But the unique value of this is not that it is a monster disaster film, but that it is a monster disaster film shot entirely from a first-person point of view. The entire movie was shot by a gold-level private camcorder, and the shooter is also a character in the play, which makes this work unprecedented in-person rush for other disaster films. Under this method , we are not only with the monsters and disasters, but more importantly, we are with the protagonists under the disasters from the visual narrative.
The movie begins on a bright afternoon. The protagonist is shooting his ordinary daily life, laughing and laughing with his girlfriend, and the second shooter is babbling at the party. The 20-minute plot gives the audience the basic characteristics of each main character. Briefly introduced.
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And the change came at the end of the party, the sudden earthquake and power outage, the explosion in the distance, the splashing fireball hit the camera, and everyone quickly hugged their heads and ran away.
From here on, the good intentions of the production team have gradually become clear. Unlike traditional monster movies, the production team of this work did not plan to use special effects to show you all kinds of monster battle scenes, etc. Most of the time, the unknown monsters are just Dangling in the distance and corners of the camera, but through a series of tricks, the almost faceless monster is more intimidating than the close-up of Godzilla and King Kong.
The head of the Statue of Liberty was blown off a street, the smoke from the building that was knocked down by one blow, and the huge footsteps that caused the goods to fall off the shelves in the supermarket vibrated in the billowing smoke. , but hear the sound" indirect expression method, the level of this work has completely reached the realm of the legendary "stepping flowers and returning horseshoe incense".
In panic, people decided to flee Manhattan Island. As a result, after getting on the bridge, the girlfriend of the male number one called for help, so a few people stopped, and Jason, who was walking in front, was wrapped in the crowd and continued to move forward. At this moment, the monster The bridge was broken, and Jason, the bravest and most active male in the protagonist's group, died here.
Everyone fled back to the island. The riots officially started. Some people started to rob the home appliance store. The protagonists also confirmed the monster's posture through the big screen of the TV in the store. The little monsters that came down started attacking the army and reporters on the other side of the TV. The male protagonist confirmed from the phone that his girlfriend needed help, so he went in the opposite direction of the retreating people, and his companions also went into danger because they could not leave him alone.
So of course, I was involved in the exchange of fire between the US military and monsters. According to the common sense of monster movies, the US military conventional weapons are definitely ineffective against monsters. The two-person tank was at a forty-five-degree angle with tears streaming down its face... No, it was a completely different feeling of firing at full force but having no effect and having to fight and retreat.
So the protagonist and his party escaped into the subway in order to escape the war. Here comes another small climax. When the four protagonists crossed the dark subway in order to go to the heroine's place, the mice began to run away in the direction they were going, and when they heard a strange sound behind them, the camera turned on the night vision mode and saw Alien larvae crawled on the roof of the underground tunnel, so everyone started to run for their lives. The second female smashed the alien larva with an iron pipe. The picture is full of "Half-Life" style, but unfortunately she is not Gordon Freeman, nor Ai Lix Vance, so when he arrived at the military rescue station not long after, he lost his life because of the outbreak of worm eggs inside the wound. The death of the second female also used indirect methods and did not directly describe the cruel scene. Instead, it used the panic of the medical staff and the shadows cast on the tent curtain and the spray of blood.
The soldiers in charge of the evacuation warned them that the government was ready to launch the bombing plan, and their deadline was six o'clock, so the remaining three began an emergency rescue spree. The heroine's apartment building was hit so badly that it was impossible to go up from the first floor, so everyone panted and climbed to the roof of the apartment next to them, and then went down to the 36th floor where the heroine was located. Here again, the careful planning of the production team is highlighted. Some things happening around are not directly related to the protagonists, such as fighter jets flying at high speed in the sky, but the occurrence of these surrounding things makes this story no longer one by one. The scene becomes more like a whole real-time live event, and the protagonist and others are only a small part of this big event.
Finally, the heroine was rescued, the protagonist and others boarded the helicopter. Female No. 3 and the other three people took different helicopters and were taken away first, while the male No. 2 with a camera also went up to the sky and looked at the invincible buildings below. The monster ignores the attacking cannon fodder and rages there, and then the B2 stealth bomber appears to drop the bomb, and the bomb flame engulfs the entire monster.
If this is a traditional Hollywood movie, this should be the emotional release point, leading to a happy ending, but this is "The Cloverfield File", so the cheers of the photographer's second male lead have become a few seconds. Exclaimed, the undead monster raised its arm from the explosion smoke and overturned the helicopter, and everyone spun and fell along with the camera.
Then came the plane crash. The camera flashed and switched to the screen of the wreckage of the seat. In the background sound, the military broadcast announced that the explosion would start in 15 minutes. When he left, the second male who was the shooter for most of the episode because he forgot the camera and went back to pick it up, the giant beast appeared on top of his head - this time it was finally a close-up close-up, looking at each other for a long time, breathing quietly, water droplets falling, Then the giant beast gnawed at him... The camera fell to the ground along with the unfortunate man's body.
When the camera opened again, only the male and female protagonists were left. They fled into the park, exhausted, and hid under the bridge, trembling and waiting for the end. The male protagonist began to report his name to the camera in the sound of bombing sirens. Time, place, event, make a final record for yourself and your lover. Then, at the moment when the explosion destroyed the bridge, they shouted I love you to the end of the head-on - the stone fell, the cameras stopped - and then the final magic stroke, the picture was transferred to the in-camera tape before it was not The filming content covered is the happy ending of the hero and heroine at the amusement park the day before, which contrasts sharply with the tragic night of the second day.
After that, after the ending without a happy ending, the production team roster began to roll.
Again, in terms of sci-fi settings, the Cloverfield files basically say nothing, but this brand-new shooting method and bold creativity in many details make this work extremely experiential value, many of which are Skills are also worth learning from our novel creators.
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