Pastiche of Life

Oh I’m a little giddy, everyone has hammered the MGS series into the ground with “UGH more cut scenes” “ugh I wanna Play!” comments so I’m sure the prospect of a film to allot of people is hell. To those people I think you all suck and I’m happy such a good piece of film is here.

MGS: Philanthropy is a fan project started by a group of Italian film students that blows anything I’ve worked on out of the water. With a internally raised budget of £9,000 (listen if you haven’t seen it don’t say that’s allot of money to make a film Clerks Cost twice as much) they have managed to create a both involving yet flippant action filled story that makes more sense than many of the plot elements of MGS2/3/4.

  Snake is played by one of the original creators of the fan project Giacomo Talamini and in the design of the character the Body suit worn by snake and his age reflect a particularly good transition stage from the narrow faced younger MGS Snake to the more Bearded MGS2. Talamini does an excellent job of portraying grumpy snake with allot of very noticeable physical gestures lifted from the exaggerated physicality of the Video game such as the Grunts and shifts of weight when something snatches Snakes attention compounded in editing with recognisable quick cuts and zoom on snake or the hanging of his head and shifting looks when Snakes asked questions he doesn’t wish to answer. This is all compounded by a faithfully gritty English Dub by Philipp Sacramento

The Special Effects work is worth a watch alone, at times providing a surreal moment or two when digital actors are used in transitions that could be mistaken for Scenes from MGS2/3. The Screenshot to the left has a tone and colouring that could have been taken from one of the Early MGS4 Teaser trailers while the filter effects used on the the shot to the right make it difficult to determine if the foreground Snake is in actuality the actor or one of the transitional Digi’s. The soft blur and perspective of the shot look so well blended together. Admittedly Not all shots look quite as convincing but to have these moments are quite excellent and i know that Ill be keeping them as wallpapers for a time.

The rest of the Cast are also excellent the Characters above all deserving special mentions clockwise from top left (Unnamed Foxhound-esque Soldier, Informant Britoil(Sp?), Pierre LeClair, Sen. Abraham Bishop, Elizabeth Laycan) LeClair’s character features heavily in the humour of the movie his introduction leading to one of the strangest if humorous and satisfying moments of the film. This Wry humour is something that any form of Hollywood involvement in a Big budget incarnation of the series would eliminate from the narrative.

There is so much to Say about the characters of Laycan and of the mysterious soldier but id prefer to leave this movie unspoiled for your viewing go check it out ASAP

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http://www.mgs-philanthropy.net