I watched it for four days... I finally finished it all. . .
It does take time to accumulate and precipitate, but there must be few people who like it. As far as domestic audiences are concerned, they must first be interested in American culture, and then they are interested in the Civil War, otherwise they can’t watch it anymore. I watched it twice in the first 20 minutes, and only after watching it for more than an hour did I actually go in. I didn’t tell the story according to the narrative structure of a Hollywood feature film. The commercial stuff didn’t come out until the second half of the film. Ten minutes to grab your attention.
Regarding the success or failure of this film, Ang Lee also made it very clear in his autobiography that it is not good to shoot too realistically. Nowadays, people don’t go to museums or read history books to watch movies. The film is too realistic. If it is too serious, it is contrary to people's current cultural habits and unacceptable. After all, the Civil War has passed for decades.
But looking at our anti-Japanese films, it has only been 70 years, and it has already evolved into a magical drama. I am very curious, in a few decades, will the audience not know what the anti-Japanese period was like, and the filming will be too realistic. It will not lead to the same incomprehension of Ang Lee's "Riding with the Devil". I hope it will not be like this, but it should not be the case. After all, the Civil War was an American civil war, and the Anti-Japanese War was an anti-aggression war. The feelings are different, but this kind of film should not be expected to be a hit, but this is not absolute, such as Spielberg. . . Whether it is "Saving Private Ryan" or "Schindler's List", they are both excellent examples of business and art in the history of film. It seems that Ang Lee is still a bit far from Spielberg, but I don't know how the box office of "Lincoln" is going. I'm going to go and see this Lincoln that I watched the beginning of the last time.
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