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Porco Rosso

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Porco Rosso	comment	Hayao Miyazaki's homage to the early days of aviation and cinema, the 1992 film Porco Rosso (Japanese: 紅の豚 Kurenai no Buta, "Crimson Pig") tells the story of a renowned Italian fighter pilot, a veteran of the First World War who has been mysteriously transformed into a pig.As The Roaring '20s fade into The Great Depression, Porco Rosso (Shūichirō Moriyama; Michael Keaton in the English dub), the "Crimson Pig", makes his living as a mercenary, flying a red seaplane and doing battle with pirates. Things really start to get interesting for Porco when the pirates, tired of having their butts handed to them by a pig, hire Donald Curtis (Akio Ōtsuka; Cary Elwes), a famed American aviator, to take him down. Pursued by the Fascist military he deserted years ago, Porco gains a teenage sidekick, Fio Piccolo (Akemi Okamura; Kimberly Williams-Paisley), and takes the fight to the pirates. What follows is an epic journey of self-discovery and general badassery in the great Ghibli tradition. It's got all the hallmarks of a Miyazaki movie; strong women, flying machines, air-pirates and an undertone of the supernatural.Like a few of Miyazaki's other works, the film is based on an earlier manga he wrote.
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Porco Rosso / int_19801c7	type	Underwear Swimsuit
Porco Rosso / int_19801c7	comment	Underwear Swimsuit: Fio takes a swim in her undies to relieve stress after the encounter with the pirates in Porco's cove.
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Porco Rosso / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Porco Rosso / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Porco goes into the boxing match against Curtis confident that he can smack Curtis around like a rag doll, only to find that Curtis is a lot stronger than he looks. Curtis not only manages to knock Porco down with his second hook, he manages to get in more hits during their fight.
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Porco Rosso / int_1aa30797	type	Single Woman Seeks Good Man
Porco Rosso / int_1aa30797	comment	Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Fio and Gina see past Porco's rough traits and love him as a good person.
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Porco Rosso / int_1b010521	type	Diesel Punk
Porco Rosso / int_1b010521	comment	Diesel Punk: Downplayed. Themes of technology and engineering are given a fairly central role, although you wouldn't call it a science fiction movie. Most of the planes have a very dieselpunk aesthetic, being cartoony interpretations of (mostly) real airplane models from the interwar period.
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Porco Rosso / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Porco Rosso / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Porco is a wanted man in Italy, which is why he lives on a small island in the Adriatic and only returns to his home country if he needs airplane maintenance he can't get done locally. Given that he was told that his numerous alleged crimes would be forgiven if he re-enlists, his real crime appears to be refusing to support Italy's post-WWI fascist government.
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Porco Rosso / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Porco Rosso / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Played with. Fio suggests that if she kisses Porco, his curse might be lifted, even referring to the Frog Prince fairy tale (though it's strongly hinted she knew it wouldn't break the curse and just wanted an excuse to kiss him). At the end of the movie, Porco's curse is broken, but the movie refrains from showing us his face and leaves it ambiguous whether it was due to Fio's kiss, Porco finally letting go of his cynicism and disillusionment, him finally thinking of other people, or maybe just him getting walloped upside the head one last time for good measure.
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Porco Rosso / int_237cf529	type	UglyGuysHotDaughter
Porco Rosso / int_237cf529	comment	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Piccolo is a mildly wizened tiny man with a family filled with beautiful women.
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Porco Rosso / int_24e5adb9	type	Beast and Beauty
Porco Rosso / int_24e5adb9	comment	Beast and Beauty: Porco is a Pig Man who has two beautiful ladies interested in him.
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Porco Rosso / int_277686f2	type	Reused Character Design
Porco Rosso / int_277686f2	comment	Reused Character Design: Fio looks very similar to Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, another Ghibli movie; Miyazaki has a tendency to recycle character models. Made even more humorous when you realize Fio doesn't kill an insect but peacefully convinces it to fly away in one scene. The pirate with an eyepatch closely resembles Count Cagliostro.
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Porco Rosso / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Porco Rosso / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Porco does not appear to be aware of the fact that Gina is in love with him. It takes Curtis painfully beating it into him—followed by a comment from Gina herself—for it to stick. Sort of.
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Porco Rosso / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Porco Rosso / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Averted; Curtis initially seems to be this kind of character, but he's almost as good as he thinks he is (not quite that good though) and isn't quite the jerk he initially appears to be.
