Come together in the morning, all the movie accounts, cultural accounts, and technology accounts are pushing Ang Lee.
There is a lot of pressure, so don't hold back some words and say them.
In fact, a week ago, the first director (ID: diyidy) had a meal time meeting with Ang Lee on a private occasion.
At that time, it was the time of the Pingyao Film Festival. I was stunned to change two trains. It took 12 hours to run from Shanxi to Shanghai, and finally from Shanghai to Shanxi the next day.
If this kind of occasion comes, I must come, because I know it is more casual, so I can definitely hear Uncle An relax and say something straight and don’t take care of the investor’s face so much.
Commonly known as the truth.
I can finally understand the smile of the child when Ang Lee met Bergman that year, because I did the same on that day. I had physical contact with him that took up 2.5% of the skin area of the human body - shaking hands. If one hand does not hold tightly, the two hands are applied together, and the skin area is increased to 5%.
It's not at all because his hands are too big to hold, on the contrary, it's his slenderness that will shatter in my palm at any time, and I'm not even a little sure if I'm holding him, or what I can hold.
It is the joy and astonishment of seeing an idol, very much like the evolution of "Gemini Man".
Three days after the film was released, the North American market received poor feedback and there were constant disputes. Some of them were execution-style crusades that went down with a guillotine.
Some people concluded that Ang Lee could retire.
Some people have analyzed that Li An has gone into trouble.
Someone made a decision, Ang Lee has changed the world.
Most of the discussions are "only about meaning" and "macro vision", but no one talks about the details that support these meanings, and they don't know what they are talking about. The reference coefficient is the aesthetics of performance. Ang Lee’s internal realization of all stories is through “performance” rather than any composition . After all, for the first time in his life, he escaped from his father’s haze and liberated his own nature, which is performance.
After the constant factor of performance is stabilized, Ang Lee's enemy is "a movie that has been defined for more than 100 years in the past", and our enemy is still "Ang Lee, who has become unfamiliar because of doing this now." ".
What is the truth? Of course, it is more reliable for Ang Lee to say it himself. As I said at the beginning, there is no pressure from publicity. He can say something sincere, especially when it comes to "not being understood" and "desiring to be understood". And the understanding of "misunderstood".
Gemini Man is not "science fiction", he said.
He mentioned three times that he was still pondering and confused in the face of redefining cinema. (Fortunately, Uncle An is sober)
He was talking and talking, saying that he should not talk too much. If he made a mistake, no one would discuss it. After all, he was still working behind closed doors. (too awake)
I still remember him saying that day, "There is definitely a beautiful new world waiting for us out there. If I didn't feel the beautiful new world calling me there, why would I bother to come!"
See clearly, he is not the first person to eat crabs, what he wants to do is to take us to re-understand whether crabs really exist.
Ang Lee is talking about philosophy and doing an invention. And we're talking about Ang Lee, doing a history lesson. Most people are not on one channel.
It is indeed extremely difficult, because the amount of information is extremely unequal, such concepts, obsessions and misses, if they are spread out directly, they will appear modified and become chicken soup. So spread the information.
In fact, there is one more thing, I don't know if Uncle An knew that day. It was an unfortunate event. On the morning of the meeting, Ms. Zhang Liangbei, the author of "A Dream of a Movie in Ten Years" and the former director of the Taiwan Film Archive, passed away.
I still remember what was written on the girdle of the book - "I think the greatest charm of movies is to show our unknown world."
The bedside book that inspired countless movie lovers has turned to its last page.
Director Ang Lee has just opened the first page of his "new movie".
Regardless of whether the friends of the Xuanfa company want to see me publish this manuscript, I really want to convey what Ang Lee said that day to everyone.
Then you should crusade, and you should continue to praise, and see if your context is biased.
But at that moment, the timeline has been changed, and Ang Lee is setting his direction to his unknown world, lighting a bonfire.
01 Who are Gemini?
(Gemini Man is about) the tension of men, the violence of father and son.
Henry (Will Smith) has a father-son relationship with "himself," because Big Henry and Little Henry are about the same age, and it's (also seen as) a twin relationship, or a personal one. When we were filming, some people said that when you are young, you may not recognize your future self when you see it, but you recognize your past self at a glance, just like seeing memories.
It makes me feel that I have no particularity, that my existence is meaningless, just a piece of genes in the universe, with billions of cosmic elements spinning in it.
