" camera don't stop ! "Was released in Japan on June 23, 2018, and won the Japan Film Academy Award for the best editing the following year. In terms of box office, under the circumstance of a bad start, the film completed a counterattack with a good reputation, and finally won a box office of 3 billion yen, which was roughly equivalent to 180 million yuan at the time, which is quite good for a small-cost production.
The director, screenwriter and editor of the film are all Ueda Shinichiro. From the perspective of audience evaluation, "Don't stop the camera!" "It's a bit like his short-lived work. Although he made a sequel later, he has not enough stamina.
In addition to live-action movies, he also makes animated dramas, such as the second season of "One Room". A friend of mine said that it is a must-see for gentlemen.
This film has a 37-minute long shot. After all, this one shot is not as explained in the feature film. It was shot by Tomohiro Yamaguchi and the photographer played by the photographer, but by a man named Sone The photographer just finished shooting, and he can be seen in the end of the film. During the shooting, he took time to drink.
It is said that this scene was filmed 6 times, 4 times were successfully completed, and the director finally adopted the last filming.
Because it is produced at a low cost, the actors in this film are not very well-known, and many of the character names are quite close to the actors’ real names, but only slightly modified.
It is Hamatsu Takayuki who plays the director Higurashi Takayuki,It looks a bit like the bearded version of Jiang Wen . After this film became popular, he starred in the gourmet show "Road to Absolute Taste" in 2020. Having said that, the name "Higurashi Takayuki" is quite suitable for this role. The middle-aged director saw that his career was in the midst of the sunset, and finally "takyu".
Acting as the heroine of the zombie film Matsumoto Aihua is Akiyama Pomelo, starring in the three-stage movie "COMPLY+-ANCE" in 2020, the response was mediocre.
Kazuaki Kamiya, the protagonist of the zombie movie, is Kazuaki Nagaya. In 2011, he starred in the short film "FUKUSHIMA DAY" produced by Shunji Iwai. Radiation theme.
Other actors either often play supporting roles in Japanese TV series, or they have only acted in this film and its sequels, so I won't introduce them here.
Spoilers ahead
"Don't stop the camera! 》It is divided into three parts, the first part is a 37-minute one-shot filming, the second part is the preparation process of the project, and the third part is the shooting process. If you have to do the calculations, you can also regard the end of the film as the fourth part. This is a real doll-like shooting process.
The biggest creative point of the film, and the most important part of the comedy, is that there are various inexplicable plots in the previous finished film, and some of the settings of the bad film are known at first glance. These are all in the back. The preparation stage and the final shooting process are explained.
In addition, there are few special details in the film at first glance.In fact, there are reasons unexpected by the audience. For example, the director scolded the idol actor Aika Matsumoto for acting without real feelings, because her life is false.
This is the line added by the director himself. In the early contact, the director found that she said everything in a scene. She clearly didn’t want to act in a scene with her face sprayed, saying it was not allowed by the agency. . All kinds of words such as "trouble" and "hard work" are already familiar, and even the words are somewhat mechanized.
The most mechanized part is the crying scene with eye drops. Obviously, the director improvised and screamed during the filming, so he still had to go through the process of putting on eye drops.
There is also the sound engineer who rushed out of the door inexplicably, but he actually had diarrhea after drinking water that his body was not used to. And the uncle who plays the photographer can best reflect the zombie state in the film, the reason is that he was drunk and vomiting naturally broke out.
The assistant brother who was vomited was so excited because of his cleanliness. In the second part of the script reading session, he was holding a handkerchief in his hand, which can be reflected This person is set.
After the assistant brother " severed his hand", he rushed to Kamiya Kazuaki as soon as he entered the room. At first glance, he felt nothing in the film. After watching the second part, he realized that he hoped. Don't delete your own few scenes, and Kamiya Kazuaki is the guarantee of appearance, so he sticks to the protagonist as soon as he enters the field.
jumped from the filming of the first part to the whole process of preparation and shooting. The first part was deconstructed at once. This deconstruction brings a natural comedic effect, which makes the first part’s bloody, The boring and illogical plot instantly turns into a bonus point of laughter.
Many of these mistakes can be seen as pre-designed, and some of them are not even large. For example, when the makeup artist talked about rumors about zombies, suddenly outside the door With a sound, the camera hurriedly turned to shoot the door, where the shadow of the photographer on the wall was already pierced.
If the shadow wear is deliberately designed, according to the plot, the novice has been following the photographer, so there should be two people here, but currently there is only one shadow on the wall. A photographer, so it is doubtful whether this is well designed.
Whether it is a real mistake or a false mistake, under the blessing of the comedy atmosphere in the second half of the film, the roughness in front is automatically "forgiven".
This is the natural advantage of comedy. In contrast, the " roadside picnic" which also has a super long lens, mistakes really become a penalty item, such as long lens Guoyue's disembarkation paragraph, the camera suddenly floated to the right, and then quickly returned to the character, it may be the shooting effect caused by the photographer almost wrestling at that time, this is undoubtedly a flaw.
Of course, "Roadside Picnic" also has its attractive features, so I won't expand it here.
In general, "Don't stop the camera! The second and third parts of "The second and third parts are the deconstruction of the first part of the long shot, the end of the film, and the deconstruction of the main film. This is the highlight of the highlight, the doll in the doll.
In addition to structural dolls,The film also uses the method of matryoshka in the character setting. This is about the film director Higurashi Takayuki and his daughter Mao Higurashi.
