Many film critics have talked about a lot of the technical aspects of "Gemini Killer", but no one has analyzed it seriously, and it feels like it was written with a draft. It is hard to see that the film critics who are experimental in this film are not film critics, but book critics.
Let me throw a conclusion first, Ang Lee is not a technology director, but a technology enthusiast director. But based on his influence, it is great and respectable to have high-frame 3D movies in his hands twice. For this reason, he did not hesitate to create a script of worse quality than "The Sixth Day". It is obvious that you should not let you analyze the story, the connotation, and the relationship between father and son, but should pay attention to the appearance of the film, so that you turn off your phone and go back. In the theater, enjoy the original pleasure brought by the image on your seat-if you are lucky, even if you can't appreciate the consternation of the audience watching "Train Into the Station", you can at least relive the first time you watched "Avatar" Excited.
I was fortunate to have watched the 120-frame 4k3D version of "Billy Lynn", so I can say responsibly that "Gemini Killer" was almost shaken by trial and error before comparing "Billy Lynn". A big step has been taken before. He did not try the incorrect usages that have been passed in "Billy Lynn" (such as excessive use of fixed lenses, jump cuts and telephoto close-ups, as well as black and white pictures), and boldly expanded horizontal shift, follow, slow motion, etc. Performance possibilities. Give a thumbs up first, and then analyze them one by one. The film is not spoiled (what's so spoiler).
1. Opening logo. Sky Dance's picture did not match the high frame, so there was a clear feeling of lag, which made people have the urge to buy a video memory. The following Fuxing Pictures and Ali Pictures do not have this problem.
2. In this film, Ang Lee figured out how to deal with the relationship between the scene and the camera distance (or the relationship between the scene and the focal length). In "Billy Lynn", he used too much telephoto lens to shoot close-ups or relationships between characters, which caused the characters to become paper figures, the background is virtual, and the audience looks like a ppt. This time, he used short focus to get close to the characters to take close-ups. When showing the relationship between the characters, he stayed farther away, and the panorama was farther away. This is in line with the habit of the naked eye, and does not hinder technology. Especially in the close-up shots, the three-dimensional sense of the characters is normal.
3. Five action scenes, namely train sniper, escape assassination, motorcycle chase, grave battle, and town battle. Analyze one by one here. The opening train sniper was the most amazing. Ang Lee frantically and almost unscrupulously showed the performance highlights of the telephoto lens sweep in 3D-what other sweep can be more extreme than a high-speed train with a simulated sniper rifle that sweeps a few kilometers away? If you know 24 frames, the audience will be dizzy early, but 60 frames are as stable as iron. The fisheye lens (in doubt, or special effects) was also used once, I am afraid Li Ang himself is not confident enough, but the effect is excellent. Afterwards, the literary dramas were also well filmed, and Li Ang was happily filming horizontally, fearing that the prospects would not move. In particular, the first shot that Cliff Owen appeared was a 240-degree close-up shot that shot Michael Bay to death on the beach.
4. Escape the assassination. This scene is low illumination. It is important to know that high-frame shooting requires very high light requirements, after all, the time for the photoreceptor to receive light has been shortened several times. I heard that this film is mainly based on real shots. I don’t know how Li Ang did it. The night scene is very beautiful, and there is a starry sky lens behind, which is really "drifting" and "bright". Adjust the phone screen to the brightest feeling. The night scene in this film is a breakthrough in high-frame photography. However, this action scene... it's a bit unreasonable. Especially the fight between the girl and the tooth extraction brother, because the pursuit of realism is in place, I feel like standing by my side watching these two people who can't fight awkwardly together. This action design style is completely different from the style of the big and small Shi Huang sparring behind, I don't know what Li Ang thinks.
5. Motor chase. This movement is designed to be the most exciting. It talks about tactical logic. The old history has enough experience, and the small history has strong physical skills. The two are evenly matched, and there are back and forth so they are very beautiful. Pay special attention to a long shot of the old Emperor Shi driving a motorcycle through various intersections. It almost gave birth to the feeling of watching a VR movie, which made me get goose bumps all over. This is real! I guess VR, which introduces the high-frame concept soon, will continue to be a wave of investment. In this scene, Ang Lee also played a first-view shooting game, and opened the side mirror to switch between high magnification and red dots. Uncle An, are you also addicted to Jedi Island? Let me mention it again. There are a few high and low motorcycle lenses that remind me of the flood channel chase in "Terminator 2", and I feel good.
