Master Ang Lee.

Gender: male

Birthday: 1954. 10.23

Place of birth: Taiwan Province Province, China.

Keywords: Oriental, cultural shock, family ethics, gender confusion

Masterpieces: Pushing Hands (199 1), Wedding Banquet (1993), eat drink man woman (1994), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2000).

If Ang Lee were an ordinary person, he would probably make a film honestly. But if he was such a person, he would have settled down at home six years ago.

Today, although he doesn't need a shocking breakthrough to prove himself, he is still not satisfied. His curiosity drove him to innovate film technology. Although he knew nothing about computers, he forced the technicians to complete Billy Lynn's long intermission walk with him with the mentality of "not knowing the sufferings of the people". And this is also the first movie with 120 frames /4K/3D, and it will never be just a half-time battle.

An electric shock

Ang Lee described himself as destined to go to the cinema. He went against the wishes of the scholar's father and was admitted to the Art College. Just then, his father gave him a super 8 camera. He looked through the viewfinder. "I felt an electric shock."

Just like Alice who fell into fairyland with the rabbit, she was lured by the camera and saw her own world.

Erchuzi

In the second year of art school, he saw ingmar bergman's "The Spring of the Virgin". After the movie, he just sat there, unable to move, watching the second scene. "How can anyone ask if God exists?"

▲ The heartstrings that were initially plucked will pay off after a long time. By chance, Ang Lee finally met the reclusive film legend.

The encounter in Faroe Island was described by Ang Lee as dreamlike: "In a perfect summer, the temperature smells like cicadas, the sky is a little yellow, and his hug is very similar to his mother-actually, it is quite strange, he is a symbol of patriarchy in my impression."

Ang Lee said that about forty years ago, this man shocked him artistically, as if taking away his virginity. But Ang Lee also became the last filmmaker Bergman saw before his death. Paying for your first time with his last time is probably the most romantic party in film history.

Three forbidden fruits

It is conceivable that the director who was enlightened by Bergman should admire classical techniques to the extreme. Ang Lee also defines himself as "the protector of movies", and it seems natural for movies to have 24 frames a second.

▲ But [The Fantasy Drifting of Juvenile School] completely broke his world view. Once 3D is introduced, the world under the lens will be wrong, "thinking that the camera is broken"

We can refer to [Bourne ultimatum 5] and convert hand-held photography from 2D to 3D. This jitter and blur make many people uncomfortable. In 3D real-life shooting, the real speed of various movements is presented in the lens. Even if the technology passes the current standard, the effect is already dizzying. What's more, dual-camera shooting, simulating human eye imaging, is a bit misplaced, and color, contour and luminosity are all problems. In the end, [Youth School] only used a small number of 3D lenses cautiously.

Ang Lee described the traditional standard of 24 frames as the fence of his Garden of Eden. Once he steals the forbidden fruit in 3D, he can only expand the fence, and a higher frame rate becomes his only choice.

Four decisions

Speaking of no way back, this kind of decision is not easy to make.

▲ What's more, Ang Lee has to admit that he is a Libra. "You can't decide which sock to wear and which foot to wear." (On June+10/day, 65438, Ang Lee talked with Tong Zixian, a producer of literary films [they were writing on the island])

After hesitating for a year, he still threw caution to the wind. Whether I succeed or fail, I will. "Every time I make a decision, it is a test of my personality. I am asking, what kind of person are you? And I have a character in my bones, even if I am embarrassed, I have to see what it looks like. "

Wu coaxed

Ang Lee doesn't understand computers, so he decided to shoot at a high frame rate and had to drag technicians into the water. "You are Sony, your TV is 4K, why not do high frame rate ..."

Technicians are already afraid of 60 frames. And Ang Lee thinks, I can think of 60 frames, but what about more than 60 frames? So curious. So he told the technician, "The good news is that we won't do 60 frames, and the bad news is that we will do 120 frames."

▲ Ang Lee is on the set (the production place of Pi and Billy Lynn's Long Midcourt War).

Land source

The shooting process will not be easy, and everything has to start from scratch. Originally, they didn't even have a projector, but they found the US Department of Defense and converted it into a projector with their fighter model.

The equipment is just a small problem. More importantly, Ang Lee doesn't know how to shoot. As the first person, he can't even find someone to consult. You can only try again and again, fail and be hit. Take a single shot, coordinate all parties, and then take a double shot.

▲ "The movie is still a movie, but the experience is different at every resolution and luminosity" ([Billy Lynn's long intermission])

Zikule

Ang Lee once said that when he was depressed, he even ran into a wall. This new challenge is certainly a more painful experience. There's too much pressure. If it doesn't succeed, I'm afraid the criticism will be worse than his Hulk. He also thought about giving up, "three times a day."

▲ Ang Lee's emphasis on patriarchy, description of family and drastic deletion of comics made Hulk angry with comic fans.

But as he shouted tired, he became more and more interested. "If you don't work hard, it doesn't mean anything. Making movies seems more interesting. "

Bajinjiu

Ang Lee's favorite employees should be "like well-meaning torture, like challenges, like things that can't be done". Moreover, he is over 60 years old, and what he fears most is routines. "Like Madonna's virgin, I hope everything is like a first experience."

[Billy Lynn] Brand-new technology, for Ang Lee, is to expand the grammar of movies, break the routine and find the "first time".

But on the other hand, "I firmly protect the film and contribute to the restoration of the film, which is a good resource and art in itself." Ang Lee's technological innovation is to give movies more choices, not who will replace who.

Source: On June+10/day, 65438, Ang Lee talked with Tong Zixian, a producer of literary films (who was writing on the island at that time).

On September 30th, "What is Ang Lee's new work" press conference.

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