There is also a father-son relationship that is very strange, that is, the relationship between Clay played by Clive Owen and Little Henry. He is two generations of father and son to the two Henrys, because Big Henry's father left very early, and he entered the After joining the army, Clay replaced his father as the Master Chief, not only the image of the eldest brother, but also the image of his father, which means that he used the same training method to clone Little Henry. In fact, little Henry and Clay were heavier than Big Henry and himself.
When I was testing the film, I found a phenomenon, the audience felt that the villain's words were quite reasonable. This is my favorite villain. The villain always speaks the best lines, the most down-to-earth, unceremonious, no hypocrisy, and the villain speaks to the point . But when you go too far, there will be some unease.
When doing things under the investors, you need to give a step down, and sometimes use a more boring method. So I made some adjustments to the music, and the music I used was a little "brain-burning". I also used a lot of ghost movies, and I also used some B-movie stuff. But try to avoid the tricks of sci-fi movies. The final climax of such a movie must be to make a bunch of clones.
Gemini Man is not science fiction either.
02 Why is 3D so good?
Movies are intuitive, the art of intuition. 3D is more real on the one hand, and more illusory on the other. Why, 2D shooting a thousand troops is a thousand troops, big things are big, small things are small, but 3D can make very small things clearly in front of your eyes, it is equivalent to "zooming", then it is It exists in a void space, so it can be said that it is both real and illusory.
When I was filming "Youth Pie" that year, I didn't know that 24 frames couldn't see 3D at all . I still followed the 2D technique at the time. It only had 24 frames. As soon as the title was opened, it started to flicker. After you cut the flickering, it got blurry again, so it was very painful to shoot . A 3D movie should have a 3D amount, and if the amount is more, it needs to be finer. Cartoons don't have this problem, they're clean, well-controlled, casual, with no off-frames, and (at this level) cartoons are more than 20 years ahead of live-action films .
Now there are a lot of fake 3D, which are turned after the fact. The two pictures are put together, gathered to one point, and scanned quickly, and the fare must be increased. This is actually a kind of retrogression . Especially for human faces, you can feel the actor's psychology from the performance, whether you are telling the truth or fooling me, you have feelings, but the movie has no feeling. But when doing 3D, the space is widened. The real number is 90 to 100 frames. I use 120, which is a normal frame rate. For our eyes, it is not a normal frame rate below 100 degrees . HDTV 60 frames, compared with 24 frames are double conversion. We couldn't do it in the past, but now we seem to be able to do it, and I believe 90% of us have done it .
Sometimes I think it's really beautiful, and 2D definitely can't achieve that kind of beauty, it's really beautiful . Some people's faces, whether they're real or fake, I can see how they feel inside, shy can only be played like this (Uncle An performed the girl's shy look on the spot, laughing loudly), now I want to make the shyness look uneasy , It turns out that I can't do it, how to act the actors, how to shoot the camera, how to put on makeup, how to play the light, how to make up the plot, it just doesn't have the intuitive feeling of being shy inside and scary outside. When 3D digital is done in the future, our eyes will be able to receive this kind of information. He is a shy person. He wants to be scary. You are scared by him, and you want to feed him chicken soup and take care of him. How do you play this kind of thing now? Can't even act. It definitely has a beautiful new world waiting for us there, if I didn't feel the beautiful new world calling me there, why would I bother to come!
I think watching movies in 3D is indeed a thing that can be established. Instead, I feel very confused when I watch 2D. After getting familiar with 3D, I used to think that the performance was good, but when I watch it again, it seems to be the opposite and needs to be adjusted. There is a lot of information when reading human faces, so your depth of field and image information should be rich enough. This is an ideal 3D world, which does not rely on montage, but on deep scheduling . I think it's a very interesting thing, because a new media comes out and forces you to explain what you used in the past, some people are willing to renovate, some people are not willing to renovate.
But I think we will still rely on the "lens" for a period of time . Each lens has its own function. What does the artist use to represent my mood? This lens is a long shot, a short shot, and everyone has been trained for a long time. Now that we have opened the perspective, we have a three-dimensional sense, its authenticity, and where its depth is placed, it has a set of vocabulary in it, and what is the relationship between that and the lens, I am still pondering .
