In the early morning of October 18, Ang Lee's new film "Gemini Man" was released in China.
Although almost all movie lovers like Ang Lee, most of the reviews so far have been less positive.
The slot is mainly in the old-fashioned storyline, and is the technology of 120 frames per second necessary? Is there a suspicion of overpowering the guest?
However, this movie is still worth seeing in the theater. If you can't find a 120-frame theater where you are, you can at least experience a 60-frame visual effect.
In the film, Will Smith's fight with his clone and the drag racing scene is a bold and refreshing attempt. You feel like you are immersed in the neighborhood of Columbia, and you can experience an adrenaline rush with the protagonist.
Indeed, the storyline is indeed slightly simpler:
Henry (Will Smith), a special agent of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, was accidentally chased by a mysterious killer when he was about to retire. Myself, a duel between me and me began immediately, and the truth behind it gradually surfaced.
But what you need to understand is that this storyline was initially conceived as early as 1997 and planned to be made into a movie. In the past 22 years, the director and protagonist candidates have also changed, until you watch it now to the final version.
Ang Lee was not involved in writing the screenplay for the film, but one of Game of Thrones screenwriters David Benioff, Billy Ray and Darren Lemke Lemke) co-authored.
If shooting clones in 1997 was technically difficult to present realistic effects, the maturity of today's technology is enough to make this idea possible, and it is basically convincing at such a high frame rate.
Many people can't understand why 64-year-old Ang Lee still insists on using new technologies?
A few years ago, Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle" shot with 120 frames was not successful at the box office and word of mouth, the audience did not buy it, and the industry comments were mixed. However, Gemini Man still takes the same technique and takes it a step further.
"The movie uses technologies such as 3D, 4K HDR (the movie used to have 24 frames per second, this movie tries to have a maximum of 120 frames per second), what do you see?"
"It's terrifying to see the movie clearly." This is Li An's answer to the reporter Li Zongtao.
In fact, "it's not that there is something to make up for it, but that there is nothing to make up for it, and art comes into being." Why does Ang Lee keep trying new elements in his films and use this technology to make movies? Here's Billy Lynn:
Because the secretion of the adrenal glands of a warrior is different from that of ordinary people, he is in danger of life at any time, so his vigilance is very high, and his experience of the surrounding is different from that of ordinary people. .
You suddenly throw people with this mentality into ordinary life. He sees other people's behaviors as very strange, and the irony is here.
Billy opened his eyes and saw clearly what he usually didn't pay attention to and was accustomed to. The new technology helped him see clearly, and there was a flavor of explanation in it.
Similarly, in Gemini Killer, Ang Lee also presented us with all the details. Those things that are usually overlooked and accustomed to can be seen clearly. The role of technology here becomes the background music and the scene. , a film element as important as the lines .
So, in Gemini Man, technology has created another way for us to watch movies, an immersive, three-dimensional, clearer way.
"As an audience, with the help of this technology, you can feel the body temperature of the characters, you can feel the heat on their faces, and you can see their hearts through their eyes." Ang Lee is interpreting the motorcycle fight said during the play.
As a director, 64-year-old Ang Lee is still breaking through himself in terms of creative form.
Despite this, Ang Lee is still the same Ang Lee, and the tone of the whole movie is still the language with Ang Lee's characteristics, and it is still the Ang Lee who coexists with warmth and strength.
About this, you can feel it from the dialogue and body language of the hero and heroine in this film.
You can still see the father-son relationship that Ang Lee has been expressing; you can still see the loneliness and tenacity of the son.
In general, if you like Ang Lee, go into the theater and watch the Gemini Man, maybe it's not what you expect, Ang Lee is better at social satire, or attitude comedy, but at least, you still Get an unprecedented viewing experience.
Perhaps, as Ang Lee said in an interview, "Our eyes can be trained."
Without being applauded, he's still sticking with new technology, not just out of trying a movie, but because he wants to change the way people watch movies.
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