Takayuki Nippon's slogan is "fast, low cost, and good quality." A third-rate director who doesn't pursue high quality at first listens. He often lets actors drop eye drops when making films.
But he didn't just start his career like this, so what should he be like when he started?
is his daughter Mao Nippon. She thinks she is about to cry in the crying scene and can’t drop eye drops. She appeared several times and wore a T-shirt from Alpa Sino’s Scarface. "Fast", Robert De Niro's "Taxi Driver", Jack Nicholson's " Shining", are all classics in movie history. This is her goal. She believes that filming is a battlefield and must be taken seriously.
During the filming process, because the sound engineer had a sudden diarrhea, the plot could not go on. Everyone was about to stop the broadcast, and Mao Nippon suddenly took the baton so that the filming could continue. Here she skipped the ordinary clothes she wore before, and changed into a T-shirt with the name of the movie, which means that she wants to take today's shooting seriously like making a classic.
When the last scene was unable to be filmed because of a broken arm, the producer asked Takayuki Nippon to delete the scene. The director instantly burst out his true inner thoughts, saying that the audience would know.
Here the daughter cast a different look at him. When she was a child, she used to ride on her father's shoulders and take pictures with a camera. At that time, her father was a dad who took photography seriously and was the object of her admiration.
The actor who played the cameraman told Nippon Takayuki that he wanted to be the proud father of his daughter. Nippon Takayuki was once such a father, but after being beaten up by the society, he became an old fritters, and his daughter no longer worships his father. , So he would cry at the previous photos. However, the emotional expression of this film is still a bit thin and lacks appeal.
His daughter Kazuaki Kamiya, who is now a fan, is a very serious person. The logic of the script will make it difficult for him to accept. After discovering the temporary change of actors, he immediately proposed to terminate the filming, because he was afraid of affecting the final Effect.
He is exactly the opposite of Matsumoto's character in the zombie movie. The heroine in the zombie movie is a very hard acting person, but the male lead wants to go to the heroine's house after filming. overnight. It was really ironic to see the true personalities of the two later.
However, in the film, the creator did not give full praise to these enthusiastic young people. Kamiya Kazuaki forcibly interpreted at the script reading meeting that the script was discussing racial issues, and he was more pretending to be B.
There is another possibility that he thinks he is an actor with aspirations, and he must make a film with aspirations, so he forcibly creates an illusion that "the script is very deep" to numb himself, so that he can feel at ease. To complete this shooting.
Mao Nippon asked the actors not to drop eye drops on the set at the beginning, to really cry, and her object was a child, she even tried to guide a person with little experience to mobilize her Life experience comes to acting, which is more discerning and inferior.
beginners are often too idealistic, regardless of the actual situation, after most people face the reality,It will become like Takashi Nippori.
Making a movie is a process that will be hindered by various realities. Even ignoring the interference and unreasonable requests of Party A in the early stage, the accidents that occurred at the shooting scene alone are enough to force a person to cry, just like the actor who plays the sound engineer in the film crying while having diarrhea while putting on makeup.
The main job of the director on the set may not necessarily be creation, but making decisions, making decisions in the face of various emergencies, so that you must constantly compromise.
Anyone with creative experience knows that creation is often farther away from the original intention at the moment of writing. The finished product originally imagined in my mind is perfect, but there are various flaws in the creation. Only a paranoid and gifted artist can work hard to make his work perfect. Ordinary creators are mostly Higurashi Takayuki, so let's go by.
In my opinion, the first part of the film shows a defective product taken by an ordinary creator after various compromises. The second part and the first half of the third part are like the main creator saying: It’s really difficult to make a movie!
And at the end, the main creator further explained: Why is it so difficult for me to shoot?
The last unexpected situation in the film was that the rocker arm broke. Nippon Mao got inspiration from his childhood photos and came up with a solution to replace the rocker arm with a stack of arhats. This paragraph clearly refers to their regaining their original intentions.
We can see the actors who participated in the stacking of Arhats, including actors who had appeared in various situations before, including the protagonist Kazuaki Kamiya, and the producer who once suggested deleting the scene. Everyone has ignored their identities at this moment. , Just to complete the last shot,This is the best experience of collective creation, and it is a state that will make people very top-notch.
Even Matsumoto Mika, who had a lot of reservations before filming, became active after entering the state of collective creation. For example, in the scene of cutting the head of the recording engineer, it was her. She took the initiative to help throw her head into the painting, and then chopped off the director's play. She cried without using eye drops. This is a new experience brought to her by the entire specific creative environment.
In the past Japanese film and television works, they can often be seen to be very immersed in a sense of honor of collectively completing one thing. This is probably also a typical sense of accomplishment under the Japanese collective consciousness, which may not be applicable. For creators in various fields, movies just need to be collectively created, so it fits this sense of accomplishment very well.
I have one thing to say. I personally watch comedy, and I prefer the black humor that goes black to the end. I don’t like to add sensational links to it. This is not the case with some variety shows using games to make fun, and then It's the same as sensationalizing by spitting bitterness or selling miserables.
"Don't stop the camera! "It’s somewhat of a tendency like this. This part has a slight impact on my personal perception, but I also understand that it is loved by many people precisely because the film has a relatively low profile and speaks of what ordinary people face. The contradiction of reality, but also unearthed the bit of happiness that may exist in these sufferings.
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