After Ang Lee’s "Fantasy Drifting of the Boys Pie" in 2012, which had a double hit at the box office, he seemed to have plunged into the pit of technological innovation in the film. From the 120 frames of "A Battle" to the super 3D+4K+120 frames of "Gemini Killer", it seems harder for Hollywood to find the second director who is so obsessed with technological breakthroughs: Peter Jackson is making a high frame rate After his "The Hobbit" trilogy, he changed direction and went to make a coloring and restoration documentary of World War I; Robert Zemicis returned to ordinary feature film shooting after several computer special effects films were not popular. Although it seems that I never found the rhythm of the "Back to the Future" series. Technological innovation is definitely a thankless job, difficult, high budget, long production time, limited theaters that can show, the audience may not care at all, and so on, but Li Ang explained his persistence in this way Yes: After winning the second Oscar for Best Director, he understood his mission as a film director and an artist. If many things are not done by him, then others will have no chance to do it, like " It’s a fateful arrangement.
When mentioning the concept of "author movies", fans rarely put Ang Lee into this category, because he tried too many types of films, Chinese and Western family ethics, war films, action films, manga adaptations, masterpiece adaptations, LGBT , Almost photographed the subject matter that can be touched. He is like invisible water, integrated into various production teams. As a director with such a high artistic achievement, his personality is too low-key. style". But after listening to him explain why he is so obsessed with technology, he will suddenly understand. Li Ang is probably the kind of person who has a Buddhist system on the surface and obsessive in his heart. This kind of "fate-like arrangement" feels nothing. The suspense continued into his movie. Regardless of the subject matter, even old-school action feature films such as "Gemini Killer", there will always be plots of people fighting against the world, people and destiny. Starting from the "Family Trilogy", the destruction and restoration of children and patriarchy, the traditional family relationship, the growth of human beings, and the recovery of oneself in the immense power of destiny, these profound emotions may not be the result of these works. The first feeling will be the part that touches the audience the most.
The plot of "Gemini Killer" can be said to meet the specifications of a more typical Hollywood action movie: Will Smith, an American agent Henry, decided not to reflect on his life and doubt his work in his middle age. Retiring as the secret killer of the government to take care of his life, unfortunately, he became the target of extermination. The organization sent to get rid of Henry, no one else, was exactly the same "young Henry" Chuck cloned after the government secretly obtained Henry's DNA more than 20 years ago. I still have to complain about this setting. This setting does have a consistent problem with many Hollywood action blockbusters. It feels that the script is more like an assembly line product. The story and character creation need to be considered; compared with Li Ang’s previous plot wins, For works with fine lines, there are indeed obvious shortcomings. I happen to play a lot of games recently, and I feel that if this movie is made into a game, it might be more popular and popular-because if the literary drama is not good, players can quickly skip it, but the action scenes are very powerful, exciting and beautiful, and the location is a few times. It is a continent, and the background is a number of countries with completely different landscapes and buildings. Whether it’s high-speed car chasing and shooting, or first-person shots with a killer perspective, the audience can enjoy the most exciting gunfight action scenes in the picturesque scenery. Everything reflects Li An's superb directorial ability. Nowadays, many comics and blockbusters will specially invite directors with high artistic attainments to give the story some humanistic feelings. This is of course not bad, but when it comes to action scenes, they will persuade people to say that you don’t have to worry about our assistant directors to help you. Get the action scene! This quick but perfunctory shooting method will be reflected in the quality of the film, no matter how sophisticated the packaging is. It is a judgmental decision to personally direct each shot like Li Ang.
Of course, in the movie, there is still the biggest attraction, that is, the massive "Will Smith vs. Will Smith". If you are a fan of the Emperor, then you will be hooked. It is said that the film used a lot of Will Smith’s young video materials to produce this young version of him, and spent most of the film’s funds to fine-tune it. In fact, this kind of "rejuvenation" technology has been used several times in Hollywood in the past few years. In Marvel's movies, there are young and tender versions of Robert Downey Jr., the fledgling and young Samuel Jackson, etc., but they More is just a role in supporting the plot, and does not take on the role of the main character; Martin Scorsese’s hot new film "The Irishman" can be more analogized, a gangster feature film cost hundreds of millions after infinite delays. Just to wipe the wrinkles on the faces of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro at the beginning of a story that spans a large time span. It can be described as very hard. After watching the two films, if you have to compare, "Gemini Killer" is still slightly better on the use of this technology. It must be helped by some subjective impressions of the audience: De Niro and Pacino when they were young Everyone knows what they were like when they were young (the handsome look in the godfather is too impressive), so this kind of wrinkle removal can only slightly reduce the age. In terms of body and appearance, it is true. There is no way to be the same as when he was young; but "Gemini Killer" was filmed with a facial capture similar to the grunt in "The Lord of the Rings", completely reconstructing Will Smith's entire face, plus the help of body language , The audience will be completely immersed in the superb physical fitness and special agent ability of a young man in his early 20s-I spent a little time adapting to the wrinkle-removing mode of "The Irishman", but "Gemini Killer" does not have this problem at all.
The two protagonists of "Gemini Killer" are clones of each other, which means that they are actually the same person with 100% DNA matching, but Ang Lee is more like understanding the emotional connection between the two as a father and son. Henry grew up in a single-parent family. His father not only disappeared early, but also left him with a psychological shadow of drowning; Xiaoke had doubts about his life experience since he was a child. Although his adoptive father gave him his family, he kept saying that he provided his father’s love. But he has always built himself into a human weapon without feelings. So when they met again, the two people not only found answers to all the questions in their lives, but also solved the knot of their father. Ang Lee, who has walked all the way from the family trilogy, has been repeating this. The subject matter-but, this time it is placed in the outer shell of a relatively old-school Hollywood action blockbuster.
What is a perfect soldier or agent? The villain played by Cliff Owen certainly has his own set of rhetoric: if clones can inherit the best genes, have the best physical conditions, and have no emotional constraints, they will not be shaken by family, love, etc. To influence your performance on the battlefield, why not select such excellent people to copy and paste in large numbers? This seems like a good question, but he thinks of "people" too simply. Anyone, whether he grew up with his parents or a cloned test tube from a laboratory, has feelings, and feelings are the root of a person's behavior-the best agents in the world will give up everything because of the difference of one thought. Sophisticated troops will also be defeated by a small shake. As a Chinese who has lived in the United States for a long time, Ang Lee can understand the complex sentiments of the American people towards their own country’s powerful military power. The United States is a superpower and its military investment is too large to predict. It’s impossible for an ordinary taxpayer to know all the details of the mission performed by this secret organization. This kind of suspicion and worry, from "Riding with the Devil", to "Billy Lynn", to "Gemini Killer", this reverses The war trilogy is Lee Ang's reflection of the society in which he lives. He will not put the lens on a bloody battlefield and use intuitive cruelty to call for peace, but describe how war subtlely affects a person's mood and life state, and how a peaceful life is impossible to achieve. My own reflection and criticism of the war. If the audience wants to find the touch of "Boy School" and admire the gorgeous visual effects of "Billy Lynn", then "Gemini Killer" may have the feeling of a combination of the two. Of course, it cannot be said that the body of this action movie can be very good. Perfectly expressed, but "Gemini Killer" is a Hollywood blockbuster with extraordinary technology and hearty, without losing the mark of Ang Lee, it is already worth a try.
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