Super Mario Bros. was a hit game created in 1985 that has inspired the release of many other games after it. Along with these games came a movie in 1993 simply titled, Super Mario Bros. This film had a big budget and there was a ton of promo and advertising for it. The film ended up being a flop. There could be many possible reasons for this, from the lack of similarity to the games, to the creepy looking designs of some of fans' favorite characters. The Super Mario Bros. Movie takes place in Brooklyn, New York where the two Mario Bros. work as plumbers. The movie makes this very clear while the video games never really bring this up or have ever brought it up much since the original game. Ever wondered why the Mario Bros. are called the Mario Bros.? Well, it's simply because both of their last names are Mario. Therefore there would be Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. Here is where the movie starts to stray away from the game a lot. The film crew tried so hard to bring these characters to life that they just started making stuff up along the way that was inconsistent with the games. The villain is named Koopa instead of Bowser like in the original games, and Luigi has a love interest in the form of Daisy who is actually digging for dinosaur bones under the Brooklyn bridge. Mario and Luigi have to save Princess Daisy from Koopa once they get transported into a dinosaur world mysteriously. At this point, I had seen enough. This movie was an attempt to bring the Mario Bros. to a genre of movie where it didn't belong.
Mitchell, Nigel G. “9 Craziest Things About Filming 'Super Mario Bros: The Movie' [Movies].” The Geek Twins, 30 Mar. 2013, www.thegeektwins.com/2013/03/10-craziest-things-about-filming-super.html. www.thegeektwins.com/2013/03/10-craziest-things-about-filming-super.html
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A shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted amount of time. Think of a movie as a steak. The shots of the movie by themselves is raw steak and the way you express movement, emotion, and ideas through angles, transitions, and cuts are the things that makes the steak cooked and the spices. Did you know that the term shot derived from the crank machine that were around at the time. Cameras had to crank to record, similar to a machine gun shoots so the term shot caught on. Anyway, there are mainly two different things that can classify a shot. The first is camera placement or angle which is basically where the camera is in relation to the subject of the shot. The second is field size, which is how much of the subject and surrounding area is visible in the shot. Overall, a good balance of different shots and using the correct shot for the mood will help your movie express emotion, movement, and ideas. If you are trying to show motion from a biker riding his motorcycle, you have to make sure you have a shot far away enough to show the bike while keeping the biker in focus. You also have to make sure that the angle is such that you can see the environment moving around him.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_(filmmaking) Creating the right mood through video and audio is essential to producing a great film. Imagine you're in the sky and you see a man wearing an all black jumpsuit jump out of the plane and deploy his parachute. But something's wrong... There is a romantic song playing. This is a GREAT example of terrible mood setting. Setting the correct audio is just as important as how quick your cuts are in your film. The viewer of the movie must feel the emotions shown on the screen and the easiest way to do that is through sound. Another way the director of a film can set a mood is to change the distance from the camera and the camera movement. If the camera is very far away from a classroom of people, then the director wants you to focus on the whole classroom, but if the camera is zoomed in to Mr. Bourgeois, then he is the subject of the shot. Camera movement is also a very crucial step to setting a mood. If a camera is sitting on a tripod panning the camera to follow Mr. B's walk across the classroom, it seems pretty normal but if the camera is shaking and moving from side to side, you know that something is up. Horror movies exploit camera movement very often. So, a more fitting sound for the airplane scene would be loud music with more drums or dramatic orchestra music.
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