“The bad guys have evil intentions, magazines fire infinite bullets, all bombs have colored wires, and a ventilation shaft opens to any part of the building.” These are repeated scenes action cinema. Topics collected in classic films such asdeadly weapon“, “crystal forest“, “Cobra” anyone “last great hero“and its heroes, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silverster Stallone or Mel Gibson They are the heroes for whom a native of Alicante decided to recreate these scenes in a format for mobile phones.
Because there is no Action movie between 80s and 90s It’s worth the trap as there aren’t a lot of colored wires that need to be cut to prevent a bomb from exploding, and managing to disconnect at the last moment. Or a cop movie in which a veteran agent dies in the line of duty two days before his retirement; or the police officer who surrenders his badge to an angry captain but continues to investigate the incident. These are just some examples Alicante directed by Alejandro Díaz It was reflected in your project Topiscopes It is based on short videos shot for social networks. As he says, he is aware that “the public is becoming more impatient and needs short and fast formats.”
Díaz is interested in action films of the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, and the passion for cinema inherited from his father led him to become a short film director. However, this new project focuses on turning short films into small scenes that do not exceed the boundaries. 60 seconds and are recorded and edited in vertical format for consumption on social networks.
Pynchon bookstore of Alicante view This Thursday, the short filmmaker presented his project. More than 100 “topics”written, recorded and edited reel format, to post them on social networks Tik-Tok, Instagram and Youtube. In addition to recreating legendary movie scenes, he also does this in a humorous style.
“I wanted to transfer the fiction and cinematographic format to the mobile phone with a compilation. Most recurring scenes in action moviesOur goal is to be like this visual encyclopedia. And we will upload several videos to our social networks every week with the idea of creating a community and providing feedback, so people will tell us what their legendary scenes are and we can continue shooting the scenes,” explains Alejandro Díaz.
Collector
The action genre is the genre that interests this filmmaker the most, he assures that it is not common to shoot such films, first of all, because they are expensive. In his case, his great hobby has led him to collect many relevant objects since his childhood, and he never stops acquiring them and incorporating them into the scenes he records. Alicante and soon BenidormIt’s a city that gives him the opportunity to imitate the American movies he loves, thanks to its skyscraper feature.
Díaz began his journey on police issues in the short film format in 2017, of which he had already shot a 20-minute short. In the first edition of this winter magazine, it won first prize for best trailer with its Topicops version. Toledo Action Film Festival He also won different awards with his other short films. But the current reality is that adaptation to other formats is almost mandatory. Díaz, who has been producing and producing short films since 2012, explains: “The short film format is very complicated because if it’s not produced with a festival or distributor, there aren’t many platforms to release it. You won’t be able to spread it.” among others, first social network anyone dramas.
“I decided to change the format because the audience has also changed and is very impatient and today the spotlight is on seconds and this tik-tok format is fast”
“I decided to change the format because the audience has changed too and it’s very impatient and today the focus of attention is seconds and this tik-tok format is fast,” he summarizes. And he thanks his father for “introducing” him to this love of detective films since his childhood. In fact, he is one of the actors who participated in the shooting. The cast includes Sergio Brotons, Manuel Serrato and Charly Navarro. The names of the characters refer to the decades in which the action in the videos takes place: Walkman and Discman; and Tazos and Hopscotch.