Hayao Miyazaki & Cursed Dreams

[@JM-st1le]

Jiro's answer to Giovanni's question was "I just want to build beautiful airplanes". It kinda makes me emotional to think about. It seems like he choose to satisfy his desire without considering its impact on the world and even at the cost of not spending time with his wife in her last days. Did he do the right thing? One could argue that the technology he made helped people after the war, but was he wrong to build it knowing it was used to destroy human lives? To what extent is technology good?, considering how much potential it has for evil. Can technology save us from itself?

[@carlopaez3380]

A video essay under 30 minutes is rare, let alone under 10. Very well done.

[@randohuman5559]

This was beautiful. If it was longer, I could have heard you talk about it for hours.

[@525Lines]

Notice that in The Wind Also Rises uses human voices to make the engine noises, just like Disney's 1943 Victory through Air Power.

[@pinokosthewife]

That opening description reminds me of the words "a burned child loves the fire." Trauma is a fascinating beast and the way people respond to it is very different--some become obsessed with what hurt them and others are entirely repulsed. At times, they swing between the two extremes. Diana Wynne Jones (author of Howl's Moving Castle) also said this about Miyazaki's choice to depict the war only passingly mentioned in her book.

[@saskyaolsen9724]

WOOOOW!! This was an awesome video! Currently writing an essay on Miyazaki and this was very helpful!

[@ROANOKE01]

Thank you so much!

[@circletheory3796]

Great content. This is really well done and very interesting. This is the type of video I enjoy spending time watching!

[@525Lines]

Miyazaki is to aviation what Roddenberry is to space. If Japan ever sets up the Air and Space Museum they deserve, there should be a Miyazaki exhibit, just as the US Air and Space Museum has the big Enterprise model on display.

[@whtetiger]

The Wind Rises is definitely one of my favorite films because of its conflicting nature. It really hits home as an artist myself, you want to make beautiful work for the sake of it but you'll likely wind up making it for money or exploitation. also Hayao Miyazaki's book, Starting Point, is a great personal record of his views on war, planes, and even animation. A great video about a fascinating concept :]

[@JM-st1le]

Beautiful

[@StudioSkiesAndWater]

Great work!

[@SocPro]

wow

[@danielengland5776]

Really interesting!

[@de_g0od]

1:49 really? He is very important but that doesnt make the studio his, its a collaboration of many talented people, some of them probably being more talented than him/better but not as much in the public lights

[@andrejdjordjevic7603]

Just so you know,the A6 (A6M2,A6M3,A6M5)series is the Zero not the A5 series

[@vighneshkannan7896]

No, the A5 with the dihedral is the one he builds in the movie. At the end of the movie, he refers to the A6 when talking about none of them coming back. So it was both the A5 and the A6

[@oddedd7755]

i like everything from rifle, guns,tanks and military related but i am also an anti war.. is that weird?