The reason I became a filmmaking student is kind of a long story.
I've always enjoyed to draw, since I was a kid. My sister always supported my artist facet by giving me colour pencils and stuff. Besides, since I was very young, I started to like cartoons, so I used to draw my favourite TV series. I was so in love with anime and cartoons that I dreamt of drawing my own stories.
Then I discovered the comic format (well, my sister showed it to me hehe), which I could use to draw and write my own stories!
I've drawn comics since I was six years old until now. When I was in fourth year of high school, I was pretty conscious that drawing comics was the only thing I could enjoy for life, even taking into account that I was skilled in another subjetcs.
It's a relief that my family didn't push me to get into a career right away after graduating from highschool. If that were the case, I would probably be studying graphic design. I'm totally sure that in that career I wouldn't be as happy as I am studying filmmaking.
The year after I graduated from highschool, I went to a pre-university while I thought what I really wanted to study. For a while, I felt like the career I needed to fulfill my dreams didn't exist. Then I started to go to a comic script workshop. Along my youth, I was never satisfied by going to drawing workshops for my comics, because I wanted to get better at writing stories, not at drawing. That's why I felt so excited when I discovered the scriptwriter job.
For the first time I realized what job could fulfill my desire of drawing good stories. I didn't hesitate at asking my workshop teacher for help at choosing a career. Although he didn't really help me choosing, he turned into a model for me. I did what I could to follow his steps.
I looked for a scriptwriting career. Althoguh there are many universities with that career, I prefered to study filmmaking in Universidad de Chile, just because of his high status between universities. That way, I could specialize later in scriptwriting.
Although scriptwriting keeps being my favourite thing to do in my career, I've discovered that every role in filmmaking is dependent on cinematographic storytelling. So I learned to enjoy every field of my career and nowadays I'm open to almost any filmmaking project. By the way, I also keep drawing and working on my comic projects hehe, bye-bye!
My Favourite Movie (fanservicer) Director And My Favourite Movie Adaptation
Takashi Miike is a Japanese film director known for his theatrical video and television productions. Although I'm not a staunch fan of his work, he has made some adaptations that got me undoubtedly captivated because of the fidelity to the original concepts.
One example that I'd like to briefly talk about is his movie Ace Attorney from 2012, where he doesn't simply synthesizes the Ace Attorney videogame's plot, but also adjusts the videogame dynamics into a cinematographic spectacle.
That was my first approaching to Miike, and although his movies are not good on their own. They are pretty enjoyable when you already know the franchise he is adapting. His work is kind of fanservice.
I was pretty aware about the adaptation difficulties this manga has, so I think you will understand how incredibly excited I felt when I knew a live action adaptation was going to be released by Miike. I already knew he is not good at synthesizing plots, but adapting dynamics. In JoJo the atmosphere, character design, acting, visual composition and fantastics incidents are highly more important as a seal of the manga. And that's what the movie offers!
I don't think a person that's not familiar with the manga/anime of Jojo could understand the movie, and that's a real pity. But I invite you to take a look at Jojo and, rather you like it or not, I guarantee it won't be a waste of your time if you watch the entire anime to understand the movie. Bye Bye!
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