Lao Gong is internationally known in the film for his environmentalism, feminism, and the "kiss grandpa" side who likes children, while his other side is that he stays between pen and paper and is good at depicting cannons The former "military boy" Hayao Miyazaki of the giant ships, planes and grand war scenes.
Lao Gong was born into a family that ran the family business of an aircraft factory. Since childhood, he has been fascinated by aircraft manufacturing, so Lao Gong has an instinctive love for aircraft cannons, which is completely the preference of an ordinary boy. Lao Gong himself said that if he had given birth a little earlier, he would have become a "military boy".
However, the changes of the times and the growth of experience finally did not distort the old palace's three views into the Japanese imperial people. He criticized the Japanese war severely and expressed his support for the pacifist constitution on many occasions. But Lao Gong still instinctively likes plane cannons.
His "Miyazaki's Miscellaneous Thoughts NOTE" is full of the love of boys who love machines and machines. The depiction of war scenes in the manga "Nausicaa" is almost dazzling. As far as the depiction of the grand battlefield is concerned, few people in the Japanese comics industry can come out on top.
Both love war and hate war. He loves depicting wars and is against launching wars. Such contradictions are always opposed and not unified in Lao Gong. His creations always contain such contradictions. He loves children, nature, and advocates feminism, but he also likes to paint all kinds of crazy, violent or weird things. There are vibrant greenery in his creations, kind and upright teenagers, and pure girls. Ignoring the tsunami, full of maternity brilliance, Nausica, who endured the almost perfect lonely journey alone, summoned giant soldiers to destroy the Xiuwa cemetery, crushed the eggs of the more advanced and pure new human beings, and planned the thousand-year-old dream of human evolution. The end... As the Bird King said to Nausicaa, you are a merciful and tyrannical Chaos.
This sentence actually applies to the old palace.
The Wind Rises is an animation full of contradictions like Hayao Miyazaki. The story is based on Japan in the early days of the Taisho Showa era. Japan is also full of various contradictions. On the one hand, natural disasters such as the Great Kanto Earthquake are frequent, and Japan is gradually falling into economic crisis. Contradictions are severe, foreign aggression, wars, and expansion of society are full of violations and repression of personal freedom. The living standards of the middle and wealthy classes instead benefited from foreign aggression.
How to evaluate Japan at that time, from the standpoint of the Chinese, there was no hesitation, but from the standpoint of the Japanese, it was difficult to do so Black and white, those weapons that kill on the battlefield are also Japanese "domestic products", a crystallization of national wisdom that has successfully become the first echelon of the world's great powers in just a few decades. If Japan's overall polity did not run wild, the Japanese could legitimately continue to be proud of their country's manufacturing crystallization. If you were Chinese, you would also be naturally proud of the Jade Rabbit Liaoning (even if the Liaoning was only a second-hand item).
In the midst of the gust of wind, the love of airplanes and cannons that Laogong has accumulated over the years is vented. Those fantasy and realistic airplanes that exist in the miscellaneous NOTE finally truly fly in the sky in this film. Erlang dreams of Caproni In his first dream, the compound-leaf planes flying over the grasslands are like those fantasy planes in "The Last Brother of the Giants" in Miscellaneous NOTE. At the same time, he did a lot of balancing things to show that he did not support the Showa War. For example, Kurokawa asked Horikoshi, "How can a modern country be like this?" he laughed and said, "You actually treat Japan as a modern country." The Germans say "forget China and forget Manchuria". For example, when Horikoshi and Honjo talked about Japan now being enemies with China, the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands (ABCD+Soviet Union), Horikita said indifferently that "it will perish"... Even so, it is almost impossible to balance such contradictions. impossible. Therefore, Lao Gong still adopted his usual method to draw everything he wanted to draw so that the contradictions could be revealed and the story could develop naturally.
If you look carefully at the setting of The Wind Rises, you will find that the setting of the hero and heroine is very similar to that of Lao Gong's parents. Lao Gong's father is a practitioner in the aircraft industry, and his mother is sick in bed all the year round, so the story of Jiro Horikita will be related to Yuankai Eight. The foot of Hori Tatsuo's novels are combined together. So I think this film is clearly written to pay tribute to Jiro Horikita and Tatsuo Hori. In fact, what Lao Gong really wants to pay tribute to is that his parents
have many shadows of Hayao Miyazaki himself in the male protagonist, and he was introverted when he was a teenager with thick glasses. Quiet and fond of airplanes, smoking one after another, and ranking second...
That era was the origin of Lao Gong's life. After painting so many works and constantly challenging new themes, Lao Gong finally returned to the original starting point of his life and returned to himself to find the meaning of life. Another meaning of the answer to life
story Lao Gong said is about how to face the problem of force majeure in life. A major earthquake is an incurable disease that cannot be changed in an era of force majeure. . . . When people encounter various situations that are difficult for individuals to change and make choices, how to deal with them, how to deal with any situation, people should strive to survive, to love each other, to find a way out, to realize their dreams, and the story planning is decided after the Great East Japan Earthquake. To a certain extent, it inspired Lao Gong to create such a story. I think this is also the title of this film. Only trying to survive is the meaning of the point.
Then gossip a lot of local customs in the Showa period. The description is delicate and accurate. Maybe it is a lesson for the son who has finished painting the slope of poppies. . . .
The Wind Rises is by no means Miyazaki's best and funniest work but definitely the most unique one unlike any Miyazaki work before it is less pleasing to the audience and no longer suitable for all ages The frank description can be said to be the first kiss in a generous way, unlike Princess Mononoke, who also dropped a lot of book bags in the name of feeding. . . . The gloomy and deep age group is not so commercialized, so that this film carries as much as possible the expression of Hayao Miyazaki's self-appeal. It is meaningless to speculate on the political position of the Chinese people or to ask him what he should do and what not to do. This is what he does. No matter what I want to say
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