An independent film that costs only 3 million yen (less than 200,000 yuan) but has a box office of 180 million, is "Camera, Don't Stop".
The film, which was originally only released in small theaters, was expanded because of its unique charm, and gained the love and reputation of the audience.
The director uses the form of a play-in-play and uses three different angles to reveal to people what a movie is and how it is shaped. It directly tells the audience the fictionality of the plot, and uses this to impress the audience.
In an abandoned factory, a crew is shooting a zombie movie, the director has a loud quarrel with the actress Matsumoto due to acting problems, the atmosphere was tense, and the crew's filming work was also delayed.
Suddenly, a strange noise is heard, and a staff member who seems to be zombified begins a frenzied killing, and a bloody and violent escape journey begins in this abandoned factory. What will be the end of the crew? What is the story behind this 30-minute shoddy zombie movie?
In the first 30 minutes or so, the shooting method is taken in a one-shot manner, whether it is from the escape method or the plot reversal, it makes people feel as if they have seen a shoddy movie.
But for an hour, all the loopholes in front of it were given a reasonable explanation, so that people understood why the actors wanted to go out without a life, why the camera swayed, why the dead people cheated again, why the male protagonist stopped and went, this series of problems, in fact, because of the low cost, the live broadcast accident caused by the sudden.
The reversal of the plot before and after suddenly made the pattern of the whole film rise. After all, no one has ever imagined that behind a rundown movie is the team's best efforts to make it.
This film allows us to see the difficulty of production behind the film, the actors do not shoot in accordance with the director's regulations, want to add drama for themselves, change the script, and the actors who play the director and makeup artist when they are close to shooting have a car accident because of the secret affair, the crew itself is not invested enough, but let people use live broadcasting and a shot as a gimmick to attract the audience.
Those pictures that we look flawed are the best results made up for by the crew working together, and even the only overhead shot in the whole film is that everyone stacks the arhats up, and finally such an effect is presented.
This lets us know that behind the bad shots we lash out at in our daily lives, a few seconds of footage is the efforts of countless people. Maybe in the future we will still praise blockbusters, but for those small productions, fledgling directors, please be more tolerant, after all, no one can create a perfect movie without any.
Life is bitter, but filmmakers will never extinguish the fire of love for movies.
The director in the film is an unsuccessful filmmaker, but also an irresponsible father, many years of shooting movies but never fire, every day by the burden of life overwhelmed, in the face of the actor's various unreasonable troubles, he will only bear it one by one, this middle-aged man who is smoothed out by life.
The daughter is completely different from her father, she likes to argue on the basis of reason, is absolutely not dissuaded by anyone's remarks, and looks down on her father's nest.
This sudden film cooperation has improved the relationship between father and daughter, and the daughter has begun to discover the true thoughts of her father,and the father's edges and corners that have been smoothed out by reality have blossomed into new brilliance.
I have to admit that the film is really very clever, taking advantage of people's disdain for small costs, but giving a maximum reversal. The early shot to the end, shaking non-stop, awkward acting, and random running without knowing the main line, all make people have a stomach noisy, but the sincere production in the later stage makes the burning anger in the heart extinguished.
In this world, everyone is ordinary and not ordinary, not ordinary is the love of life, even in the ordinary, you can also make your own movies.