The Tokyo Godfather can be said to be in the comedy style of the early last century, with sometimes exaggerated character movement design and facial expressions, reminiscent of Chaplin's "action" movies, and the warmth and touching in tragicomedy are more like .
Although the subject matter is realism, the exaggeration of comedy realized with animation just balances the static reality itself, and it does not stop the unique expression of Jin Min himself. After all, animation and early silent films that emphasized exaggerated body language have the same roots.
In this way, the style of the whole film has been raised to a literary level, and hidden under the stable discipline of Japanese society, it belongs to the classic sad and happy contradictions of abnormal people.
Needless to say, this is the basis of the script, and the expression of joy, as mentioned above, is complementary to the actual acting skills of animation. Expression is not just dazzling skills and tools. The rhythm of animation is just life itself (the Spanish word animal). In terms of visual grasp, it can even be said that animation can reflect life better than real life.
Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii are well aware of this. In the purely dynamic part of Jin Min's animation, it happens to be between Hayao Miyazaki, who is pure rhythm, and Mamoru Oshii, who emphasizes inorganic sense in reverse. It can also be said to have both. The two, combined with his own sensitive sense of editing to accurately capture the visual and mental impressions (this is the second most important point), the unpredictability of the animation has been brought to the extreme.
Jin Min's animated films are not only regulated by real-life films, but many film lovers will ignore the characteristics of animation itself and only focus on editing and narration. This is only the second point. Everything is based on the core of animation itself.
(painting supervisor Ando Toshiyuki Inoue, Matsumoto Kensheng Hashimoto Shinji and others in the original painting lineup are also very exciting, top-level configuration from top to bottom
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