Don't Stop The Camera! The popularity of "" believes that all fans still remember it, 180,000 yuan cost 180 million box office, investment return ratio of up to 1000:1, is a well-deserved annual dark horse.
Why this movie is so successful we don't know, in the previous film less than a year after the release, "The Camera Don't Stop!" "Actually filmed a sequel.
This film is called "Camera Don't Stop! Sequel to Hollywood Wars! ", which was broadcast on Japanese television as a TV episode, tells the story of "Don't Stop the Camera!" Half a year after the filming, the crew in the film prepared to shoot the story of a new movie.
So let's go back to the topic above: "Don't Stop the Camera!" Why did it succeed?
First, the freshness of the structure:
Don't Stop The Camera! The most important point of "" is the 35-minute one-shot zombie film of the first act, which firmly grasps the audience from the first shot, and the 35-minute long shot is full of dog blood bridges, shooting mistakes, and the situation is varied but successfully completed.
The second act moves from such a zombie film to behind the scenes, capturing the preparations for the 35-minute long shot.
The most exciting third act is to change a perspective, pull the camera farther away, and observe the production process of the opening 35 minutes of long shots from a more behind-the-scenes perspective.
It is this final third act that constitutes the biggest highlight of the film, and we see that the incredible shooting mistakes and inexplicable dog blood plots in the first act have reasonable explanations:
The camera suddenly fell to the ground because the initial handheld uncle could not start the bullet, the handheld assistant picked up the camera, and there was a change in the shooting style of the crazy zoom afterwards;
The final swingarm shot is shaky because the rocker arm that was prepared earlier malfunctioned, and all the crew set up a humanoid pyramid to shoot it.
Such a structural ingenuity makes the audience confused from the beginning, and then to the last scene, every detail corresponds to the clapping hand laughing, it is "The camera does not stop!" The biggest highlight in terms of entertainment.
The second is the all-round analysis of the film behind the scenes and the sublimation of the spirit of the fan:
Don't Stop The Camera! In the second act, the audience can see how a director with no money and no experience can integrate a mess into a complete film with his passion for film.
The audience can see the unreliable producers and producers, the big-name idol actors, the crew who are bent on completing the work, all of whom are real people and things that may happen in the production of the film.
And the most touching thing is undoubtedly the spirit of the film shown by the film, the director's daughter Higumi Masayoshi is an avid fan, and her love for the film makes her the most critical factor in the completion of the film.
In the humanoid pyramid swing arm at the end of the film, she is the spire, shakingly holding up the camera, which is the most perfect interpretation of the six words "the camera does not stop", I believe that as long as it is a fan, seeing this scene will be moved.
Let's look at "Don't Stop the Camera!" in reverse. "Hollywood Wars".
The director and screenwriter of the first film, Shinichiro Ueda, served as the screenwriter, and this time he was promoted to the chief producer, and the director was replaced by newcomer Yuya Nakaizumi. The main cast of the film returns, and the original team is in front of and behind the scenes.
The beginning is still a zombie film, still long shots, the pompous performance and greasy color scheme have not changed, the plot is also illogical, and the dead restaurant owner will be inexplicably resurrected in the next second.
Audiences who have watched the previous work naturally know that behind such a dog blood plot and inexplicable situation, there are still various unexpected situations, so it is certain that they will watch it with a cold face.
The camera then shifts to the second act, which is the preparation process for the film, first of all, the previous work was a great success, the TV station decided to continue to invest money, let them paint the gourd, and then shoot a one-shot zombie film, but this time the production upgrade, to move the entire filming to the American film mecca Hollywood, the story will also be set there.
What followed was a series of unexpected situations, first the investor divested, the Hollywood trip was in vain, Andabi Shinyo decided to build a Hollywood in Japan, of course, they did not have the budget to find two Americans to participate, the set made a little "Hollywood" style decoration, and finally built a Hollywood iconic landscape with cardboard on the hillside outside the window.
The dilemma encountered in the filming of the third act is almost exactly the same as in the previous work:
The previous game was a broken rocker arm, this time it was changed to HOLLYWOOD's 9 English letters were blown away by the wind;
Last time it was a humanoid rocker arm, this time it was a humanoid letter;
(You're telling me it's the same thing?) )
The key actors of the previous game were in a variety of situations due to diarrhea and drunkenness, and this time it was changed to the heroine who drank sleeping pills by mistake and passed out directly during the filming.
The only difference is that Higashina and her foreign boyfriend have a disagreement over whether to go to the United States with him to develop, and during the long-shot shooting, they express their choices for the future in the form of lines.
The contradictory structure is almost exactly the same, the plot setting is also no difference, the whole movie looks down, it is completely "Camera Don't Stop!" A condensed version of the book, there is nothing new about it.
Even the biggest correspondence point, that is, the letter board of the humanoid HOLLOW AT the end of the film, the first act and the last act are completely different, you and I said that this is the special effects added during the live broadcast, I'm afraid I can't even fool myself, right?
Moreover, the injection of capital has reached the point of eroding the film itself, just 60 minutes of the film, inserted twice implanted ads, and what is more fatal is that these two implant ads are even more exciting than the positive film, anyway, I am planting grass on the rented Nescafe coffee machine.
Such a sequel, which can be called a gourd painting scoop, or even a dog-tailed sable, reflects the excessive squeezing of capital for such a successful work.
A model is successful, and even do not want to produce a new work according to this model, simply call the original team of people, directly according to the gourd painting scoop to shoot an exact same work, sell feelings, sell blood.
But "Don't Stop the Camera!" " itself is just a movie that sells a "first" viewing experience, and even the second brush will be boring a work, shooting an exactly the same sequel, what is the point? There seems to be no reason to explain other than making money, right?
And of course, such an example is not just "Camera Don't Stop!" "A work only, everyone knows "Death is coming", after the first kind of "death wants you to die, you have to die" surprise mode, filmed 4 sequels, one is more boring than one, and finally became a "1000 ways to die" hunting image;
The sequel to Blair the Witch, which was also based on the small and broad in 1999, was also copied in the same pattern, so boring, and similar examples include "Death Video" and so on...
There are various reasons for the success of a good movie, but if you want to rely on the replication model, you want to succeed again, it is really just wishful thinking.