The Wind Rises: When Art Becomes a Tool for Death
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
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Hi everyone, welcome back to another Hayao Miyazaki-theme video essay, this one about The Wind Rises, which was supposed to be his final film before his upcoming actual final film. Anyway, this was a lot of fun to make, so I hope you all like it! Let me know what you think in the comments, and enjoy!
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Watching this at work and my manager called me cringe :(
Your manager has L taste.
As long as u enjoyed the vid, then what ur manager says means nothing :)
This video is simple yet amazing and I wish more people could see this.
Thank you so much for this awesome comment, I really appreciate! And I agree, I do hope more people get to see it soon lol
First watched this movie earlier this year and thought it was ok. After watching in theaters, cried at the end and loved it. Just like Jiro has un pasión for planes, the pasión you have for making videos is maravilloso compañero. ¡Otro video fantástico!
This is probably one of the best comments I’ve gotten recently. Thanks man, glad you loved both the film and the vid!
Great video man well thought out another one I will be putting on the list to check out
Glad you enjoyed it man! Let me know what you think
Just saw this the other day and had no idea this was a poem. Great movie like most Studio Ghibli, but it always surprises me how well the historical Ghibli movies hold up even better than the fantasy based one.
I've always had a huge amount of respect for the historical based Ghibli films, while I know they might not be as fun as something like Kiki or Spirited Away, the fact that they get just as much love and attention as those films always makes me happy
been on a kick of video essays that divulge into philosophy of media, so glad I found this account! gonna sub fr
Hey man, glad you found this video, I'm happy you enjoyed it! And thank you so much for subbing man, seeing comments like this always keeps me incentivized to make great content!
Sadly the real Jiro Horikoshi was uh...not that innocent and idealistic about it. He was against the war but it wasn't because war is horrific, it's because he rightly understood that it was a war Japan was utterly incapable of winning. When it came to the destruction his machines cause, he only really understood that fact after Nagoya itself was firebombed. Up to that point he had a very Werner Von Braun-esque attitude of
"Your planes kill people"
"Not my department, go bother someone else"
Oh wow, I was not aware of this. Thanks for telling me about this, definitely puts into perspective how different Miyazaki's version of Jiro is compared to the real-life guy.
@@timjongunproductions Miyazaki has some very...biased views in regards to Jiro, and most of it stems from 2 things. The first being that Miyazaki's a communist, and no I don't mean that as a generic insult even if I REALLY don't like communism, I mean that as a statement of fact because he was the Japanese Communist Party's representative to the Toei animators' union in the 1980s (look up the shitshow involving the movie Future War 198x and you'll see his name pop up , it was in protest to this movie trying to realistically portray an actual nuclear war scenario and made the Soviets look bad). I think it's fair to call someone a communist when they're literally a party member, and that ideology does do a lot to taint your thinking.
The other thing, and this comes into direct conflict with the first reason, is that his father worked at Mitsubishi building planes and thus he has a great love for them. He knows the war was bad, the JCP constantly browbeats the rest of Japan over the evils the IJA and IJN inflicted on the Pacific (and let's not sugarcoat it, it was horrific) when a lot of the country wants to move on and put it behind them, and Miyazaki wants to engage in that too...but he loves the plane too much, from an engineering standpoint. Like he says in the documentary for making the film, he KNOWS what that plane represents and that everything in his head tells him he shouldn't admire it, but he just can't put aside that the plane was for its time a marvel of engineering.
Thus, he felt he had to portray Jiro Horikoshi as more innocent than the man was in real life because he felt like if he didn't, he would see himself as condoning the actions of the empire. Which is why he snuck in that scene at the lodge which makes it clear what his views on the war were.
Oh wow, I was not aware of any of this information. Thanks for telling me all of this, while my respect and appreciation for Miyazaki doesn’t really change, this definitely puts some things into perspective
@@timjongunproductions I should note that Miyazaki left the party after the Soviet Union collapsed, publicly saying that basically communism had its shot and failed because a system that can't keep itself from collapsing probably isn't a good one to run a government. But just because you're disillusioned with a doctrine doesn't mean its influence doesn't linger with you.
The thing is, The Wind Rises wasn't meant to be historically accurate in the first place (well, except for Miyazaki's painstaking commitment to drawing realistic planes). Hence why it's partially based on a fictional novel completely unrelated to the film's real-life subject (along with some of Miyazaki's own ideas, of course). Jiro Horikoshi's life was used as a jumping-off point, but I don't think Miyazaki's intention is to lionize a particular person in history, but rather to use the outline of that man's life to convey his own themes. As you allude to, the film is a struggle by Miyazaki to reconcile two sides of himself, but he's clearly quite self-aware about that fact. It's also a meditation on how Jiro (as a character, not as a real person) relates to Miyazaki's own life's work. Because if something as beautiful (to Miyazaki) as a plane can be a cursed tool of destruction, he wonders whether his work as a filmmaker has been worth it, or whether it's all just cursed in a corrupt world.
So, yeah, someone definitely shouldn't take anything away from The Wind Rises as offering insight on Jiro Horikoshi as an actual historical figure, but view it as a work that has historical influences but is largely thematically self-contained. Miyazaki's influences from throughout his career and life as well as his own flaws and biases only make it a more fascinating work, which is why I'd fairly certainly peg it as his greatest film.
Love your videos. Can you make essays on these films - Akira, Wolf Children, Satoshi Kon films?
Thanks man, glad you enjoy the videos! Really appreciate you expressing your support 😊
And yeah, I’d definitely be interested in making video essays about all these topics, Akira specifically. I probably won’t do ones on the Satoshi Kon films for a while since I’ve given detailed thoughts on most of them on my podcast, but definitely something I’ll consider if my channel grows bigger!
@@timjongunproductions awesome. Will be checking out your podcast too!
Awesome, sounds good man! And make sure to like and subscribe if you haven’t already as I’d appreciate the support!
The Wind Rises really is a masterpiece, and I'm excited to see where he might go with his next film. I feel like he shifted into a more introspective segment of his career that will continue with The Boy and the Heron/How Do You Live
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