It is a love story about an aeronautical engineer and his plane, and there's a girl who he cares about too. The characters are all the typical ones we see again and again by Miyazaki. He doesn't bother to draw new ones. Its kind of his trademark. There's a fair amount of digital snow and digital sakura blossoms, but the rest is hand drawn and very pretty. It is a visual feast, but the adult topics of job obsession, marriage, illness in a partner, these aren't things that would interest a child. It is an engineer's story, and it is only of value to engineers and their wives. So I suspect a lot of people who saw this movie in the theatre outside Japan were kind of baffled by it. Its still pretty, but its topic is baffling for most audiences.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
ANIME: The Wind Rises
This studio Ghibli animation tells the story of an engineer who designed the Zero fighter in Japan, before WW2. He loved planes, and Hayao Miyazaki drew this, and painted its backgrounds with actual watercolors on mylar cells at his strange studio covered in vines in a rural part of Tokyo (and Tokyo is huge so that's possible), recorded in a recent documentary. I wanted to hear it in Japanese, since the main character is played by the guy who created Evangelion, but the DVD is encoded weirdly and it wouldn't play. The english voice acting is very good, at least, and between Skywalker Sound and Disney they created a nice soundtrack. The weird aspect of this movie is it is distinctly Japanese.
It is a love story about an aeronautical engineer and his plane, and there's a girl who he cares about too. The characters are all the typical ones we see again and again by Miyazaki. He doesn't bother to draw new ones. Its kind of his trademark. There's a fair amount of digital snow and digital sakura blossoms, but the rest is hand drawn and very pretty. It is a visual feast, but the adult topics of job obsession, marriage, illness in a partner, these aren't things that would interest a child. It is an engineer's story, and it is only of value to engineers and their wives. So I suspect a lot of people who saw this movie in the theatre outside Japan were kind of baffled by it. Its still pretty, but its topic is baffling for most audiences.
It is a love story about an aeronautical engineer and his plane, and there's a girl who he cares about too. The characters are all the typical ones we see again and again by Miyazaki. He doesn't bother to draw new ones. Its kind of his trademark. There's a fair amount of digital snow and digital sakura blossoms, but the rest is hand drawn and very pretty. It is a visual feast, but the adult topics of job obsession, marriage, illness in a partner, these aren't things that would interest a child. It is an engineer's story, and it is only of value to engineers and their wives. So I suspect a lot of people who saw this movie in the theatre outside Japan were kind of baffled by it. Its still pretty, but its topic is baffling for most audiences.
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