tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post1496192348329356118..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: From Concept to First Flight: The A5M Fighter in Miyazaki’s The Wind RisesBill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-1299549550447979882015-11-18T08:16:55.588-05:002015-11-18T08:16:55.588-05:00Interesting. I was wondering about this. From an a...Interesting. I was wondering about this. From an artistic point of view, that wing shape is very distinctive and so easy to track, and that's important to what Miyazaki's doing. If he just went with the straight wings, the sequence I describe in this post would be more difficult to pull off.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-31984930198373768762015-11-18T00:52:12.740-05:002015-11-18T00:52:12.740-05:00Also, interesting that the whole movie is about cr...Also, interesting that the whole movie is about creating the A5M, when it's the A6M, the "Zero," that Horikoshi is most famed for, and that we only see in the very last scene.StephenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588260639227694557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-77257154928271503292015-11-18T00:50:29.484-05:002015-11-18T00:50:29.484-05:00One interesting thing I noticed while reading abou...One interesting thing I noticed while reading about this film, is that while the A5M was a real plane built by Mitsubishi, only the prototype version had the inverted-gull wings. When they built the actual line, they scrapped those for a straight wing design. Why does Miyazaki put so much emphasis on the wings here? Possibly for the ease of the audience in telling it apart from other airplanesStephenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588260639227694557noreply@blogger.com