Not enough eyes

I am not familiar with the history of American cinema, and I have seen few old movies. I don’t know that there has been such a Western film. This is the product of the era of the big Hollywood studios, and the screenwriters have also worked hard, relying on a family’s western dream-seeking experience, connecting the development history of the western United States, pioneering land, gold rushing, the release of desire and the rules of the weak and the strong. Indians The battle for China, the Civil War, the construction of railways, the rise of towns, and the reconstruction of morality and order have all been shown in the film, and of course the magnificent and majestic western scenery is indispensable. Big stars have come to the battle, James Stewart, Gregory Parker, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and the narrator to explain American history is another veteran superstar Spencer Qusay. The 150-minute movie was directed by John Ford, George Marshall, and Henry Hathaway (I am ignorant, and I don’t know the names of the latter two). It can be seen that this is an ambitious epic production, but the filming is too modest. Romance, adventure, expansion, male power, sense of justice and civil society morality all reflect the American spirit that we are familiar with, and Because of this desire to establish a monument for a century of western development and the brave Americans, the film is distracted, has a huge structure, and does not perform adequately in any aspect. The dramatic tension in John Ford’s classic works disappears. . For example, at the end of a paragraph about the rise of towns and moral reconstruction, the sheriff who came to a foreign country had to face the murderers and his subordinates who had been arrested by him alone when he got off the train, without the understanding and support of the local counterparts. Bao, people also asked him to leave, obviously imitating "Noon", but at the end, everyone finally joined forces and turned out the gangster, defending the dignity of American morality and law. Maybe history is true, but it's too mediocre for movies. Except for the brief rivalry between Parker and the actress in the second paragraph, the acting skills of so many powerful stars have been wasted.

To say this does not mean that the movie is not worth watching. On the contrary, it is a visual feast for me. This is the first ultra-wide format video I have ever seen. The DVD back cover said that the film was shot with "three screen widths of the new art Rama body, compressed to enjoy on a small TV screen." I don’t know anything about the film industry and technology. I don’t know what "new" is. "Yilamar body", but it can be seen intuitively that the film on the screen is composed of three normal-width frames, which may be synchronized and parallel shot by three cameras at precise proportions, and then processed and synthesized into On one screen, against the background of the open water, mountains or sky, the joint of the three frames can be clearly seen. Due to technical reasons, the one frame on the right has a slight color cast, sometimes even one can be seen. The long wood has a strange bending phenomenon at the joint of the frame, which is similar to the deformation of the shadow of the object in the water. These will affect the viewing effect. The mountains and rivers shot by this method are extremely magnificent, and contain more content that ordinary movies cannot contain. Although the TV screen is still the same size, the actual viewing angle of the screen has been increased a lot, beyond the normal viewing angle of the eye. The scope, used in such a Western movie, is very suitable. The magnificent and vast western scenery is dizzying and beautiful. It is like a scroll that unfolds slowly. It is absolutely not unobstructed. It can only be a horse and a whip. scene. Especially in a large panoramic lens with many people, this feeling is more obvious. If you want to use this as a keynote lens like a general viewing experience, it will not be so easy to grasp the overall atmosphere at a glance, and it is often the eye. Looking at the characters on the left side of the screen, you will ignore what is happening on the right side. The outstanding feeling is how the eyes are not enough. Therefore, such a lens with an extraordinary angle of view may be more appropriate to express the scenery than to express the characters. The scenes of war and the scenes of buffalo running wildly gave me a shocking impression.

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