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Porco Rosso / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Porco Rosso / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Porco Rosso means, of course, Red Pig in Italian. Whoever wrote the headlines on the "Giornale del mare" newspaper did not have full knowledge of Italian, but they're clearly understandable by speakers of the language - and few others, as they aren't translated. It means "Sea Newspaper," or "Newspaper of the Sea."
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Porco Rosso / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Porco Rosso / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Porco's plane is literally one of a kind. The manufacturers never built more than one because it proved to be too unwieldy for anyone but a true Ace Pilot to handle. It has difficulty with takeoff and landing, but once it hits top speed it's second to none.
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Porco Rosso / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Porco Rosso / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: A major factor in Curtis being able to shoot down Porco in their first dogfight was the fact that the engine of Porco's fighter was badly in need of an overhaul and Porco was more concerned with limping his way to his mechanic than fighting at the time. The second time around, when Porco's plane is back in flying trim, they're much more equally matched.
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Porco Rosso / int_2d1c28b4	type	Repeat After Me
Porco Rosso / int_2d1c28b4	comment	Repeat After Me: A radio announcer relays a message from the pirates to Porco Rosso...as well as the sounds of their bickering after they fall over on top of each other.note Not found in the Japanese original; a moment of Woolseyism on the part of the dubbers
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Porco Rosso / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Porco Rosso / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Downplayed. Out of their respect and adoration of Fio, the Mamma Aiuto gang hosts the big fight between Porco and Curtis while putting on the ritz as best they can, which means Boss in a gaudy pinstriped suit. Despite his best efforts, he still struggles with years of bad habit.
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Porco Rosso / int_2d53c295	type	Sky Pirate
Porco Rosso / int_2d53c295	comment	Sky Pirate: Of the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain varieties.
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Porco Rosso / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Porco Rosso / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Sky Pirates, despite being pirates, are actually a pretty honorable lot. Even though they take an entire class of little girls hostage, they don't do anything to hurt them and actually take the entire class because they're concerned about splitting them up; they even keep their language clean while they have them aboard. They are also easily shamed out of murdering Porco by Fio, who appeals to their sense of honor.
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Porco Rosso / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Porco Rosso / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: At the end, Porco volunteers to lead the Italian Air Force on a wild goose chase so everyone who came to see his dogfight with Curtis can escape. Curtis, always up for a bit of adventure, joins him. It's probably a spectacular aerial skirmish.
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Porco Rosso / int_3d944c84	type	Impressed by the Civilian
Porco Rosso / int_3d944c84	comment	Impressed by the Civilian: Fio manages to earn the respect and admiration of the Sea-Plane pirates after not backing down and refusing to allow them to smash the plane she'd rebuilt.
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Porco Rosso / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Porco Rosso / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title, Porco Rosso, or the red pig, is a pun on the Red Baron.
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Porco Rosso / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Porco Rosso / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Pretty much all of the characters get a happy ending except for Porco himself, who disappears after facing off against the Italian Air Force. However, it's hinted by Fio that Porco is living in hiding, having reverted back into his original, and more anonymous human form, and he and Gina might finally get together.
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Porco Rosso / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Porco Rosso / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Porco vanishes without a trace during the pursuit from the Air Force, leaving the other characters to wonder what has become of him. It's also never made clear whether he and Gina reconnected (Fio seems to know the answer, but decides to keep it as a secret).
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Porco Rosso / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Porco Rosso / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Porco generally refuses to kill the pilots he fights, which is indicated to be a tactic for keeping in business by ensuring there are still pirates left to pirate. During the Final Battle, however, the boss of the Mamma Aiuto gang correctly surmises that Porco refuses to risk a pilot's life and instead plans to win by tiring Curtis out and shooting up the latter's engine, which he takes to be a matter of showing off, but the film implies his refusal to kill Curtis or the pirates is a shred of honor. The boss of the Mamma Aiuto gang takes the time to officially conclude the proceedings of the duel despite everyone panicking and fleeing the oncoming Italian authorities.
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Porco Rosso / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Porco Rosso / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Porco constantly thinks of himself, but also has a sense of honor. He shoots down planes for a living, yet refuses to kill a pilot.
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Porco Rosso / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Porco Rosso / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: At the end of the film, Porco Rosso's plane can be seen flying through the clouds before the words "The End" show up.
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Porco Rosso / int_489f14dd	type	Glamorous Wartime Singer
Porco Rosso / int_489f14dd	comment	Glamorous Wartime Singer: Gina, who owns the Hotel Adriano. Technically the film is set before the war, but still.
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Porco Rosso / int_4aa3c552	type	Animorphism
Porco Rosso / int_4aa3c552	comment	Animorphism: Ace fighter pilot Marco Pagot returns from an air battle with the face of a pig and becomes known as Porco Rosso (the Red Pig).
