The film introduced today is almost revered as a god in Japan in 2017, and it is also a box office dark horse.
The investment is only equivalent to 180,000 yuan (which is similar to the investment we made a micro-film 5 years ago), but it has received 180 million yuan at the box office! The title of the film is "Camera Don't Stop."
What is it that makes everyone love this movie that still looks a little rough?
I think there should be three reasons, first say the first two, the third can finally say: First, maybe everyone eats too much Hollywood roasted dishes, relatively exquisite, but the taste has been routine, there is no freshness. Today, suddenly a plate of farmhouse dishes came to you, and you immediately refreshed your taste buds in order to taste the early.
The second reason, which is also related to the first reason, is that although this dish does not look good, the material is fresh, and when you eat it, the taste is still very good! That is to say, the content of the movie itself is also very interesting.
First of all, it is structured interestingly, the first part is about thirty minutes, about a short feature film, belonging to a play within a play. It's a zombie movie that's live on TV, and since it's live, you should understand why the camera doesn't stop.
This zombie film is probably about a painstaking director who, in order to obtain realistic effects, let the actors come to the abandoned army experimental field to shoot the scene, quietly awaken the real zombies with blood spells, let the actors tear each other apart with these zombies, and ask the camera not to stop, which is another meaning of the title. In the end, the entire crew fell, leaving the heroine alone with an axe to stand on the spell.
The second part of the film, about an hour, is about the behind-the-scenes story of the previous zombie movie. This precedence and back constitute the entire film. The previous scenes are full of inexplicable bridges, making you feel that you are witnessing the scene of a car accident that a low-budget B-grade film should have. But the good thing is that all this seemingly shoddy plot is explained reasonably in the next hour.
For example, in the play-within-a-play part, the male and female protagonists and makeup artists have no words to say there, they can only talk awkwardly about self-defense, wait for a long time, the camera follows the recording engineer to go outside, at this time to see the real zombies appear. When you get to the behind-the-scenes story, you find that it was the uncle who played the zombie who was drinking and drinking the broken film, and he had not yet played when it was his turn to play. For example, there is a scene in the play, everyone finds that the zombies outside have been revived, but the recording engineer still has to run outside for no reason. Later, you found out that this actor has a sensitive stomach, can not drink hard water, and diarrhea when he drinks it. So when he doesn't care about running out in the live film, you know how strong his desire for the toilet is.
With so many details, this film can make a reasonable round field in the back. So looking back, although the budget of this film is very limited, it is very strict in execution and logic. This is a work of conscience compared to the blockbusters we often see that cannot withstand scrutiny.
Another more interesting point is that in the play-within-a-play, each actor also brings the role in life to the play.
This brings us to the director of the play-within-a-play and the makeup artist, the two roles were originally someone else, but they could not come to a car accident before the broadcast. So only the director of the play within the play can play the "director", and the director's wife plays the makeup artist.
Let's talk about the character of the director first. It's basically a pretty much gentleman, a sloppy, very lively kind of commercial. His mantra is "average"—what works, ordinary can be passed. Usually such a person has an advantage, that is, the production efficiency is high, the cost is low, and the work is passable. So he became the best person to make this zombie movie. However, because he is a small director, the two male and female protagonists participating in the live broadcast are still small and famous, so in reality, this small director can't cover these two people. When it came time to act, this little director took the opportunity to count the two people down, and the two had no choice but to follow his lines. You know, this is live broadcasting, the camera can not stop ah.
The woman who plays the makeup artist is the director's wife, and she is also an actress, but there is a bad problem, that is, she often abandons the script and plays freely while acting. So later she left the show business circle and concentrated on being a housewife, learning some self-defense techniques from time to time with television. This time, she had the opportunity to temporarily enter the crew, and when the first half of the live broadcast was broadcast, she grabbed the scene all the way, and her self-defense skills were not practiced in vain, and the other two roles were difficult to stop her. In the end, I had to arrange for the male protagonist to kill her to be quiet.
But no matter what, the grass platform team set up by this group of ordinary people stumbled and finally finished filming this live drama. In the next hour of the behind-the-scenes story, you will see that the live broadcast process is full of conditions, and all the behind-the-scenes personnel can not stop for the camera, and try every means to make the shooting continue according to the predetermined plot.
The uncle who played the zombie drank high, and the director carried his body out of the country; the actor who played the recording engineer had diarrhea, crouched in the corner of the wall and pulled on the ground, while also making a special effects model; the camera brother was knocked down by the actor, and the assistant sister lifted the camera to continue shooting.
And in the last scene, the crew's boom is broken, unable to shoot the spell painted on the roof, the setting in the script is because of this spell to resurrect the zombie, if there is no spell, then the previous scene almost becomes a blind fabrication for no reason. The producer asked for a change in the scene, and the director first insisted on shooting this shot, but finally compromised in attitude. At this moment, the director's daughter was inspired, and finally let the crew stack the arhats one by one into a human flesh "hanging arm", filming the spell painted on the roof.
Seeing this, the title of "Camera Don't Stop" is not just a requirement for live broadcasting, but also not just a line. It contains almost all the desire of these unknown people to complete a work, although the work does not look so perfect, but behind it these ordinary people pour out a lot of love for it. So there is a third reason why this film is so popular, that is, it abandons the grand narrative under the packaging of the so-called elite culture, and looks at the production of the film from another ordinary person's perspective - through the rationalization of the plot , we see only how ordinary people maintain a serious heart under limited resources, and this serious heart moves everyone who watches the movie.
There is a very meaningful dialogue in the film, when the director and his wife want to play the role in the play, the actors object and cancel the live broadcast, on the grounds that they want to "take into account the art itself". The director's response was, "It's first a TV show, then it's art, and the audience is waiting for us." "Yes, this is just an ordinary job, let's do it well, as for other tall things, it is not something to be considered in front of us." The so-called obedience to the fate of the people, this attitude is actually pragmatic and positive.
The reality is too boring
The movie is interesting
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