Peter (and others)
I saw it early March. A good watch, as a story. Two parallel strands of
the story about corruption of beauty, however the whole personal
life/romance part of the story was based on a French novel and is
entirely fictional (the movie title is a line from a poem by the same
author, so that's the clue). However, the aviation side is accurate
enough* although it ends pretty much with the development of the A5M.
Though there is a reference to the zero and the war at the very end of
the movie, it appears the director, Miyazaki, knew going there would be
a step too far. Even so, on release in Japan last year it upset both the
political left and right (so Miyazaki must have been near the mark!), as
well as anti smoking groups (believe it or not).
* EG The Caproni Triplane did exist, but it didn't break up in the test
flight as shown, actually some ballast weights shifted and the plane
stalled into the lake.
The film reputedly will be Miyazaki's last (we'll wait and see about
that). But if you liked "The Wind Rises", a very implausible and
entertaining story with accurate 1930s aircraft and semi accurate
history from the same director, is "Porco Rosso".
PS, I have the book Horikoshi wrote (Eagles of Mitsubishi). Very
interesting, mostly about the Zero with some novel ideas in design and
why they did them, but the Zero wasn't really touched on in the film as
it more or less ends with the first flight of the A5M.
(eg they actually introduced "stretchy" control circuits so that at high
speeds the air loads on the control surfaces reduced their deflection
and hence reduced the maximum loading on the main aircraft structures.
That would normally be a recipe for flutter, but they made it work)
Regards
SWK
On 3/07/2014 6:16 PM, Peter Champness wrote:
...
I looked it up because I thought it was a reference to a movie I saw
recently about the designer of the Mitsubishi AM6 fighter (Zero).
However that was called "The Wind Rises". Did anyone else see it?
Peter Champness
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