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Porco Rosso / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Porco Rosso / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Most of the pirate bosses have nasty-looking facial scars.
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Porco Rosso / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Porco Rosso / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Porco, who by his own admission is a "pig" both figuratively and literally who's also a womanizer and self-serving bounty hunter, manages to attract scores of women, notably Gina and Fio who's smitten with him on sight. A combination of being a famous former war hero pilot and his overall noble nature plays into his attractiveness.
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Porco Rosso / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Porco Rosso / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: What the epic air fight between Porco and Curtis boils down to after both their guns fail.
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Porco Rosso / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Porco Rosso / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Curtis, and even "evil" is debatable; he's more of just The Rival to Porco as a pilot and for Gina's affections.
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Porco Rosso / int_550f2108	type	Combat Breakdown
Porco Rosso / int_550f2108	comment	Combat Breakdown: In Porco and Curtis' rematch, the dogfight eventually peters out because Curtis used up all of his ammo and Porco's gun jammed. Curtis tries to shoot Porco with a pistol and then he and Porco start throwing random things at each other. Eventually the two land and get into a fistfight, which the sky pirates turn into a semi-official boxing match with rounds and a referee. After six rounds of boxing, the two are so exhausted and bruised that they don't even try to dodge each other and just trade blow after blow.
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Porco Rosso / int_5532b579	type	Acoustic License
Porco Rosso / int_5532b579	comment	Acoustic License: Mostly averted — generally, people communicate plane-to-plane via signal lights using Morse code, as they did in real life, and Piccolo installs a rudimentary voice tube in Porco's rebuilt plane to allow him to communicate with Fio. Porco and Curtis do shout at each other plane-to-plane during their final duel, but as they're linking speech and action they don't necessarily have to hear each other to get the meaning.
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Porco Rosso / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
Porco Rosso / int_5571b706	comment	I Work Alone: Porco is determined to remain solitary and, if he had a say in the matter, wouldn't have Fio along at all. Shame he doesn't have a say. He ends up foisting her on Gina after his Final Battle with Curtis, much to both Gina's and Fio's displeasure.
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Porco Rosso / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Porco Rosso / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: A general theme of Miyazaki's feminism, but especially notable since Gina's grace and Fio's idealism are up against Porco, Curtis, and the air pirates, who are all various flavors of Manchild.
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Porco Rosso / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Porco Rosso / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The origin of Porco's curse, though his guilt stemming from the death of his best friend (and Gina's late husband) in the war may be the cause of it. It serves more as a symbol of his disillusionment and cynicism than anything else. We also never see Porco's face when it's strongly hinted the curse was lifted, for a literal unreveal.
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Porco Rosso / int_5bf69547	type	Gang of Hats
Porco Rosso / int_5bf69547	comment	Gang of Hats: Each pirate crew has a design scheme built in imitation of the gang's boss. Among these, the Mamma Aiuto gang has the most diversity in design.
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Porco Rosso / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Porco Rosso / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: Porco was called the "Ace of the Adriatic" and Curtis is also known for his prowess in combat flying.
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Porco Rosso / int_62a596ce	type	Politically Correct Villain
Porco Rosso / int_62a596ce	comment	Politically Correct Villain: Surprisingly enough. While the seaplane pilots all share in a general air of male chauvinism, the Mamma Aiuto gang's boss doesn't participate. When the collected pirates are all stunned by Fio's presence, he keeps his head. After Fio gives a speech Shaming the Mob, the rest of the pirates come around to this attitude as well.
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Porco Rosso / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Porco Rosso / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the epilogue, you can briefly see a red seaplane that resembles Porco's docked at Gina's hotel, heavily implying that he and Gina got together after all.
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Porco Rosso / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Porco Rosso / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Porco's second duel with Curtis reveals that Gina never actually told Porco she had feelings for him, at least not explicitly, since the revelation from Curtis that Gina loves Porco hits him by surprise and he initially believes Curtis is just lying to distract him.
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Porco Rosso / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Porco Rosso / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Miyazaki loves Italy, pigs, strong female characters, and aviation (see Meaningful Name).
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Porco Rosso / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Porco Rosso / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Curtis is a young hotshot who sometimes acts like a big kid.
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Porco Rosso / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
Porco Rosso / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: Porco's and Curtis' post-air duel boxing match quickly devolves into this: by the end of six rounds both men are so tired they don't even try to block each other's punches. This is not the case with the preceding air battle, which awes all observers and ends only after Curtis runs out of ammunition and Porco's gun jams.
