556: Pig's Gotta Fly

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Is this the end of Miyazaki Club? Probably not, but we’ve reached the end of our survey of all the feature films he’s directed with “Porco Rosso,” the story of a pig man, the airplane he loves, the woman he doesn’t feel worthy to love, and the seaplane pirates who terrorize the Adriatic after World War I. There are lots of clouds and planes and boats, as you might expect....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 556, March 2021.
0:11.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and I can't believe it, but we sort of reached the end of the Miyazaki Club.
0:19.4	The last feature film to be covered by The incomparable from Hio Miyazaki, unless he, you know, makes another movie, which he apparently has, because he's retired a bunch of times and he's come back.
0:30.8	But until then, anyway, we've reached the last one on our list.
0:34.8	It's Porco Roso.
0:36.5	It's a movie about a flying pig. Joining me to talk's Porco Roso. It's a movie about a flying pig.
0:39.1	Joining me to talk about Porco Roso are at the members of our Miyazaki Club. Steve Lutz is here.
0:44.9	Hello.
0:45.5	Oh, you guys watched Porco Roso? I watched Profondo Roso.
0:49.5	Oh, no. I was wondering why it was live action and there were all those murders.
0:53.4	It didn't seem very Miyazaki-like.
0:54.9	According to the many different languages at the beginning of the movie, it's actually crimson pig.
1:00.8	Crimson pig, yes. Hmm. Moises Chuyang also joins us. Hello.
1:06.2	I would rather be a pig than a fascist, it turns out. Turns out.
1:11.8	Gene McDonald is here.
1:12.9	Hi.
1:13.8	Hi.
1:14.6	I did find that there was a sad lack of vinozzo, or not lack, but there should have been more
1:23.3	Vino Rosso and Porco Rosso.
1:25.1	There was quite a bit, wasn't there?
1:26.5	In the island speak easy, whatever whatever, Adriatic Island restaurant fortress garden.
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