Saturday, January 24, 2015

Kamen Rider Drive 10 Analysis: Christmas Special, Japanese RPM (!), Mega Man, camera set up

Ruining Christmas is symbolized somewhat poetically, definitely visually by turning off Christmas lights. I didn't really get an Eyes Wide Shut feeling from this, but there was an establishment of secrets being revealed in the episode. Gifts unwrapped perhaps? A deglorification of the hero's celebration with the lights being shut off?

Professor Banno creating evolving androids.
Heart killing Professor Banno who made Krim Sleighbelt.
When they stopped evolving, he started using Core Drivers for Roidmudes. Core powers for Tridoron and Drive.
Together they were Alphabet Soup, further engrainiating this as a RPM show. Mr. Belt is basically Dr. K.

There's also a bit of a Mega Man feel to this again.
Proto-Drive is sort of this Mega Man/Proto Man/Zero figure with scientists creating a humanoid anthropomorphic robot to fight other robots.

Interesting cinematography notes
I understand that mainly they use soap opera shots, cutting between a camera on each character, but one interesting choice is to have Heart and his scary presence as a small part of a shot between him and Drive.
Maybe it's to have the audience concentrate on Drive's reactions or Heart's acting using his mannerisms and voice.

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