This time we risk life and limb for a podcast no one listens to. Loose Canons Ep. 25 The Wind Rises 00:00-02:00 The podcast gets really weird really quick02:00-03:15 Brief Plot Recap: Patrick03:15-07:30 Liked It (Everyone, Ilya not very much), Disliked It (Nobody!)07:30-09:00 Basil imitates the movie’s sweet lofi sound design09:00-11:40 Does the movie lionize or critique Jiro?11:40-13:45 Reuben doesn’t think it does either13:45-14:30 "Would you rather live in a world with or without the Pyramids?"14:30-15:20 Patrick thinks the movie was critical of Jiro15:20-16:30 Ilya thinks Naoko is instrumentalized as a muse character16:30-18:55 Basil thinks Miyazaki is ambivalent about the planes and their constructors18:55-20:30 They’re gonna put guns on it, Jiro20:30-23:20 Jiro is straightforward & heroic but doesn’t know how to live23:20-24:40 Everyone in the movie except for his sister enables Jiro24:40-24:50 God, let Patrick talk!24:50-26:30 Miyazaki uses Jiro to take stock of his own filmmaking process26:30-27:30 Jiro’s a dreamer (he’s the only one)27:30-28:40 Ilya likes the super weird coughing on the soundtrack28:40-30:00 The sound design and dialogue remind Ilya of Lynch sans irony30:00-31:00 Miyazaki is just doing his thing at this point31:00-32:10 Basil likes that the movie doesn’t divide itself into “for adults” and “for kids” parts32:10-33:30 Contrast/similarity to Spirited Away33:30-34:10 There’s an ad on the podcast!34:10-35:30 There’s no talking in the first five minutes of the movie (followed by lots of talking)35:30-36:50 Jiro’s voice-actor is as restrained as his character’s range of emotion36:50-37:10 It’s Basil’s birthday!37:10-39:15 Patrick likes how Jiro’s myopia mirrors his emotional condition39:15-41:00 Paper plane chase turns into near-death experience41:00-41:30 Life is pretty miserable isn’t it? Yes, it is.41:30-43:30 Critique of Japanese valorization of work and big stuff that kicks ass! 43:30-44:30 Ilya thinks it’s weird that the movie doesn’t show civilian/non-Japanese cost of war44:30-45:30 Basil thinks awfulness of World War 2 can be inferred45:30-46:30 Reuben likes the sympathetic portrait and Japanese perspective on WW246:30-47:00 Also, Reuben thought Ilya disagreed that Basil liked Dinosaurs as a kid47:00-48:00 Sentimentalization of Axis powers’ past still gross48:00-50:20 Brief scene in Germany is evocative of Nazi regime/Jiro’s cluelessness about it50:20-52:00 Basil thinks not seeing the Axis powers as monsters helps people be more aware of/non-participatory in their ideology52:00-52:50 Hans Castorp is a stand-in for the Weimar émigré of the late 1930s52:50-56:10 His invisibility to the characters mirrors the obliviousness of the time56:10-57:25 Song sounds like it’s from Noriko’s Dinner Table57:25-58:00 GOOGLING SECTION OF THE PODCAST BEGINS HERE!58:00-59:00 Reuben loves the shot of Nayoko in her wedding dress59:00-01:00:10 Felliniesque planes01:00:10-01:01:00 Ilya brings up The Aviator and we discuss Scorsese01:01:00-01:02:00 De Niro banging his head against the wall in Raging Bull should be a 10-hour Youtube loop01:02:00-01:03:00 Caproni’s massive plane looks like Howard Hughes’ Hercules01:03:00-01:04:30 Caproni throwing film into the water is reminiscent of the failures you don’t get to see when watching movies as well as with historiography01:04:30-01:06:00 Miyazaki’s “every artist gets ten years to do great work” is probably tongue-in-cheek01:06:00-01:06:30 This movie is much better than Ponyo & Howl’s Moving Castle01:06:30-01:07:40 Let’s speculate on Studio Ghibli projects!01:07:40-01:10:00 “From the Studio that brought you…” & other hilarious marketing strategies!01:10:00-01:10:45 This movie is much, much better than The Aviator01:10:45-01:12:30 “World War 2 was my favorite war!” – Stephen Spielberg (according to JBaum, via Joe Dante)01:12:30-01:14:00 Patrick compares Miyazaki’s popularity in Japan to Spielberg in US01:14:00-01:17:20 Ozu/Mizoguchi/ Kurosawa/Miyazaki/Oshima – Wh