The progress of 3D movies is slower than that of sound and color movies. I think the relationship between people and movies and their sense of involvement are changing. The difference in your perception of movies is much larger than black and white to color, and more than silent to sound, so it develops slowly. It makes sense. Basically, it is our perception of film that has a greater challenge. You said that I am shooting a "Gemini Man" today, and it is not a movie. I think it will change again. "Gemini Man" special effects behind the scenes
03When will the new movie come?
Back when there were color movies, the three white men did it (standard), the three of you took a look at it (color), set the tone, and then continued to adjust, in fact, we watched the "three white men" for a lifetime, It's been almost a hundred years since the birth of color film, and that's what happened . In fact, it was all very casual at first, not such a natural thing.
Brightness is also a problem. Brightness has a lot to do with beauty, contrast, and color. After the brightness increases, you rely on this standard to make pictures. You think that it is a beautiful woman wearing makeup, and it will not look beautiful in sunlight. There is such confusion in it, and we are still in the confusion stage . I think it will be different if everyone is using (this technology) after we hit the road. When the movie was invented, it was a circus trick. Our stage actors lowered their status to perform. Later, art films were born. People's emotions, artistic sense, and artistic sense can be projected into it.
In the future, movies can be developed in a more abstract direction , and movies can be made more abstract. Now everyone sees what life looks like, but you think it is realistic. Really in its infancy. I don't dare to talk too much, for fear that I may be wrong. My current understanding may be a wrong view, and I don't have the opportunity to learn from others . It's hard to explain this clearly, I'm a tech idiot, and I often doze off and get confused when they talk about tech. But my feeling is very strange. Now that technology has brought us changes, its changes should be holistic. This is where I am very puzzled, because I thought everyone saw the same feeling as me, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I have been doing technology for ten years myself, and I feel very confused.
But I'm sure, everything has to be tried to know , and it's hard to comment if you don't try. Of course, the ideal is to make a short film and try a little bit. I don't have the patience right now, and it's hard to get funding for making a short film. Movies are expensive.
There are two levels here, one is whether you are good enough to use this technique to tell a story. This also includes whether the audience is good enough to use this technology to read the story, including whether the audience is willing to use this kind of thing to read the story. You have to try it, if you don't try it, there's nothing you can do. And whether your understanding of movies can be changed, I think this is a bigger challenge . There is no time, no story to try, and no one to go on and do it one after another, so you have no way to understand it. What is storytelling with film? What is content? In addition, there is a problem with how to build a set of things, and whether to use this standard to transplant it into such senses.
This is the evolution of the industry and the evolution of the market slowly coming along, which is one thing. Now we are still facing another very mature, even over-mature, and even a bit tired movie viewing habit. Its storytelling method is based on what the media has rehearsed . This thing is deeply ingrained, and this is a bigger problem. . So the problem is that you already have the previous concept, not this part of the problem. It does matter how this is reversed, but it doesn't really matter. We need to practice. You don't rehearse, you don't do it, you don't try, you don't debug, you can never get started. It's not just within reach, and soon it is discovered that people have grasped everything, and based on this grasp, they make a news. There is no such thing. This is from my point of view.
I think our cognition of the eyes and our cognition of the brain are actually not studied by anyone. In fact, there is just such a situation. Culture is even more difficult, and I don't believe that there is a person who can put such a complex thing into a movie at once, because your understanding is different. So maybe you see this in the future as a good thing, but you can't see it now. It is also possible that it is related now, and it is possible that it is irrelevant in the future.
Let me be more honest, at this stage, I am also very confused, and it takes so much effort to formulate your organizational report, how to promote it, how to put it on the film, such a large volume, and there are many contradictions in it. , this is inhumane, there are many, many contradictions in my heart, it is difficult for me to talk about it.
Actually on the film, I can't say I'm in the confusion stage. All I can say is, this is something new, you've never seen it before, come and see it, and make a lot of fun. Sometimes it's not just about movies being movies, but there are also many incidental cultural phenomena, industrial conditions, people's cognitive habits, ideology, and so on, which are more and more confusing. However, you clearly know that there is a wonderful new world waiting for you, what am I doing, asking for trouble?
04 The last sentence left
I filmed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the age of 45. When I was middle-aged, I knew for the first time that I was going to retire. When it came to retirement, I felt even more restless. Now entering old age, we filmmakers, we have to do our best.
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