Part 1: Control of film companies and performance issues
In recent years, Live Action has become a quite popular film genre in the film industry.
1. Control by film companies
During the Japanese film festival, `Beat` director Takeshi Kitano (who also worked on the Hollywood version of Ghost in the Shell) explained it this way: `That’s because if you adapt a manga into a movie, people will
Through that answer, we can see the current state of the Japanese film industry, it’s all about the word `profit`!
For example, Kento Yamazaki and Oguri Shun, anyone who watches Live Action a lot will probably see these two actors taking turns appearing on screen, from gintama to Death Note, and then KingDom just debuted this year.
It’s not that every commercial film won’t be good, but it’s clearly stifling the creativity of the director and screenwriter, and it will be difficult for little-known actors to develop in this industry.
It can be said that Japanese people nowadays do not go to see movies because of the director’s name. Except for very prominent names like Hayao Miyazaki, the rest of the adapted movies rely heavily on the reputation of the original manga and famous idols.
2. Acting issues
Actually, Kingdom is a pretty good Live Action in terms of techniques and scene construction, but the acting is what makes it lose points. Like most other film adaptations, the main character seems to have
For example, in Avengers: End Game, when Iron Man died, the people around him did not have to tense their facial muscles, tighten their hip muscles, and stammer in choking speech. The other actors acted very naturally but still
Or in another quite good work, The Serial Killer Is Laughing In The Rain (also starring Oguri Shun), there is a scene in the movie when a character encounters something that makes him want to cry, but the situation
Every time you watch a Live Action or a Japanese movie and get to an important emotional part, you just hope that the actor’s dramatic acting style won’t ruin the atmosphere of the whole movie.
Like in Attack On Titan, it’s really impossible to sympathize with any of the characters because their acting looks so fake, and that acting style is so common in Japanese movies that it’s hard not to form prejudices.
Of course, part of the fault comes from the directors, when they overuse close-up shots, this is like a double-edged sword because if the actors have good acting, it will elevate the film, however with
(to be continued)