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Porco Rosso / int_6a582e34	type	Day of the Jackboot
Porco Rosso / int_6a582e34	comment	Day of the Jackboot: When Porco returns to Milan, we see that Benito Mussolini's regime is in power, and their iconography is all over the place. This presumably is why Porco went AWOL from the air force and fled the country.
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Porco Rosso / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Porco Rosso / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: What inspires Porco to get up and win the fight, and may be what turns him back into a man, though it could also perhaps be Porco just letting go of his cynicism.
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Porco Rosso / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Porco Rosso / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A lot of the characters' names are sly references to early aviation: Gina is named after the G-91R aircraft's nickname, manufactured by FIAT. The series it belongs to? "Ghibli", which is where Studio Ghibli's name comes from. Gina's first husband, Bellini, is named for an Italian pilot who died in an attempt to set a flight speed record. Ferrarin, Porco's Friend on the Force, is named after Arturo Ferrarin, one of the pioneers of aviation, who flew from Rome to Tokyo in 1920. Curtis is probably named after Glenn Hammond Curtiss, an important American pilot and - working with the Wright Brothers - airplane manufacturer. Fittingly, the plane Curtis flies in the movie appears to be a Curtiss R 3 C.
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Porco Rosso / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
Porco Rosso / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: The Mamma Aiuto gang is the only pirate gang to be named and also has the most characterization among the pirates.
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Porco Rosso / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Porco Rosso / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: A battle in which Porco survived when the rest of his squad didn't. It was only by happenstance and skill that he survived, and he retreated only after all the others had been shot down, but he still calls himself a coward.
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Porco Rosso / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Porco Rosso / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Fio and Piccolo Aviation's all-female workforce.
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Porco Rosso / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
Porco Rosso / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: Porco will never purposely kill another pilot, often deliberately aiming to disable their plane non-lethally.
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Porco Rosso / int_7a17d1ca	type	Eagleland
Porco Rosso / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Curtis, who shifts from Flavor 1 to Flavor 2 depending upon how high his hormones are running at the moment.
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Porco Rosso / int_7aeb0635	type	Arms Dealer
Porco Rosso / int_7aeb0635	comment	Arms Dealer: Porco purchases ammo from one; both comment that their illegal enterprises (bounty hunting and arms dealing) will be largely unaffected by an upcoming change in government. But there's No Honor Among Thieves as the ammo cartridges are defective (a common problem in that era) and causes his gun to jam at a crucial moment.
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Porco Rosso / int_7d24907e	type	SkyPirates
Porco Rosso / int_7d24907e	comment	Averted by the Sky Pirates' motley collection of flying contraptions, though those are all caricatures of genuine aircraft as well.
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Porco Rosso / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Porco Rosso / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Curtis—pointedly known as "The American"—and his well-meaning but ham-handed attempt to curtail some rudeness. When a couple of loudmouth reporters try to interview Porco in the middle of Gina's song, Curtis walks over, hoists them into the air, carries them away, and then slams them down at another table with a parting warning to shut up, inadvertently causing a much larger scene than the one he was trying to prevent. Porco's first scene has him lazing by the beach in his private lagoon, all alone. When he gets a call about the schoolgirls in distress, his primary concern is about how much money he's getting paid.
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Porco Rosso / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Porco Rosso / int_830b0ac9	comment	Porco generally refuses to kill the pilots he fights, which is indicated to be a tactic for keeping in business by ensuring there are still pirates left to pirate. During the Final Battle, however, the boss of the Mamma Aiuto gang correctly surmises that Porco refuses to risk a pilot's life and instead plans to win by tiring Curtis out and shooting up the latter's engine, which he takes to be a matter of showing off, but the film implies his refusal to kill Curtis or the pirates is a shred of honor.
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Porco Rosso / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Porco Rosso / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Fio, despite being told to stay out of things because she's a young woman, still manages to help out Porco and stand up to all of the pirates who ambushed them on Porco's island.
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Porco Rosso / int_8a55a1d4	type	In Love with Love
Porco Rosso / int_8a55a1d4	comment	In Love with Love/Meet Cute: Curtis, who proposes to Gina and Fio upon meeting them at different points of the film. Gina quickly refuses him in favor of Porco, while Fio's hand in marriage is set up as Curtis's prize during a duel between Porco and Curtis. In their fistfight, Porco even points out that Curtis falls in "deep, passionate" love with every pretty girl he meets.
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Porco Rosso / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Porco Rosso / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Maybe. The ending leaves it deliberately ambiguous whether Porco and Gina finally get together.
