Les Miserables The Movie 2012

One of my favourite musicals when i was a child brought back to life in the form of a movie. 
~Is this the real life.. Is this just fantasy~

The movie was just so much more realistic for some reason. The richness of the storyline, the tragity, the acting, the singing and so much more of the movie is just pure gold i don't even know where to begin with! 

Throughout the whole movie, i was just thinking to myself, everything here's fake. Little did i know after watching the behind the scenes, i realized that most of the buildings and the scenaries are real and not CG. That's what i love most about films being made so real just like this one. Director Tom Hooper basically wanted everything to be there. Very little CG was used during the filming which was pretty rare considering it to be a 'current' film. This made it much more realistic and this is why i realized why i could actually feel what the whole movie was trying to convey even though the storyline has slipped off my mind after a couple of years. Amazing i'm telling you. One thing i also like about the behind the scenes footage was how they carefully did their research on all the costumes, model it like how we are told to do so in our Form&Space module. I also agree on what the head designer had to say about her whole job, 'Can you believe it' which basically means whether your work is believable or not which will have a great impact on what you're doing. So to sum it all up and why i am amazed at such a masterpiece.. Here's the behind the scene footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lFp6nZkq0

One more thing that even surprised me was how they had to sing everything live without stopping in between a scene which is REALLY impressive! As a musical to movie lover, most of the movies that are remade usually record their studio versions of the songs and then dub it over but the way the Tom Hooper does it is just unreal. It really brings out the character of what the actress/actor is portraying and it also shows raw emotions. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=pOTTUaZVtJA

I would give this show a 5/5 for a clear story line, superb acting, superb singing, and yes, the one thing that's hard to please of me from a movie. It made me cry! :'D Yes, i know that the movie's depressing, tragic and all but i still love it so much even though there weren't THAT many visual effects in it! Which still made it so much more magical!

-Shaun-

 

Spirited Away

Histmo Blog Post #1: Spirited Away~

So we watched Spirited Away during HISTMO today... 
DFDFVASDFASDFASDF IT WAS SO GOOD!

Also, during the movie i managed to analyze a few things about it's animation, story and how much it touched me. 

I don't know why, but it's movies like this with such a starting and such an ending that moves me. Stories that start of with child or any character getting lost and then going back into reality at the end at moves me. Although as what Leslie has said about the many meanings to the movie and how i didn't understand it fully, it really does has the power to attract the movie goers no matter their age which brings me to my next point. How? I think it's because of the very twisted animation. The character design and the super weird scenes. Yup, i think it's mainly because of the twisted character design that attracts the viewers. I also like how they think out of the box. Literally, think out of the box. Humongous babies, big head witches, some weird faceless ghost that acts like a frog and it's mouth is at it's chest. Yup. You don't get that everyday do you? It's weird characters like this that makes people want to find out more about them. 
 I've also noticed how the animator's able to minimize his/her work by using the same background for certain scenes. They're pretty smart in a way i guess. They also tend to repeat certain background in some scenes. This in turns help minimize their work load, i guess it didn't create much of a hassle for them x)
What caught my attention besides it's very twisted animation and funny voice acting's is how they also mixed different type of animations in the movie. 

The simplest type (Although not taken directly from the movie): 

  

To how detailed they can get: 

  

Last but not least. DA SOUND!

I have never seen an anime or a anime movie with such HD and such stereo sound for some reason. Maybe it's just me, or maybe i've forgotten how the sound for 'The Girl Who Lept Through Time' sounded like. Well, i haven't been exposed to much anime movies either. So this anime's sound just does it for me. They made the stomping seem so real and you can literally feel the movements.

I've heard so much hype about it when it came out in 2001 or later through the years but never really gotten a chance to see it. And i now agree to what Leslie said about it outgrossing 'Titanic' in Japan. It was so good! 2 thumbs up!

-Shaun-