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<blockquote data-quote="Yami" data-source="post: 584315" data-attributes="member: 276">I agree with this, but I don't think the film's moral conflict is over the 'correctness' of war but who should bear responsibility. Jiro isn't pro-war, but he facilitates it. To a lesser extent, so did Miyazaki's father.I've grown to like it, though I would certainly like to see how the alternative would have worked out; I'm a big fan of melodrama, particularly the films of Mikio Naruse though interestingly I think that Akira Kurosawa's description of Naruse's work could equally apply to The Wind Rises: &quot;like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths.&quot; I do think you're walking on fine line when keeping the name of a real person if you're conflating them with someone else in some sort of a chimeric biography. If it's complete fiction, make it so. But I think that Miyazaki needed to keep the name in order to ground it in the real world, to show that he was making a real comment towards Japanese militarism and the proposed constitutional amendment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yami, post: 584315, member: 276"] I agree with this, but I don't think the film's moral conflict is over the 'correctness' of war but who should bear responsibility. Jiro isn't pro-war, but he facilitates it. To a lesser extent, so did Miyazaki's father. I've grown to like it, though I would certainly like to see how the alternative would have worked out; I'm a big fan of melodrama, particularly the films of Mikio Naruse though interestingly I think that Akira Kurosawa's description of Naruse's work could equally apply to The Wind Rises: "like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths." I do think you're walking on fine line when keeping the name of a real person if you're conflating them with someone else in some sort of a chimeric biography. If it's complete fiction, make it so. But I think that Miyazaki needed to keep the name in order to ground it in the real world, to show that he was making a real comment towards Japanese militarism and the proposed constitutional amendment. [/QUOTE]

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