One "Ang Lee is a director who will never repeat himself, this film will be very original"
Ang Lee's much-anticipated new film "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Break" was officially renamed "Halftime Quiet" .
After the trailer was first exposed, it was regarded as next year's Oscar seed.
The film is based on the best-selling book of the same name.
The original novel won the National Book Award. It was also rated as one of the 12 greatest English novels of the 21st century by the BBC.
The film tells the story of Billy Lynn, a 19-year-old Texas boy who enlisted in the Iraq War
. He survived a firefight and
accidentally became the focus of public attention with his comrades, and was portrayed as a hero.
They then returned home to be awarded at halftime of the rugby game.
This war hero is facing unprecedented mental torment...
Why did Ang Lee choose this movie to shoot?
Because Ang Lee wants to challenge an unprecedented technical problem: a speed of 120 frames per second, a comprehensive combination of 4K and 3D technologies, to set off a movie visual revolution.
What's the meaning?
The so-called "movie is a lie of 24 frames per second", of which 24 frames are the number of frames.
In "The Hobbit", I have tried 48 frames. There are praises and criticisms. The smoothness of the picture has been improved significantly, but because it is too obvious, it is criticized for being like a TV. The audience is under the screen. Movies are more like watching actors perform.
As soon as this statement came out, James Cameron, who originally planned to shoot "Avatar 2" with 60 frames, changed it back to 48 frames.
But Ang Lee, who was in his sixtieth year, chose to go upstream.
Not only to choose a high frame rate, but also to choose 120 frames, 120 frames is a full 5 times that of ordinary movies.
What is this concept?
Action scenes shot at normal frame rates are prone to trailing and blurring.
120fps completely avoids this and makes the picture completely realistic.
Director and special effects artist Douglas Trumbu was one of the few who saw the film. He has shot 3D movies at 120 frames per second. "Your brain is very much like it," he said.
"I can't describe the excitement, excitement, and visual fidelity to you. It's not like television, it's like a new cinematic medium that solves all problems.
" , this high frame rate can deliver smoother pictures and actions, unmatched sharpness and realism.
This is only theoretical.
Neither Li nor the team could look at their shooting results when shooting, and could only watch them at 60 frames per second, 2K, and 3D. Because it is beyond the carrying capacity of the machine.
Until a few days ago, Ang Lee showed an 11-minute clip at the American Radio and Television Show. Shocked the industry.
Ben Gervais, the film's producer, said: "Forty minutes after watching a war scene, those people are still shaking."
What did they see that was so shocking?
This is the smoothest, most realistic movie. Every detail will be clearly displayed on the big screen.
A typical movie will provide some slow-motion close-ups when dealing with war scenes, so that the audience can keep up with the action.
But Ang Lee refused to use slow motion, on the grounds that it was not the real war the soldiers experienced.
He wants to use this most advanced technology to capture the feeling of the real battlefield, how thrilling it is!
How can we empathize with the protagonist's heart without letting the audience experience an extremely realistic battlefield?
This is a pioneering director who constantly pushes himself, challenges the limit, and pursues innovation.
Hence, this grand experiment.
Currently, this technology is named "immersive digital technology".
Ang Lee is stepping into an unprecedented technological field. The way he chose this time was extremely precipitous.
The current doubt is that very few cinemas can support 3D plus 4K at the same time, let alone 120 frames per second + 3D + 4K. Few cinemas can support this projection technology.
There are even more skeptics who say that even if the war scene is extremely shocking, can the audience really accept being shocked like this? ? ?
The stubborn Ang Lee said:
"If we want to do digital technology, we must be different and never imitate others."
"Halftime Quiet" is Ang Lee's "different".
This decisive pursuit of technological innovation is also because he is not satisfied with the 3D effect in the last film "The Fantasy Drift of Pi". Even in his eyes, most studios and filmmakers in Hollywood thought of 3D backwards. In a chance viewing opportunity, he saw high frame rate shooting technology.
And then, it just got out of hand.
"Movies are the love of my life, and now I can watch them more clearly, once I've seen a high frame rate movie. I can't pretend I haven't."
"In a way, I'm naive. I'm just right I'm excited about what I see, and sometimes this kind of experimentation has implications for the industry. I feel very vulnerable at times. My purpose is to show people: Did you see that? You saw what I just saw Is there something? That's all my motivation."
Ang Lee carefully scrutinized the impact of these changes, and by the way, he also found that what he was thinking about would become a powerful tool for future filmmakers.
Because the clarity has changed, so has the way people watch movies. For filmmakers, it is a new film language.
