this reference yet).
There are a few words I like to see people use, correctly, patronize, ignorant, and boorish among them. But those are the negative ones. Words of hope and brightness I never get tired of reading are imagination, fantasy, and whimsey. My first grade teacher described me better than anyone else, calling me a hopeless dreamer, which I take great pride in to this day (:P to you teach! My head's still in the clouds and I like it up here!).
I saw the movie after seeing the series(and it's disc 9 of my box set), and because of that, I probably didn't like it as much as I would have without seeing the series. Consider that the Escaflowne series was the very first anime I ever saw, so I'm going to be biased toward it. The move is good though, and visually out of this world too(no that's not a joke about Gaea), but I think I like the storyline of the series better.
I'm in the process of doing that, one 128 MB thumbdrive to transfer copies of everything to a second computer isn't very efficient or quick, but it's all I've got to work with so, I make do.
Anime Dreams!
