Each top-ranked film made by Bong Joon-Ho has blown away audiences and critics as a result of filmmaker’s visionary sense of favor and knack for mixing a wide range of genres. After experiencing a number of launch delays as a result of 2023 SAG-AFTRA Strike, audiences will lastly see Joon-Ho’s newest masterpiece Mickey 17 about an “expendable” who dies and will get revived after each area mission solely to be cloned when he’s presumed lacking or lifeless. If you wish to know simply how a lot of an in depth filmmaker the South Korean native is, I simply discovered how Boong movies his motion pictures due to his star, Robert Pattinson, and the entire course of sounds so wild.
Based mostly on what I’m seeing within the first Mickey 17 trailer, it appears to be like like Bong Joon-Ho created a complete new futuristic world that permits the viewers to journey with Robert Pattinson’s darkly comedian hero to area and the ice planet of Niflheim. It’s clear the Oscar-winning filmmaker pays shut consideration to element to move audiences to a visually beautiful place that stays with them. At Seoul’s Yongsan CGV cinema (through Deadline), I simply discovered due to Pattinson how precisely his Mickey 17 director movies his motion pictures with the method fully mind-blowing:
I believe all of the actors had the identical expertise in that we’d flip up, after which ask, ‘What’s taking place? We shoot one line after which transfer on?’. After one week, everyone seems to be like, ‘That is the very best, we need to do each film like this’… additionally you [Bong] are so open with exhibiting the edit on set. It’s fascinating to see that you’ve got your entire film in your head earlier than now we have already began capturing it.
That really is a wonderful high quality for a filmmaker to have the ability to visualize a complete film in your head earlier than capturing begins. In comparison with filming a complete scene after which having to do it over again if the director isn’t happy, Bong Joon-Ho prefers to movie small segments at a time. The Mom director says the method of capturing and modifying movies in real-time is definitely quite common in Korea.
Bong Joon-Ho used the identical simultaneous filming-editing methodology for Snowpiercer with a cool BTS reality of the action-thriller being that the workforce arrange an modifying station under the large set. Small items of every scene could be shot solely to be edited shortly after to keep away from filming materials that wouldn’t be used. Which means that each exact second you see in Bong’s motion pictures is exact and there for a cause.
There are a bunch of different the reason why Bong Joon-Ho is an exemplary filmmaker many ought to look as much as. A BTS Parasite reality chances are you’ll not have recognized about is the Palme d’Or winner had 480 “invisible” particular results the place the primary ground and the entrance yard of the Park household’s luxurious home had been filmed on an empty outside lot with a inexperienced display positioned on high so as to add the second ground. Bong knew that if the home didn’t look excellent, the story wouldn’t work.
Aside from Bong Joon-Ho’s visible fashion, the high-grossing director additionally does an important job introducing social commentary into his motion pictures with out being preachy whether or not it is class inequality in Parasite or capitalism in Okja. With so many genres blended into one movie, you by no means know the place the story goes to go which may simply pique an viewers’s curiosity.
Due to Robert Pattinson, now I do know that Bong Joon-Ho shoots a couple of strains at a time just for that scene to be edited concurrently. It’s a cool, progressive course of you’d want many different administrators might incorporate of their motion pictures to seize the uncooked emotion of every efficiency. As Bong continues to push the boundaries of conventional filmmaking, it’s no marvel he’s so extensively obtained on a world scale. The 2025 film launch of Mickey 17 will make its method into theaters on March seventh.