Why Quarantine looks more 'staged'?
That was my impression. But I can't exactly identify why. I think it was some faint details from effects, make up, clothing, scenery, video quality, hairstyling.
Anyone agree?
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lol man, total coolness achieved :-D
Anybody else?
No.
shareActually, yes. Not an opinion, this film is kind of the definition of 'staged' comparably - the original was filmed in a real building with a real reporter as the lead character, several things that happen in the original were kept secret from the relevant cast (like the body falling down the stairwell and each actor wasn't told the fate of their characters until the day they would film their character dying) and the camerawork was allowed to be more organic, not manipulated to look shakycam. Here, instead of letting whole sections be filmed with a natural shakycam where a bunch of stuff you can't see because the camera didn't have time to focus at all, there are scenes in this where the camera shakes all over but everything's in focus but slightly too fast. They filmed those scenes fairly slow so the camera could focus then sped up a few seconds so it would look uncontrolled and panicked. And yeah, more focus on making people look pretty and hiring actors who are too famous and they screwed up the lighting.
shareI agree with some of that but the acting & lighting was still okay.
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.
I agree the actors were good, but it's pretty hard to get as sucked in to the mise-en-abime style when you find yourself thinking 'oh, there's that guy who used to be in Ally McBeal, and that chick from Dexter, and doesn't that Russian guy play a Russian in everything?'. Probably doesn't apply to everyone but if a film is going for that found footage style cast mostly lesser known actors so you don't have much character baggage.
shareI agree all I could keep telling myself was there's that "bygones be bygones" prick from AB, Jen Carpenter who is such a horrid actress (at least in the 3 films I've seen her in- always screaming, complaining, or going nuts) and that jackass from Hostel who is so smug I was actually HAPPY when he died (both times).
This film seemed to rip off Blair Witch Project, Return of the Living Dead, a few others.. and now to come here and find it was all a remake of another film in the first place!? A Screen Gem indeed. Also, was Jen Carpenter improvising at the beginning? Because if she was, she is an astonishingly obnoxious idiot IRL, and I can see how after only two years Dexter/David Fisher divorced her immature ass.
Russian guy play a Russian in everything?'
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
http://melanoidnation.org/white-man-warns-all-black
Not a real reporter in Rec. Don't know where you got that...but the actress in Rec. has been acting since she was a child.
shareI agree, but I don't think it was just the shakiness, it was waaaay too cinematic, all the angles looked contrived and preplanned, the way he'd zoom in all the time to eccentuate something before it even happens. The shakiness would be alright if they'd stop trying to shoot it cinematically and just kept it broad and without all the crazy details and zoom ins
shareActually Manuela Velasco is a Spanish actress and she played the lead in "REC" and it's sequels (except for 3 whcih did not keep with canon).
The other points are true. There was no actual script for the original so the actors were told what was happening and to improv dialog as their characters. In this remake obviously that is not happening on the same level. Maybe some improv, I don't know.
Also for real shock value no one was told precisely what was coming next except the actors who had to do whatever was unexpected. Example: Other than the effects people no one in the cast knew the fire fighter was going to fall down the stairwell and land in the vestibule. Same I imagine with the remake.
The change at the end of the remake was disappointing; as if they felt American audiences would be turned off by the spiritual connection.
I prefer over all the Spanish original.
Plus, as a guy, I think Manuela Velasco is hotter!! lol
Chuck Testa.
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