When it comes to technical maniacs, directors such as James Cameron, Spielberg, and Robert Zemeckis are generally thought of. Who would have thought that a director with a gentle appearance like Ang Lee would be a technological pioneer leading the picture innovation?
"I'm not a tech freak. As long as I see what I want to see, I'll cooperate. But I found such a new way to show it in front of my eyes. Very excited."
But pioneering comes with a price. Make-up, lighting, stage, etc., are all different from ordinary film shooting methods. Filming has to slow down.
"Most of the time we don't know what to do, we're not good enough, it's completely new technology. A lot of times we scratch our heads"
Fortunately, there is the full support of the owner Sony, and the investment is between 44 million and 48 million.
Sony knows that even if the projection technology does not support it, it will still rise to the challenge. Executive Rory Brewer said: "The format shown at ABC may not be commercially viable. But there are already a lot of cinema projection technologies that can show high-speed frame rate movies."
They are betting on On Li An, because he trusted him. Also because of his movies, it's not as soft as his appearance at all. This is a very challenging and brave man who dares to break all stereotypes.
Ang Lee once said,
"In the real world, I have been an outsider all my life. It is difficult for me to belong to where my home is, and I am not as clear as some people. I am a foreigner in Taiwan, and I am a foreigner in the United States. The mainland is a Taiwan compatriot. I was destined to be an outsider in my life. There is Taiwan love, a Chinese knot, and an American dream, but they have not been implemented. Over time, I have a feeling of "staying stable and lazy" in my heart. In the imaginary world of movies, I found a temporary place to live."
Life is like a play, and a play is like life. Some people may be boring in real life, but they really find themselves in acting.
Ang Lee was talking about Wang Jiazhi in Lust, Caution, and he was talking about himself.
He has ridiculed himself many times, saying that he is gentle on the surface and gentle in behavior, which fits the image of a good person in the traditional culture of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but how boring.
Such a self is Li Mubai, the hero who suppressed himself in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and Eleanor Dashwood, the forbearing eldest sister in "Sense and Sensibility".
However, what he really longs for is the extreme rebellion of Yu Jiaolong jumping into the deep cliff, and the shocking state of mind of Marianne who is intoxicated and does not know the way back!
Just like Wang Jiazhi, she can't tell the difference between the drama and the drama. Maybe the self in the play is the real self. And the movie is the mirror that reflects the unknown part of oneself.
Second, the fierce tiger
Ang Lee has always pursued fierceness in filmmaking, and his appearance is elegant, but in fact he hides a dragon and a crouching tiger in his heart. "Diet Men and Women" does not mention it, and puts the Chinese people's 5,000-year-old sexual repression on the table for people to see.
While filming Sense and Sensibility, he said:
"I'm going to let this movie break hearts so hard that they'll take two months to heal!"
Of course he did. This film is simply a British masterpiece with poetic landscapes, and it actually produced a fresh and euphemistic oriental artistic conception like "Spring in a Small Town". The protagonist's delicate and touching emotions made the audience under the screen cry.
To "Lust and Caution". For all, it was a hellish baptism. When filming a mahjong scene, it will take a whole week to film, and the cleaning staff can recite the lines. Every look, every action, the paradoxical dialogue between the officials and the wives, the open and secret fights on the mahjong table, the jealousy, and the sloppy, must be filmed properly.
Everyone was tortured into a human form by him. And the legendary hard erotica. Actor Tang Wei has never had a movie image that can surpass Wang Jiazhi in Lust, Caution.
When it comes to "Fantasy Drifting of Teen Pie", challenge the impossible task. One boy, one tiger, one boat, creating intense dramatic conflict and so many fantastical images. The main actor lost 14 kilograms of weight from the start of filming to the end, so bitter that the entire crew shed tears for him. Li An finally hugged him and cried.
Therefore, those who believe in Li An should not be disappointed. This time, "Halftime Quiet" will probably set off another technological trend, just like the previous "Avatar".
Ang Lee said: "Although it's hard to change people's habits and culture, I'm so curious, I'm not young anymore, I don't want to wait.
In addition to curiosity, he also has the ambition that every filmmaker has: to change the place of film in people's minds.
He hopes that going to the cinema to watch a movie will be a solemn event, as special as going to a church or a temple.
"You shouldn't be watching movies on your phone, I think that's what movies are for. It's not like that at all. I think it's time we do something, change it, and make going to the cinema a more exciting thing."
Whether or not the film industry is currently ready, he's moving forward.
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