Li An, the No.1 Chinese director!

This is not recognized, but in the eyes of some people, by the way, the top five Chinese directors in their eyes: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar-wai, Yang Dechang, Li An and Cai Mingliang...

There is no Zhang Yimou, and there is no Brother Chen Kai...

As for Lu Xiaoran...

Who is he?

It's just a director who makes commercial films!

There are two stinky money!

"Gravity", a special effects film with Marvel!

Anyway, "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" has not yet been released, and there are already a bunch of people who are looking forward to it, go and look at Douban (I mean now), and the hot reviews are the first:

Ang Lee used his deep Eastern philosophy to make an American main theme movie. Uncle An, who has passed the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, is more peaceful but also sharp, watching Uncle An on stage and saying that movies are his dreams and his beliefs, and he challenges new technologies just to make his dreams clearer, and tears run in an instant. I have seen so many directors, only Ang Lee said that movies are faith, and I believe it. ’

Big brother, tell me about "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" where you can see Eastern philosophy?

No, you lick a little bit of logic, okay?

What's the difference between this thing and "Zhu Xian"'s praise of 'dedication acting is impressive!'?

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First of all, define first: "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" is not a niche movie!

$40 million investment!

It's basically all voted by Bona - Yu Dong boasted last year that 'Bona will get 10 billion box office this year', and the biggest source of confidence is "Billy Lynn's Halftime Battle"...

According to common sense, "Life of Pi" won more than 500 million at the box office, or in 2012, and "Billy Lynn" will definitely earn more box office four years later!

Because the market has expanded!

Therefore, Yu Dong is full of confidence...

That's why he did a big premiere to promote "Billy Lynn"...

Also, "Billy Lynn" is not a so-called experimental film!

As I said earlier, experimental film, as a pioneering attempt, is basically a multi-faceted experiment in technology, performance, narrative and other means, and in the end, it is very rare to choose a cinema to recover the cost.

Spending $40 million to experiment with a new machine is just a plus point in Billy Lynn's business path, not the core content.

Although director Lee An-da has always had the coat of a literary film director, please don't forget that Director Lee has never lost money on all Hollywood film works before "Billy Lynn", and Lee On has never been a director of niche films.

Of course, no one knows what director Li Anda thinks himself, maybe he is using other people's money to play his own 120 frames, 4D...

Also, "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" is an adaptation of the best-selling "The Long Intermission" in North America, the original book is very famous, and it has been selected as one of the BBC's 12 must-read books of this century!

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The number of frames of a movie is the number of frames.

The familiar 24-frame movie is that 24 frames of images are projected in front of people's eyes every second, and due to the visual retention effect, a continuous action image is formed.

To put it simply, 120 frames per second is 120 frames per second – double the clarity!

Therefore, Lu Xiaoran clearly saw the 3D mole on the face of the actor of "Billy Lynn"...

Filled with a lot of close-ups of faces, shots that would have been only in medium shots are pushed so close without hesitation, and almost every character has a red nose and bloodshot cheeks and eyes — which is the original purpose or side effect of the technique — the director tried to make it all more visible in this work.

Lu Xiaoran was a little embarrassed...

It is too clear, giving him the illusion that it has stripped away a certain texture that is unique to the movie, like watching an HDTV.

As for the plot, it's really a soap opera!

The narrative of this movie is not at all like what Li An can make!

Very disappointed...

A brief introduction to "Billy Lynn": Billy Lynn and his comrades, who were treated as heroes in the real war, had to be included in a show once they returned to the ordinary. What Lynn and his comrades experienced was entertained once it was filmed, explained, celebrated, and reported. Their fears, pride, and sorrow are reduced to a symbolic and fixed format, which is then consumed.

In the end, they chose to return to the battlefield...

For others, only there can this group truly maintain the appearance of heroes, which is the most cruel. ！

This is the most touching part of this movie!

However, Li An seems to be busy showing new technologies, and does not bother to polish the narrative...

It's just such a straightforward story, and there is not even a key point...

After the movie screening, Lu Xiaoran was invited to the stage - he was invited to come just to talk to Li An...

The host is Shadan, the curator of the Film Archive, who is a die-hard fan of Li An, and the most famous quote is: "Godard said that cinema begins with Griffith and ends with Abbas." What Uncle Ann wants to do is to be the Griffith of the 21st century. ”

He firmly believes that Li An can change film history...

Therefore, as the host, he affirmed the direction of Wan Fenghui's 120 frames, first discussed with Li An the significance of 120 frames to the movie, and then talked about 4D, and finally asked Lu Xiaoran: "Director Lu finished watching "Billy Lynn", do you have the idea to challenge 120 frames?"

“... No, the "Gravity" and "The Martian" we shot are already the most advanced technology, and the camera we use is a Panavision movie camera + IMAX camera, a shocking picture that can only be felt in a movie theater!"

Lu Xiaoran shook his head without hesitation...

By the way: "The direction of cinema is by no means linear and clear, and the value of its existence is still based on emotion compared to technology." ”

"I think a lot of the scenes in Billy Lynn are too clear, and I kind of lose the texture of the movie!"

He didn't give Li An any face, and directly questioned: "Why do you have to use 120 frames in the eye scenes, don't you think that too clear will cause trouble to the audience?"

Shadan: "Don't you think 120 frames is the future?"

"I don't think, someone told me that VR movies are the future, and I believe it, but if you tell me that 120 frames is the future, I don't believe a word!"

After a pause, Lu Xiaoran continued: "The nature of movies is that you can't grasp the boundary between the "virtual" plot and the "real" visual experience, and the most difficult thing is this forward-looking situation, 120 frames are too clear, which leads to 120 frames not replacing 24 frames to become the mainstream in the future." ”

"24 frames is the best sense of the golden ratio of yin and yang, the higher the number of frames, the better, and even the clarity does not need to deliberately pursue the highest, too bright clarity is a kind of fearful obsession, the human eye will not see clearly!"

"But I believe that 120 frames will become a technical means!"

"The biggest role of 120 frames should be the capture and restoration of action details, and action movies, science fiction films and war films that emphasize visual effects can be widely used... Forget about the feature films!"

“... I don't quite agree with Director Lu..."

Li An coughed and said his opinion: "... I think..."