Ryusuke Hamaguchi's intelligent narrative and his own film theory growl. What is the interpretation of "pause" in "Drive My Car"?

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"Drive My Car" Hamaguchi takes the stage at an online event in LA

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi of "Drive My Car", which continues to receive awards in the United States such as the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film and the 79th Golden Globe Award for Non-English Film, will be directed by Japan House Los Angeles in Los Angeles. I took the stage at the online event I hosted. [See the photo] "Drive My Car", which has won numerous awards both in Japan and overseas and is expected to be nominated for the US Academy Awards. February 8th. I'm very surprised because I didn't imagine the situation where "Drive My Car" would be accepted in the United States. I'm asked about the Academy Awards, but it's just going to happen and I know what will happen. No. I feel that it has been well received at this point, and I'm most happy that the audience will go to the cinema and watch this movie. If something happens. I think it's a reward, "he said. As for the impression of Los Angeles and Hollywood, "John Cassavetes, who has been most influenced by me, was one of the few in the world to make independent films while acting as an actor in Hollywood. I also love Hollywood movies themselves. I've always been encouraged by his independent filmmaking. During this time, I was very excited to land in Los Angeles for the first time in my life and wonder, "Is this the city where Cassavetes worked?" I definitely want to visit again, "he said. The theme of the event is "Space in Japanese movies". Under the interpretation of "pause" in "Drive My Car" by Professor Hitoshi Abe of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who specializes in architecture, and Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima of the University of Washington, Hamaguchi said, " I hadn't really thought about "pause" conceptually, but at the shooting site, it's a word I often use, such as "Please take a little longer." " Haruki Murakami's original novel and the movie "Aida" are said to be "a movie is between fiction and reality in the first place." "The smallest unit of making a movie with a camera is the" shot ", which separates space and time. First, you have to divide the space by the frame (angle of view). And depending on the start and end of the camera rotation. , You have to divide the time. It can be said that it is the director's job to divide from where to where. In this work, there is already a gap between reality and fiction. Cameras have far superior optical recording capabilities than human perception, so they provide perceptual recordings as they are, on the other hand, they do not record everything in reality, but spatially. It can only be seen as a piece of time. It's not a real image, it's always a possibility of fiction because you don't know what's happening outside the frame or before you start turning the camera. Fiction and reality already exist in the smallest unit of the movie of shooting. It is a drama movie, fiction that combines these fragments and fragments to create another reality that is completely different from reality. Will be. " In the play, the red car carrying Iefuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Misaki (Toko Miura) crosses the Akinada Ohashi Bridge in the first half of the movie and goes through several tunnels in the second half. Director Hamaguchi replied to the consideration of the "ma". "The bridge is a place where you can overlook one layer. One layer goes to another, and beyond that there is another layer. Where does the tunnel run, with it blindfolded? I don't know if it's there, so it's a space with a high degree of abstraction. The increase in the depiction of the tunnel in the latter half is proportional to the increase in the degree of abstraction in this movie. Space and time are condensed. By editing, I chose a place that has already changed when I passed through the tunnel, such as when I passed through the tunnel from the daytime shot, it became night, and when I passed through the tunnel from a sunny space, it was raining. By going through the tunnel, the character will change, and I think it will reach the audience. " About the "between" and adaptation between the novel and the movie "The better the literary work, the more you can't feel the excitement that the text creates by simply replacing the text with the video. The movie is the way of the movie, the reality. We need to think about how to make a novel into a movie while using the camera's ability to capture the gap between fiction and fiction. " At that time, the text (= script) is important. "I suspect that theater exists as an intermediate (of novels and movies). Theater is a special act of speaking written text, non-colloquial, while it is justified. The audience doesn't wonder when it's transformed. It's based on the text written by Haruki Murakami, but I think Chekhov has a really strong power. Save the text in the actor's body. However, it elicits emotions by interacting with the other person, but the amount of emotions that appear when using Chekhov's text is incomplete (laughs). Chekhov's text has a boundary between reality and fiction. I thought it had the power to appeal directly to people's bodies, which would be lost. " It was an online event that took place for about an hour, but from dialogues with experts from different fields, he talked about the definition of the movie that director Ryusuke Hamaguchi captures and the mystery of acting that fascinates him. At teach-ins and symposiums about movies, there are many sensory discussions about the beauty of images and the physicality of actors, but Hamaguchi's discourse is always theoretical. Many of the directors and producers who are active in the American film industry have been thoroughly struck by this film theory at film schools. Director Hamaguchi may have made a movie by superimposing his own interpretation on his existing theory and accurately verbalizing it, which may have led to the evaluation in the United States and Hollywood. The archived video of this event will be posted on the official website of Japan House at a later date.Sentence / Itsuko Hirai