I've watched Swing Girl more than once.
Last night, I brushed three times, only to find that the script of this movie was so strong.
Ueno Shuri is of course dazzling, she is to "Swing Girl", just like Audrey Tatoo to "Angel Amelie", Lin Qingxia is to "Undefeated in the East", they make it difficult for reshoots to cast.
The tomoko she plays is a delicate girl.
When starring in "Swing Girl", Ueno Shuri was not yet 18 years old, and her rounded face added to her delicate temperament (many of her expressions are suitable for headshots).
That's how she yawned.
Claiming that he did not eat a bento, he still had a serious expression.
Wanting to buy musical instruments, my mother didn't give me money, and kept using her eyes to hint at grandma that this was the case.
Ueno Shuri performed the unique youthful temperament of girls in "Swing Girl". She also won the Japan Academy Film Academy Best Newcomer Award for this film.
With the excellent interpretation of this film, the stars in the Ueno trees are bright, and then starred in the masterpiece "Symphonic Lover's Dream".
Speaking of the script, how to become a swing girl is a problem that the director must solve.
"Swing Girl" opens with a focus on the empty classroom, from the classroom window to to yuko's class.
This shot points out that Yuko is a scum and still needs to go to cram school in the summer. Some people may say that xueba will also use the holiday to recharge himself, but Tomoko cannot be a bully, the rambling atmosphere in the classroom, Yuko yawning in front of the window, can prove that she is a scum.
For scum, escaping from boring classes is an instinctive choice.
Seeing that the master who delivered the bento was late for the meal, Tomoko proposed to send a bento to the symphony orchestra of the same school.
This made it possible for her to become a swing girl.
In the first five minutes, we can see the logic of Tomoko's behavior, and in order to avoid making up lessons, she is willing to help others and send a bento to the symphony orchestra.
There is also a question here, why did the teacher agree to Tomoko?
It is shown later that the teacher is a music enthusiast who has a crush on the symphony orchestra.
The script of "Swing girl" is the result of the director's careful creation, and we can see that there are a lot of wonderful foreshadowing buried in the film.
For example, when Tomoko returns home with a bento, we can see that this is an ordinary civilian family.
Tomoko's father and grandmother both drink, and Tomoko's mother is a housewife who has long since lost her shape — what Tomoko will look like in the future, Tomoko lying on the floor reading a comic book, and her sister playing games.
Tomoko's mother complained about tomoko's three-minute heat, and she didn't know how to learn when she bought a computer.
The director deliberately gave the computer a close-up, which was a big butt IMAC.
Doing things for three minutes of heat, emphasizing Tomoko's identity as a waste of firewood, this is a girl who can't do anything.
This plot is also setting off the changes of Tomoko. Later, in order to buy an instrument, Tomoko's mother did not give money, and she decisively sold her sister's game console, her own IMAC, for money.
This man, who has only three minutes of heat for everything, has finally found a hobby that fills him with enthusiasm.
In addition to Tomoko's role, the supporting role is also very solid.
For example, the baseball brother has changed three times before and after.
The first time, the rich second generation of men mainly reorganized the band, and the baseball brother came over to pour him chicken soup, "The world is divided into two kinds of people, people who try to complete and give up halfway." ”
Before that, the baseball guy hit a home run, and it was the baseball player who was in the limelight.
The second time, the baseball guy appeared in the supermarket, and the girls who quit the orchestra said, "The world is divided into two kinds of people, people who know how to play in time and people who don't understand." ”
Prior to this, the baseball brother lost the game and was depressed, so he used timely fun to numb himself.
The third time, the baseball guy also went to watch the orchestra game, and he said that "there are two kinds of people in the world, people who know how to swing and people who don't know how to swing." ”
At this point, the baseball guy's hair has turned from yellow to black, possibly suggesting that he is no longer depressed.
The baseball guy is a needle-threaded character in "Swing Girl", appearing very rarely, but the role is indispensable.
Because he has a little fan sister Liangjiang who has a secret promise to him.
Liangjiang and Tomoko are just classmates in the cram class, and the list of cram schools shows that Yuko is a group and Liangjiang is a group of three.
As mentioned earlier, Tomoko is interested in music because the class is too boring. She chose the orchestra, not because she liked music, but because she hated make-up lessons.
The person who can make Tomoko take it seriously is Ryoe.
And Liangjiang can stick to it because she has a crush on baseball brother.
When the baseball brother poured chicken soup for the male protagonist, Liangjiang immediately stared at the stars.
Her classmates all noticed that Liang Jiang was staring at the baseball brother, so the ponytail girl also looked at him very gossipily.
LiangJiang believes that the original wind band can not continue to cheer the baseball players, and they must be on top of these grass platform teams.
When Yuko complained one after another and retreated, Liangjiang stood up and asked everyone to persevere.
I think the script of "Swing girl" is good because the behavior of the characters in the film is logical and reasonable, and the plot is interlocked.
As a genre film, "Swing Girl" also knows how to use some witty little ideas to oppose genre.
For example, Tomoko and the male protagonist, the two already have a hazy love.
The two have a snowball fight in the snow, and Tomoko accidentally stumbles. She rolled over and lay on the snow looking at the male protagonist with affection.
The male protagonist also felt that the atmosphere changed from hilarious to ambiguous, he dropped the snowball and reached out to pull the female protagonist.
Usually, the director will shoot like this, the heroine gets up, kisses the male protagonist lightly, or shoots the female protagonist with a low brow and a shallow smile.
However, Yaguchi Shijing made Tomoko jump up on her own, quickly kicked the tree, and then the snow directly came down and smashed the man's head.
Tomoko jumped to the side like a fawn and said, "Stupid! ”
In fact, the film's anti-genre bridge is more than this.
For example, if an orchestra wants to buy an instrument and wants to solicit sponsorship, some teammates have proposed that their own clinic can provide sponsorship.
Ryoe spat out, "I don't want Kubo Obstetrics and Gynecology embroidered on the back?" ”
Later, they really couldn't find a reliable sponsor, and they still wore clothes with the words Kubo Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Do you think this will really be their costume?
No, Yaguchi played another reversal, and the orchestra received sponsorship from Kubo Obstetrics and Gynecology, but did not wear these costumes after the competition.
The reason is that they are busy changing trains and have left their costumes on the car.
Genre films are a condom, and "Swing Girls" is the story of a group of waste wood girls who use music to save themselves. After reading the introduction, the audience can guess the direction of the story.
Being able to make refreshing clips in genre films is the talent of the director.
"Swing Girl" makes the director of the mainland who can only shoot fights, early love, and even abortion ashamed.
It is undeniable that youth will have fights, early love, and even abortion, but youth has a richer life.
Fights, early love, and abortion are the three axes used by domestic screenwriters to sprinkle dog blood, but it is not the youth of most people after all.
If you have been hurt by domestic youth films, I believe that this "Swing Girl" can heal you. The Japan Academy Awards gave it the Best Screenplay Award, which, in my opinion, well deserved.
Douban netizens' evaluation of it is quite good, Douban 8.4, it is worth a look.