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Porco Rosso / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
Porco Rosso / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	Curtis—pointedly known as "The American"—and his well-meaning but ham-handed attempt to curtail some rudeness. When a couple of loudmouth reporters try to interview Porco in the middle of Gina's song, Curtis walks over, hoists them into the air, carries them away, and then slams them down at another table with a parting warning to shut up, inadvertently causing a much larger scene than the one he was trying to prevent.
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Porco Rosso / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Porco Rosso / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: When Porco and Fierrali are watching a cartoon in the cinema, it's shown in an appropriate 1920s animation style.
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Porco Rosso / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Porco Rosso / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: During one of his visits to Italy, Porco is confronted by an old friend (still serving in the Air Force) while watching a cartoon in a darkened movie theater. The cartoon depicts a Mickey Mouse Expy striving to save his girlfriend from a villainous pig in an airplane. The obvious metaphor is that the cartoon pig represents Porco himself (his noble but simplistic friend Ferrarin obtusely mentions at one point that he thinks "This movie's really great"), but beyond the movie being outright anti-Porco propaganda is the subtle fact that Porco himself has gone to see it, which in the light of his own self-disdain transforms the propaganda into a reflection of how Porco sees himself — an ugly, bloated fiend who doesn't deserve a happy ending. When Porco's sunglasses get partially broken at the end, the left rim takes on the shape of a heart as Curtis informs him that Gina loves him.
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Porco Rosso / int_941896b	type	Shaming the Mob
Porco Rosso / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Fio delivers an absolutely classic example to the pirate gang by appealing to their sense of honour. Downplayed with Gina, whose mere presence is enough to cow and restrain the air pirates' grumbling about "the pig".
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Porco Rosso / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Porco Rosso / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Fio, the youthful and ambitious mechanic with a crush on Porco, is obviously the Betty, while Gina, Glamorous Wartime Singer and wealthy landowner, is just as plainly the Veronica. Porco is the straightforward Archie, while Curtis is his rival for both.
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Porco Rosso / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Porco Rosso / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: Lots of bullets are fired, but no people (or pigs) are ever hit. Invoked for Porco whom Boss says won't shoot a fellow pilot in a dog-fight, but with all of the lead in the air you'd expect someone to get hit if only by accident. This is due to Japan Airlines co-producing the film. Averted in the World War One flashback. You see a lot of planes go down in flames there, with no implication that the pilots survived. Porco actually only loads 5 rounds each into his machine guns because he thinks pirate hunting is not war.
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Porco Rosso / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Porco Rosso / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Did Porco eventually come to Gina's garden and confess his love for her? Fio seems to know the answer, but she says it's not up to her to reveal it. During the final montage, you can see his red plane floating outside the hotel, though.
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Porco Rosso / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
Porco Rosso / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: In the ending, Curtis gives one looking up at Porco, whose face is hidden. It's strongly hinted that he saw Marco's human face - perhaps as a brief glimpse, like Fio did the night before, or perhaps the curse has been lifted altogether.
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Porco Rosso / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Porco Rosso / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: With all of the men in Piccolo's family gone from the city to find work, Piccolo has his female relatives work on the plane. Porco complains about it, claiming women can't handle the job, but Piccolo insists that they do good work. Despite Fio (a) rebuilding and improving a one-of-a-kind plane (b) under the noses of the secret police (c) standing up to every armed pirate in the Adriatic (d) going on to be a major industrialist, Curtis thinks of her as just a Standard Hero Reward.
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Porco Rosso / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
Porco Rosso / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: Gina. She sings a French song to the hotel patrons in her opening scene, wearing the requisite skinny evening gown, and it's revealed in the next scene with Porco that she's a widow three times over, with all of her husbands being pilots.
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Porco Rosso / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Porco Rosso / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: "Le Temps des Cerises", sung by Gina and playing on the radio in the beginning.
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Porco Rosso / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Porco Rosso / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Porco's vision of a great procession of dead war pilots ascending to heaven in their planes was inspired by a Roald Dahl short story, incidentally providing a Genius Bonus for those who know Dahl himself was an Adriatic fighter pilot in WWII.
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Porco Rosso / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Porco Rosso / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Seems to be at play here, as the majority of the film appears to be set in a fictional analogue to the short-lived Free State of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) shortly before its annexation by Fascist Italy. They appear to give refuge to Porco and seemingly grant huge leeway to air piracy (to the extent that it is viewed as entertainment), have a blue-yellow-blue tricolour for a civil ensign, their Fascist movement has a love for green and purple, and they have a lizard in a military uniform on their money.
