“You can convey emotions and tell a story through movement, and that's the power of movies. I think there are people who have forgotten all that.”
Kojima defended his theory of cinema as movement: the word cinema originated from the Kinematograph and the foundation still lies there. He said actors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton gave everything without a line of dialogue; when the talkies arrived they added sound and music, but the fundamental thing about the moving image remains movement. With movement one can convey emotions and tell a story, and that is the power of movies; Kojima added that he thinks there are people who have forgotten that. He said Rajamouli captures exactly the essence of cinema, and cited Mad Max as an example of a film with almost no dialogue, leaving aside whether having more or less dialogue is good or bad.
“the word cinema originated from Kinematograph and the foundation still lies there. Actors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton gave it their all in movies without any dialogue. […] For example, the movie Mad Max barely had any dialogue”