In the CC version of "Ice Storm", when Li Ang and his screenwriter were discussing, the screenwriter asked him a question at the beginning: "You are a Chinese, why do you want to make American stories?" Li Ang's answer was very brief. , Very insightful, very refined: "FXXX YOU".
A big director like Li Ang has been in Hollywood for so many years. In the end, he still has to rely on a Hollywood movie in Chinese clothes to make his debut. This is still the United States, I can't help but sigh.
In fact, American film culture is also quite weird. Looking at the comments on the shared rides included in the wiki, it is not difficult to find that most of the people who support this film are based on the artistic nature of the film, and most of the blame is from the perspective of entertainment. Movies like Gongqi have big scenes, but in fact, their minds are not mainly to entertain the audience. It is a movie with a strong authorship. The most important source of film reviews in the United States can be found in media with a very popular readership like New York Times. It is a wonder and a pleasure to want to come. In fact, Gongqi only got a very limited range of distribution that year, which means that it lost the opportunity to win a name behind it from the beginning. If you want to gain artistic approval, you must first feed the appetite of the general public for entertainment. This is Hollywood, Oscars set the tone for modern movies. Or even, it is the fate of the seventh art of film from the day it was born.
Pulling away. Co-riding is iconic. Of course, after the ride together, it was the Hulk's box office fiasco that made Ang Lee fully aware that he had to face the audience-those who chewed popcorn in the gloomy theater. Today, Ang Lee has earned this name-as long as he makes a movie, the audience will pay for the movie. At this time, Ang Lee already had certain willful conditions. Even so, he still has to walk on thin ice.
Speaking of movies alone, Ang Lee who is riding together, I think it is not the best. There are also many natural environment scenes in the co-riding, but the aesthetic creation of these natural elements by the image has not been perfectly integrated with the drama of the story. The emotional relationship between the characters constitutes the undercurrent of the true power of the story, but not only the actor's performance is very dull, but the director's treatment itself is not very convincing. The lens language of the whole article sometimes makes you feel that it is a very deep and classical film, and sometimes it is smooth as a Marvel superhero movie, and Tang emerges. For example, in the last scene, the duel between Jake and Pitt, I still feel very flat. The rhythm is not strong, the lens language is also very plain, the natural environment is there, but it is there, nothing more. One of the climax shots of the film was actually supported by a close-up of Jake holding a gun. I think this process is extremely bland and tasteless.
As a Chinese director who holds two gold medals, there is now an upsurge of supporting Lee Ang in China. Of course I also think that in such an era when Marvel heroes dominate Hollywood, Ang Lee is one of the few Hollywood directors who has his own unique and insistent film aesthetic style. Ang Lee’s films can always make From time to time, people have a touch of the image style of the golden age of movies. But in the final analysis, Ang Lee is a Hollywood director after all. From co-riding to pie, you can see that Ang Lee’s general path of change is getting more and more Hollywood, and the aesthetic creation that really belongs to him is actually very limited.
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