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Porco Rosso / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Porco Rosso / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Curtis may be an idiot but he's a damn good pilot and he's no slouch when it comes to knock down drag out fist fights (it's established early on that Curtis is a lot stronger than he looks and manages to catch Porco off guard in their climactic fist fight - he even lands more on-screen blows on Porco than Porco does on him).
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Porco Rosso / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Porco Rosso / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: A man in his mid-thirties being with a seventeen year old may seem weird to modern viewers, but it's accurate for the time period. Before women entered the workforce in World War II out of necessity and stayed working afterwards, it made sense for girls to marry older men. Since they couldn't work, it offered them financial stability they wouldn't find in a man their own age. With the high child mortality rate, the earlier you started having kids, the better you chance you had at having kids who'd make it to adulthood, and since your husband is financially stable, you don't have to wait to start having them. That being said, Porco never tries a thing with Fio, which could lead a modern viewer to believe that Fio has a mostly innocent and one-sided Precocious Crush. Porco also has a somewhat backward view of women's role in society, freely admitting that he doesn't want a female mechanic working on his plane. He gets over it when he sees how good Fio is at her job while drawing up schematics, and gets increasingly more impressed from there. He also has concern for Piccolo's female relatives working on rebuilding his plane.
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Porco Rosso / int_aef07b11	type	Pig Man
Porco Rosso / int_aef07b11	comment	Pig Man: Porco, obviously, as a result of his curse.
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Porco Rosso / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Porco Rosso / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "That can't be good" in the English dub; "A pig's gotta fly" in the original.
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Porco Rosso / int_b4b2a42a	type	Widowed at the Wedding
Porco Rosso / int_b4b2a42a	comment	Widowed at the Wedding: Just barely averted. A friend of Porco's during the war had only been married for two days when he was recalled to duty, flew a sortie, and got shot down. The resultant widow was Gina.
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Porco Rosso / int_b76f6cb2	type	Little Stowaway
Porco Rosso / int_b76f6cb2	comment	Little Stowaway: Fio on Porco's plane. She claims she needs to go with him to ensure it runs properly after the rebuild—and pretending to be his hostage may prevent the secret police from arresting her family.
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Porco Rosso / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Porco Rosso / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: For everyone except Porco.
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Porco Rosso / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Porco Rosso / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Porco's relationships with both Gina and Fio have romantic elements in them. In Fio's case it's clearly more of a Precocious Crush, since he clearly sees her as far too young for him and at the end she has clearly accepted that it's not going to happen. The main obstacle in Porco's relationship with Gina seems to be his own self-hatred, and the movie pointedly refuses to tell us if this is ever resolved.
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Porco Rosso / int_b97c1d0b	type	Standard Hero Reward
Porco Rosso / int_b97c1d0b	comment	Despite Fio (a) rebuilding and improving a one-of-a-kind plane (b) under the noses of the secret police (c) standing up to every armed pirate in the Adriatic (d) going on to be a major industrialist, Curtis thinks of her as just a Standard Hero Reward.
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Porco Rosso / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Porco Rosso / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: The ending leaves it unclear whether Porco ever reunited with Gina. Fio knows the answer, but decides to keep it a secret.
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Porco Rosso / int_bb040b01	type	Cool Guns
Porco Rosso / int_bb040b01	comment	Cool Guns: Miyazaki again reveals his interest in World War One type weapons like before in Castle in the Sky, as all the weapons that appear are all of those types, except for Curtis' revolver which was from decades earlier.
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Porco Rosso / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Porco Rosso / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: The Mamma Aiuto boss is a mild case. Not exactly a genius, but surprisingly enlightened nonetheless.
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Porco Rosso / int_bc8271df	type	In a Single Bound
Porco Rosso / int_bc8271df	comment	In a Single Bound: Curtis after revealing himself in Porco's hideout ready for the rematch Fio set up. He jumps off the cliff, does a front flip, and sticks the landing. True, he climbed about halfway down the cliff first, but it's still a good 30 feet.
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Porco Rosso / int_bebb370	type	Gratuitous Italian
Porco Rosso / int_bebb370	comment	Gratuitous Italian: Not as much as you'd think, though the hero's name means "red pig" in Italian. This is also the meaning of the Japanese title.
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Porco Rosso / int_c3963bc4	type	No Place for Me There
Porco Rosso / int_c3963bc4	comment	No Place for Me There: Porco seems to feel this way about human society due to his survivors guilt and his curse. He does live alone on an island after all.
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Porco Rosso / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Porco Rosso / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Just about the only person who doesn't admire Porco - even his enemies have a grudging respect for him - is Porco himself.
