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“Porco Rosso”: 1992 Miyazaki’s masterpiece

admin On marzo - 2 - 2011

“Porco Rosso”, (original title “Crimson Pig – Kurenai no Buta”) has been the sixth movie by Japanese genius Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1992 with Studio Ghibli’s production.

The original score, about the Italian World War I, set the location of the animated film in the Adriatic Sea, and tells the story of a pilot who, after being cursed, was turned into a pig and lives in a lonely cave-island.
the romance with Gina, who runs a pilot-hotel on the Italian coast, is another central theme of the story by Miyazaki, and, of course, the presence of aviation and early XX century airplanes, which are one of the main passions of the director.
Pirates, planes, ships, love and children.

The movie, presented in Italian language, last Rome Film Festival, on November 2010, is ready to be out in Dvd, and Hayao, in the last years, has explained his intention to release a sequel to “Porco Rosso”, entitled “Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie”, which will take place during the Spanish Civil War.
After Ponyo, Miyazaki told the staff his plan to create two films in three years and that he would take planning responsibility (preparing a project proposal paper, forming the staff, and writing a script).
“If two rookie directors, though one is not a true rookie, become good, they becomes a valuable property for Ghibli. Though Suzuki-san says, “You make a film after them.” If Maro makes a (second) film, Ghibli will be more stable. Suzuki-san is making a dissolution program for Ghibli. No joke, we talked about it the other day.” This dissolution program changes if Arrietty succeeds. For example, Ghibli should be able to continue with about five staff members as a copyright management company even if we smash the studio. So, Ghibli can say ‘We stop film production. Goodbye’. I do not have to be there. Though I don’t know how it will be, I’d like to create a more positive boy (than Sho) in the next movie what we are preparing now. Though the leading character is a girl again… I wrote two scripts in two years… When I read James Joyce’s Dubliners, I think the boys are not blessed. (laughing) I can really understand how literature of the 20th century captured the tragic characteristics of boys. I’m not thinking about a movie of a girl. I think that I must think about only a movie of a boy… I do not need to make a movie if it is not a tragic story of a boy. So I want to escape to “Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie”. I have all its materials.”

Not to surprise about the magic atmospheres in the movie: Miyazaki’s film dated 1992 represents one of the tops, according to Howl’s and Princess Mononoke’s stories, of his amazing career.
Art!