#and I think there’s a significant chunk of the movie where the camera doesn’t focus on a characters face when they talk

[sleepdepravity]

I recently rewatched one piece movie 6 again, and it always really strikes me how much mamoru hosoda’s fingerprints are all over it, it really does make that movie stand out so much. Like. I always remember movie 6, not necessarily just because of the fucking flower, but because the direction feels so unique to him. I do remember the other movies, but only in vague summaries, like the animal island one, or the one that was kinda about zoro (and he sprains sanji’s leg), or the one with that, shell? Spire castle??? (where Sanji gets crucified and also straight up kicks his feet into spikes), and the first one that was just about treasure (Sanji wasn’t in it), and the one about a race??? (I don’t remember what Sanji did in that) but movie 6 is just like, oh yeah, the horror, the flower, the themes, the movie characters, the design, the fish, specific scenes…

I haven’t watched other Hosoda movies in suuuuuch a long time so I might be totally off the mark here, but if you watch movie 6 and compare the directing of the other one piece movies, I think you really highlight a lot of his style. He likes focusing the camera on the person listening instead of the person talking, or just on one of the characters throughout the conversation instead of both. He likes gilligan cuts. He likes silence. It feels like there’s a certain type of beat he likes when it comes to conversations, notably those long beats of silence that occasionally come up, but also a lot of snappy back and forths, with no break between lines, during quite long dialogues even. It’s just. *clenches fist* pretty neat.

#malky talks about one piece #there’s not a lot of panning shots #if I remember correctly #there’s of course the panning shot of that crew conglomerate at the end #there’s the POV camera of nami as they’re all going through the forest in the beginning #but not much else #the sequence of dj gappa chasing down sanji nami and zoro as well is unique #in how it portrays different events of different times as if it was one scene #and I think there’s a significant chunk of the movie where the camera doesn’t focus on a characters face when they talk #instead focusing on the back of their head or at scenery #one piece