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Porco Rosso / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Porco Rosso / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The new engine Piccolo installs in Porco's plane has "GHIBLI" embossed in the valve covers. The main character's real name is Marco Pagot, the Italian original author of the Sherlock Hound anime on which Miyazaki worked before he started Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki enjoyed this work tremendously and paid homage to Mr. and Mrs. Pagot this way. The vision of the afterlife has been compared to A Matter of Life and Death.
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Porco Rosso / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
Porco Rosso / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: Everywhere from Gina's flapper outfits to the plane designs.
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Porco Rosso / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Porco Rosso / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's not very clear whether Porco's vision of seeing his shot down squadron flying up into the afterlife was a genuine supernatural experience, or simply a stress induced hallucination from surviving that particular battle.
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Porco Rosso / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Porco Rosso / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Porco's plane is identified as a Savoia S-21, a Real Life plane that was the flying equivalent of The Alleged Car—difficult and unforgiving to fly, to the point that only one pilot ever had any success with it. While this is accurate to the story (albeit with Porco's plane being framed as Difficult, but Awesome), the design of Porco's plane better resembles the Macchi M.33, which competed against the Curtiss R3C.2 for the 1925 Schneider Trophy.
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Porco Rosso / int_d1e5d45c	type	Cynicâ€“Idealist Duo
Porco Rosso / int_d1e5d45c	comment	Cynic–Idealist Duo: Gina and Fio, respectively. Gina, who's known Porco since they were kids, is numb to the pain of being thrice-widowed, and not only does she tolerate crime, her Cafe Adriano is a place of comfort and hospitality for air pirates where they can relax beyond the reach of the law. Fio, who is meanwhile only just a woman herself, is ambitious and filled with admiration for the glories and stories related to her by her grandfather; her presence and forceful innocence lead her to constantly challenge Porco and the pirates to be better than they are, and they all find her quite inspiring in turn.
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Porco Rosso / int_d28eb9e1	type	Serial Romeo
Porco Rosso / int_d28eb9e1	comment	Curtis is this in a number of scenes, with a little bit of Serial Romeo thrown in for good measure. This is most obvious in his tendency to become hopelessly infatuated with every woman he meets, even, creepily enough, the underage Fio (though to be fair, she's crushing on Porco, who is obviously older than him).
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Porco Rosso / int_d3beb0de	type	Precocious Crush
Porco Rosso / int_d3beb0de	comment	Precocious Crush: 17-year-old Fio having a crush on the more middle-aged Porco. Porco says that he was 17 in 1910, and the magazine he's reading in the beginning gives the date as 1929, which would make him about 36.
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Porco Rosso / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Porco Rosso / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: No one seems to react much to the sight of a pig man walking around, although people certainly recognize Porco on sight.
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Porco Rosso / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Porco Rosso / int_dd6ce5db	comment	All named Italian pilots are real people who flew with the Italian Air Force (though some of them were dead by the time the movie is supposed to be set).
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Porco Rosso / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Porco Rosso / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The sky pirates, and the Mamma Aiuto gang in particular. The scene of them holding the schoolgirls hostage at the beginning clearly establishes them as essentially harmless, given how polite they are to the kids and how careful they are about their safety.
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Porco Rosso / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Porco Rosso / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Curtis, the American pilot who won the Schneider Cup before the events of the film, is named after the Curtiss R3C-2, the Real Life Cool Plane that won the Schneider Trophy in 1925. In the film, Curtis actually flies the Curtiss.
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Porco Rosso / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Porco Rosso / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The characters can be presumed to be speaking mostly Italian with some English here and there but the film's native language is Japanese.
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Porco Rosso / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Curtis is this in a number of scenes, with a little bit of Serial Romeo thrown in for good measure. This is most obvious in his tendency to become hopelessly infatuated with every woman he meets, even, creepily enough, the underage Fio (though to be fair, she's crushing on Porco, who is obviously older than him). The various pirates in the film have a bit of this as well, with their rivalry with Porco bordering on childish. One could even argue that Porco's inability to deal with his survivor's guilt makes him one as well.
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Porco Rosso / int_e20106a0	type	Spaghetti and Gondolas
Porco Rosso / int_e20106a0	comment	Spaghetti and Gondolas: Every stereotype you know about pre-WWII Italy is milked, although it's done so well and so affectionately you can't complain.
