Porco Rosso
Jan. 26th, 2008 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackPorco Rosso is also great: very funny, but about sea-plane pilots in the Adriatic between the wars, and Porco Rosso, WWI flying ace, cursed to be a pig, and turned bounty for air pirates, all the last independent fliers, and it captures the slightly tarnished heroic feel of films of the time like Casablanca.
Did I mention there was a pig flying a biplane in dogfights? He's wonderfully well drawn: clearly a pig, but it looks unfortunate, but just how he is, rather than out of place or unrealistic.
The first time I saw it, I kept thinking "Huh? Sea-plane pilots in the Adriatic between Italy and Japan? But the Adriatic isn't between Italy and Japan." But I was imagining the Japan thing because it was animé ;)
That's an interesting point actually: when you see a somewhat stylised animated feature, I often see the characters as "normal" (think of the Simpsons), which means when a foreigner is introduced, you get a rare opportunity to experience how an American looks to Italians, or a Westerner to Japanese people (arguably) :)
ETA: Some inarticulate dude on a website said it best. "It has a Macchi flying boat and a Curtiss RC-3! And a pig-man! And the pig-man almost goes to Heaven but doesn't and I like airplanes. The ending isn't very confusing though. I think."
Did I mention there was a pig flying a biplane in dogfights? He's wonderfully well drawn: clearly a pig, but it looks unfortunate, but just how he is, rather than out of place or unrealistic.
The first time I saw it, I kept thinking "Huh? Sea-plane pilots in the Adriatic between Italy and Japan? But the Adriatic isn't between Italy and Japan." But I was imagining the Japan thing because it was animé ;)
That's an interesting point actually: when you see a somewhat stylised animated feature, I often see the characters as "normal" (think of the Simpsons), which means when a foreigner is introduced, you get a rare opportunity to experience how an American looks to Italians, or a Westerner to Japanese people (arguably) :)
ETA: Some inarticulate dude on a website said it best. "It has a Macchi flying boat and a Curtiss RC-3! And a pig-man! And the pig-man almost goes to Heaven but doesn't and I like airplanes. The ending isn't very confusing though. I think."