6. Tomb battle. The same is low illumination. Uncle An changed the shooting method. Here, a longer lens is used to track the fight between two people with handheld photography. It is still more effective, and it is much more visible than a sister's fight. And I played with a night vision goggles for the first view, is it a tribute to "Border Killer"?
7. Small town battle. There are two points worth paying attention to. One is the machine gun tracer sweeping the old history. When watching the trailer, I was looking forward to this shot, but it was not as exciting as I thought, because there was no lens language design. But when the last villain who could be beaten (to prevent spoilers, let’s call Xiaojingang) came out, Xiaojingang was invincible, and he felt very oppressive. The slow motion of King Kong on fire is well designed. Oh my god, this is a high-frame slow motion, this motor and sensitivity are too good. I would rather believe that it was done by a computer.
8. After the action drama is finished, let me talk about a few high-frame 3D shots that are particularly worthy of attention. The first is all shots of mosquitoes and bees flying around. It's so real. At first, I really had the urge to complain to the aunt of the theater cleaning, but later I found out that I was cheated. The second one I just talked about is the night scene, especially the starry sky. The third is an underwater lens, because there are countless small blisters in the foreground. In the past, the blister was "indicating that there is a blister", but now the blister is "indicating that there is a blister in here"! The fourth is that I found that high-frame photography is especially suitable for wide-angle follow-up shots. The sense of scene is really good and the best experience at present. In addition to the motorcycle follow-up I mentioned earlier, there was another shot when Pharaoh first appeared. There was a shot of a shot that was attached to a seaplane to take a shot drifting to the beach. I felt dizzy. Fifth, we still have to praise all the panning shots, the foreground is extremely clear and textured. This is a decisive force, and it really makes people feel like standing on the spot.
9. Talk about the good things and talk about the bad things. I don't know how to express it, that is, "false to true true or false". Because of the emphasis on the scene too much, the sense of film is weak. I feel like I'm standing on the spot watching two stuntmen perform martial arts, like watching an 8K ultra-high-definition TV documentary, like watching a reality show in Disneyland, but I don't want to be watching a movie. There is a particularly interesting scene here. There is a scene of mercenary training in Cliff Owen’s company. When I first saw it, I thought it was so fake, but it turned out to be training. In fact, the action scenes of the whole film seem to feel this way, but only this scene is broken-so this needs to be solved completely. When I wrote "Billy Lynn", I summarized it as "Reality". There is also a uncanny valley in filming.” Today this problem still exists in another form. I am very worried about whether Kashen can solve it.
10. After talking about the high-frame 3D effect, let's talk about another technical promotion point of this film: motion capture and expression capture, which makes Shi Huang younger. Sorry, this is not a new breakthrough, and I am very dissatisfied! The first point of dissatisfaction: Xiao Shi Huang's young face was still shining with old eyes. Please don't say I am provoking. If you have seen it, let me come and I ask you, do you think the old Shi Huang played well or the Xiao Shi Huang played well? Of course it is the old Shi Huang! All kinds of eyes are right! But how could this little Shi Huang look like an old-fashioned and bitter hatred who has read the vicissitudes of life? This is not a technical problem, but a problem of Ang Lee's guiding Shi Huang's performance. He only distinguished Xiao Shi Huang's special effects makeup, but did not distinguish Xiao Shi Huang's experience and soul. This is wrong, so I said Ang Lee is just a technology enthusiast, not a technology god. The second point I’m not satisfied with is that when Xiao Shi Huang appeared in the university, this CG face was shown in the sun for the first time. This is the scene of a car accident! It's terrible! I simply suspect that the special effects team took the semi-finished product and tested it! Do you want to simply type "Demo" in the lower right corner of the screen! Dare to shoot in low light not to emphasize the details of light and shadow technology, but to hide the ugliness!
11. In the end, I still don't vomit, the text of this film is too bad. In the tomb, the tearful confession of the old Shi Huang to Xiao Shi is of the level of online literature. How can someone say that it is not easy for themselves?
Okay, the report is finished. So be it! 2019.10.22 update: I heard that the night scene is still the old way of shooting during the day and then turning. Photography is the photography of "Killing with Borrowing a Knife".
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