Porco Rosso continues the trip by train with the remains of the plane, much to the irritation of Gina, who reminds him that there is a warrant for his arrest in Italy.
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Porco Rosso learns that Piccolo's sons have emigrated to find work elsewhere due to the Great Depression, and much of the engineering will have to be carried on by his young granddaughter Fio.
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Porco Rosso is initially skeptical of Fio's abilities as a mechanic, but after seeing her dedication in the repair project he accepts her as a competent engineer.
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Once Porco Rosso's plane is finished, Fio joins him on his flight home, with the justification that if the secret police arrest the team, they can say that Porco Rosso forced them to help and took Fio as a hostage.
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Night, while preparing shells for the dogfight, Porco tells Fio a story from World War I Two days after Gina's first wedding to his friend Bellini, his squadron was attacked by Austro-Hungarian aircraft.
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Porco Rosso recalls blacking out and awakening to find himself in complete stillness above the clouds, with a silver band shimmering high in the distant sky.
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Porco Rosso soon sees that the band is in fact thousands of planes flying together.
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Porco Rosso's warns the crowd that the Italian air force has been alerted and are on their way, and invites everyone to regroup at her hotel.
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Curtis reacts with surprise and asks Porco Rosso to turn around, suggesting that—like Fio—he had briefly seen Marco's true face.
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Porco Rosso is one of the few films directed by Hayao Miyazaki in which the historical and geographical settings are clearly defined and where most of the story could have happened in the real world.
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The concealed beach Porco Rosso uses as a hideout bears a strong resemblance to Stiniva, an inlet on the southern side of the Croatian island of Vis.
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Porco Rosso's character is an oblique reference to Ronald Reagan, in that his ambitions lie not only in Hollywood, but the Presidency.
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