Sentence/Microcosm
I have seen a lot of movies about movies, such as the previous "Camera Don't Stop", which tells the process of making movies, no matter in bad movies, there are hard work behind the hard work of the staff.
Now many people like to watch a few minutes of commentary movies or something, and then each commentary movie has a different style, a bad movie can also explain a very interesting look, so today I will introduce you to a movie that is the originator of the commentary movie -
Silent Film Narrator
In Japan in the era of black-and-white silent films, adults and children were fascinated by silent films. The male protagonist, Shuntaro, often sneaks into the theater to eavesdrop on movies, whether it is a local film or a foreign film, he can always imitate the tone of the narrator perfectly.
A group of people were shooting movies in one place, surrounded by people, people were very curious about how to make movies, and several children were playing naughtily next to them, one of them was the male protagonist Shuntaro.
The naughtiness of the children caused the police to chase, and when they were chased, the male protagonist rescued the female protagonist from the police, so the two children became friends with each other.
The two children are low-level people, they look down on movies, but the girl found a way to sneak into the theater with the male protagonist, the two people watched the movie on the stage, the girl said that she wanted to become an actor when she grew up, and the boy looked at the narrator on the stage and said that his ideal was to become a narrator.
"Silent film narrator" has been Shuntaro's dream since childhood, but sadly, when he grows up, he becomes a "fake narrator", distracting the audience and allowing thieves to steal things.
In the process of almost wearing a gang, he fled with the stolen money to the small town theater "Aoki Hall", which has a variety of different styles of commentators such as the drunken narrator who once explained the celebrity, the male narrator of the flower and the fat house, plus the film projectionist, the musician and the stingy boss couple to take him to the world behind the scenes of the movie.
But the thief group, the hot-blooded police chase, the first love girl who watched the movie together in childhood also appeared, and the town's newly opened fashionable theater, the boss's daughter also fell madly in love with him, so a series of hilarious thrilling stories began.
The film does not use large lines to advance the story, and the film exerts the greatest artistic charm of video narrative in the silent film era.
Seeing the narrator in the movie, at first I thought it was similar to the voice actor who dubbed the movie, but when the male protagonist's commentary, others always said that he "imitated", and I was still wondering if it was a sound imitation? It wasn't until the once commentator in the play, Yamaoka Akio, told the male protagonist not to blindly imitate to have his own style, then I knew that they were using their own style to reinterpret the movie.
So when the film deliberately shows the male protagonist's commentary style for the first time (explaining a tragic love story out of the witty and funny, just say rub around that version), people instantly understand the "style of the silent film narrator", and his commentary is completely subversive of the content of the film.
Each narrator in it has a different style, there is also their own script, those famous commentators are their own characteristics to add, perhaps will also add their own views on the movie, so a movie into a live commentary, no wonder the male protagonist has been imitating the narrator celebrity Ueoka teacher no longer wants to explain.
His teacher said, "Without the narrator's commentary, the film will still be established, but without the commentary of the film, it will not be established."
However, at the end of the film, because the film in the broadcast hall was destroyed, only some disorganized film clips could be put together into a movie, but the male protagonist's explanation was still perfectly interpreted (although this commentary I listened to was a bit confused, but the audience was very applauded).
There is also the final male protagonist's commentary in prison, and there is no film and music to assist in the perfect interpretation of a movie, so perhaps even if it is separated from the silent film, the narrator still has self-worth.
The narrator gives the same film a personal style, and the pleasure of secondary creation becomes a unique artistic presentation of a special era.
"Silent Film Narrator" is a movie about the movie, too much humorous tribute to the stem, people look more and more want to laugh.
The unique thing about Japanese comedy is that in the early stages of the film, you will feel that the plot is very messy, do not know what you are acting, feel inexplicable, but when you see the back, you will find that the stems buried in the previous plot are reflected one by one in the back, all the characters and things are connected together, and only by getting the Japanese laugh point can you slowly watch it, and the plot is really getting better, it will not make people feel bored and boring, and it will only become more and more exciting until the last moment.
There is a great scene in the film, when the male protagonist rescues the female protagonist, he breaks a wall, and behind this wall is the audience under the stage, when the plot played on the stage and the experience of the male and female protagonists simply overlap, breaking the fourth wall, God.
The male protagonist actually wants a female protagonist to go, and when he writes the explanatory lines, he asks others whether there is any place that can not be found by others when men and women escape in general movies. The friend replied that there should be no, and the male protagonist also laughed at himself and said, as if there is really no such place.
So in the final commentary, he still explained the last two people in the movie's hero and heroine to escape to the sky, there will be no bad guys to find them, but also a male protagonist's expectation of reality and the female protagonist, although in the end they did not have a big happy ending.
This film makes a kind of old film texture, which is also a tribute to the silent film era, and the director explains with love why we love, a good film that can be seen during the film famine period.
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Image from the movie "Silent Film Narrator"