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Porco Rosso / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Porco Rosso / int_e5421161	comment	During one of his visits to Italy, Porco is confronted by an old friend (still serving in the Air Force) while watching a cartoon in a darkened movie theater. The cartoon depicts a Mickey Mouse Expy striving to save his girlfriend from a villainous pig in an airplane. The obvious metaphor is that the cartoon pig represents Porco himself (his noble but simplistic friend Ferrarin obtusely mentions at one point that he thinks "This movie's really great"), but beyond the movie being outright anti-Porco propaganda is the subtle fact that Porco himself has gone to see it, which in the light of his own self-disdain transforms the propaganda into a reflection of how Porco sees himself — an ugly, bloated fiend who doesn't deserve a happy ending.
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Porco Rosso / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Porco Rosso / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: Gina's Cafe Adriano. Both pirates and pigs enter, but neither make any trouble inside; when it looks like the pirate gangs are about to start a fight, all it takes is a bit of gentle chiding from Gina and they're falling over themselves like bashful kids.
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Porco Rosso / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Porco Rosso / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: The duel ends up bringing both planes above a crowd, and neither Porco nor Curtis apparently see a problem with maintaining the fight over an area packed with innocent spectators. Tons of property damage and panicked running ensues, but somehow the stray gunfire only hits inanimate objects.
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Porco Rosso / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
Porco Rosso / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: Shown passing under Porco's plane as he and Fio escape Italy. Fittingly, it's one of the most beautifully-animated sequences in the film.
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Porco Rosso / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
Porco Rosso / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: In this case, bags of money. It is strongly implied that the local currency is hyper-inflated.
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Porco Rosso / int_ecd42310	type	Goldfish Poop Gang
Porco Rosso / int_ecd42310	comment	Goldfish Poop Gang / Harmless Villains: The Mamma Aiuto gang and the various other sky pirate crews.
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Porco Rosso / int_ed98f038	type	Wall Crawl
Porco Rosso / int_ed98f038	comment	Wall Crawl: Curtis seems to be surprisingly good at this, scaling the walls of Gina's garden, and descending the cliff into Porco's Island hideout.
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Porco Rosso / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Porco Rosso / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Gina has married - and been left a widow by - three seaplane pilots.
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Porco Rosso / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
Porco Rosso / int_f005bd1c	comment	Ferrarin, Porco's Friend on the Force, is named after Arturo Ferrarin, one of the pioneers of aviation, who flew from Rome to Tokyo in 1920.
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Porco Rosso / int_fa6cd5d7	type	Weird West
Porco Rosso / int_fa6cd5d7	comment	Weird West: Invoked. In the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue mentioned below, we see a poster for a movie Donald Curtis made in which he plays a cowboy who apparently meets a Tyrannosaurus rex. Possibly a reference to The Beast Of Slumber Mountain or The Valley of Gwangi.
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Porco Rosso / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Porco Rosso / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Porco tells Fio he's a known womanizer who lives on a small island in a tent. Her response? "That's OK, I like camping."
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Porco Rosso / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Porco Rosso / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At the duel with Curtis, after Curtis runs out of ammo, Porco lines up a shot to shoot Curtis down, but his one gun jams, and didn't have a back up because he told Fio to get rid of the other to make room for her when they escaped from Piccolo's workshop. Although the other gun would've probably also jammed due to having been sold rusty ammunition by that Arms Dealer in Milan.
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Porco Rosso / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Porco Rosso / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: One of the central themes of the movie, as manifested by Porco's curse. He only turns into a pig after surviving the battle that killed many of his friends, and he feels like a coward for not doing more to save them - even though there clearly wasn't much he could do. Porco hates himself and sees no hope of breaking the curse, even though everyone else around him seems to genuinely admire and love him, and even his enemies know that he's extremely brave and honourable - which he will usually deflect by insisting that his honourable deeds have some cynical ulterior motive. His arc is mainly about accepting himself and seeing himself as deserving of happiness, and at the end, that is what maybe breaks the curse.
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Porco Rosso / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Porco Rosso / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Even more than usual for Miyazaki. All the planes are absolutely correct (though the Pirates' are exaggerated) down to the fascist axe symbols. The new engine for Porco's plane is a period-appropriate Rolls-Royce Peregrine. Porco's WWI Italian Air Corps uniform is accurate. All named Italian pilots are real people who flew with the Italian Air Force (though some of them were dead by the time the movie is supposed to be set). Porco pulls what can be best described as a stall turn to get behind Curtis in their air duel. The night before the big dogfight, Porco is seen manually inspecting and polishing the machine gun rounds he bought. This was something some WWI fighter pilots actually did - tolerances on the machines that made the bullets weren't very good back then, so they had to make sure that the rounds they loaded into their guns would fire cleanly and not jam. However, they did misspell a few words in Italian.
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