"Look, the wind is rising"---Standing on the shoulders of geniuses, we saw the back of another genius

Ottilie 2022-04-20 09:01:45

This article is only a commentary on the movie and the background story of the movie, but too many may involve some sensitive aspects.
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"Who has seen the wind? You and I have never seen it, but when the leaves are shaking, the wind is passing through ••••••" When Hideaki Anno said this, the movie theater I couldn't help but lift my head up, but I forgot that there were no leaves here, I could only see a dark patch!

To be precise, after watching this film for a long time, I can't forget the various scenes in it, I always think about it and miss it all the time. Although the rhythm is slow, Hayao Miyazaki's animation is always so clean, and every frame is so beautiful that the viewer can't bear to blink. Finally, on a Sunday after returning to China, when a cool wind suddenly blew after my morning run, the emotion this movie brought me developed to the extreme. I suddenly remembered the source of An Ye ruffian's saying:
Who Has Seen the Wind?
by Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind ?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti, an English poetess, often writes beautiful verses in front of the dresser, and is good at capturing fleeting things as the theme, making it appear repeatedly in the verse. Her ideal is purity and self-restraint in the spiritual world. "Who Has Ever Seen the Wind..." The language is simple and unpretentious, and in the mysterious color, it also includes the author's interpretation and enlightenment of the world.

Through such a poem by a British female poet, Mr. Gong showed the characteristics of Jiro Horikoshi to be described in his animation: different from the rigor of ordinary Japanese, but with British-style melancholy, loneliness and turbulence in that storm. Special features of avoiding emotional factors affecting work in the age of ?•••••In such a forest, the leaves swayed, and along with the singing of "Airplane Cloud", he saw the wind. In his own world, he saw the woman who accompanied him all his life and made his life take off.
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The Second World War was a far-reaching war for later generations, which killed 50 million to 70 million people, but also gave us today's Life has brought great changes. It is hard to say which of these changes are beneficial or harmful. This may vary from person to person, such as global economic integration, such as the ruling of the sickle * hammer * son D•• •••• Of course, the changes brought about by this war are absolutely beneficial to an industry in later generations, that is, the weapons manufacturing industry that created the war. Aviation, transportation, and the manufacture of energy-based weapons all benefited a lot from this war. The Zero carrier aircraft manufactured by Jiro Horikoshi was not only a representative of the industrial miracle at that time, but also one of the aircrafts that had a great influence on future generations.

For the Second World War, there are two fighting methods that impress us the most, one is the group tank battle on the European continent, and the other is the aircraft carrier battle group battle in the Pacific Ocean. The latter fighting method made the Zero fighter world famous: the Zero carrier-based fighter, as the successor of the 96-type carrier-based fighter, was the main carrier-based fighter of the Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945 during World War II. , from the Chinese battlefield until the end of World War II, it can be seen in the entire Pacific theater, and it can be called the most well-known fighter jet of the Japanese Navy in World War II. At the same time, the Zero fighter is the fighter with the largest output in Japan, representing the highest level of the Japanese aviation industry before World War II, and also the symbol of the Japanese navy. This is enough to prove the indelible mark of the Zero fighter in aviation history.

For military fans like me, when I mention the Type Zero, I have to think of Jiro Horikoshi, a talented aerospace engineer born in Japan. We must know that the appearance of the Type Zero has largely maintained Japan's greatness in the early days of the Pacific War. The advantage is that in the early aircraft carrier operations, as soon as the U.S. ships found the Japanese aircraft carrier carrying the Zero fighter, they had to avoid it. ease. So I have to say that Jiro Horikoshi is really a genius. The myth of Type Zero was born by him. At that time, Westerners generally believed that the Easterners could not build more advanced fighters than them, and Jiro Horikoshi just made the Europeans miscalculate. It is precisely because of this that when I saw the news that Hayao Miyazaki was going to make an animation about Jiro Horikoshi, I happened to be going to Japan in August, so I asked my friends to book movie tickets in advance with great anticipation.
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This is an animation, but it bears the efforts of three Japanese geniuses, Miyazaki as the director Needless to say, Junzi, for our generation, animations such as "City in the Sky", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Spirited Away" and so on carry the teenage years that we still have. "Ghibli" is "the Disney of the East" to us, and the 2D animation that insists on doing in this era of flooded 3D technology has more or less satisfied the nostalgic complex of our so-called "middle-aged and elderly people".

Let's talk about another genius, Mr. Gong's good partner, Mr. Hisaishi once again let us feel what a moving melody and a genius-like soundtrack. Now every time I watch Ghibli animations (and other movies too), whenever I see the soundtrack is Joe Hisaishi, I always think back to that performance at Budokan. What is a golden partner, Mr. Miyagi and Joe Hisaishi's sense are representatives. Although Mr. Miyagi's animation is still criticized at times, the soundtrack of Joe Hisaishi can always make ordinary films send out the beauty that surprises us. "The Witch's Delivery Service" Just one example.

The dubbing of Jiro Horikoshi is the familiar Anno Hideaki, commonly known as Anno ruffian. Thinking about the EVA of the year, it can be regarded as the four major animations that changed the Japanese animation industry. It can be tied with Gundam and the space battleship Yamato, which is enough to prove that Anno His mind is definitely a genius level. Let's look at the current "New Century Money Making Plan". As long as there is a new theatrical version of EVA, there will always be a large number of otakus and diehards all over the world who will pay for it and give it to me. ruffian.

In fact, as a Chinese, I am more or less opposed to praising Japan's military events or products. When I learned that Mr. Gong was going to do animations, I was actually excited and worried, and curiosity and contempt coexisted. . But I have to say, if I hadn't known about the early ideals of Mr. Gong and that he was a communist admirer, I might have really been angry and walked into the cinema with a critical eye.

But Mr. Gong has indeed adhered to his consistent anti-war policy. When the heroine dies, when people lose their lives because of the war, Mr. Gong's picture is always sad, and always makes people cry. Miyazaki is hated by many conservatives in Japan, and he has been labelled "anti-Japanese" and "traitor" on right-wing chat sites. "The Wind Rises" describes the war as a deplorable devastation to human life, expressing pacifist tendencies. In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, he said far-rights used the talent of Jiro Horikoshi, the inventor of the Zero fighter, as "an outlet to vent their patriotism and inferiority complex." "I want to distinguish Jiro Horikoshi from those people," he said of the purpose of making the film.

Movies are a way for people to express their ideals and dreams. We see what the director expresses in excellent movies, which proves what the ideal is in our hearts. Therefore, we have various understandings of various excellent movies. . In this film, I saw anti-war, I saw a life striving for ideals, I saw three geniuses, and in the dream images they created, I saw the back of a genius who has gone away from us,

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The Wind Rises quotes

  • Young Nahoko: Be brave, Kinu!

  • Kurokawa: We thought you were going to marry an airplane!