True optimists love life after seeing it clearly.
Text | Iris edits | Hu Wenwen
A crew shoots a zombie horror film in an abandoned factory outside the wilderness ridge. When the heroine was scolded by the director for being "emotionless" and "unreal", all the members finished their work and rested. Unexpectedly, the companions around them were attacked one after another, turned into real zombies, and began to hunt down and kill other members of the crew...
This kind of simple and routine script is usually the standard for bad movies. And when watching the first half of "Camera Don't Stop", interpreting this plot with slag picture quality and exaggerated acting skills, I believe that most of the audience is full of black lines like me, full of "WTF? ”。 And after watching a short period of time, you may suddenly realize: Mom, such a bad film, actually dare to play a mirror to the end? This is completely unable to save that bad film that sense of sight, okay?
Whether it is a simple scene, a poor camera, or a shot that wears a gang from time to time, or the actor's blunt acting skills, it is difficult to believe in any case, this is a word-of-mouth work that scored 7.9 and 8.3 points on IMDb and Douban respectively, and can only look down in confusion.
Finally, after the 37-minute zombie film ended, the peak circuit turned, and the timeline went back to a month ago, when the director took on this shooting task. The producer's requirements are simple: low cost, no need to be outstanding, just reach the average level, the whole process is shot to the end, and it is broadcast live on TV.
However, from cobbling together the shooting team to starting the camera, the endless accidents made shooting a difficult task. In order to complete it, all the crew members can only go all out, adapt to changes, build bridges in the water, and see tricks.
From this point on, the first half of the movie cut the audience's heart of those "what ghost? In the second half of the cut-off became "Is this all right?!!" ", and then accompanied by all kinds of crying and laughing. All kinds of inexplicable bugs in the previous film also make you suddenly realize at this time; all the foreshadowings that have appeared have found echoes one by one. In addition to the dumb laugh, you find that every seemingly boring detail has its own effect, and the director's careful machine is really enough.
It is also like this that it has become a film that is difficult to write film reviews. Because the less you know in advance, the more surprise you will be when you watch the movie. This may be the reason why netizens' comments on it are particularly polarized. People who like it are full of praise and love, and they are eager to recommend it every time they are; and people who can't accept this kind of messy blind shooting will be particularly resentful, feeling that the IQ is infinitely lowered by the director, and the whole film is just fooling around in a serious way.
The film, nominated for Best New Director at the 13th Asian Film Awards, appears to have had few impressive works before. The independent film, which cost less than 200,000 yuan, did not use a well-known actor, and was first only played in a theater with 86 seats, but after its release, it had a surprising reputation, breaking through one million viewers within three months and breaking into the top ten of the Japanese box office.
With its hot reviews and word of mouth, it is estimated that Ueda Shinichiro's future creative path will be wider. Some netizens even imagined that if the director himself played the role of director in this film, it might be a more bullish work.
In fact, in the process of filmmaking in the film, this meme has also been played with some works before, and the ratings are good, such as Peng Haoxiang's "Buy Murder" (2001), Mitani Yuki's "Magic Moment" (2008), etc., and when I first wrote this title, I thought of another movie: James Franco's self-directed "Disaster Artist" (2017).
In this film, the true shooting story of the movie "Room", which is known as a "milestone in the history of bad films", is recorded. Franco's Tommy Vesso is an eccentric actor of unknown age and background, who, after years of unsuccessful career in Hollywood, paid $6 million to write and direct a movie called "The Room" with his friend Greg.
(Stills from 2003 "The Room")
(Stills from 2017 Disaster Artist)
This film, which originally wanted to hit the Oscars, became a cult masterpiece due to its naïve script, logical confusion, and poor acting skills, attracting countless curious audiences to appreciate its absurdity, and still has a large number of fans.
Also making the creation behind the bad film into a comedy, the same is to express the film lovers' understanding of dreams, the attitude to humor, "Disaster Artist" to the people with american dreams poured a bowl of poisonous chicken soup, "The camera does not stop!" Then the person who had fallen to the ground was lifted up, patted his face, and let him continue to refuel.
To be fair, the latter is a cleverly conceived and more likable work, but the netizens at the beginning of the angry five-star attack, it is inevitable that it will be a little bit of killing it. After all, as a small-budget production, it is difficult to compare with those classic five-star movies. The female screams and simple sound effects that fill the film are also slightly embarrassing, but fortunately there are wild laughs from the audience to make up for it.
I prefer to think of it as a bloody love letter to the film industry, turning the bitterness behind the scenes, those unknown insistences, into the self-deprecation of practitioners, so that moviegoers laugh and laugh, and the corners of their eyes are filled with tears.
After all, when life is full of chickens and dogs, we are still trying our best. And those who see through the cruel truth of the world and still love it are the real optimists.
Don't stop the camera! (2017)
Performed by Shinichiro Ueda
Writers: Shinichiro Ueda
Starring: Takayuki Hamazui / Makoto / Harumi Hofhama / Akiyama Yuzuki / Kazuaki Nagaya
Language: Japanese
Release: 2017-11-04 (Tokyo Premiere)
Runtime: 96 minutes
Source| Nandu Weekly
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