The production cost is less than 3 million yen (about 180,000 RMB) for a crowdfunding work produced by a training institution. "Camera" will be released in 2 halls in the capital in June, and more than a month later, it will be shown in 150 halls nationwide and it will make it into the top 10 at the weekly box office. Regardless of whether it can finally reach the box office of 1 billion yen blown by the media, this independent state painting with a record-breaking yield is destined to be recorded in the history of Japanese films.
The zombie element and the useless male protagonist inevitably make people want to compare Yoshida Daihachi's "Kirishima", but after reading it, I think more about Uchida Eiji's "Xiazhong", which is also a small production below the B level. love".
After graduating from high school, he began to teach himself to write and direct. Director Ueda, who has written funny scripts, obviously handed over a much more lovely and lovable work. Compared with Uchida in "The Love of the People", who spared no effort to show the gloom of the bottom film workers and the various fetish elements exclusive to cult films, "Camera" started from a down-to-earth school workshop project , concentrate on making works that are well understood, fun, well shot and well acted. Director Ueda incorporated the experience of stage comedy in the early stage of script design, and divided the story into three equal parts, each with a clear position. The introduction of the first part, the background description of the second part and the sublimation of the third part have all minimized the dependence on hardware conditions, and carefully polished the content of the script. Although the first part, which received the most bad reviews, will indeed scare off some audiences because of rough shots and performances, I feel that the characteristics of small production and drama style make the 37-minute one-shot, long-shot, full of gimmicks but not dazzling. , This part of the embarrassing performance also has the truth and humor of "breaking the dimension wall". On the contrary, the second part of the background description, which can show the director's narrative ability, is a functional line drawing of the whole process. Of course, there are also factors limited by the length of the film, but the rough rhythm still makes people a little worried about the director's actual narrative skills in drama films. The sublimation of the third part is a climax after another, the rhythm of throwing funny baggage is familiar, and the sublimation at the end is also very smart, the movie watching experience with extremely dense laughter and tears is personally considered one of the most hearty times in Japan. .
The Japanese always love passionate and inspirational idealism. Director Ueda did not avoid this type of genre that caters to popular tastes like most independent filmmakers, but instead used extremely poor material conditions to portray this idealism more heroically. The cries of "filming love" and "not forgetting the original intention" in the last few scenes of the film connect the fiction in the film with the crew of "Camera" whose shooting conditions are equally difficult in reality. magnitude.
Just like Director Ueda said in TOHO Hibiya's thanks to the forum, "The Power of Movies の Power を 信 じ て Hondang Liang か っ た", "Camera" makes the audience feel the dream and happiness of making movies and going to the cinema for a long time, how simple and pure can be . If "Camera" can make the Japanese video industry, which has been dragged to death by the committee and garbage comics, rethink the "power of film", it is really a virtue.
(The biggest regret is that Director Ueda himself does not know how to act. If he can play himself directly as the leading actor, the emotional bonus will definitely be 100 million more at the box office!!)
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